On May 27, América del Valle, leader of the Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land, in hiding since the May 3 violence at San Salvador Atenco, spoke to the international Telesur TV network from a clandestine location. She said… Read moreMexico: Atenco leader speaks from hiding
As of May 25, two immigrant mothers who began a hunger strike in Chicago on May 10 were still consuming only liquids as they called for an end to all deportations until Congress finalizes a legalization bill. Elvira Arellano and… Read moreImmigrants on hunger strike in Chicago; more raids from coast to coast
Leave it to Los Angeles. The media start paying attention when big-name stars flock to the cause. Meanwhile, heartening to know that this grassroots effort at urban-renewal-from-below has lasted as long as it has. From the LA Daily News, May… Read moreLos Angeles: struggle for the land
How long before this particular axe falls? What is ironic about the pro-drilling rhetoric is that it implicitly or explicitly demonizes the Arabs (as well as the environmentalists, of course) for driving up oil prices. Meanwhile: a.) the Arabs are… Read moreANWR: Republicans try again
Revelations by Human Rights Watch May 26 that Darfur’s Janjaweed have overrun villages in Chad. The rapidly shifting alliances are dizzying here. On the face of it, this is simple: Chad’s government has backed the Darfur guerillas and this is… Read moreHRW: Janjaweed raid Chad
Exactly four years after winning its independence from Indonesia, East Timor is tragically descending into chaos, and Australia has sent a “peacekeeping” force. Excerpts from a Reuters account via TV New Zealand, May 27: Gangs of youths allied to feuding… Read moreAussie imperialism exploits East Timor unrest
A victory for Western designs on Capsian oil 20 years in the making, this heightens the regional contradictions in several ways. It places greater pressure on Turkey to crush the Kurdish PKK insurgents who are making trouble in precisely that… Read moreTrans-Caucasus pipeline in first tanker delivery
At a joint news conference with Tony Blair in Washington, Bush said he regretted saying “bring ’em on” when responding in July 2003 to a question about the Iraqi insurgency. Bush now says the remark was “kind of tough talk,… Read moreIraq: Bush shows contrition; DoD reveals civilian killings
The outside world is paying no attention, but if the National Council of Resistance (Mujahedeen Khalq) is to be believed, the Azeri uprising in northern Iran is spreading. Of course Mujahedeen Khalq (with some degree of likely US connivance) would… Read moreIran: Azeri uprising spreads?
The Fatah and Hamas factions met at the official Muqata compound in the Palestinian capital Ramallah today, with President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh attempting to calm the situation after armed clashes between their supporters claimed at least… Read moreThree-way war for Palestine?
Just as a resolution was in sight in the Mohawk stand-off in Ontario, a re-escalation—due to an angry backlash from Caledonia’s white residents. From the Toronto Globe & Mail, May 23: Caledonia, Ont. — Violence erupted at the site of… Read moreOntario: violence flares at Mohawk blockade
From the New York Daily News, May 24: Call for justice in SUV rage Dad whose family was mowed down rails at suspect brothers “They came here like animals,” seethed Michael Celentano. Standing yesterday on the front yard of his… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
