Unrepentant about the wall his own country is building on the West Bank, Uza Dayan wisely warns the US against emulating Israeli strategies in Occupied Aztlan. From Newsday, Aug. 16: JERUSALEM — Six years ago, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak… Read moreEx-Israeli security chief on US-Mexico border wall: “Don’t build it!”
They’ve been after this guy for a long time. But if similar busts in the past are any indicator, his demise will merely set off a violent succession struggle—and do absolutely nothing to to reduce the flow of drugs into… Read moreUS nabs Tijuana cartel kingpin
Way to go, Mr. Sensitive. From Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun, Aug. 16: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited Yasukuni Shrine in central Tokyo on Tuesday–the 61st anniversary of the end of World War II–writing his name as prime minister in the shrine’s… Read moreKoizumi visits Yasukuni on VJ Day
From the New York Daily News, Aug. 15: Crash horror on N.J. Turnpike A Queens couple and their 3-year-old daughter were among four people killed when an 18-wheeler hauling bricks spun out on the New Jersey Turnpike yesterday – but… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Seymour Hersh‘s latest feature in the Aug. 21 New Yorker openly portrays Israel’s Lebanon adventure as Washington’s test war for an attack on Iran. Like most of his recent journalism, it relies overwhelmingly on anonymous sources. One “US government consultant”… Read moreSeymour Hersh: Lebanon was Bush’s test war for Iran
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), which rules one half of Iraq’s northern Kurdish autonomous zone, is currently facing a wave of popular unrest. Among the greivances are deals the PUK has cut with local tribal leaders respecting their despotic… Read morePUK connives with “tribal” woman-killers
Another heroic blow by the Iraqi resistance… against Shi’ite civilians. From the AP, Aug. 14: BAGHDAD, Iraq — Residents dug through the rubble of devastated buildings today in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad that was pounded by a barrage… Read moreIraq: sectarian cleansing grinds on
From Prensa Latina, Aug. 14: LA PAZ — Bolivian government denounced indications of a conspiracy by economic power groups against the Constituent Assembly to open works in the southern city of Sucre on Tuesday. National Defense Minister Walker San Miguel… Read moreBolivia: conspiracy against constitutional reform?
From AP, Aug. 14: LA PAZ — Bolivia’s decision to suspend a plan to nationalize its oil and gas industry has reinforced doubts about the ability of its state-run energy company to manage the country’s gas reserves. The Hydrocarbons Ministry… Read moreBolivia halts hydrocarbon nationalization
We noted one year ago a heart-rending case of indigenous peasants in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas dying after eating a stew of apparently poisonous mushrooms. The peasants were driven by hunger and failed harvests to gather wild mushrooms (which… Read moreChiapas mushroom poisonings point to ecological crisis
In a 10-2 decision released late on Aug. 9, the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, turned down an appeal on behalf of the “Cuban Five,” a group of Cubans sentenced to lengthy prison terms in 2001… Read moreCuba Five appeal denied
From El Universal, Aug. 12 via Chiapas95: SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS — A judge has imposed long prison terms on 50 indigenous defendants convicted of carrying out one of the most heinous crimes in past decades – the… Read moreChiapas: Acteal killers get 25 years
