Our March issue featured the story “Phantom Republics: Kosovo’s Independence Reverberates Across Eurasia,” by Rene Wadlow, a reprint from Toward Freedom. Wrote Wadlow: “The self-proclamation of independence by Kosovo may be the last act in the division of former Yugoslavia,… Read moreOur readers write: whither Kosova?
Seven Peruvians—Arminda Valladares Saba, Melissa RocĂo Patiño Hinostroza, Guadalupe Alejandrina Hilario Rivas, Maria Gabriel Segura, Carmen Mercedes Asparrent Riveros, Roque Gonzáles La Rosa and Damaris Velasco Huiza—remain in detention following their arrest late last month on the border with Ecuador… Read morePeruvians detained under terror law for attending Bolivarian meeting
Saudi Arabia‘s Shoura Council has discussed a national plan to deal with potential radioactive contamination in the Kingdom following warnings of possible attacks on Iran‘s nuclear reactors. “The plan to check radiation hazards was discussed by Shoura members, but it… Read moreSaudi Arabia prepares for nuclear contamination
Egypt‘s President Hosni Mubarak has ordered the army to start baking more bread following a series of clashes breaking out at long lines for government-subsidized loaves. Acute shortages of the flat, round bread which is a staple of the Egyptian… Read moreBread riots in Egypt
Serbia’s minister for Kosovo, Slobodan Samardzic, has proposed the ethnic division of Kosova to the UN mission in the disputed territory, a Belgrade newspaper reports. The key point of the accord offered to the UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) is… Read moreSerbia proposes division of Kosova
Iranian artillery March 23 shelled three border towns in northern Iraq where Iranian Kurdish militants are believed to be operating, Iraqi Kurdish authorities reported. The shelling of the towns of Marado, Razda and Dolakoka started at 7:00 AM and lasted… Read moreIran shells northern Iraq —again
At least two people were killed and 12 wounded on March 22 in Peru’s northeastern Loreto department in clashes between police and mostly Achuar indigenous workers who had been occupying installations on the Pluspetrol Norte oil company’s lot 1AB since… Read morePeru: indigenous seize oil field
On March 5 US District Judge Adalberto Jordan in Miami ordered retired Peruvian army major Telmo Ricardo Hurtado to pay $37 million to two survivors of a 1985 massacre in which soldiers under Hurtado’s direct command killed 69 indigenous campesinos,… Read morePeruvian ex-officer to pay in massacre case
From the Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC), March 22: Letter to the Anti-War and -Occupation Forces of the World On the Fifth Anniversary of US Administration and its Allies’ Barbarism The memory of March 19th puts out terror in the world…. Read moreIraq Freedom Congress statement on five years of occupation
Just as the UN is warning of a global food shock (in part due to the diversion of croplands into production of “biofuels“), come reports of dangerous new fungus with the ability to destroy entire wheat fields spreading from Africa… Read moreWheat-eating fungus spreads to Iran, fueling “food shock” fears
Days after the harsh crackdown on protests in Lhasa, Chinese authorities are now arresting hundreds of Tibetans elsewhere in Tibet and Tibetan regions of neighboring Gansu and Sichuan provinces. The Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy reports that in… Read moreTibet: 1,000 arrested, hundreds “disappeared”
The Bay Area group Direct Action to Stop the War marked the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion March 19 by blocking key intersection in downtown San Francisco, staging “die-ins” and halting traffic. The corporate headquarters of Chevron and Bechtel… Read moreMore than 100 arrested in San Francisco anti-war actions
