Police in Zimbabwe fought running battles June 14 with residents of Makhokhoba, one of the oldest townships of the country’s second city, Bulawayo as they demolished illegal structures. One woman stripped naked in protest after police destroyed her shack (a… Read moreZimbabwe police demolish township
NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is something of a mixed bag: he makes frequent noises like a Terror War hardliner and quasi-Ashcroftian freedom-hater, but (even if, perhaps, for some bad Arabophobe reasons) he was among the first to raise the… Read morePakistan arrests rape victim
Mexican federal army troops have taken control of the border city of Nuevo Laredo, and detained 41 local police for questioning. The crackdown comes after local police opened fire on federal agents sent in to investigate the murder of the… Read moreFederal troops occupy Nuevo Laredo
Well, at least this makes the NY Times, even if they buried it on page 14. Thanks to TruthOut for forwarding it: Some Held at Guantánamo Are Minors, Lawyers Say By Neil A. Lewis The New York Times Monday 13… Read moreMinors held, beaten at Gitmo?
A suicide bomber crashed his car into a US military patrol just outside Kandahar June 13, killing himself and wounding four US soldiers, one seriously. The US ambassador in Kabul, Zalmay Khalilzad, condemned such attacks as “cowardly acts of desperation,… Read moreUS troops under attack in Afghanistan
David Horowitz’ website Discover the Networks: A Guide to the Political Left is pretty funny, evoking what Richard Hofstadter called “the paranoid style in American politics.” Its list of un-American “radicals” includes both George Soros and Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman… Read more“Anti-terrorist” website promotes terror
A top member of a banned Islamist group who predicted the fall of Morocco’s monarchy and called for the setting up of a republic will go on trial this month. “I’m accused of attacking the monarchic regime and face three… Read moreAnti-monarchist faces trial in Morocco
In their bid to get the Patriot Act made permanent when it comes up for renewal later this year, Bush and Attorney General Gonzales are claiming 200 terrorism convictions thanks to new post-9-11 powers. However, a review of the cases… Read moreGonzales cooks the “terror conviction” books
Our reader Ivo Skoric offers the following observation on news that National Intelligence Director John Negroponte will be appointing his personal intelligence overseer at the FBI: Now that White House will have its man inside the FBI, actually a top… Read moreNegroponte gets man at FBI
Jonathan Bennett of the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) sends the following observations on follow-up coverage of revleations the Bush White House altered science on global climate change: Go figure. Two days after the Times reports… Read moreQuiet exit for White House science-cooker
On the same day that Bush called for the Patriot Act to be made permanent when it comes up for renewal later this year (see his comments at the National Counter-Terrorism Center), finally some dissension emerges in Congress over the… Read moreCapitol Hill dissension over Patriot Act
Tentative moves towards peace are reported from Darfur, where the first group of some 200 internally displaced people left Kalma camp near Nyala, the provincial capital of South Darfur, on 20 trucks provided by the Sudanese government. They are part… Read moreDarfur peace talks start badly
