From the Brunei Times, Nov. 9: Surayud eyes autonomy for Thai south Thailand’s military-appointed prime minister, whose visit to the troubled deep South yesterday sparked a new wave of violence, is mulling to allow the rule of sharia law in… Read moreSharia law for Thailand?
Central American defense ministers meeting in Nicaragua last month expressed the need to create a regional military force in order to fight the rising tide of drugs and gangs. (ISN Security Watch, Oct. 10) It is still unclear whether Washington… Read more“Mesoamerican Strategy” to militarize isthmus
From the New York Post, Nov. 3: Ground Zero’s “Angel” Nun Dies An Episcopal nun who spent five months blessing remains at the World Trade Center died this week and has been granted her dying wish – to be autopsied… Read moreNYC: another Ground Zero martyr
From the General Federation of Trade Unions-Iraq: To all labor unions and organizations of the world, On the General Federation of Trade Unions- Iraq (GFTU-Iraq) first convention Solidarity greetings: Our union GFTU-Iraq that was formed in June 2006 after a… Read moreIraq: labor federation holds first convention under fire
On Oct. 24 residents of the Ecuadoran town of Arenillas, on the border with Peru, began a peaceful blockade of the Panamerican highway to demand that the Chacra-La Palma pedestrian border crossing be officially reopened to allow local commerce. Customs… Read moreTwo killed in Ecuador-Peru border conflict
From Military Families Speak Out, Nov. 8: Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), an organization of over 3,100 military families who are opposed to the war in Iraq, welcome the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, one of the key… Read moreMilitary families applaud Rumsfeld resignation
From AP, Nov. 7: ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal public defender who took on some of the nation’s most high-profile terrorism cases after Nine-Eleven has died at age 64. Frank Dunham Junior died Friday of brain cancer at his northern… Read moreFrank Dunham, terror war public defender, dead at 64
Amnesty International has officially called upon the Mexican government to release the names of those detained by federal police in Oaxaca, and the charges they face. The arrested now number above 80. Many are being held incommunicado and there are… Read moreTorture in Oaxaca; Amnesty demands info on detained
How ironic. We noted in August that ex-Israeli security chief Uza Dayan was warning the US against emulating Israeli strategies in securing the Mexican border. Now it appears that Elbit Systems, an Israeli firm which is building the “Aparthied Wall”… Read moreIsraeli firm gets Mexico border wall contract
There have now been 84 “arbitrary detentions” by the Mexican federal police in Oaxaca, according to the Miguel Augustin Pro-Juarez Human Rights Center (PRODH), which has dispatched a team of investigators to the besieged city. The group also reports 59… Read moreOaxaca: siege continues; solidarity builds across Mexico
Bombs exploded at three high-profile targets in Mexico City early on the morning of Nov. 6, causing property damage but no injuries. A door was damaged and windows blown out at the Federal Electoral Tribunal (TRIFE), a body which had… Read moreBombs rock Mexico City
From Gush Shalom, Nov. 3: Gaza: Stop the Siege! Stop the War! A month of protest: November 4—December 2, 2006 The situation in Gaza has reached emergency levels—inadequate water, electricity, and medicine; widespread hunger, poverty, and unemployment; schools and other… Read moreInternational emergency campaign for Gaza
