If, as we recently speculated, the White House was hoping it could groom Islamists in Syria as proxies to destabilize the regime, this ought to provide a little cold water in the face. In fact, much to the consternation of… Read moreSyria puts down attack on US embassy
Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi and founder of the MK Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence, spent Sept. 11 with Camp Democracy, a small tent city established by anti-war activists on the National Mall in front of the US Capitol…. Read moreArun Gandhi visits “Camp Democracy”
There’s a lot of this going around all of a sudden. Watergate figure and born-again evangelical Chuck Colson wrote for the Christian Post Aug. 18 (in a piece imaginitively entitled “The Clash of Civilizations”): During the Cold War, there was… Read moreChristian fundamentalists remember September 11… 1683
From AndhraVision.com, Sept. 11: Satyagraha movement completes 100 years A hundred years ago today, Mahatma Gandhi launched the historic Satyagraha movement in South Africa to fight racism and colonial oppression in that country. Later, he used the same principles of non… Read moreGandhians remember September 11… 1906
From El Universal, Sept. 10, via Chiapas95: Unknown perpetrators attempted to burn down the offices of a leftist organization that is taking part in protests in Oaxaca City early Saturday. The door and main gate of offices belonging to the… Read moreOaxaca: arson attack on APPO office
For those who continue to follow events in Mexico’s conflicted southern state of Chiapas, there is an increasingly surreal sense of being through the proverbial looking glass. On a national level, the leftist PRD candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is… Read moreChiapas: reputed paramilitary boss declares for PRD governor-elect
From Spain’s El Pais, Sept. 9, via Chiapas95 (our translation): The entrance of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD, leftist) into Mexico’s institutional life, with the signing of an accord for reforms to the Law of Congress, is a… Read moreMexico: splits emerge in Lopez Obrador coalition
From the Sept. 9 New York Times, buried at the bottom of page 4 (below a much larger “profile” piece on a New Age self-help book written by Slovenia’s president). Links added. Explosions Hit Indian Mosque, Stoking Fear of Further Violence NEW… Read moreTerror blasts at Indian mosque
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
