More unsettling news on the falling barriers between foreign intelligence and domestic policing. Thanks to TruthOut for catching this one. Military Expands Homeland Efforts Pentagon to share data with civilian agencies By Bradley Graham The Washington Post Wednesday 06 July… Read morePentagon steps up domestic spying
News reports of the Deep Impact space probe’s explosive Independence Day rendezvous with a comet could not have made clearer that the whole affair was barely-disguised patriotic propaganda, very convenient at a time when the Iraq war is turning into… Read moreDeep Impact: “science” as propaganda
It seems Baghdad’s occupiers are emulating those of Palestine. The city now has a “security fence” cordoning off the Green Zone, mirroring Israel’s “Apartheid Wall.” An excerpt from a story carried by the July 5 New York Times: Iraqis call… Read moreBaghdad gets “Apartheid Wall”
India Express reports that authorities on the Indian side of divided Jammu & Kashmir state are on “red alert” as Hindus prepare for protests following yesterday’s attack by presumed Islamic militants on Ayodhya, the disputed holy site in Uttar Pradesh…. Read moreHindu nationalists support Pakistan’s Ismaili separatists
Edinburgh’s constabulary mixed it up with anarchists at the G8 summit protests in Edinburgh yesterday, resulting in about 100 arrests and 20 injured (including two police) in six hours of street clashes. Stay tuned for more fun, as environmentalist protesters… Read moreViolence in Edinburgh
Al-Qaeda’s supposed top man in Saudi Arabia has been killed. Will it mean any de-escalation of violence in the desert kkingdom? Or is this a hydra-headed monster? This July 4 AFP account from Qatar’s Gulf Times: Qaeda chief killed in… Read moreAl-Qaeda’s man in Saudi Arabia dead?
Has anyone noticed the unsubtle political jockeying over which country gets to host the new fusion energy research facility offically known as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)? It finally went to France, over the predictable objections of Washington. Writes… Read moreFrench nuclear threat: invisible menace
More reports of unspeakable horror, courtesy of the leader of the free world, and its junior partner. Thanks to
OK, is it the Serbs or Albanians who are behind this one? From the AP, July 2: PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro — At least three blasts rocked the centre of Kosovo’s capital late Saturday and one targeted the UN mission headquarters. At… Read moreBlasts in Kosovo
The Kurdistan Bloggers Union notes the recent killing of Muhammad Mashouk al-Khaznawi, a Kurdish leader in Syria, providing this July 1 account of his death (refering to northern Syria as “West Kurdistan”): A Kurdish Sunni Muslim cleric in Syria who… Read moreKurdish leader assassinated in Syria
Surprise, surprise! None other than Karl Rove has been named as the source who leaked that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent, a crime for which two journalists may yet do time, even though they didn’t commit it. Time magazine… Read moreRove named in Plame case
US helicopters and hundreds of troops are searching for soldiers who went missing in Afghanistan just before a helicopter coming to their aid was shot down in Kunar province June 28, killing the 16 on board, all Navy Seals and… Read moreChinook down in Afghanistan; historians have deja vu
