Turkey’s government is expected to announce a reform of Article 301, the law against insulting “Turkishness” that has been used to prosecute writers who have addressed such issues as the Armenian genocide. The moves comes as a precondition for Turkey’s… Read moreTurkey amends speech law, censors YouTube
Serbian and Russian officials have signed an energy deal they say will turn Serbia into a major hub for gas supplies to Europe and boost Russia’s economic influence in the region. The deal was signed in Moscow, where Serbia’s President… Read moreRussia signs Balkan pipeline deal with Serbia
French police Jan. 24 arrested accused ETA militant Eneko Galarraga near Bayonne. Police said Galarraga was not armed and did not resist. The Spanish news agency EFE said Galarraga, 27, has been wanted in Spain since 2002 when escaped to… Read moreFrance arrests ETA fugitive
Joel Beinin of Jewish Voice for Peace writes from Cairo, Jan. 24: About 3:00 AM on Wednesday morning Jan. 23, well-coordinated explosions demolished the iron wall built by Israel to seal the southern border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt… Read moreGazans breach border wall, challenge sham “peace process”
Hundreds of representatives of Venezuela’s grassroots social movements met in the Southern Caracas barrio of El Valle this weekend, to hash out plans for the formation of the Revolutionary Grassroots Front of the South [Frente Popular Revolucionario del Sur]—a new… Read moreVenezuela: revolution in the revolution?
A director of Colombian military intelligence and another officer implicated in a series of false attacks and a bombing that killed a civilian and injured 19 soldiers in Bogotá in 2006, attended the US Army School of the Americas, an… Read moreSOA graduates implicated in Bogotá “false attacks”
200 counter-protesters from around the country outnumbered some 30 members of the “pro-majority” Nationalist Movement who marched in Jena, LA, Jan. 21 to protest the holiday honoring Martin Luther King and the national campaign for the “Jena Six,” black teenagers… Read moreWhite supremacists threaten “second amendment” mobilization in Jena
A series of four bomb blasts rocked the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan over the weekend, wounding one person and damaging shops and businesses. One blast was in the Bhutanese capital, Thimphu; the others targeted shops and markets in the… Read moreMaoist terror in Bhutan?
In a statement on its website, the NigĂ©rien Justice Movement (MNJ) claimed a Jan. 22 attack on Tanout in the Zinder district of Niger, in which at least three soldiers were killed, six wounded and nine others, including the town’s… Read moreUranium wars in Niger
Hundreds of Mexican campesinos, accompanied by 40 tractors, marched in Ciudad Juarez, in the northern state of Chihuahua, on Jan. 18 to launch the “Chamizal to the Zocalo” caravan, a 2,000-km ride to protest the elimination of tariffs on staples… Read moreMexico: NAFTA protests continue
Thousands of members of the National Union of Mine and Metal Workers of the Mexican Republic (SNTMMRM) participated in an eight-hour national strike on Jan. 16 in support of workers at Grupo Mexico’s giant copper mine at Cananea, in the… Read moreMexico: miners strike, teachers march
Guatemalan human rights activist Amilcar Mendez and his wife, Miriam Dardon, began an open-ended hunger strike on Jan. 12 in Guatemala City to protest impunity for the 21,509 homicides that took place in the four-year administration of outgoing president Oscar… Read moreGuatemala: rights activists on hunger strike
