From Pakistan’s daily Dawn: WANA, March 22: A pro-government cleric was killed by gunmen in the Laddah subdivision of the South Waziristan Agency on Wednesday and a telephone exchange was blown up in the Shakai area. Witnesses told Dawn that… Read morePakistan: Waziristan insurgency grows
From Reuters, via Khajeel Times, March 21: QUETTA, Pakistan – Suspected militants blew up a gas pipeline in Baluchistan on Tuesday, the latest attack in the troubled southwest Pakistan province where rebels are fighting for greater autonomy, officials said. The… Read morePakistan: Baluch rebels blow up pipeline —again
From Reuters, March 21: President George W. Bush held out the possibility on Tuesday of a U.S. troop presence in Iraq for many years, saying a full withdrawal would depend on decisions by future U.S. presidents and Iraqi governments. Bush,… Read moreBush: years-long military mission in Iraq
Another expendable piece of cannon fodder is scapegoated… WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Army dog handler was found guilty on Tuesday of abusing detainees at Baghdad’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison and faces up to eight years and nine months in… Read moreSaddam’s torture chambers now Uncle Sam’s
Freedom’s on the march. From the BBC, March 20: An Afghan man is being tried in a court in the capital, Kabul, for converting from Islam to Christianity. Abdul Rahman is charged with rejecting Islam and could face the death… Read moreAfghan faces death sentence for Christianity
A March 21 statement from the San José de Apartadó Peace Community: We call for national and international solidarity to demand the freedom of GILDARDO TUBERQUIA, member of the Internal Council of the Peace Community, who has been illegally detained… Read moreColombia: Peace Community leader detained
Lukashenko is doubtless correct that the protesters are backed by the West—or are about to be. Can we—meaning progressives in the West—possibly think of a more creative response to this dilemma than rallying around Lukashenko? From the BBC, March 21:… Read more“Regime change” for Belarus?
From the UK’s Iraq Union Solidarity, March 17: Support the Tehran busworkers! Since April 2005, Tehran busworkers have combatted mass jailings and sackings to insist on their right to form a union and claim unpaid wages. Most recently, bus workers… Read moreSolidarity with Iranian transit workers
From Madison’s Capital Times, March 18: Wisconsin will blaze a trail in April when, for the first time, voters will go to the polls as part of a statewide effort to pass referendums opposed to the war in Iraq. “We… Read moreWisconsin towns launch anti-war referendums
Sarah Ferguson writes for the Village Voice, March 19: Seventeen demonstrators were arrested Sunday for blocking traffic as part of a funeral procession intended to transform Times Square into a “Zone of Mourning” on the third anniversary of the U.S…. Read moreNYC: arrests at Iraq war protest
The Zapatista “Other Campaign” continues to advance across central Mexico, drawing attention to local struggles. In Guanajuato, Subcommaner Marcos was denied entry to the state prison, the Social Rehabiliation Center (CERESO), where he sought to visit political prisoners, on the… Read moreRepression follows Zapatista tour
From EFE, March 16: Bolivia’s attorney general filed charges Thursday against three ex-presidents and eight former energy ministers for signing contracts with foreign petroleum firms that violated the laws of the Andean nation. The accusations are directed against Gonzalo Sanchez… Read moreBolivia: three ex-presidents charged in foreign oil deals
