The Chinese foreign ministry has announced the appointment of a new special representative to Africa and confirmed plans to send 275 military engineers for UN peacekeeping operations. The move comes just as China is coming under international criticism for its… Read moreChina to send military engineers to Darfur?
British civil servant David Keogh has been sentenced to six months after being found guilty of breaching the Official Secrets Act for leaking a classified memo about a meeting between Prime Minister Tony Blair and President George W. Bush in… Read moreBrit official gets prison for leaking Bush-Blair memo
A terrorism warning issued by US military authorities in Germany last month could involve plans by an the Kurdish Islamist militant organization Ansar al-Islam, anonymous officials said in a report on the ABC News website. Howeve, other anonymous officials denied… Read moreAnsar al-Islam to attack Americans in Germany?
Members of the indigenous Achuar communities in the Amazon basin in the Peru-Ecuador border region have notified US Oil Company Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) that they will bring a lawsuit against the company in the US if it will not clean… Read morePeru: Amazon indigenous warn Oxy over toxins
From US Labor Against the War (USLAW), May 9: Leading Iraqi Labor Leaders to Tour U.S. First woman union leader, head of oil workers union to visit 12 cities June 4-29, 2007 Atlanta, Berkeley, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New… Read moreIraqi labor leaders to tour US
“Socialist villages”? Sounds to us more like keeping a restive population under control to faciliate a stable investment climate for tourism and other capitalist development—akin to the “model villages” the right-wing Guatemalan dictatorship imposed on the Maya peasantry in the… Read moreTibet: China orders forced resettlements
The ugly regime in Uzbekistan is certainly giving Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty all the grist they need for their propaganda mill. May 9: Umida Niyazova fought for democracy and human rights in her native Uzbekistan. But from a cage in… Read moreUzbekistan: dissident released after “forced confession”
Via the Alternative Information Center, May 6: Joint report of B’Tselem with HaMoked—Center for the Defence of the Individual, Summary Utterly Forbidden: The Torture And Ill-Treatment Of Palestinian Detainees In recent years, Israel has openly admitted that ISA (formerly the… Read moreIsrael: rights groups document Shin Bet torture
In a surprise decision, US District Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso, TX, threw out all charges against right-wing Cuban militant and former CIA operative Luis Posada Carriles May 8, allowing him to go free days before he was set… Read morePosada Carriles walks free; Cuba protests impunity for “monster of terror”
Eleven anti-Bush protetsers in the Yucatan city of Merida were released on bail of up to 20,000 pesos ($2,000) May 8. They had been arrested on charges of damaging the Municipal Palace and other violations during protests against George Bush’s… Read moreYucatan: Merida starts to release anti-Bush protesters
Letter from Ignacio del Valle, La Palma federal prison, Mexico state, via Narco News, May 7: Introduction: Brief Synopsis of the Struggles in Atenco One year after the brutal police attack against the town of San Salvador Atenco in Mexico,… Read moreMexico: Atenco political prisoner speaks
While it is always bad news when journalists are detained or harassed, we are extremely skeptical that there is “slavery” in the Polisario Front’s refugee camps—and about this report generally. From South Africa’s News24, May 7: SYDNEY — Two Australian… Read moreWestern Sahara: Polisario Front detains journalists?
