Earlier this year, we asked if oil would reach $200 per barrel by year’s end. Short of a sudden and dramatic crisis in the Middle East, that now seems impossible. The rising prices themselves put some long-overdue breaks on consumption—and… Read morePeak oil apocalyptoids eating crow yet?
More than 20 people were killed in two apparent US missile strikes in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border Oct. 31. An al-Qaeda leader identified as Abu Kasha or Abu Akash, previously believed to be in Iraq, was reported killed… Read moreUS bombs Pakistan —again?
The Palestine People’s Party (PPP) denounced the latest Israeli decision to demolish five Palestinian homes in the town of Bruqin in the northern West Bank Oct. 31. Senior PPP member Isam Baker called the decision “part of the ethnic cleansing… Read moreWest Bank house demolitions protested
The European Campaign to Break the Siege on Gaza is preparing to send a massive international parliamentarian delegation to Gaza by sea. The delegation had arranged a solidarity visit to Gaza, but was denied entry to the area by Egypt… Read moreSolidarity efforts grow as Gaza polarizes
A Syrian court sentenced 12 prominent dissidents to two and a half years each in prison Oct. 29 for calling for democratic reforms and an end to the Baath Party’s monopoly on power. The dissidents, 11 men and a woman,… Read moreSyria sentences dissidents, White House makes hay
A jury for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Oct. 31 found Charles McArthur Emmanuel AKA Chuckie Taylor Jr., son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, guilty on charges of involvement in torture and other… Read moreChuckie Taylor, ex-Liberian terror chief, convicted in landmark torture case
Our October issue featured the story “Behind the Econocataclysm: Globalization, Oil Shock and the Iraq War” by Vilosh Vinograd, citing George Soros, Joseph Stiglitz and Walden Bello to argue that the financial crisis was sparked by George Bush’s imperialist aggression… Read moreOur readers write: Is it 1929 yet?
Even now that the economy is hitting the skids bigtime and the price of oil is back down below $100 ($66 per barrel on Oct. 30 according to CNNMoney)—prompting OPEC at its Vienna meeting to decide to cut production, after… Read moreExxon reaps record profits; McCain reaps two-faced propaganda
Eleven near-simultaneous bomb blasts tore through Guwahati and the towns of Barpeta, Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon in India’s conflicted northeastern Assam state, killing 40 people and wounding 200 late Oct. 30. Most of the blasts targeted crowded markets. One of the… Read moreIndia: separatists or jihadis behind Assam terror?
The Community Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) found the government of Niger liable Oct. 27 for failing to aid a young woman who was held in slavery for ten years. The West African… Read moreEx-slave wins landmark case against Niger government
A woman was stoned to death for adultery Oct. 27 in an Islamist-controlled region of Somalia. Witnesses said the woman, identified as Aisho Ibrahim Dhuhulow, 23, had been raped, but sharia courts ruled she was guilty of adultery. She was… Read moreSomalia: rape victim stoned to death
Five suicide car bombs hit targets in the autonomous Somali regions of Somaliland and Puntland Oct. 29, killing some 20 as well as the bombers. Three simultaneous blasts in Somaliland’s capital Hargeysa targeted the presidential palace, an Ethiopian diplomatic compound… Read moreTerror attacks hit Somalia’s autonomous enclaves
