This is practically Orwellian. Is the Algerian regime using the printing of the anti-Islam cartoons—blurred and denounced—as an excuse to crack down on pro-Islamist newspapers? From Al-Jazeera, Feb. 13: Algeria and Yemen have arrested journalists working for newspapers that have… Read moreArab journalists arrested in cartoon controversy
Bosnian Muslims burned the Croatian flag in front of the country’s Sarajevo embassy Feb. 8, in a protest over the publication of the Danish cartoons in a Croatian weekly magazine. Hundreds of Bosnian Muslims also protested at the Danish, Norwegian… Read moreBosnia: Croatian flag burned in cartoon protest
On Jan. 17, members of Paraguayan social and political organizations marched in Asuncion and burned US flags to protest the presence of US soldiers in their country, and to condemn the Paraguayan legislature’s decision last year to let the troops… Read moreParaguay: march against US troops
A glimmer of hope from The Guardian, Feb. 8: Sweden plans to be world’s first oil-free economy Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15… Read moreSweden: oil-free by 2020
Sent by Mahmood Ketabchi, an exiled follower of the Worker Communist Party of Iran now living in New Jersey and active in support work for workers’ and women’s movements in Iran and Iraq. Emphasis added. Defend Freedom of Press—and the… Read more“Defend the right to blasphemy”
On Tuesday, February 14, at 7:30 PM, the Libertarian Book Club’s Anarchist Forum will present Bill Weinberg, host of the WBAI program “The Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade” and creator of the World War 4 Report website, where important but seldom-seen… Read moreNYC: Bill Weinberg to speak on Iraq’s civil resistance
A statement, apparently not yet posted elsewhere on the Web, from the UK branch of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) and allied groups: Civilised humanity must take a stand in defence of freedom of expression, against Islamists… Read moreUK: Iraqi feminists for free speech
Harsh new methods have been used in a successful bid to break the inmate hunger strike at the Pentagon’s Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba. The methods reportedly included strapping detainees into “restraint chairs” for force-feeding, apparently to prevent the practice… Read moreForce-feeding breaks Gitmo hunger strike
From our correspondent Sarah Ferguson: The irony couldn’t be more clear. New York City police and their union, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, are suing the NYPD for spying on them at rallies and demonstrations held during their contract dispute with… Read moreCops sue cops for… spying on cops
From the International Solidarity Movement: Palestinians United Again to Appeal for the Release of Peace Activists held Hostage in Iraq January 30th, 2006 ISM Following the recent release of new video footage of the four Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) members… Read morePalestinians appeal for CPT hostages
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) carries this Jan. 25 report on Tehran’s accusations that the UK was behind the previous day’s bomb blast in Iran’s heavily Arab western district of Ahwaz. Of course, the NCRI’s armed wing,… Read moreTehran: UK behind terror blasts
Days before the historic inauguration of Evo Morales in Bolivia, the Andean nation scored another victory—in its struggle against Bechtel, the California engineering giant which had sued the impoverished nation before a World Bank trade court to demand compensation for… Read moreBolivia: Bechtel surrenders
