For those who continue to follow events in Mexico’s conflicted southern state of Chiapas, there is an increasingly surreal sense of being through the proverbial looking glass. On a national level, the leftist PRD candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is… Read moreChiapas: reputed paramilitary boss declares for PRD governor-elect
From Spain’s El Pais, Sept. 9, via Chiapas95 (our translation): The entrance of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD, leftist) into Mexico’s institutional life, with the signing of an accord for reforms to the Law of Congress, is a… Read moreMexico: splits emerge in Lopez Obrador coalition
From the Sept. 9 New York Times, buried at the bottom of page 4 (below a much larger “profile” piece on a New Age self-help book written by Slovenia’s president). Links added. Explosions Hit Indian Mosque, Stoking Fear of Further Violence NEW… Read moreTerror blasts at Indian mosque
Now, why should this story make the front page of the New York Times Sept. 9—above the fold, no less? Because the attack was near the US embassy? This is but the latest, and not even the deadliest, in a… Read moreAfghan terror hits front page —at last!
Turkish anti-terrorism police report they have captured four suspected al-Qaeda militants who were plotting to carry out a bomb attack in Istanbul. The raids, in the city’s Bagcilar district, turned up two guns and explosive materials. Police said that the… Read moreIstanbul: “al-Qaeda” cell busted
The latest in Bush’s 9-11 exploitation propaganda blitz. This is especially perverse given how the first responders have been shamelessly screwed by the federal government. The trick for New York activists is to find some way to protest this without… Read moreBush propaganda machine exploits NYC first responders
The White House has just released its 2006 National Strategy for Combatting Terrorism. The page on “Today’s Terrorist Enemy” again acknowledges that al-Qaeda has only transformed over the past five years from a tight cadre organization around Osama bin Laden… Read more“National Strategy for Combatting Terrorism” released
From New York’s WNBC, Sept. 7: Woman Killed In Queens Hit-And-Run NEW YORK — Police on Wednesday were searching for two men wanted in connection with a hit-and-run crash in Queens that left a woman dead. Yon S. Chong, 67,… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Six bomb attacks in Baghdad killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 50 Sept. 8, hours before a much-touted ceremony in which the US-led international coalition officially handed over control of the country’s armed forces command to Iraqi… Read moreIraq: more Shi’ite pilgrims massacred; Pentagon foresees “civil war”
Far from pursuing ultra-ambitious neocon agendas to dismantle Iraq, Washington appears terrified of a unified Iraqi state under at least some degree of US control breaking down, and sparking a crisis that could engulf the entire Middle East. On Sept…. Read moreUS rebukes Iraqi Kurds, PKK operative arrested
It is a truly appalling spectacle to watch former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman and New York City officials pass the buck for the deadly 9-11 health fallout back and forth like a shuttlecock. Whitman said in a “60 Minutes”… Read more9-11 health impact dispute: “We never lied,” Christine Whitman lies
Unable to keep himself from milking 9-11 for all it’s worth, Bush is treading, once again, into the realm of Doublethink. At his most recent in a spate of 9-11-themed speeches, in Atlanta Sept. 7, he said: “Many Americans look… Read more“America safer”: Bush contradicts State Department
