On Aug. 27, the ACLU announced a settlement with ICE that improves conditions for immigrant children and their families inside the T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor, Texas, a former medium security prison managed for ICE by the for-profit… Read moreSuit settled over ICE detention of children
On Aug. 31, Judge Maxine M. Chesney of the US District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order preventing the Social Security Administration (SSA) from sending “no-match” letters to companies whose employees’… Read moreJudge halts Social Security “no match” letters
Shades of the Niger Delta in Yemen. From Reuters, Sept. 1: ADEN – A Yemeni tribe has freed two foreign engineers and their Yemeni driver, a government source said on Saturday, after the military threatened to storm the area to… Read moreYemen: tribesmen abduct foreign engineers
300 police backed up by helicopters beseiging a small rural town? Starting to look like counterinsurgency in Calabria. From the New York Times, Aug. 31: Fears of Mob Feud Lead to Arrest of 32 in Italy ROME — The Italian… Read more’Ndrangheta wars militarize southern Italy
We got sick just reading about it. Good news the New Zealand cops turned it down. Bad news that it exists. From NZ’s The Press, Aug. 15: Police pass on acquiring ‘vomit torch’ It is enough to make you sick… Read moreSecurity industry unveils “vomit torch”
Our August issue featured the story “Iran: The Anti-Imperialist Case Against Nuclear Power” by Reza Fiyouzat, a reprint from the online journal Dissident Voice, arguing that nuclear development under an undemocratic regime such as Tehran’s merely plays into Washington’s interventionist… Read moreNuclear development in Iran: our readers write
From AP, Aug. 28: Mexico has broken its record for the most extraditions to the United States in a year, shipping a man north of the border Tuesday who is wanted in Georgia for drug trafficking. Hilario Larrago, who faces… Read moreMexico breaks extradition record
From Amnesty International, Aug. 23: Evictions crisis deepens for Palestinian villagers The Israeli army has increased efforts to force Palestinian villagers out of the Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank, by destroying villagers’ homes and restricting their movement… Read moreAI protests Jordan Valley evictions
From Amnesty International, Aug. 23: Iran: Authorities thwart campaign for gender equality Women’s rights activists in Iran face imprisonment. Activists campaigning for gender equality in Iran are unable to exercise their rights to freedom of expression and association, as shown… Read moreAI protests arrests of women activists in Iran
From Fox News, Aug. 28: Washington Post, Other Newspapers Won’t Run ‘Opus’ Cartoon Mocking Radical Islam A popular comic strip that poked fun at the Rev. Jerry Falwell without incident one week ago was deemed too controversial to run over… Read moreCartoon wars back on?
Opium production in Afghanistan has hit a record $3 billion this year, accounting for more than 90% of the world’s illegal output, according to a new report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Production is concentrated mainly… Read moreUN: Afghan opium bumper crop
The self-declared “autonomous municipality” of San Juan Copala and the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) announced they will hold a national meeting of autonomous municipalities, to take place at the indigenous mountain village September 15-16. APPO also said they… Read moreAPPO, Zapatistas hold national meetings on autonomy
