On June 20 legislative deputies of El Salvador’s leftist Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN) called on the Legislative Assembly to repeal the decree that authorizes sending troops to support the US occupation of Iraq. El Salvador has deployed… Read moreCentral American dissent on Iraq war
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, July 3: Nicaraguan presidential candidate Herty Lewites died late Sunday of an apparent heart attack. The son of a Jewish migrant, Lewites, 66, was the country’s best-known citizen of Jewish descent. A dissident from the… Read moreNicaragua: left-dissident candidate dies
From the Mexican news agency APRO, June 30, via Chiapas95 (our translation): In an unexpected event in the lead-up to the elections this Sunday, the arrest of ex-president Luis Echeverria Alvarez was announced, for the crime of genocide. His lawyer,… Read moreMexico: ex-president arrested on genocide charges
The local Fray Bartoleme de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) issued a statement in the prelude to Mexico’s July 2 presidential election protesting that they are being held in the state of Chiapas under a “state of exception.” The… Read moreChiapas: elections under “state of exception”
The results of the July 2 presidential elections in Mexico are still considered too close to call, but both candidates—former Mexico City mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the populist-left Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) and former energy minister Felipe Calderon… Read moreElectoral crisis in Mexico
On the eve of Mexico’s presidential elections, a dialectic of militant protest and ugly repression is escalating throughout the country’s southern and central regions—although you’d never know it by reading the gringo press. Note the multi-issue nature of this protest… Read moreMexico: pro-Zapatista march attacked in Hidalgo
From the Mexican news agency APRO, June 27, via Chiapas95 (our translation): Toluca- The first penal judge based in Tenang del Valle formally brought charges against 13 of the 21 police detained by the Mexican [state] prosecutor in the Atenco… Read moreMexico: more police arrested in Atenco case; protests continue
With the world’s eyes elsewhere, the still-unresolved status of Kosova is a major crisis just waiting to erupt. Kostunica delivered this speech outside a 14th-century monastery in the town of Gracanica rather than at the Plain of Blackbirds, the site… Read moreKostunica emulates Milosevic on Kosova?
How interesting. The Supremes rule that Congress did not give Bush a “blank check” to tear up the Geneva Conventions when it voted to approve military action after 9-11. Now, Bush uses precisely the same argument to justify the program… Read moreSupreme Court strikes down Gitmo tribunals
Greg Palast risks jeopardizing his wild popularity among the leftoid legions by raining on their increasingly beloved “Jewish Conspiracy” theory. Bashing this bosh is long overdue, but we sure wish Palast had done a better job of it. His arguments… Read moreGreg Palast: “Did the Jews do it?”
Israeli tanks and troops have entered southern Gaza after warplanes attacked three bridges and knocked out electricity to the coastal strip—in response to the capture of a young Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants. (AP, June 28) But mainstream reports are… Read moreIsraeli army veteran protests media bias in Gaza coverage
More sacrifices for the American way of life. From Newsday, June 27: Brooklyn bike rider killed on Houston Street For the third time in 13 months, a bike rider was killed yesterday on Houston Street, leading one advocate to label… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
