Hundreds of heavily armed Maoist guerillas stormed a jail in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, killing at least four people and freeing about 350 prisoners, including many fellow guerrillas. The rebels entered Jehanabad town the night of Nov. 13… Read moreIndia: Maoist guerillas raid prison
A forensic team working in the mass graves of Bosnia announced it had found the remains of 227 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre Nov. 11. Murat Hurtic, the lead excavator, said the exhumation at the village of Snagovo, 30… Read moreMore mass graves in Bosnia; Belgrade faces deadline on Mladic
From Palestine Monitor, Nov. 7: Thursday, November 3, was the first day of the post-Ramadan Eid al-Fitr holidays, the feast of fast-breaking, a three-day festival of family visits, new clothes, gifts, and a break from work and school. On that… Read morePalestinian boy killed on Eid; parents donate organs to Israelis
Arutz Sheva, arch-reactionary organ of the Israeli settler movement, is clearly overjoyed by this Nov. 13 tidbit: (IsraelNN.com) New York Senator and former US First Lady Hillary Clinton voiced her support for the Partition Wall Sunday. “The fence was built… Read moreHillary supports Apartheid Wall
This may be bad news for Detroit, but given fast-growing evidence of global climate destabilization, it’s damn good news for the rest of us. From the New York Times Nov. 2: DETROIT, Nov. 1 – October, which is the start… Read moreGlimmer of hope: SUV sales down
After threatening another popular uprising if stalled presidential elections were not allowed to proceed, Bolivian indigenous and populist leader Evo Morales hailed a deal to allow the race to proceed in December. The crisis, which had once again paralyzed Bolivia’s… Read moreBolivian elections to proceed —despite “conspiracy”?
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez charged Nov. 1 that Colombian intelligence agents were behind plots against his government, although he denied that they had undermined relations between the two neighbors. The accusations come days after the firing of a top official… Read moreVenezuela-Colombia tensions escalate
A Jewish inmate at California’s San Quentin prison says his life is in danger because he’s being housed with white inmates, many of whom belong to anti-Semitic white supremacist gangs. The inmate is asking prison authorities to reclassify him from… Read moreCalifornia convict smells coffee: Jews not white
Yeah, we think it’s pretty obvious too. The violence in France now enters its 12th night. It has spread to every major city, as well as Brussels and Berlin. The scale of the violence has been widely reported. Nearly 1,000… Read moreRacism and repression behind French Intifada
Following an 11th straight night of violence in France, extremely unseemly gloating is starting to emerge from the right wing in both America and Israel. Given that the uprising provides the opportunity to indulge both Francophobia and Islamophobia simultaneously, how… Read moreFranco-Intifada: right wing wants “blood”
It is increasingly apparent that the Bush administration is riven by a divide between the State Department and CIA on one hand, which still cling to some semblance of traditional notions of state legitimacy, and Cheney and the Pentagon on… Read moreCruel? Humiliating? Degrading? OK with us!
What we gringos call the “Valerie Plame scandal” is in Italy being called “Nigergate,” and Berlusconi’s government is doing somersaults to dis-associate itself with the sleazy episode of forged documents that helped embroil the Italians in Bush’s war. From the… Read moreItaly denies role in “Nigergate”
