From the New York Daily News, June 21: Schoolgirl killed by SUV A 5-year-old Brooklyn girl running to catch her school bus was rammed and killed by an SUV yesterday after darting out from behind two parked cars, police said…. Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
The US, it seems, barely has control of its own proxy forces in Iraq. From AP, June 22: Two California soldiers shot to death in Iraq were murdered by Iraqi civil-defense officers patrolling with them, military investigators have found. The… Read moreIraq: Yanks get fragged
The New York Sun (June 12) positively relishes in such reports, even as the federal judiciary contributes to the Muslim immigrant fears that fuel such a backlash. On May 27, days before these vandal attacks, the New York Times reported… Read moreNYC: Bay Ridge Intifada?
US troops carrying out an offensive against resurgent Taliban guerillas fought off an attack on their mountaintop camp in Helmand province’s remote Baghran Valley today. Later, US warplanes were called in to bomb a Taliban hideout. An A-10 Warthog bomber… Read moreTaliban escalates offensive; NATO to expand Afghan force
The worst environmental practices of the Saddam dictatorship (themselves a result of sanctions) are being revived under US occupation in Iraq’s oil industry. Thank goodness this report by James Glanz made the front page of the New York Times yesterday… Read moreNorthern Iraq oil waste dumping threatens Tigris River
On June 14, Assistant Secretary for ICE Julie Myers announced that ICE agents had apprehended 2,179 immigrants in a nationwide sweep between May 26 and June 13. Virtually every ICE field office in the US took part in “Operation Return… Read more2,179 arrested in fed “fugitive” sweep
This man did not die in vain. He was a necessary sacrifice, just like the 2,500 servicemen in Iraq. If there is any rethinking whatsoever of our way of life predicated on profligate fossil fuel consumption, the terrorists win. From… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Another New York Times op-ed piece, “Dealing With the Devil in Darfur” by Julie Flint (IHT, June 17), warns of US support for Minni Arcua Minnawi, leader of the ethnic Zaghawa faction of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), who seems… Read moreDarfur: US “dealing with the Devil”
Nepal’s Maoist rebels agreed June 16 to lay down arms and join the government, ending the 10-year guerilla insurgency. The accord, announced following a daylong meeting between Maoist leader Prachanda (“the fierce one”) and interim prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala,… Read moreNepal: Maoists chill out; Hindu backlash next?
It was nice to see this story on the front page of the New York Times, Metro Section June 14. But the Times fails to grasp that this parking lot must be built. It is a moral imperative so that… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
The US military has flown in two forensic specialists to examine the body of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi “to see how he actually died,” a US general said. The autopsy was ordered after it was made public that he survived an… Read moreAbu Ayyub al-Masri: kinder, gentler jihad?
Zapatista leader Subcommander Marcos told the Spanish TV show “El Loco de la Colina” in a special broadcast Mexico City that it is “possible to build another Latin America” based in popular movements and new political actors emerging in the… Read moreMarcos: “Another Latin America is possible”
