From Mexico’s Centro de Medios Libres, Jan. 15: Adherent to the Other Campaign seriously injured. Solidarity required. After the Meeting of the Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World was over, Ricardo, an adherent to the Other Campaign in… Read more“La Otra” activist brutally attacked in Chiapas
It now stands at five minutes to midnight. Before this change, it stood at seven to midnight, having moved forward two minutes in February 2002. That was the same position it stood at when the clock was unveiled in 1947…. Read more“Doomsday Clock” two minutes closer to midnight
From The Scotsman, Jan. 18, links and emphasis added: Mullah Omar, leader of the Taleban, is living in Pakistan under the protection of the country’s intelligence service, a captured Taleban spokesman has told Afghan interrogators. Mohammad Hanif, a Taleban spokesman… Read morePakistan protecting Mullah Omar?
From Air Force Times, Jan. 16: A small group of out-of-uniform active-duty service members, supported by veterans and academics, gathered inside a Norfolk, Va., church on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to hold a rally calling for the immediate withdrawal… Read moreService members rally against troop “surge”
On Jan. 11 a federal grand jury in El Paso, Texas, indicted Cuban-born Venezuelan national Luis Posada Carriles, a longtime “asset” of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), on one count of fraud and six counts of lying to government… Read morePosada Carriles charged with fraud —not terrorism
Ethiopian occupation troops in Somalia are reportedly hunting down Ethiopian Oromo refugees living in the country. Allied Somali militias are also said to be abducting Oromos and handing them over to Ethiopian troops for reward money. Ethiopian forces in Somalia… Read moreEthiopian troops hunt down Oromo refugees in Somalia
Last week’s US air raids in the Lower Juba region of southern Somalia near the Kenyan border, caused heavy civilian casualties, according to local reports. Some of the attacks apparently hit groups of nomadic herdsmen on their way to watering… Read moreSomalia: US raids wiped out nomads; Kenya next domino?
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials were scheduled to appear before Judge L. John Kane in federal court in Denver on Jan. 12 in a follow-up hearing to a civil lawsuit filed by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local… Read moreUFCW pursues lawsuit over Swift raids
Palestinian immigrant Fawaz Damra, the former imam at the Islamic Center of Cleveland, Ohio, was deported on Jan. 4—a year after reaching an agreement with the US government to give up his fight to remain in the US. That agreement… Read moreDeported imam arrested by Israel
Chanting “We are students, not criminals,” nearly 600 students and their supporters marched on Jan. 8 toward the University of Phoenix stadium in Glendale, Arizona, to protest a recently passed state law denying in-state tuition to out-of-status immigrants. Arizona voters… Read moreArizona: students march against anti-immigrant measures
From the New York Times, Jan. 13, emphasis added: ATHENS, Jan. 12 — An antitank grenade was fired into the heavily fortified American Embassy here on Friday just before dawn. The building was empty, but the attack nonetheless underscored deep… Read moreConspiranoids waste no time after Athens embassy blast
Ethiopian and US forces are still in pursuit of three supposed al-Qaida militants originally said to have been killed in the US airstrike of Jan. 8, with an anonymous “senior US official” in Kenya telling AP that they all survived… Read moreSomalia: facts of US air-strike disputed; exiles deported for opposing intervention
