From BBC, Nov. 23: Drivers who get stopped by the police could have their fingerprints taken at the roadside, under a new plan to help officers check people’s identities. A hand-held device being tested by 10 forces in England and… Read moreNext for UK: finger-prints at road stops
From AP, Nov. 25: MEXICO CITY: A violent Mexican drug gang took out a rare, half-page ad in newspapers in which they claimed to be anti-crime vigilantes who wanted to stop kidnapping, robbery and the sale of methamphetamine in the… Read moreMichoacan’s bloody “Family”: anti-narco vigilantes?
General Federation of Trade Unions-Iraq (GFTU-Iraq) Statement on the Merger with the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI): GFTU-Iraq’s first convention was centered on the following statement: “The unity of the working class is the path to… Read moreIraq: labor solidarity against sectarian terror
Between Nov. 14 and Nov. 17, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “Fugitive Operations Units” arrested 70 immigrants in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Manhattan. Of the total, 27 had been ordered removed by an… Read more“Return to Sender” hits NYC
A civil jury ruled Nov. 22 that rancher and vigilante Roger Barnett must pay $98,000 in damages to a Mexican-American family that he illegally held and threatened at gunpoint. The family were legal residents hunting on lands near his ranch,… Read moreArizona: border vigilante guilty
General Addeh Museh, president of Puntland, the autonomous region in northeastern Somalia, has vowed to resist any attack by fighters from the Islamic Courts Union, saying his administration would not accept “radicalism and extremism.” Gen. Museh said, “We will continue… Read moreSomalia: Puntland pledges to resist Islamists
On Nov. 14 a federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, sentenced Cuban American business leader Santiago Alvarez to 46 months in prison for conspiracy to possess an arsenal; his employee, Osvaldo Mitat, received a sentence of 39 months. Both had… Read moreCuban terrorist sentenced in Florida
On Nov. 9, thousands of workers, students, campesinos and indigenous people marched in Colombian cities and towns to protest the economic and social policies of rightwing president Alvaro Uribe Velez. The protesters specifically blasted a free trade treaty (commonly referred… Read moreColombia: national mobilization against trade deal
On Nov. 19 and 20, some 22,000 people gathered outside the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia to demand the closure of the US Defense Department’s Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly called the US Army School of the… Read moreSOA protests at Ft. Benning —and throughout Americas
Thousands of supporters of Andres Manual Lopez Obrador again filled Mexico City’s central plaza, the zocalo, Nov. 20 to witness his swearing in as Mexico’s parallel “legitimate president,” with a cabinet of 12 mostly drawn from his former administration as… Read moreMexico: Lopez Obrador assumes parallel presidency
From Middle East Newsline, Nov. 13: The U.S. military plans to expand robot operations in Iraq. Officials and industry sources said the military plans to use the robots for explosive ordnance disposal. They said the robots would enhance detection and… Read moreUS to expand robot operations in Iraq
From Reuters, Nov. 20: GAZA – Israel’s air force cancelled a planned raid on the home of a Gaza militant on Sunday after hundreds of Palestinians barricaded themselves inside the building, an Israeli military spokesman and witnesses said. Hours after… Read moreGaza: “human shield” action halts Israeli air raid
