Author: Bill Weinberg
US Africa Command sees terrorist “coordination”
Gen. Carter Ham of US Africa Command warned of growing coordination between three major terror networks across the continent: al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), al-Shabaab in Somalia, and Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Syria: intervention imminent?
Turkey has called a NATO meeting to discuss a response to the shooting down of one of its warplanes by Syrian forces—as the Free Syria Army establishes a command center in Istanbul, and sends a delegation to Washington.
Demand justice for Roxana Sorina Buta
Roxana Sorina Buta, a 21-year-old aspiring actress and Romanian immigrant, was the latest victim of reckless motorists when she was killed in a hit-and-run near Manhattan’s Union Square on May 24.
Assange to Ecuador: three questions nobody (on the left) is asking
Will Julian Assange protest restrictions on press freedoms in Ecuador? Is Sweden any more likely to extradite him to the US than Britain? Will he come clean on WikiLeaks’ collaboration with the Belarus dictatorship?
Obesity driving global hunger, ecological collapse: study
Planet Earth reaching 7 billion people unleashed a tsunami of Malthusian claptrap. Now a new study documents that the problem is the sheer acreage of human flesh, not how many bodies it is distributed amongst.
Bolivia: Evo fetes Ahmadinejad, betrays Iran’s indigenous Kurds
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Bolivia for his third visit with President Evo Morales—a champion of Latin America’s indigenous peoples who has nothing to say about Iran’s oppression and persecution of the Kurds.
Yemen: Pyrrhic victory against al-Qaeda?
Yemeni government forces took back AQAP’s major stronghold towns after a month-long offensive. But al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has grown along with US drone strikes—from a handful of militants to a widespread insurgency.
Countdown to intervention in Azawad?
New French president François Hollande warns that Mali’s breakaway north is harboring “terrorists.” He spoke in a meeting with Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou—who says he will seek UN approval for military action.
“Anti-war” movement betrays Syrian people
“Anti-war” voices are cynically seeking to exculpate Bashar Assad in the Houla massacre. At best, they express far greater outrage at supposed Western arming of the Syrian rebels than at Assad’s slaughter of his own people.
WHY WE FIGHT
From the Village Voice, June 11: NYPD Slammed With Lawsuit Over Handling of Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths On July 10, 2011, Clara Heyworth was walking to meet her husband when she was fatally struck by motorist Anthony Webb, who was… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Next for Honduras: “charter city” neocolonialism?
Honduras passed a constitutional amendment drawn up by the administration of President Porfirio Lobo that allows the creation of “Special Development Regions” within the country—where the national state would have limited, if any, authority.