Just as the PUK shows signs of losing control of its stronghold in northern Iraq, it launches attacks across the border in Iran—with doubtless US (and likely Israeli) assistance and direction. Iran, of course, replies by bombing Kurdish civilians, which… Read morePUK raids Iran; Tehran shells Kurds
The final capitulation of King Gyanendra to a militant pro-democracy movement that has made common cause with the Maoist guerillas is closely followed by The Rising Nepal website. The king, who had seized dictatorial absolute power last February, reached an… Read moreNepal: back from brink?
From the Village Voice, April 28: No Justice, No Work Immigrants tap May Day’s radical roots by Sarah Ferguson It has been called “A Day Without Immigrants.” “The Great American Boycott.” And down in Mexico: “Nothing Gringo.” But whatever you… Read moreImmigrants’ general strike for Mayday?
As we (and others) have argued, one of the aims of Operation Iraqi Freedom was likely to jack up the price of oil, giving a salutary boost to industry expansion plans, facilitating Western corporate colonization of the Caspian Basin (beating… Read moreBush halts Strategic Reserve deposits; market out of neocon control?
From New York’s Jewish Week, April 28: As the world’s largest chasidic sect mourns the death this week of the Satmar Grand Rebbe Moshe Teitelbaum, the bitter, litigious — and sometimes violent — feud between two of his sons shows… Read moreNYC: Satmar feud escalates with Grand Rebbe’s death
Writes David Wood of Newhouse News Service, April 26 (emphasis added): WASHINGTON — If Iran succeeds in building nuclear weapons, it will be paid for in part by American drivers. With oil prices and global oil consumption at near-record levels,… Read moreOil struggle behind Iran WMD showdown: analysts
From our contributor Mahmood Ketabchi: After more that two years of haggling with the Islamic regime of Iran over its nuclear program, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), under pressure from the European powers and particularly the US government, referred… Read moreUS v. Iran: “nuclear hypocrisy” on both sides
For all the unseemly obsession on the American left (and American right) with the notion that the recent paroxysm of hyper-interventionism is really more about Israeli national interests than US imperial interests, the actual global vision of the interventionists is… Read moreUS National Security Strategy 2006: global hegemony, permanent war
Note that this Reuters report on the Sinai bombings offhandedly mentions more sweeps of the peninsula’s Bedouin inhabitants. The Bedouin, their lands divided by Egypt and Israel, have been kicked around plenty on both sides of the border. The situation… Read moreEgypt: Bedouin face sweeps after Sinai terror
Osama bin Laden’s latest audiotape release is almost funny. Along with the usual swipes at the “Crusader-Zionist” war on Islam, he accuses the UN Security Council of being controlled by the “Crusader movement along with pagan Buddhists”–an apparent reference to… Read moreZarqawi, Osama wow media
On April 18, three Uruguayan military officers–one retired–arrived in Chile after being extradited there to face charges relating to the 1991 abduction in Chile and subsequent murder in Uruguay of Chilean chemist Eugenio Berrios. Berrios worked for the National Intelligence… Read moreUruguay: officers extradited to Chile
A violent confrontation between 800 federal and state police agents and more than 500 striking steelworkers left two workers dead and dozens of workers and police agents injured on April 20 at the Siderurgica Lazaro Cardenas-Las Truchas, SA (Sicartsa) steel… Read moreMexico: workers killed in steel strike
