On Aug. 14, four Iranian immigrant brothers filed a lawsuit in US District Court in Los Angeles against former attorney general John Ashcroft, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Robert Mueller III, FBI Agent Christopher Castillo and other officials, charging… Read moreIranian exiles sue FBI; refused to inform on Mujahedeen Khalq
Just in case you missed this one. From the New York Times, July 7 (links and emphasis added): Hate Groups Are Infiltrating the Military, Group Asserts A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting… Read moreNeo-Nazis infiltrate US military
Note that these two articles take seemingly opposite tacks. The first, from the UN’s news agency, raises fears that Chad’s move against Exxon and Chevron is aimed at weaseling out of World Bank-imposed commitments to put oil proceeds into social… Read moreChad boots Exxon consortium members
A big step closer to the destabilization of Pakistan. From Reuters, Aug. 29: QUETTA, Pakistan – Security forces and gunmen clashed on Tuesday in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province after prayers for a slain rebel leader and one policeman was killed, while… Read moreBaluchistan explodes
A radical offshoot from the PKK seems to be emulating al-Qaeda tactics. From Reuters, Aug. 29: Kurdish rebels warn of “hell” ANTALYA, Turkey – A shadowy Kurdish rebel group threatened on Tuesday to turn Turkey into “hell” after a two-day… Read moreKurdish Liberation Hawks take war to Istanbul
In the wake of the Lebanon aggression, Uri Avnery invokes the image of Israel as Washington’s attack dog—as he has before. Online at Gush Shalom, Aug. 26, emphasis added: America’s Rottweiler IN HIS latest speech, which infuriated so many people,… Read moreIsrael as “America’s Rottweiler”
From AP, Aug. 26: BEIRUT: Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said in a TV interview aired Sunday that he would not have ordered the capture of two Israeli soldiers if he had known it would lead to such a war…. Read moreNasrallah chills out?
From the AP, Aug. 26: YAMOUN, West Bank – They were struggling in a boy band, working the West Bank wedding circuit and dreaming of stardom. Now the five singers who make up the Northern Band have come a little… Read moreNasrallah makes Palestine pop charts
From the Mehr News Agency, Aug. 24: TEHRAN — Iran’s National Orchestra will be performing the symphony “Nuclear Energy” composed by Kambiz Roshanravan at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on August 27 in a program which President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is scheduled to… Read moreIran National Orchestra performs “Nuclear Energy Symphony”
As we noted in the case of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Europe’s xenophobe right is appropriating the causes of feminism and secularism. Through the proverbial looking glass. From the New York Times, Aug. 24 (emphasis added): BRESCIA — A series of… Read moreItaly: xenophobes make hay from (apparent) honor killing
The Ibrahimi mosque/Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron/Khalil has been a flash point for decades. It was split into Muslim and Jewish sides after Israeli settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein massacred 29 Palestinian worshipers in 1994. From Ma’an News Agency, Aug…. Read moreHebron: Israeli settlers steal ancient mosque window
An International Solidarity Movement press release, Aug. 25: Peace Demonstrators Beaten in Bil’in At today’s weekly demo against the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in soldiers attacked protesters with batons and fired rubber bullets at them from close range. Around 100 protesters… Read moreWest Bank: protesters beaten, shot
