We have noted a growing number of Turkish writers to face prosecution for their words. The latest is, especially perversely, charged in connection with a work of fiction. From The Guardian, July 24: In Istanbul, a writer awaits her day… Read moreAnother Turkish writer faces persecution
Note, of course, that her work was banned. From Middle East Times, July 31: ANKARA — Duygu Asena, a renowned Turkish journalist and writer who devoted much of her work to promoting women’s rights, has died at the age of… Read moreDuygu Asena, Turkish feminist writer, dies at 60
Brian Tokar of Vermont’s Institute for Social Ecology writes: Murray Bookchin, the visionary social theorist and activist, died during the early morning of Sunday, July 30 in his home in Burlington, Vermont. During a prolific career of writing, teaching and… Read moreMurray Bookchin, visionary social theorist, dies at 85
As hundreds of thousands or even millions of supporters marched and rallied in and around Mexico City’s giant Zocalo plaza on July 30, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), presidential candidate of a center-left coalition in Mexico’s July 2 elections, called… Read moreMexico: Lopez Obrador begins “permanent” protest
On July 27, US District Court Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. of Los Angeles ordered the government to free Southern California Muslim community leader Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan, a Palestinian who has spent two years detained on an immigration violation. Department of… Read moreUS judge orders Palestinian freed
The first one we’ve all heard about. From DPA, July 30: Muslim charged in Jewsh center shooting A Muslim man who allegedly killed a woman and wounded five others inside a Jewish community centre in Seattle, Washington, gained entry by… Read moreJew-haters reap Lebanon windfall
54 Lebanese civilians, including 37 children, were killed in an Israeli Air Force strike on a 3-story building in the city of Qana in south Lebanon on July 30. (NYT, July 30) From Israel’s largest newspaper,Yediot Aharonot, July 30: Yesha… Read moreSettler rabbis: Jewish law permits Qana carnage
Rejecting a dialogue with Gov. Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, the striking teachers and their supporters in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca occupied the streets around the state government buildings in the capital for a third day July 29, blocking the entrances…. Read moreOaxaca: government offices blockaded
The really amazing thing about China is that both the knee-jerk right-wingers who love to hate it and the idiot leftists who love to love it are both laboring under the illusion that it is Communist. The self-serving capitalist elite… Read moreChina: workers revolt at Mickey D’s contract factory
From Reuters, July 29: The United States sent its most explicit warning yet to Horn of Africa foes Eritrea and Ethiopia on Saturday to stay out of the escalating crisis in Somalia where they are believed to be backing rival… Read moreSomalia: Ethiopia-Eritrea proxy war?
From IRIN, July 29: Lebanon is facing an environmental crisis after an Israeli air strike on the Jiyeh power station, about 20km south of Beirut caused 10,000 tonnes of oil to spill into the Mediterranean sea. The air strikes on… Read moreLebanon: ecological disaster looms
An ad-hoc coalition press release, July 29: 1500 Protesters March Across the Brooklyn Bridge in Solidarity With the Palestinian and Lebanese People New York, NY – 1500 members of the New York community, horrified at the senseless killing of Palestinians… Read more1,500 march across the Brooklyn Bridge for Lebanon and Palestine
