Our July issue featured stories on the widely divergent ways in which Cuba and North Korea have responded to critical oil shortages since the Soviet collapse (a foreshadowing of a reckoning the whole planet will have to face, sooner or… Read moreThe “peak oil” debate: our readers write…
Just remember, the private automobile stands for freedom, and if you’re not with us you’re with the terrorists. From Newsday, July 24: Hummer driver pled guilty to loan-sharking charges The Lloyd Harbor man who fell asleep and accidentally drove his… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Another turn of the screw. The NYPD unveils draconian new regulations in the ongoing crackdown on the Critical Mass bicyclists. The elitist New York Timess refuses to put this fine July 21 column by Clyde Haberman online for free, but… Read moreNYC: new regs in Critical Mass crackdown
Thousands of people demonstrated across Latin America the week of July 17 to protest Israel’s air and ground attacks in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip starting the week before. About 500 protesters rallied on July 17 outside the Israeli embassy… Read moreLatin America: protests against Israeli attacks
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continued the second phase of its “Return to Sender” interior enforcement operation July 12-20 with raids through the state of Oklahoma and the metropolitan areas of Chicago, Illinois; Louisville, Kentucky; and Kansas City, Missouri…. Read moreOperation “Return to Sender” sweeps Midwest; border deaths hit high
A letter from Israeli filmmakers to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers Israeli Filmmakers – Friday, 21 July 2006, 15:21 We, the undersigned Israeli filmmakers, greet the Arab filmmakers who have gathered in Paris for the Arab Film Biennial. Through you, we… Read moreIsraeli filmakers protest war on Lebanon, Palestine
On July 21, Israeli reserve officer Yonatan Shapira, a helicopter pilot and signer of the pilots’ letter refusing to perform assassinations in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, spoke out against Israel’s attack on Lebanon on Democracy Now! The following quote is… Read moreIsraeli refuseniks oppose war on Lebanon
Another sacrifice for the American way of life. From the New York Post, July 20: ‘3-TIME DWI’ MOM KILLS PRIEST, 79 July 20, 2006 — A beloved Long Island priest taking an evening walk was killed by a hit- run,… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
As if the facts in the headline aren’t bad enough, note also the armed attacks on the Sunni religious establishment. It is starting to seem more and more like Bush’s blundering into Iraq will have only succeeded into plunging the… Read moreIraq moves closer to genocide
From CNN, July 20: Lebanese refugees pour across Syrian border YABOSS, Syria — As many as 50,000 refugees from Lebanon poured through one border crossing into Syria alone Thursday, officials said, as the desperate and displaced fled to escape Israel’s… Read moreLebanon: 500,000 displaced
We have already noted the deep denial about the reality of sectarian civil war in Iraq which pervades both the pro-war right and the anti-war left. Finally, we are beginning to see the limits of willful self-delusion in the painfully… Read moreIraq: Rwanda revisited?
From La Jornada, July 18, translation via Chiapas95: Government prevents Subcomandante Marcos’ radio appearance by Hermann Bellinghausen Subcomandante Marcos’ appearance on the airwaves of Radio 620 this Monday was prevented “by the pressures of the Mexican Presidency, the Secretariat of… Read moreSubcommander Marcos censored from DF airwaves?
