From our correspondent Mahmood Ketabchi. The text, with photos from Tehran, is on his blog, Hammer & Broom. Workers take control of the government sponsored May Day rally in Tehran As many Iranian workers prepared to celebrate May 1st, International… Read moreTehran: workers upstage official Mayday rally
The Greek anarchists and globophobes have been pretty busy lately. From Reuters May 6: ATHENS — Thousands of antiglobalization demonstrators marched Saturday through central Athens and to the United States Embassy to protest Washington’s policies in Iraq and Iran. In… Read moreProtests rock Athens
What an historical irony that this is happening now, eh? Talk about the paradoxical unity of opposites. And hooray for Montana! Even out in the heartland, not all Americans are brainless reactionaries, it seems. From AP, May 3: HELENA, Montana… Read moreWorld War I protesters win (posthumous) pardon
All accounts indicate Porter Goss is being cycled out as CIA chief because he “butted heads” (Newsday, May 6) with National Intelligence Director John Negroponte. Goss, former head of the House Intelligence Committee, was appointed in September 2004 as an… Read moreShakeup at CIA —again
Those who think the current global conflict is fundamentally about anything other than a strategic struggle for control of oil can be disabused of their illusions by reading (surprise!) the New York Times (May 6). This includes those who buy… Read moreCheney does Kazakhstan
When will it be recognized that cars are deadly weapons? We can hear the Automobile Association of America now: “Cars don’t kill, people do!” From Newsday, May 6: Cabbie charged with hate crime A taxi driver was arrested and charged… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
From the online Radio Sabotaje, late on May 5: Marcos has just arrived in Atenco with 4,000 individuals representing students, workers, farmers, teachers and and community organizations. Mexican mainstream media is reporting agression on the part of the marchers –… Read moreMexico: Zapatistas in Atenco
The April 30 march in Washington, organized by the Save Darfur Coalition, brought out some heroes of the left, like George Clooney, but also some that the hard left loves to hate, like Elie Wiesel and Samantha Power. While policy-makers… Read moreDarfur: glimmer of hope?
The US is under review by the UN Committee Against Torture in Geneva, and spin control is the name of the game. State Department legal counsel John Bellinger testified out of both sides of this mouth today, saying the US… Read morePrevarication in Geneva
It has now been reported everywhere that Zacarias Moussaoui, upon being sentenced by a federal jury to life imprisonment, shouted, “America, you lost… I won!” Obviously, he had been rehearsing the line for months, and was prepared to use it… Read moreMoussaoui verdict: who won?
Will this mean the end of Atenco’s status as a rebel “autonomous municipality”? And how will the Zapatistas, already on “red alert” in response to the repression, respond to this escalation? This is very ominous timing for Fox, with the… Read moreMexico: police storm Atenco
Look who’s laughing all the way to the bank. Good thing for Exxon that everybody’s blaming the Jews. From the LA Times via Newsday, April 28: OIL PRICES SHOCK AND AWE: GAS CRISIS An $8.4B tiger in Exxon’s tank As… Read moreOil shock good news for Exxon
