From the Federation of Worker Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI): Oil Sector Unionists Meeting in Baghdad 54 trade unionists and worker activist from the central oil sector (Baghdad and vicinity) held a meeting on Monday, September 4th in the… Read moreIraq: oil workers threaten strike
Note that even as he asks Congress to legalize torture, Bush plans to hawk what he calls his “freedom agenda” before the UN next week. The obligatory Orwell reference here would seem almost superfluous. We hope. Sarah Ferguson writes for… Read moreNew Yorkers to protest Bush “freedom agenda”
What’s really terrifying about Bush’s bid for Congress to address the controversy around torture and detainment is that, if lawmakers take the bait, there will cease to be a torture scandal and torture will be normalized. We are approaching a… Read moreBush: ditch Geneva Conventions, habeas corpus
From the Israeli Committee on Housing Demolitions (ICHAD), Sept. 13: Israelis and Hezbollah Haven’t Always Been Enemies When Hezbollah operative and diamond trader Samih Ossailly was arrested in Belgium in April of 2002, one of the items found in a… Read moreIsraeli diamond merchants worked with Hezbollah, al-Qaeda?
On a visit to his native Germany, Pope Benedict XVI weighed in Sept. 12 before an audience at Regensburg University, where he once taught, on the contentious issue of rapport between Islam and the West. Calling for a “genuine dialogue… Read morePope disses Islam, invokes Byzantine emperor who fought Turks
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
From the Iraq Freedom Congress: The assassination of Tariq Mahdi is part of a series of crimes committed by the sectarian militias On August 18, 2006, the sectarian militias in Mahmoodya city (25 Km south of Baghdad) assassinated the secretary… Read moreIraq: labor leader assassinated
Over a six-day period ending Aug. 29, ICE agents arrested 109 immigrants as part of “Operation Return to Sender,” a national ICE program targeting immigrants with criminal records, final orders of deportation or other immigration violations. Most of those arrested… Read moreMore mass arrests in Operation “Return to Sender”
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
From the Sydney Morning Herald, Sept. 14: Most of the increase in ocean temperature that feeds more intense hurricanes is a result of human-induced global warming, says a study that one researcher says “closes the loop” between climate change and… Read moreStudy: global warming fuels hurricanes
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
From Newsday, Sept. 12: Chilling testimony told in limo crash trial Little Kate Flynn’s body was not difficult to identify after she died in the wreckage of a head-on crash on the Meadowbrook Parkway, a Nassau medical examiner testified this… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
