Knesset member Dove Hannen was one of hundreds of international and Israeli peace activists who was tear gassed by soldiers at the weekly anti-wall protest in the village of Bil’in.
Hamas security forces in Rafah battled armed militants of the Jund Ansar Allah (“Warriors of God”), who had earlier in the day declared the Gaza Strip an “Islamic emirate.”
Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya clashed with soldiers and police in the capital Tegucigalpa in two days of unrest throughout the city Aug. 11 and 12. Security forces fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of thousands and… Read moreHonduras: repression continues; Obama acquiescing in coup?
New aerial photos have revealed illegal loggers operating inside the Murunahua Reserve in the Peruvian Amazon, set aside for uncontacted and highly vulnerable indigenous tribes.
The first cases of “swine flu” have just been reported among Amazonian indigenous peoples, raising fears of a devastating contagion among peoples with no immunity to outside diseases.
A majority of readers support the protesters in Iran, while 43% think it is wrong to pick a side and the real enemy is US imperialism.
A majority of readers support the Sufis fighting the fundamentalist Shabab insurgents in Somalia, but do not think the US should arm them.
A majority of our readers think Obama was not in on the coup d’etat in Honduras, but maybe the CIA was anyway.
The three main Honduran labor federations held a march in Tegucigalpa marking the start of an open-ended general strike against the coup-installed de facto government.
Haiti’s President René Préval refused to promulgate a new law raising the minimum wage. prompting workers to shut down the Sonapi factory complex on Port-au-Prince’s northern outskirts.
The Dominican Republic’s National Union of Nursing Services (UNASED) announced that Dominican medical workers will continue a strike that started last week to demand higher wages.
Groups that protest the US ban on travel to Cuba returned to the US without incident after their latest visits, the first since US president Barack Obama took office.
