Is Pakistan’s Islamist military government going to fall—to even more radical Islamists? Just what the world needs—a nuclear-armed Taliban. Of course the repression will only enflame things. Dictators always seem to learn that lesson too late. From Pakistan’s Dawn Feb…. Read morePakistan: tear gas in Lahore
Hey, its all just good, clean fun compared to what they do to the civilian population. From Mercopress, Feb. 21: Colombian Army “basic training” exercises for recruits that involved scorching with a branding iron, beatings, near-drowning and sexual abuses ended… Read moreColombia’s army chief sacked in brutal hazing ritual
The latest escalation of the secret war in West Papua is even more eclipsed from the news than usual by the current hideous escalation in Iraq. But, as we witnessed in India last month, tribal peoples armed with bows and… Read moreProtests halt West Papua mine operations
Did anyone catch this one? The headline from Canada’s Global National reads “Protecting Canada’s Arctic sovereignty.” Protecting it from whom? Well, it turns out Washington was peeved by Ottawa’s highly symbolic dispatchal of armed icebreakers up to the Northwest Passage,… Read moreCanada asserts sovereignty over Northwest Passage; unsubtle message to Washington
Pretty funny to see George Bush accusing the liberal Democrats of racism and Hillary Clinton playing the xenophobe. Is there really any reason to be wary of the port management contract being turned over to a firm from the United… Read moreNuclear link to Dubai port controversy
From AP, Feb. 23: “We want the correspondent!” shouted two gunmen who pulled up in a pickup truck, fired into the air and then killed the Al-Arabiya newswoman and two of her colleagues. Al-Arabiya’s Atwar Bahjat, whose face is widely… Read moreIraq: another journalist killed
Gee, that didn’t take long, did it? From AKI, Feb. 22: Iran’s Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has announced a week of mourning following the attack Wednesday morning on one of the holiest Shiite shrines at Samarra in Iraq, and… Read moreIran: US, Israel behind Samarra attack
Well, it sure looks like whoever it is who is trying to plunge Iraq into all-out civil war have finally acheived their aim. Much chance of pulling this one back from the brink? A round-up from the Muslim American Society’s… Read moreIraq: 130 dead in violence following Samarra bombing
It’s about defending our way of life, remember? From Long Island Newsday, Feb. 21: DEADLY HIT-AND-RUN SPREE Cops: Man drove recklessly, hitting several cars before a crash that killed other driver in Massapequa A Coram man who had low blood… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
In October 2004, we reported on the struggle of traditional Palestinian cave-dwellers in the South Hebron region to maintain their lands from Israeli settler theft and encroachment. An update is now provided by Neve Gordon, who witnessed an inspiring joint… Read moreSettler tree-theft from Palestinian cave-dwellers
How frustrating that a secular anti-imperialist perspective which has been virtually purged from the so-called “alternative media” finds its way onto the front page of the New York Times Metro Section. Peter Applebombe in his “Our Towns” column features a… Read moreExiled Sufi scholar: military action strengthens Islamists
From a late-breaking AP account, Feb. 22. A day after the bombing of a Shiite market in Baghdad’s Dora district, killing 22, comes the destruction of one of Shia’s most sacred shrines in Samarra. Somebody is apparently hell-bent on plunging… Read moreIraq: Samarra’s al-Askari dome destroyed
