A military court in Jordan Sept. 13 convicted 10 people in two cases involving conspiracies to kill “Americans training Iraqi police” at the Muwaqqar barracks outside Amman. The court said the defendants were found guilty of “conspiring to carry out… Read moreTerror convictions in Jordan
Sarah Ferguson writes for the Village Voice, Sept. 12: Conspiracy Types Lecture Regular Folks at Ground Zero The fifth anniversary of 9-11 brought more sorrow and anguish to New York, but also more questioning of the official narrative of the… Read moreConspiracists crash Ground Zero —again
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Afghan army troops killed 92 Taliban fighters in the southern province of Kandahar, NATO said in statement Sept. 11. The statement said the figure was separate from the 94 insurgents reported as killed in… Read moreAfghanistan: NATO occupation reaps terror, opium
Thousands of people marched on Sept. 10 in Santiago, Chile to commemorate the Sept. 11, 1973 coup in which Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte overthrew the democratically elected government of Socialist president Salvador Allende Gossens. The march led from the center… Read moreChileans remember September 11… 1973
Carlos Castaño, patriarch of Colombia’s far-right paramilitary movement, is confirmed dead at the age of 39. Mario Iguaran, Colombia’s chief prosecutor, said a skeleton unearthed from a shallow grave was that of Castaño, the long-missing leader of the feared Self-Defense… Read moreColombia: paramilitary patriarch killed on brother’s orders
Masked gunmen burst into a nightclub in the west-central Mexican state of Michoacan late on the night of Sept. 4 and flung five human heads onto the dance floor. The “Light and Shadow” club in the city of Uruapan was… Read moreMexico: hideous escalation of narco violence
A unanimous decision of Mexico’s Federal Electoral Tribunal rejected allegations of systematic fraud and awarded Felipe Calderon the presidency Sept. 5, after two months of uncertainty. But his ability to rule effectively remains in doubt as Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador… Read moreMexico: Electoral Tribunal rules for Calderon; Lopez Obrador pledges parallel government
On Aug. 31 about a dozen armed and masked people blocked the highway from Oaxaca city to Guelatao in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca and passed out two communiques which according to the Mexican daily La Jornada were from… Read moreOaxaca: guerillas stage armed action
On Aug. 20, Brazilian landless activists Josias de Barros Ferreira and Samuel Matias Barbosa were murdered at an encampment of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) in Pernambuco state. Police claim the two men were murdered by other landless… Read moreBrazil: landless killed, arrested
More than 2,000 workers went on strike Aug. 7 at the Escondida mine in northern Chile, the world’s largest privately owned copper mine. The workers were demanding a contract with an increase in salary and benefits that reflects this year’s… Read moreChile: copper strike ends
On Aug. 28, two agents of Chile’s militarized Carabineros police, acting without a warrant, raided a Mapuche family’s property in the Bollilco Chico sector of the Nueva Imperial commune, Region IX, allegedly to search for stolen livestock. The family refused… Read moreChile: police kill Mapuche elder
From India’s Zee News, Sept. 5: Baluchistan on strike over tribal chief’s killing QUETTA — Parts of the troubled southwest Pakistani province of Baluchistan were paralysed today by a strike called by opposition parties to protest the killing of a… Read moreGeneral strike shuts down Baluchistan
