From Military Families Speak Out, Dec. 6: Military families challenge Iraq Study Group report as “the way sideways,” paving the way for a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), a nonpartisan organization of over 3,100… Read moreMilitary families challenge Iraq Study Group report
Gus Selassie for Global Insight Daily Analysis via BBC Monitoring, Dec. 5: Ethiopia and Somali Islamists in Last-Ditch Talks to Avert All-Out War Despite the recent war of words and the deep-rooted animosity that appears to exist between the two… Read moreLast ditch talks to avert Ethiopian-Somali war
Via the Sudan Tribune, Nov. 28: Ogaden National Liberation Front Statement on Events Unfolding in Somalia There has been much written about the events unfolding in Somalia with frequent mention of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and speculations on… Read moreOgaden rebels blast Ethiopia’s Somalia intervention
Via BBC Monitoring: Ethiopian rebel group terms parliament’s decision on Somalia “reckless” Text of statement issued by Ethiopian armed opposition Oromo Liberation Front, OLF, on 30 December The Ethiopian parliament, on its session of 30 November 2006, ratified a declaration… Read moreOromo rebels blast Ethiopia’s Somalia intervention
From AP, Dec. 2: CARACAS — A Navy captain arrested this week was allegedly about to deliver to opponents of President Hugo Chavez a list of officers disposed to help topple the government, according to a high-ranking military official. The… Read moreVenezuela: coup rumblings on election eve
In a seven- or eight-month investigation ending Nov. 30, ICE agents joined with officers of the New York City Department of Probation in arresting 81 immigrants with prior criminal records in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan. The raids were… Read moreMore ICE raids in NYC area
An ACLU press release, Nov. 28, online at Common Dreams: Khaled El-Masri, Victim of CIA Kidnapping and Abuse, Seeks Acknowledgement, Explanation and Apology RICHMOND, Virginia – The American Civil Liberties Union today argued before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals… Read more“Rendition” victim seeks re-instatement of suit against CIA
Our November issue featured the story “The Israel Lobby and Global Hegemony: The Mearsheimer-Walt Thesis Deconstructed” by William X. It argued that the controversial essay “The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy” by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt replicates the… Read moreThe Isreal lobby and global hegemony: our readers write
On Oct. 24, Colombian army troops opened fire on community leader Lever Castrillon Sarmiento and his eight-year-old son as the two were fishing near the village of Norosi, Rio Viejo municipality, in Bolivar department. The group of 40 soldiers from… Read moreColombia: army kills community leader
On Nov. 21, US District Judge Thomas Hogan in Washington declared a mistrial in the terrorism and hostage-taking trial of Juvenal Ricardo Ovidio Palmera Pineda, a high-level leader and former negotiator for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), better… Read moreMistrial in Washington’s FARC terror case
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?
