On May 6, 480 Palestinian Authority police entered the city of Jenin to crack down on criminal gangs and Islamic Jihad cells, under the rubric of the Israeli-approved and fashionably euphemistic “Operation Smile and Hope.” Clashes with presumed Islamic militants… Read moreWest Bank: Israel re-occupies Jenin
On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day and a week before Israel marks its 60th Independence Day, a group of over 100 prominent British Jews issued a letter proclaiming, “We’re not celebrating Israel’s anniversary,” citing the dispossession of 750,000 Palestinians…. Read moreBritish Jews: “We’re not celebrating Israel’s anniversary”
Eight thousand pages of documents related to the Pentagon’s illegal propaganda campaign, known as the Pentagon military analyst program, are now online for the world to see, although in a format that makes it impossible to easily search them and… Read morePentagon media scandal down memory hole?
At least eight people were killed and 13 injured May 6 as US aircraft bombed positions of the Mahdi Army militia in Baghdad’s Sadr City. (DPA, AP, May 7) Civilians are fleeing Sadr City, but the fighting is spreading beyond… Read moreUS battles Mahdi Army āPKK next?
In 1994, the first year of Rudolph Giuliani’s initial term as mayor of New York, 3,400 people were arrested for marijuana possession in the city’s five boroughs. By 2000, that number had swelled to 51,500. This period and the ensuing… Read moreNYC marijuana busts racist āsurprise!
On April 28 Mexico’s Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Board (JFCA) ruled in favor of a nine-month old strike at Grupo Mexico’s giant copper mine at Cananea, in the northwestern state of Sonora. The ruling, which is final, makes the job… Read moreMexico: Cananea strike now legal
From the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), April 30: Attorney General’s office announces capture of suspects in assassination of FMLN Mayor In the early dawn hours of April 14, El Salvadorās National Civilian Police (PNC)… Read moreEl Salvador: arrest in FMLN mayor’s murder
According to union sources, some 40,000 Hondurans participated in May Day celebrations, which included marches in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula. The three main labor federations marched together, along with a number of grassroots groups and coalitions, including the Popular… Read moreHonduras: union leaders murdered
Unionists and other activists marked International Workers Day with marches throughout Latin America on May 1 as rising food and fuel costs cut into workers’ standard of living. Demands included increases in the minimum wage, an end to violence against… Read moreLatin America May Day round-up
Some 60 men riding in luxury vehicles and wearing uniforms of the Federal Investigation Agency (AFI) and armed with AK-47s shot nine people dead at the ranch of Rogaciano Alba Ćlvarez in PetatlĆ”n May 4. Two of Alba’s sons were… Read moreMexico: deadly attacks on Guerrero cattle barons
America’s own Tibet in the Pacific? From the New York Times, May 3, links added: Occupation of Palace Area Invigorates Native Hawaiian Movement HONOLULU ā A Native Hawaiian independence group laid claim this week to the nation’s only royal palace… Read moreHawaiian kingdom reclaims Iolani Palace
From Amazon Watch, May 2: LOS ANGELES ā Leaders of the indigenous Achuar people of Peru accompanied by 40 demonstrators wearing hazmat suits today brought Occidental Petroleum’s Amazon disaster to the company’s doorstep as they marched inside the hotel hosting… Read morePeruvian indigenous protest at Oxy Petroleum
