So global warming is just a myth, eh? Somebody forgot to tell the frogs. From the Washington Post, Jan. 12: Study: Global warming killing frog species Rising temperatures are responsible for pushing dozens of frog species to extinction in the… Read moreMeanwhile, the frogs are dying…
Local anger at the redevelopment plan that city bureaucrats have unveiled in New Orleans is making the country’s top newspapers. From the Washington Post, via the Boston Globe, Jan. 12: Angry homeowners screamed and City Council members seethed yesterday as… Read moreAnger at New Orleans renewal plan
A Jan. 12 New York Times story, online at the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), indicates a civil war breaking out within Iraq’s Sunni insurgency: In town after town, Iraqis and Americans say, local Iraqi insurgents and tribal groups have… Read moreIraq: civil war in the insurgency?
A Jan. 12 communique from the San José de Apartadó Peace Community in Colombia’s northern Urabá region, via the Colombian independent human rights network Red de Defensores: On Jan. 12, 2006, the army assassinated Edilberto Vasquez Cardona, 53 years old,… Read moreColombia: another killing at Peace Community
The lines are drawn ever more sharply in Latin America. Peru could be the next to join the growing anti-imperialist bloc if the indigenist/populist candidate Ollanta Humala takes the presidency in this year’s election. And Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez has wasted… Read morePeru-Venezuela tensions as Chavez hails Humala
From AP via Mexico’s El Universal, Jan. 12, via Chiapas95: Mexico’s foreign secretary on Wednesday criticized Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales for inviting Zapatista rebels to his inauguration. “There should be one invitation to the Mexican government, which represents the Mexican… Read moreMexico-Bolivia tensions as Evo invites Zapatistas
Royal Dutch Shell has shut down a tenth of Nigeria’s oil production, after armed militants kidnapped four foreign oil workers and blew up a major pipeline Jan. 11. The incidents followed attacks on pipelines owned by the Nigerian state-owned oil… Read moreNigeria: headed for civil war?
New York’s Jewish weekly The Forward weighs in on the recent imbroglio over supposed anti-Semitic comments by Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez. Venezuela’s Jews Defend Leftist President in Flap Over Remarks By MARC PERELMAN January 13, 2006 The Venezuelan Jewish community… Read moreVenezuelan Jews defend Chavez in anti-Semitism flap
From Reuters, Jan. 10: U.S. soldiers fed up with almost daily bomb attacks on their patrols near Iraq’s main oil refinery are taking drastic measures to fight their shadowy enemy — they’re walling in an entire town. Army bulldozers have… Read moreIraq: US walls off towns with sand berms
From DPA, Jan. 9, via United Arab Emirates’ Khaleej Times: ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Monday said it has launched a strong protest with the Afghan-based Coalition Forces over weekend firing from across the border that killed eight people in the… Read moreAfghan war spills into Pakistan
From Newsday, Jan. 9: [A] French engineer abducted Dec. 5 apparently was dumped on a Baghdad street by his fleeing captors and recovered by U.S. troops, who turned him turned over to the French Embassy on Sunday, according to Iraqi… Read moreIraq: jihadis don’t read newspapers
Zapatista leaders and family members held a small, private funeral for Comandante Ramona somewhere in the territory of the mountain hamlet of Oventic Jan. 7. The exact location was not revealed. (El Universal, Jan. 7) In a Jan. 9 communique,… Read moreZapatistas mourn Ramona; national tour rescheduled
