Our contributor Mahmood Ketabchi writes: The cartoons of Muhammad created much discussion and debate within the progressive movement. I wrote two articles regarding the cartoon crisis and posted both of them on the NYC Indymedia. On March 1st, I posted… Read moreCensorship at NYC Indymedia?
From DPA, April 3: ANKARA – Three people were killed and one badly injured when suspected Kurdish assailants threw Molotov cocktails at a bus in Istanbul Sunday night, the NTV television station reported. NTV reported that the suspected Kurdish assailants… Read moreTurkey: re-escalation in Kurdish conflict
From The Independent, April 3: WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has revealed that coalition forces are spending millions of dollars establishing at least six “enduring” bases in Iraq. Major Joseph Breasseale, a senior spokesman for the coalition forces’ headquarters in Iraq,… Read moreIraq: US prepares permanent bases
Agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested Puerto Rican nationalist Antonio Camacho Negron on March 28 on a street in Rio Piedras, near San Juan, after he had addressed the opening of the First National Congress for… Read morePuerto Rico: FBI arrests Machetero
From La Jornada, March 31, via Chiapas95 (our translation): CANCUN — Mayan priests tonight carried out “a cleansing against the wickedness of George W. Bush,” in the culmination of the first day of protests against the presence of the American… Read moreCancun: Maya “cleansing ritual” after Bush visit
From El Universal, March 31, via Chiapas95: SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Chiapas. Thousands of campesinos in southern Mexico blocked roads and bridges Wednesday to protest the alleged failure of the central government to help them cope with the aftermath… Read moreChiapas: campesinos protest in hurricane’s wake
From The Dominion (“Canada’s Grassroots Newspaper”), March 25: Potable Politics Will water put the Zapatismo into Mexico’s big city politics? by Van Ferrier The 4th World Water Forum has drawn to a close in Mexico City, but the debate over… Read moreMexico: water struggles pose challenge to Zapatistas
This one isn’t a joke, tho we wish it was. Another entry in the fast-mounting signs of global ecological collapse. From AP, March 31: WASHINGTON – A one-two punch of bleaching from record hot water followed by disease has killed… Read moreMeanwhile, the coral is dying…
We sure hope this is just a couple of lone wackos and not the beginning of a destabilization campaign against Evo Morales. An AP report indicates suspect Triston Jay Amero of California “has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals… Read moreBolivia: bombing kills two
File this under words-mean-whatever-we-say-they-mean. NYU “had not put any pressure on [the Objectivist Club’s] free speech”, but “said the panel discussion could not be open to the public if the cartoons were shown on stage.” Huh? It’s amazing how absolutely… Read moreObjectivists vs. Islamists at NYU
From the New York Times, March 29: Nanny Is Hit by Truck While Seeking Help to Save a Choking Baby An Upper East Side nanny trying to save a choking boy was struck by a truck yesterday after she wandered… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
The latest shoot-out between US forces and the Sadr militia has prompted an alliance between Sadr and his longtime rival in the Shiite movement, the Iran-backed Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), which controls the equally formidable Badr… Read moreIraq: US mosque attack sparks Sadr-Badr unity
