Hundreds of mostly young protesters blocked traffic throughout Mexico City yesterday to demand the release of those arrested in the unrest at the village of San Salvador Atenco a week earlier. APRO reported more than 20 blockades throughout the Federal… Read moreProtesters block highways in Mexico City
We can already anticipate the blame-the-victim chorus that will be raised by the oil companies, Nigeria’s rulers and the global media. But when resource hyper-exploitation co-exists with dire poverty, such incidents are absolutely inevitable. From the Lagos Vanguard, May 13,… Read moreNigeria: 200 dead in pipeline blast
It’s about our way of life, remember? From the NY Daily News, May 12: Sister, 11 fights to live after L.I. crash The heartbroken parents of a 9-year-old girl killed in a car crash in Merrick prayed for a miracle… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Albania, of all places, has agreed to take in five Uighur militants who had been captured by the US in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo. Stateside Uighur advocates and human rights organizations went to court to halt their deportation to… Read moreGitmo Uighurs to Albania
“The financial equivalent of a nuclear strike,” says one analyst. We do wish he would refrain from that particular analogy. The whole showdown over Iran–with Washington apparently threatening to use nuclear weapons in the name of protecting the world from… Read moreIran seeks euro-based oil market
The Bush administration has just upped the ante on turning federally-administrated public lands over to corporate interests. Previously, they had just pushed to expand timber, oil and mineral lease rights, citing the energy crunch and need for “energy independence” due… Read moreBush seeks privatization of national forests
Washington’s closest South American ally plays the wimp-baiting and commie menace cards in his bid to become president for life. Sadly, the polls indicate it is working. From Reuters, May 6: BOGOTA – Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, expected to win… Read moreColombia: Uribe accuses opponents of “masked communism”
It was heartening to see a picture of Subcommander Marcos in the New York Times May 10, even if it was on page 12. The masked Zapatista leader sat down in a Televisa studio for a nationally-broadcast interview May 9,… Read moreMarcos does Televisa, DF cops gird for repression
Samir Adil, president of the Iraqi Freedom Congress, is on a tour of the United States sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee. He most recently spoke in Barre, VT. The following May 5 account from Vermont’s Rutland Herald is… Read moreIraqi civil resistance leader tours US
Gee, what reason would these people have to be so angry? Note that the refugees accuse the guerilla leader who signed the peace deal of being a traitor. Note that they are very eager for Western, and especially American intervention…. Read moreUprising at Darfur refugee camp
There’s oil in Cuba! Can the invasion be far behind? Actually, the fact that this story (complete with maps of the divided offshore zone and the exploration blocs) appears on the front page of today’s New York Times indicates that… Read moreCuba opens Florida Straits oil zone
This sort of thing has become so common in Iraq that it rarely makes headlines any more. But this one inconveniently happened just as a break has been announced in the deadlock over forming a new government. This obvious escalation… Read moreIraq: bomb blast greets new government
