East Asia
East China Sea gets scary —again
A near confrontation between Chinese and US aircraft over disputed East China Sea gasfields comes amid major joint US-Japanese naval maneuvers off Okinawa.
Author: Bill Weinberg
Planet Watch
WHY WE FIGHT
From the San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 8: Man who sought safe streets killed in S.F. crash A wheelchair-using San Francisco man who fought for safe streets for the disabled is being mourned this week by friends and family after he… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
East Asia
Fukushima: the greatest danger comes now…
As nuclear boosters tout a dubious WHO study finding minimal excess cancer risks from the Fukushima disaster, TEPCO’s new phase in the clean-up holds even greater peril.
Mexico
Anabel Hernández: Mexico’s new narco order
Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández, facing death threats after outing top officials as cartel collaborators, speaks on the state of the narco wars under the new government.
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Afghanistan
Malala Yousafzai: still a hero!
Malala Yousafzai has not been co-opted by international accolades, as evidenced by her protests against US drone strikes—to President Obama’s very face.
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Syria
Evo Morales betrays Syrian people
By saying the US “funds rebels that fight against presidents who don’t support capitalism or imperialism,” Evo Morales allies himself with a regime that is committing war crimes.
Africa
NYC Congolese protest Paul Kagame, Elie Wiesel
New York area Congolese protested a panel on Syria that Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel shared with Rwandan President Paul Kagame—who they accuse of massive war crimes.
Greater Middle East
Syria war portends Middle East ‘balkanization’?
Elements of Washington wonkdom are calling for the break-up of Syria into ethno-sectarian mini-states, and see the separatist contagion spreading to the rest of the Middle East.
Greater Middle East
Greek fascists fight for Assad in Syria
Greek "National Socialist" organzation Black Lily boasts that it has dispatched a brigade to Syria to fight for Bashar Assad against "the American-Zionist war machine."
Greater Middle East
Syria: what is the imperial agenda?
Obama's UN speech pledged: "We will ensure the free flow of energy" from the Middle East. Yet intervention risks a conflagration that could threaten imperial control of the oil reserves.