From AP, July 15: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Thousands of demonstrators demanding the return of ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide marched to Haiti’s National Palace on Saturday, pushing past riot police in a dramatic show of support for the exiled former leader…. Read moreHaiti: thousands march for Aristide
Its hard to imagine where this will end… From the Reuters, July 15: BEIRUT – Israel killed 35 civilians on Saturday, including 15 children, in air strikes meant to punish Lebanon for letting Hizbollah guerillas menace the Jewish state’s northern… Read moreLebanon: death toll mounts
Note the highlighted section and sound off, readers. From the CBC, July 14: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday that Pakistan is still harbouring “terrorist elements,” jeopardizing the peace process between the two countries as tensions remain high in… Read morePakistan’s ISI behind Mumbai terror?
Note the highlighted section and sound off, readers. From the New York Times, July 15: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 14 — A suicide bomber struck in the southern port city of Karachi on Friday, killing a prominent Shiite leader, his 10-year-old… Read moreCIA behind Pakistan sectarian strife?
Tom Regan of the Christian Science Monitor provides this July 14 round-up of the fast-escalating Israel-Lebanon crisis and international reactions. We especially love Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon’s invocation (yet again) of US atrocities in Afghanistan, and Russia’s in Chechnya—as… Read moreLebanon carnage escalates; media silence on Israeli protests
We don’t know when lefties started cheering on CIA agents. But it’s no weirder than the White House blowing their cover. We applaud Valerie Plame for not going along with the journalist-bashing that has infected right and left alike in… Read morePlame sues Cheney —not journalists
This is the surest sign yet that the Bush boys have been humbled. In addition to the unfavorable Supreme Court decision on the Guantanamo detainees, this July 11 AP clip notes some of the political considerations behind the decision to… Read moreWhite House capitulates on Geneva Conventions
Joining the estimated 500,000 who took to the streets of Mexico City July 8 to demand a recount in the contested presidential elections is, of all places, the Financial Times. The upper-crust British daily supported the officially victorious conservative candidate… Read moreMexico: demand grows for recount
Despite the recent tensions between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, both governments seem equally paranoid about Western-backed subversion within their borders. And perhaps with reason. From RFE/RL, July 12: A Tashkent court today ordered the closure of the Urban Institute, a U.S.-based… Read moreUzbekistan cracks down on NGOs
It seems the Kyrgyz government, itself put in power by a US-sponsored revolution last year, is increasingly paranoid that Washington is brewing another one. And perhaps with reason. Note that negotiations over continued Pentagon access to Kyrgyz military bases are… Read moreKyrgyzstan expels US diplomats
Dealing drugs was the least of Pinochet’s crimes. But the poor family’s delicate sensibilities have been offended by the accusation, it seems. From AP, July 12: SANTIAGO, Chile – The son of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet filed a defamation… Read morePinochet family to sue over cocaine accusation
Another reason to love New York State Attorney General Elliot Spitzer. But, as we’ve said before regarding a similar case, getting Emmanuel Constant for mortgage fraud is kind of like nailing Hitler for tax-evasion. From Newsday, July 7: A Queens… Read moreHaitian terrorist arrested on Long Island
