Now, why should this story make the front page of the New York Times Sept. 9—above the fold, no less? Because the attack was near the US embassy? This is but the latest, and not even the deadliest, in a… Read moreAfghan terror hits front page —at last!
Turkish anti-terrorism police report they have captured four suspected al-Qaeda militants who were plotting to carry out a bomb attack in Istanbul. The raids, in the city’s Bagcilar district, turned up two guns and explosive materials. Police said that the… Read moreIstanbul: “al-Qaeda” cell busted
The latest in Bush’s 9-11 exploitation propaganda blitz. This is especially perverse given how the first responders have been shamelessly screwed by the federal government. The trick for New York activists is to find some way to protest this without… Read moreBush propaganda machine exploits NYC first responders
The White House has just released its 2006 National Strategy for Combatting Terrorism. The page on “Today’s Terrorist Enemy” again acknowledges that al-Qaeda has only transformed over the past five years from a tight cadre organization around Osama bin Laden… Read more“National Strategy for Combatting Terrorism” released
From New York’s WNBC, Sept. 7: Woman Killed In Queens Hit-And-Run NEW YORK — Police on Wednesday were searching for two men wanted in connection with a hit-and-run crash in Queens that left a woman dead. Yon S. Chong, 67,… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Six bomb attacks in Baghdad killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 50 Sept. 8, hours before a much-touted ceremony in which the US-led international coalition officially handed over control of the country’s armed forces command to Iraqi… Read moreIraq: more Shi’ite pilgrims massacred; Pentagon foresees “civil war”
Far from pursuing ultra-ambitious neocon agendas to dismantle Iraq, Washington appears terrified of a unified Iraqi state under at least some degree of US control breaking down, and sparking a crisis that could engulf the entire Middle East. On Sept…. Read moreUS rebukes Iraqi Kurds, PKK operative arrested
It is a truly appalling spectacle to watch former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman and New York City officials pass the buck for the deadly 9-11 health fallout back and forth like a shuttlecock. Whitman said in a “60 Minutes”… Read more9-11 health impact dispute: “We never lied,” Christine Whitman lies
Unable to keep himself from milking 9-11 for all it’s worth, Bush is treading, once again, into the realm of Doublethink. At his most recent in a spate of 9-11-themed speeches, in Atlanta Sept. 7, he said: “Many Americans look… Read more“America safer”: Bush contradicts State Department
Under the happy headline “Space Probe Slams Into Moon,” the shameless techno-boosters at Space.com note Sept. 4: A European lunar orbiter was purposely slammed into the Moon today. The high-tech spacecraft—Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology—belongs to the European… Read moreEuro-imperialist aggression against the Moon
The Popular Peoples Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) has officially announced the replacement of Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz with an alternative government. The organization said the only government they consider legitimate, after 106 days of political crisis which has paralyzed the… Read moreOaxaca: opposition declares parallel government
From the Chiapas daily Estesur, Sept. 3 (our translation): PRIista marches against “electoral fraud” Tuxtla Gutierrez – 13 days after the state elections, the candidate of the Alliance for Chiapas, the PRIista Jose Antonio Aguilar Bodegas, led a march and… Read moreChiapas: electoral crisis heats up
