Hey, anyone remember Haiti? At least five Haitians were killed on April 27 in an exchange of fire between police and demonstrators during a march in Port-au-Prince. Police agents, many wearing black cloth masks over their faces, were seen firing… Read moreHaiti: cops kill five in demo
The “peak oil” phenomenon, which has so far received more serious treatment in the foreign press than here in the USA, is starting to break through to the mainstream–at least among the business media. On May 4, Bloomberg.com opinion columnist… Read moreAre you ready for $100/barrel oil?
Its back to the drawing board yet again for the fractious fraternity of moguls and bureaucrats charged with overseeing redevelopment of Lower Manhattan’s Ground Zero, site of the 9-11 disaster, which still sits empty (but for a new trans-Hudson rail… Read moreNYC gets second chance: Don’t rebuild it!
Sent to us by New York’s Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants is this action alert in the case of two Muslim immigrant girls detained following spurious suspicion of plotting suicide attacks: Vigil to Release Detained Youth! Get on… Read moreVigil for detained immigrant girls
From VOA, May 4: At least 14 people are now dead following an explosion that rocked a soccer stadium in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, as the prime minister addressed his supporters. The cause of Tuesday’s blast is still unknown. Prime… Read moreBlast in Somalia; Uganda delays troop deployment
From a May 3 report in South Africa’s Cape Times: Cape Town – With the rapid decline of global oil supplies, the United States is heading for an economic crash unlike anything since the 1930s. And the collapse of the dollar… Read moreIraq and “peak oil”: Its a “resource war,” stupid!
A tribal woman in India’s Andaman Islands who was paid just two rupees, or four cents, in compensation for damage to her coconut groves by the December tsunami has angrily returned the check from the local government, an official acknowledged…. Read moreIndia: four cents for tsunami aid
Reviving a perennial theme of the reigning energy oligarchs, President Bush told the National Small Business Week Conference in DC April 27 that more nuclear plants are the answer to rising oil costs. “We’ve got a fundamental question we got… Read moreBush: Yes nukes!
Five Muslim-Americans have filed suit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security claiming racial profiling after they were detained and fingerprinted by border agents upon crossing back into the U.S. from a religious conference in Canada. The suit, filed in… Read moreMuslims sue Homeland Security
Seven suspected Islamist militants have been ordered to stand trial in Italy, charged with belonging to a cell that planned to recruit suicide bombers for attacks in Iraq, judicial officials said. The police closed in on the seven in May… Read moreItaly: jihadi cell broken?
M. Cherif Bassiouni, a professor of law at DePaul University in Chicago who was the UN Human Rights Commission’s independent expert for Afghanistan, released a 21-page report last week, accusing U.S. military forces and civilian contractors of “engaging in arbitrary… Read moreUN investigator on U.S. abuses in Afghanistan: out
The “peak oil” theory, which remains the domain of the wacko fringe in the U.S., appears to be taken rather more seriously in the U.K., where several members of parliament have signed on to a petition circulated by an alternative-energy… Read moreUK petition on “peak oil”
