For those who remember similar threats in the prelude to the Iraq invasion, there’s a sense of deja vu here. From AFP, April 8: WASHINGTON – The administration of President George W. Bush is planning a massive bombing campaign against… Read moreIran: US considers nuclear strikes
Magdalena Gomez writes for Mexico’s La Jornada, March 28, via the Chiapas95 archive (our translation): The Jornadas Andino-Mesoamericanas, held last week in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia, provided an unusual tequio [Mexican indigenous word for collective effort] of thought…. Read moreBolivia hosts hemispheric indigenous conference
The Zapatista “Other Campaign” continues to advance through central Mexico, with recent stops emphasizing peasant ecological struggles. In Campos, Colima state, Delegate Zero (Subcommander Marcos) and other Zapatista leaders met with fishermen at Cuyutlán lagoon, whose livelihood is falling victim… Read moreZapatista tour in Michoacan, Morelos
A prominent opponent of India’s controversial Sardar Sarovar dam project on the Narmada River is forcibly hospitalized to break her hunger strike. From Rediff, April 6: In a late night swoop, the Delhi police have forcibly removed Narmada Bachao Andolan… Read moreIndia: river activist arrested
More evidence that, whatever the hubristic schemes of the neocons three years ago, Washington is terrified of losing control of Iraq, having over-played the divide-and-conquer card. From the Irish Examiner, April 8: SUICIDE attackers wearing women’s robes blew themselves up… Read moreIraq: Khalilzad warns of regional destabilization
LONDON, April 5 (Reuters) – Anti-terrorism detectives escorted a man from a plane after a taxi driver had earlier become suspicious when he started singing along to a track by punk band The Clash, police said on Wednesday. Detectives halted… Read moreFear of music
Yeah, y’all. From NY1, April 4: An angry mob of Hasidic Jews confronted police outside a Brooklyn station house Tuesday night after officers arrested an elderly Hasidic man. Hundreds of Borough Park residents rushed the 66th precinct station house chanting… Read moreBrooklyn: Hasids boogie for right to fight
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
