From AP via Qatar’s The Peninsula, Sept. 15 (link added): PARIS — Al Qaeda has for the first time announced a union with an Algerian insurgent group that has designated France as an enemy, saying they will act together against… Read moreAl-Qaeda announces merger with Algeria’s Salafist Group
US researchers writing in the peer-reviewed journal Science maintain that more than 200,000 people have died in Sudan’s Darfur conflict, much higher than most previous estimates. Says Dr. John Hagan of Northwestern University: “We’ve tried to find a way of… Read moreDarfur: 200,000 dead?
As populist leaders in Bolivia and Venezuela are determined to nationalize their oil industries, Colombia’s government is insisting on a privatization plan for its state-run oil company. By selling off 20% of Ecopetrol, Colombia hopes to net some $5 billion… Read moreColombia announces 20% privatization of state oil company
On Sept. 1 in Tucson, Arizona, US District Judge Raner Collins dismissed federal charges against humanitarian activists Shanti Sellz and Daniel Strauss. The two were arrested by the Border Patrol near Tucson on July 9, 2005, while driving sick migrants… Read moreBorderlands activists in legal victory
A small tentative step in the right direction—a little counter-vortex against the general downward spiral of global civilization towards ecological hell, permanent war and petrochemical totalitarianism. From amNewYork, Sept. 13: City puts forth ambitious bike plan After a series of… Read moreNYC bicyclists win another round
An urgent alert from the Iraq Freedom Congress: US Troops raid offices of Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC) in Baghdad On September 7 and 8, U.S occupying troops raided the head office of IFC in Baghdad. The raid came after a… Read moreUS troops raid Iraq Freedom Congress offices
Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe took over the country's airwaves Sept. 10 to defend the military against reports soldiers were behind a string of bombings in the capital, Bogota. In a live half-hour speech during prime-time on all the major networks,… Read moreColombian military implicated in Bogotá blasts
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
