Our readers are aware that the leaders of the San José de Apartado Peace Community in Colombia have been forced to take refuge in a camp they have dubbed San Josecito (Little San José) since their village was occupied by… Read moreColombia: new threats against “peace community”
From ITN: A teacher has been shot dead in southern Afghanistan by suspected Taleban guerrillas after he ignored their orders to stop teaching girls. The attack was carried out by two armed men who arrived at the secondary school in… Read moreAfghanistan: Taliban target teachers
From Socialism Now, the website of the Left Worker Communist Party in Iraq: We denounce the Coward Terrorist Act Of Kidnapping Two of our Comrades by a Militant Gang in Baghdad On the morning of Wednesday, December 7, 2005 an… Read moreIraqi socialists kidnapped
Alert Oliver Stone. But this piece by our frequent contributor Dr. Michael I. Niman (which originally appeared Nov. 10 in ArtVoice of Buffalo, NY, and is archived on Dr. Niman’s website) makes a disturbing case. Who Killed Pat Tillman? by… Read moreDid US government kill Pat Tillman?
The discovery of yet another clandestine torture center run by the Shi’ite-dominated Interior Ministry provides helpful propaganda to the Sunni jihadis. Around it goes. From Newsday, Dec. 13: BAGHDAD – Five Islamic extremist groups denounced Iraq’s parliamentary elections this week… Read moreIraq: dialectic of terror as elections begin
From the Committee to Protect Journalists: New York, December 12, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the assassination today in Beirut of Gebran Tueni, a journalist and member of parliament who was a fierce critic of Syria and its policies… Read moreAssassination of Lebanese journalist protested
Predictably, even as tensions rise between the two Horn of Africa rivals, Ethiopia and Eritrea are mirroring each other in a crackdown on the press. In a Dec. 12 press release, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists protests the… Read morePress crackdown in Ethiopia, Eritrea
Declaration of the Left Worker-Communist Party of Iraq-LWPI Regarding the “Elections” of December 15, 2005 Amidst the current grim situation in Iraq, the bourgeois media is escalating its propaganda for the so-called governmental elections to be held on December 15,… Read moreIraq: left opposition denounces elections
The Chinese news service Xinhua boasts Dec. 10 of the opening of a new luxury tourist train across Tibet under the auspices of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Corporation. Meanwhile, observing International Human Rights Day, the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and… Read moreTibet commodified for tourism as repression escalates
Nir Rosen has a piece in the December Atlantic Monthly entitled “If America Left Iraq: The case for cutting and running.” Rosen poses the following questions and answers them all himself: Would the withdrawal of U.S. troops ignite a civil… Read moreIraq: “the case for cutting and running”
On Dec. 4, a group of approximately 200 uniformed and armed men, identified as members of the Bloque Norte of the AUC paramilitary movement, under the command of “Jorge 40,” entered the hamlets (veredas) La Más Verde y Nuevo Horizonte,… Read moreColombia: new paramilitary massacre
The world is paying little note, but China may have a full-scale peasant revolt on its hands soon. The hideous irony is that the American idiot left, rather than loaning solidarity to the heroic Chinese peasants, will cheer on their… Read moreChina: army fires on peasant protesters
