Israeli forces again violently broke up a peaceful demonstration against the construction of the separation wall in the West Bank village of Nil’in June 8, shooting a foreign cameraman with a rubber-coated bullet. Three protesters were injured and three arrested,… Read moreWest Bank: Israeli forces again attack anti-wall protest
From the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, June 5: On May 29, 2008, three Palestinian Left organizations, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Palestine People’s Party,… Read morePFLP, DFLP announce initiative for united Palestinian left front
On June 2, ICE announced that its eight fugitive operations teams in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area had arrested a total of 491 immigrants during a month-long operation in May. Out of the total 491 people arrested, 347 were… Read more1,800 arrested in ICE “fugitive” sweeps
From the Global Forest Coalition, June 5: A Black Day for the Environment: False Solutions to Food Crisis will Escalate Starvation, Accelerate Climate Change and Devastate Biodiversity Rome — The Global Forest Coalition, a worldwide coalition of environmental NGOs and… Read moreEcologists blast Rome food summit
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro June 2 told reporters that US Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte—leading Washington’s delegation to the 38th session of the Organization of American States general assembly in MedellĂn—is “a little official with a criminal… Read moreVenezuelan foreign minister disses “criminal” Negroponte
At the 47th US-Mexico Interparliamentary Commission, held June 6 in Monterrey, Nuevo LeĂłn, Mexican politicians from all of the three leading parties protested the imposition of human rights conditions on aid recently approved by Washington under the MĂ©rida Initiative, popularly… Read moreMexican lawmakers oppose MĂ©rida Initiative rights conditions
On June 4, a detachment of some 200 Mexican army troops and federal police in a convoy of ten vehicles led by an armored personnel carrier occupied several communities around the Zapatista settlement of La Garrucha, on the edge of… Read moreChiapas: army occupies Zapatista communities in “anti-drug” ops
We’ve noted before Barack Obama’s alarming bellicose tendencies. They were out in profligate display at his notorious address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual conference in Washington June 4. Here’s the most ominous one from the Washington… Read moreBarack Obama: I’ll nuke Iran
Police in Tibet arrested 16 Buddhist monks and accused them of involvement in bombings on April 5, 8 and 15 in villages near Qamdo. All three bombings involved homemade explosives and caused only property damage, authorities said. (NYT, June 6)… Read moreMore monks, nuns arrested in Tibet
An Iranian government spokesman confirmed that a group of Bahai religious leaders have been arrested—but said that the charges against them related to security and not religion. The spokesman, Gholam Hossein Elham, said the group had “acted against the country’s… Read moreIran: Bahai leaders arrested
The New York Times deigns to cover the conflict in Western Sahara (which the paper calls “nearly forgotten”—true enough, thanks in large part to the “newspaper of record”) June 4—on the occasion of a Washington press affair featuring former residents… Read moreWestern Sahara: NYT reports Polisario’s abuses —not Morocco’s
Middle East Development LLC, the Dubai-based construction company controlled by Tarek Mohammad bin Laden, half-brother of Osama bin Laden, announced it is seeking to raise $190 billion to build two new cities in Djibouti and Yemen and a 28.5-kilometer bridge… Read moreBin Laden family in secret war for Yemen
