The Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, a militia group from Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta region, has seized a pumping station in protest of the arrest of its leader. More than 100 armed men in boats stormed the Idama flow-station, sources… Read moreNiger Delta: Ijaw militia seizes Chevron installation
A recent story in New Jersey’s Asbury Park Press sheds light on a highly esoteric group which can make a claim to being an indigenous American form of Islam, the Moorish Science movement. The story concerns Lee S. Crudup, who… Read moreMoorish Science in the news
The polling stations closed last night in what was hailed as Afghanistan’s first free parliamentary elections since 1969. Overseeing the security of the elections in the capital was the special Kabul Multi-National Brigade (KMNB VIII), composed of units from 24… Read moreAfghan elections marred by violence, disenfranchisement of women
Violence is reported in Athens, with riot police clashing with left-wing anarchists. The masked protesters threw petrol bombs and stones, and police responded with tear gas. The street-fighting in the student quarter followed a rally by neo-fascists demanding that Turkey… Read moreNeo-fascists rally in Athens, anarchists clash with police
Disasters by Jordan Flaherty September 15, 2005 New Orleans was not devastated by a hurricane. From my travels around New Orleans and surrounding areas, it’s clear that very little damage was done to my city by hurricane Katrina. Bay St…. Read moreExploitation, militarization in New Orleans and diaspora
Sarah Ferguson reports for the Village Voice Sept. 12 on how the conspiracy set crashed the official 9-11 commemoration: The anguish was palpable at Ground Zero yesterday, as family members made their way down a long ramp into the vast… Read more9-11 conspiracists invade Ground Zero
Premier Dalton McGuinty pledged to axe a peneding law to establish a conflict-settlement program based on shariah law in Ontario, and also promised to outlaw existing religious tribunals used for years by Christians and Jews under Ontario’s Arbitration Act. “I’ve… Read morePremier: No shariah law for Ontario
A new round of violence—the worst to hit the province in a decade—broke out in Belfast Sept. 10 following a decision to restrict an Orange Order parade. Police said surveillance footage of that violence showed paramilitaries armed with automatic weapons… Read moreParamilitary terror in Belfast
More than 200 detainees in Guantánamo Bay are in their fifth week of a hunger strike, the UK Guardian reports Sept. 9. The paper cites statements from prisoners recently declassified by the US government, revealing that the men are starving… Read moreHunger strikers pledge to die in Gitmo
For a second day, US war-planes struck a supposed al-Qaeda stronghold in the city of Qaim on the Syrian border. A US military statement said the attack is thought to have killed Abu Ali, a senior al-Qaeda agent in charge… Read moreIraq: US airstrikes, forced evacuations on Syrian border
A soundman working for Reuters TV was shot dead Aug. 28 in Baghdad, and a cameraman with him was wounded and then detained by US soldiers. An Iraqi police report, read to Reuters by an Interior Ministry official, said the… Read moreIraq: US troops kill Reuters soundman
From The Independent, via TruthOut, Aug. 29: Iraqi Activist Taken Up by Bush Recants Her Views She was the Iraqi activist who became a symbol of the possibility of a brighter future for Iraq. Back in February, with blue ink… Read moreIraq: women’s rights activist charges betrayal
