Ecuador’s national indigenous organization announced that is filing a legal complaint against the government, including President Rafael Correa, for complicity with “genocide” against indigenous people in the Amazon.
Peru’s government announced the cancellation of a planned copper mining project in Arequipa after three protesters were killed this week.
Fatah and Hamas are at odds on the political affiliation of the man arrested in the assassination of Juliano Mer-Khamis, a co-existence activist and theater director gunned down in Jenin.
Israeli air-strikes and artillery fire struck Gaza nine times on Friday. bringing the total number of dead over the past 24 hours to thirteen, some half of them civilians.
Friday prayers again exploded into protests in cities nearly across the Arab world, with demonstrators killed by police in Syria and Yemen, and thousands of Egyptians again filling Cairo’s Tahrir Square.
As NATO warplanes again bombed their ostensible rebel allies in Libya, Gen. Carter Ham, head of US Africa Command, broached sending troops into Libya with a possible international ground force to back up the rebel army.
Israeli fire killed five Palestinians and injured some 40 after a missile from the Gaza Strip hit a school bus in southern Israel, injuring two. Sudan meanwhile accuses Israel of an air-strike on its Red Sea coast.
A plan awaiting approval by the US Environmental Protection Agency would dramatically increase permissible radioactive releases in drinking water, food and soil after “radiological incidents.”
A group of Iranian intellectuals issued a “Call for Active Opposition to the Nuclear Policy of the Islamic Republic,” warning that “Fukushima completed the warning that was issued by Chernobyl.”
As engineers at Fukushima resort to building silt mounds around the leaking reactor to filter radioactive particles, public advocates insist there is no safe dose of radiation—despite official assurances.
The Libertarian Book Club, New York City’s oldest active anarchist institution, kicks off a new season of its Anarchist Forum series as Bill Weinberg leads a discussion on Libya, the Arab Spring and the crisis in North Africa.
Peruvian indigenous forest dwellers have been forced to set up a guard post to protect a reserve established for “uncontacted” peoples, after the authorities ignored their repeated pleas for action.
