On Aug. 22, hundreds of Chilean students clashed with police in the capital, Santiago, and in the northern city of Copiapo. In Santiago, at least 1,000 students marched toward the La Moneda presidential palace and the Education Ministry building; police… Read moreChile: student protests face repression
On Sept. 2, about 5,000 immigrant-rights supporters marched through downtown Los Angeles to City Hall as part of a series of events planned through Labor Day weekend. The march was organized by the March 25th Coalition. (CBS2.com, Los Angeles, Sept…. Read moreControversy in new round of immigrant marches; raids continue
Once again, the idiot left delivers up propaganda ammo to the reactionary New York Sun on a silver platter. Are these claims true? If they aren’t, Al-Awda should sue. If they are, Al-Awda should be generally repudiated by the American… Read moreAl-Awda: “Jews are our dogs”
From London Class War, July 26: HezBollocks and IsRabies: A Class War Federation statement on the War in Lebanon Class War is appalled at the carnage that is occurring in the Middle East. We are also disappointed but not surprised… Read moreUK Class War bashes “leftist” Hezbollah cheerleaders
Text of a report in Arabic from the London-based newspaper Al-Hayat, Aug. 31: Syrian group threatens to copy Hezbollah’s action, abduct Israeli soldiers A secret organization in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights has threatened to abduct Israeli soldiers to swap… Read moreGolan Heights resistance threatens to capture Israeli soldiers
Media accounts have largely foused on Iran as the supplier of Hezbollah’s missiles, with Syria merely serving as a transshipment point. But Israeli intelligence, mostly relying on forensic work at the impact sites, has reportedly determined that many of Hezbollah’s… Read moreSyria’s Islamist opposition emerges in wake of Lebanon war
From DPA, Aug. 31: Damascus- Around 595 Druse clergymen from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights crossed into Syria Thursday for an annual pilgrimage to the holy Habil shrine at Zabadanto, a Red Cross official in Damascus said. The clerics crossed the… Read moreGolani Druze pilgrimage defies Israeli ethnocide
From the AP, Aug. 30: DAMASCUS, Syria — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez received a hero’s welcome in Syria, where he said Wednesday that the two countries will “build a new world” free of U.S. domination and vowed to one day… Read moreChavez does Damascus
From the New York Times, Aug. 30: Hit and Runs Leave 1 Dead and 13 Injured SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29 — A hit-and-run driver careered through San Francisco and nearby Fremont on Tuesday, mowing down pedestrians and bicyclists, leaving at… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
The below Aug. 30 AP account notes the growing use of the term “Islamic fascism” by the Bush administration and its amen chorus in recent days. The response has been predictable in the extreme, with lefties (e.g. The Huffington Post)… Read moreBush sees “Islamic fascism”; world misses irony
While highly dubious supposed terror plots in the US and UK continue to dominate the headlines, the Real McCoy in Afghanistan generates barely a flick of interest these days. This was buried in the inner pages of the New York… Read moreAfghan terror escalates —with media invisibility
Can somebody explain to us why this is legal? US citizens, who have not been charged with any crime, are denied entry into the US. Why should submitting to an FBI interrogation abroad be a prerequisite for being allowed back… Read morePakistani-Americans denied entry back into US
