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
And not a moment too soon. This is sure to bring a smile to followers of the Global Anti-Golf Movement (GAGM). Chris Kraul reports for the Los Angeles Times, Aug. 31: In Caracas, the Poor Shall Inherit the Golf Course… Read moreVenezuela: Chavez cracks down on golf
In its Sept. 6 account based on its reading of a direct translation, Newsday portrays the Pakistani government’s new peace pact with tribal insurgents in Waziristan, in the autonomous Federally Administrated Tribal Areas along the Afghan border, as appeasement of… Read moreIslamabad’s Waziristan peace deal: appeasement of “Taliban”?
A Canadian soldier was killed and dozens wounded, five seriously, when two US fighter jets mistakenly strafed them Sept. 4 at a battlefront in Kandahar. (CanWest News Service, Sept. 5) If we were to engage in conspiracy theory, we could… Read moreAfghanistan: thousands displaced in Kandahar fighting
Well well, it seems Amnesty International’s conspiracy theories are decisively vindicated! Straight from the horse’s mouth! From the AP, Sept. 6 (Newspeak phrase in bold): Bush acknowledges secret CIA prisons WASHINGTON – President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged previously secret CIA… Read moreSecret CIA gulag: Bush admits it
From the New York Times, Sept. 5: LEWISTON, Me. — On a hot July night, a few dozen Somali men were kneeling shoulder to shoulder in prayer at a storefront mosque here when the door opened and the frozen head… Read moreMaine mosque desecrated; xenophobes make excuses
