Sarah Ferguson writes for the Village Voice, March 31: Friday night’s Critical Mass bike ride was played as a First Amendment “showdown” over the NYPD’s new parade rule, which requires groups of 50 or more to get a permit to… Read moreNYC: Critical Mass tests new police regs
From the Center for Constitutional Rights, March 30: Hicks Forced to Agree to Gag Order With Plea Guantanamo Detainee May Not Speak to Press, Criticize his Detention or Say He was Tortured The US government required Guantánamo detainee David Hicks… Read moreGag order in Gitmo case protested
More than 1,000 immigration detainees held a two-day hunger strike at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, according to the consul general of El Salvador in Georgia, Asdrubal Aguilar. The Atlanta Latino newspaper reported the protest in a March… Read moreICE detainees protest in Georgia
On March 26, a Border Patrol shot and killed a man who allegedly threatened him with a rock in Calexico, California, on the border with Mexico. The agent fired an M-4 assault rifle at the man, who was apparently trying… Read moreCalifornia: border agent kills migrant
From Military Families Speak Out, March 29: Military Families Speak Out responds to Senate vote to continue Iraq war Today, Military Families Speak Out, the largest organization of military families speaking out against a war in the history of the… Read moreMilitary families respond to Senate vote on Iraq
The construction of a Georgia’s second “NATO standard” military base less than 20 miles from Tskhinvali, the capital of breakaway South Ossetia, is being protested by separatist leaders. Ossetian leaders charge that construction of the base near Gori is a… Read moreGeorgia preparing attack on South Ossetia?
Iran’s embassy in London has stated that the British sailors captured last week were 0.5 km inside Iranian waters when they were taken by the Revolutionary Guard. British officials insist that their sailors were 1.7 miles within Iraqi waters. The… Read moreIran and UK debate cartography
A one thousand year-old Armenian church on the island of Akdamar in Lake Van has been renovated and now reopened by Turkish authorities. Though Armenia and Turkey do not maintain regular diplomatic relations, a delegation of Armenian architects and government… Read moreTurkey: historic Armenian church re-opens in peace gesture
In a move calculated to win more support in the Arab world, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia described the American occupation in Iraq as “illegal” and urged the leaders gathered at the ongoing Arab League summit to unite in order… Read moreAngst on Iraq at Arab League summit
Yemeni forces shot down a foreign drone flying over the south of the Arab country, government officials said March 28, and local media reported that the aircraft was Iranian. “Yes, a drone was brought down,” a government official told Reuters…. Read moreIranian drone shot down in Yemen?
Terrifying reports are mounting of imminent US aggression against Iran, and we have been hearing for months ominous rumblings that Israel will actually strike first. Our March issue featured an interview with Bina Darabzand, a leader of Iran’s embattled left… Read moreUS aggression against Iran: one reader writes
Gunmen rampaged through the Sunni and Turkmen district of al-Wihda in the northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar overnight, killing about 50 residents, apparently in reprisal for bombings in a Shi’ite area. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has ordered an inquiry… Read moreIraq: more sectarian massacres
