From JTA, Sept. 24: A synagogue in the southern city of Astrakhan was vandalized twice within a few hours early Friday. In one attack, assailants threw a Molotov cocktail at the synagogue, setting its door ablaze. A guard at the… Read moreRussian synagogues attacked
Even as the administration of President Vicente Fox renewed its pledge to find a negotiated solution to the crisis in Oaxaca, some 4,000 protesters left the state capital Sept. 21 on a planned two-week cross-country march to Mexico City, where… Read moreOaxaqueños march to Mexico City
What are we to make of this? Iran’s ayatollahs have issued both fatwas for and against nuclear weapons in recent months, while the country’s National Orchestra performs a Nuclear Energy Symphony. Is Ahmadinejad saying what he really thinks here? Or… Read moreAhmadinejad: “the days of the atomic bomb are over”
Are domestic Islamophobes starting to emulate the tactics of their counterparts in India? Note that this comes on the heels of the atrocious mosque desecration in Maine. From AP, Sept. 23: Shots were fired at a mosque in Melbourne, Florida… Read moreGunmen open fire on Florida mosque
Tell us again how the anti-Semitic upsurge is all in our imagination. We keep forgetting. From KNBC, Los Angeles, Sept. 22: ENCINO, Calif. — Two flags depicting Nazi swastikas were draped over a freeway overpass in Encino on Friday, on… Read moreSouthern California neo-Nazis wish Jews happy Rosh Hashana
From the Mexican news agency APRO, Sept. 20 via Chiapas95 (our translation): JALAPA – Protesting the failure of authorities to indemnify hundreds of families left homeless by a flood this past June, and to complete public works in the region,… Read moreVeracruz: indigenous occupy dam
This report contains the usual condescension of mainstream (English-language) media accounts on the Zapatista movement. For instance, the Zapatista-led protests around the Atenco crisis earlier this year were quite significant, and dominated the news in Mexico before they were overshadowed… Read moreSubcommander Marcos declares Lopez Obrador legitimate winner
As if things weren’t “interesting” enough in Somalia already, it looks like they are about to get much more so. The Taliban-style militia which has taken power in the capital, Mogadishu, seems to be waging a low-level war against the… Read moreSomalia militia pledges jihad
How many times a day do we have to say “A plague on both your houses”? First Saddam vows to “crush the heads” of Kurds testifying about his genocidal 1988 “Anfal” campaign. Then the judge in the case, Adullah al-Almiri,… Read moreHRW: “judicial independence” trampled in Saddam trial
A textbook case in how Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is viewed differently by the Imperium and the global south. First this, from the Voice of America, Sept. 20, on day two of the annual UN General Assembly debate: Chavez brought his… Read moreChavez calls Bush “Devil”, proposes “Bank of the South”
We sure hope this is Jewish paranoia! From the Jerusalem Post, Sept. 19 (emphasis added): Venezuelan Jews fear Chavez-Iran ties On the day that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived for a 30-hour visit, it seemed appropriate that Venezuela’s Jewish community… Read moreHezbollah training Venezuela’s Wayuu Indians?
From Newsday, Sept. 19 (emphasis added): BLOCK 7, AYACUCHO PETROLEUM FIELD, Venezuela — The Islamic world may be roiling over remarks by the pope, but in this remote patch of eastern Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez suggested yesterday that a little… Read moreChavez to Ahmadinejad: Islam is “revolutionary”
