A former Taliban official now living on Long Island pleaded guilty in US District Court in Manhattan June 16 to tax fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud. Noorullah Zadran, 53, of Huntington Station, faces up to 8 months in… Read moreEx-Taliban big cops plea in New York
You almost have to admire the chuztpah of the Bush gang. Not only are they refusing the close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, they are actually planning to expland it–and Halliburton gets the contract! This from the AP: Halliburton Gets… Read moreGitmo to expand; Halliburton gets contract
This June 18 BBC account on Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s approaching 60th birthday provides a good brief overview of the recent escalating violence in Burma: No happy returns for Suu Kyi By Tony Cheng BBC News, Bangkok… Read moreAung San Suu Kyi faces 60th birthday under house arrest
From the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, June 16th, 2005 (online at Stop The Wall): Villagers of Marda Continue To Resist Settler Bypass Road Thirty villagers were injured today during clashes with Occupation Forces in Marda, in the east of… Read morePalestinian village protests land confiscation, attacked by occupation forces
Another escalation is reported in the persecution of the Mapuche indigenous people of Chile: the imprisonment of the editor of a Mapuche magazine on six-year-old charges related to a land occupation, effectively preventing him from travelling to Canada for a… Read moreChile: Mapuche editor imprisoned
Almost completely overlooked by the world media, the insurgency of the Naxalites, India’s Maoist guerillas, has been simmering since the 1960s, and now shows signs of gaining ground, as indicated by this June 17 report from the Indian news agency… Read moreIndia: Maoist insurgency gains ground
Perhaps embarrassed by outgoing chief Tom Ridge’s admission that the color coded terror alert was raised for political reasons (USA Today, May 10), the Homeland Security Department appears to be slowing in some of its most egregious (or ambitious) new… Read moreHomeland Security weighs privacy rights
Police arrested 11 men June 15 on charges of belonging to a Syrian-based group that recruits suicide bombers to attack U.S. troops in Iraq. Authorities said the recruiting network has ties to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. More than 500 heavily-armed police… Read moreSpain: al-Qaeda cell busted?
The conspiranoiacs are going to be salivating over this one. For all their relentless insistence that the entire government is controlled by The Conspiracy, nothing makes them giddier than a whiff of vindication from The Establishment. Too bad the poorly-named… Read moreConspiranoiacs go mainstream
Even as the White House is opposing measures to reduce emissions in the new energy bill (NYT, June 15) and stands accused of cooking science on global warming, comes this comforting news: ‘Record Volume Rise’ in World Energy Consumption By… Read moreWorld energy consumption surges
The Mexican daily El Norte reports June 15 that drug gangs in army-occupied Nuevo Laredo swapped insults this week with rival gangs and federal authorities over the police VHF channel. Hundreds of soldiers and federal police agents took over the… Read more“Zetas” vow defiance in army-occupied Nuevo Laredo
Kudos to Newsday, which (unlike the NY Times thus far) today notes the approaching one-year anniversary of Rasul v. Bush, the Supreme Court ruling that Guantanamo detainees are entitled to judicial review. It was hailed as a victory by civil… Read moreRasul v. Bush: one year later
