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
If, as we recently speculated, the White House was hoping it could groom Islamists in Syria as proxies to destabilize the regime, this ought to provide a little cold water in the face. In fact, much to the consternation of… Read moreSyria puts down attack on US embassy
Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi and founder of the MK Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence, spent Sept. 11 with Camp Democracy, a small tent city established by anti-war activists on the National Mall in front of the US Capitol…. Read moreArun Gandhi visits “Camp Democracy”
There’s a lot of this going around all of a sudden. Watergate figure and born-again evangelical Chuck Colson wrote for the Christian Post Aug. 18 (in a piece imaginitively entitled “The Clash of Civilizations”): During the Cold War, there was… Read moreChristian fundamentalists remember September 11… 1683
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
From Palestine News Network (PNN), Sept. 10: Israeli settlers break into mosque and perform religious ceremonies under guard of Israeli soldiers By Sa’ed Al Shouhki (Hebron) Israeli settlers stormed the southern West Bank’s Halhoul Village Mosque at dawn Sunday. Under… Read moreIsraeli settlers bust into Hebron mosque and pray
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
From AndhraVision.com, Sept. 11: Satyagraha movement completes 100 years A hundred years ago today, Mahatma Gandhi launched the historic Satyagraha movement in South Africa to fight racism and colonial oppression in that country. Later, he used the same principles of non… Read moreGandhians remember September 11… 1906
From El Universal, Sept. 10, via Chiapas95: Unknown perpetrators attempted to burn down the offices of a leftist organization that is taking part in protests in Oaxaca City early Saturday. The door and main gate of offices belonging to the… Read moreOaxaca: arson attack on APPO office
