The UN conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has closed with little accomplished in the way of new ways to enforce the fast-unravelling treaty. A May 28 report in the LA Times notes: The United States tried to keep the… Read moreNPT conference ends in discord
Well, after all the “Newsweek-lied-people-died” gloating, the Pentagon acknowledges Koran abuse at Gitmo (while denying the toilet incident). Pentagon Admits Five Acts of ‘Mishandling’ the Koran By Rupert Cornwell The Independent UK Friday 27 May 2005 The Pentagon admitted last… Read morePentagon admits Koran desecration
James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), the House Judiciary Committee chair, has introduced the Orwellianly named “Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act” (HR 1528) would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, and even go undercover and… Read moreBill would force you to narc on your kids
An Islamist prisoner, accused of involvement in the 2003 Casablanca bombings, has died in a Moroccan prison on hunger strike, al-Jazeera reports. The unidentified man died in Autaita prison in the city of Sidi Qasim, where about 1,000 inmates, members… Read moreMoroccan prisoner dead in hunger strike?
In recent weeks, we’ve been following Washington’s current regime change offensive, in which the White House is seeking to encourage–and, presumably, co-opt–opposition activists in countries which really are unhappily authoritarian, but (more to the point) insufficiently compliant with US interests…. Read moreEgypt next for “regime change”?
Police in Edinburgh are asking for a ban on a major anti-war rally slated for the Scottish capital during the G8 summit meeting, alleging that its organizers have been linked with “violence and disruption.” The UK’s Stop the War Coalition… Read moreEdinburgh police: no anti-war march at G8 summit
On the morning of May 26, a car bomb exploded in Madrid, causing proprty destruction and leaving 50 with mostly minor injuries. Phone calls to media outlets immediately before the explosion warned that it was coming and claimed responsibility in… Read moreArrest after ETA attack “slams door on peace”
A week after calm started to return to Uzbekistan (see out last blog post), signs of simmering unrest continue, and the geopolitics of the conflict are starting to become clearer… Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline (RFE/RL) reported May 23 that… Read moreUzbekistan-China alignment
We applaud Human Rights Watch for continuing to document the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan even as it has fallen off the media radar screen. But we question their assumption that Karzai “needs more support from the US,” given that it… Read moreAfghanistan: Violence Surges
The same day Amnesty International released its annual report with unprecedented criticism for the US, comes this chilling release from Human Rights Watch: Pakistan: US Citizens Tortured, Held Illegally Human Rights Watch Tuesday 24 May 2005 FBI participated in interrogations… Read moreUS citizens tortured in Pakistan
Amnesty International’s 2005 annual report, released today, accuses the US government of damaging human rights worldwide with its attitude to torture and treatment of detainees, which granted “a licence to others to commit abuse with impunity.” The report criticizes the… Read moreAmnesty International annual report blasts US
Although it has recieved little coverage elsewhere, the Cuban daily Ahora reports today that on May 20, Bush received a Cuban-American delegation at the White House led by Luis Zúñiga Rey of the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), presumably to… Read moreBush entertains terrorist at White House?
