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”
The dust is being blown off one of the more bizarre schemes to emerge from Washington’s so-called “War on Drugs”—which is really a war on plants, on biotic life. Jeremy Bigwood writes for In These Times, June 6: On April… Read moreUS revives Colombia bio-war plan
The Iraqi “resistance” strikes another heroic blow…against Shi’ite civilians. From Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service: A suspected shoe bomber targeting a Shi’ite imam who criticised Abu Musab al Zarqawi has blown himself up inside one of Baghdad’s most prominent Shi’ite mosques,… Read moreIraq: another Shi’ite mosque blown up; more Zarqawi vengeance?
The New York Daily News (June 16) can make fun of the “pants-less pervert” all it wants. But the fact is that our heroic men and women in uniform are in the killing fields of Iraq to protect the American… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Reporters Without Borders is protesting the Pentagon’s move to ban journalists from Guantanamo Bay, an ostensibly temporary measure. (Washington Post, June 15) The move comes on the heel of the suicide of three detainees at the prison camp, who the… Read moreGitmo: reporters banned, questions raised in wake of suicides
Last year we a noted the public-relations efforts ofthe FBI to reassure Muslims in Brooklyn’s immigrant communities that their rights will be respected in the domestic War on Terrorism. This news story indicates just how cheap talk really is. For… Read moreNYC: federal judge rules for indefinite detainment, ethnic profiling
On May 23, US government officials deported Palestinian native and Tampa resident Sameeh Hammoudeh by taking him to Jordan. Hammoudeh then crossed into the Occupied West Bank to be reunited with his wife and six children, according to his attorney,… Read moreAcquitted Palestinian deported
At about 6:30 AM on June 6, unknown persons in a Chevrolet fired on an armored van carrying Cecilia Gurza, the wife of imprisoned Mexican business magnate Carlos Ahumada Kurtz, near the couple’s Mexico City home; their three children and… Read moreMysterious campaign shooting in Mexico
