We hate to say it, but we sure called this one. Now to all of you who told us the anti-Semitism in The Passion of Christ was just a product of our paranoid imaginations—how would you like your crow prepared?… Read moreMel Gibson’s Holocaust series pulled
We have noted a growing number of Turkish writers to face prosecution for their words. The latest is, especially perversely, charged in connection with a work of fiction. From The Guardian, July 24: In Istanbul, a writer awaits her day… Read moreAnother Turkish writer faces persecution
Note, of course, that her work was banned. From Middle East Times, July 31: ANKARA — Duygu Asena, a renowned Turkish journalist and writer who devoted much of her work to promoting women’s rights, has died at the age of… Read moreDuygu Asena, Turkish feminist writer, dies at 60
As hundreds of thousands or even millions of supporters marched and rallied in and around Mexico City’s giant Zocalo plaza on July 30, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), presidential candidate of a center-left coalition in Mexico’s July 2 elections, called… Read moreMexico: Lopez Obrador begins “permanent” protest
On July 27, US District Court Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. of Los Angeles ordered the government to free Southern California Muslim community leader Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan, a Palestinian who has spent two years detained on an immigration violation. Department of… Read moreUS judge orders Palestinian freed
The first one we’ve all heard about. From DPA, July 30: Muslim charged in Jewsh center shooting A Muslim man who allegedly killed a woman and wounded five others inside a Jewish community centre in Seattle, Washington, gained entry by… Read moreJew-haters reap Lebanon windfall
Rejecting a dialogue with Gov. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, the striking teachers and their supporters in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca occupied the streets around the state government buildings in the capital for a third day July 29, blocking the entrances…. Read moreOaxaca: government offices blockaded
The really amazing thing about China is that both the knee-jerk right-wingers who love to hate it and the idiot leftists who love to love it are both laboring under the illusion that it is Communist. The self-serving capitalist elite… Read moreChina: workers revolt at Mickey D’s contract factory
From Reuters, July 29: The United States sent its most explicit warning yet to Horn of Africa foes Eritrea and Ethiopia on Saturday to stay out of the escalating crisis in Somalia where they are believed to be backing rival… Read moreSomalia: Ethiopia-Eritrea proxy war?
Pushed from the headlines by multiple crises in the Middle East, genocidal warfare continues in Congo even on the even of elections. This July 28 New York Times op-ed piece by Aidan Hartley, a television journalist who witnessed a massacre… Read moreCongo: genocide continues on election eve
This Associated Press account interprets al-Zawahri’s latest communique as calling for Sunni-Shi’ite unity against the US and Israel, taking a tip from the cementing of the Hamas-Hezbollah conjunction since the Lebanon crisis. If so, al-Zawahri’s followers in Iraq don’t seem… Read moreAl-Zawahri calls for Sunni-Shi’ite unity?
Hamas may be rallying around Hezbollah at the moment, but the Sunni-Shi’ite lovefest sure doesn’t seem to have extended to Iraq. From AP, July 28: Rockets strike an upscale Shi’a district, killing dozens Rockets and mortars rained down an upscale,… Read moreIraq: rockets hit Shi’ite enclave
