The US has plundered global wealth by exploiting the dollar’s dominance, and the world urgently needs other currencies to take its place, a front-page commentary in the overseas edition of the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Daily said Oct. 24. “The… Read moreChina People’s Daily: dollar dominance plunders planet
Australia has ordered an investigation into claims that up to 20 Afghan asylum-seekers were killed by the Taliban after being forcibly returned to their country. A TV documentary reports that those who died were among 400 Afghan asylum-seekers denied entry… Read moreAfghanistan: repatriated refugees killed by Taliban
Mexican authorities say they have dealt a severe blow to the Tijuana Cartel with the arrest of Eduardo Arellano FĂ©lix, the last in a ruling clique of five brothers to be captured or killed by authorities in recent years. Arellano… Read moreMexico: Tijuana Cartel kingpin busted
US aircraft crossed five miles into Syrian air space Oct. 26 and launched a raid that left at least eight dead and several more injured near the Iraqi border, Damascus charges. The Foreign Ministry summoned the US envoy in Damascus… Read moreUS attacks Syria?
Suspected US drones fired missiles into an alleged Taliban compound near Wana village in Pakistan’s South Waziristan, killing at least seven people, local security officials said Oct. 26. There was no immediate confirmation of the strike from Pakistan’s military or… Read moreUS bombs Pakistan âagain?
Sam Stein writes for Huffington Post, Oct. 22: McCain Surrogate: Al Qaeda Blogger Using Reverse Psychology The McCain campaign blasted back against a story in today’s Washington Post reporting that an al-Qaeda official in a “commentary posted Monday on the… Read moreAl-Qaeda endorses McCain: “reverse psychology”? No…
Up to two million marched in Rome’s Circus Maximus Oct. 25 to protest the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi under the slogans “Save Italy” and “Another Italy is possible.” Walter Veltroni, leader of the center-left opposition, told the crowds… Read moreItaly: mega-march against Berlusconi
Conservative Colombian congressman Oscar Tulio Lizcano is free Oct. 26 after more than eight years as a hostage of the FARC guerillasâtheir longest-held captive. But news accounts diverge widely on the details of his liberation. CBS says he was “freed”… Read moreColombia: hostage “rescue” âor escape?
The Mexican government has offered a $370,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the killers of Andres Dimitriadis, sub-prosecutor for organized crime with the Prosecutor General of Morelos. Dimitriadis was shot in his car with his two guards… Read moreMexico: hunt for killers of Morelos anti-drug prosecutor
A statement from the Iraq Freedom Congress, Oct. 19: Thousands of Workers Took To the Street against the Minister of Finance US Troops and National Guards Surround the Event While the Labor Leaders Deliver Their Speeches In a series of… Read moreIraq: workers protest IMF policies
Some 30,000 indigenous protesters arrived in the Colombian city of Cali Oct. 25, where President Ălvaro Uribe pledges to meet with their leaders this weekend for a dialogue on land conflicts and investigations into 1,240 indigenous Colombians who have been… Read moreColombia: indigenous protesters march on Cali
Brazilian military exercises along the border with Paraguay are escalating tensions between the South American neighbors. Operation Southern Border II mobilized 3,500 soldiers from the Brazilian armed forces Oct. 19 along the border, as part of a larger force of… Read moreBrazilian military exercises heighten tensions with Paraguay
