When Slobodan Milosevic died, he was in a prison cell at The Hague facing war crimes charges, and it made world headlines. The May 27 passing of Guatemala’s equally genocidal dictator of the late ’70s and early ’80s, Romeo Lucas… Read moreGuatemalan war criminal dies a free man
Following a prisoner uprising at Guantanamo last week, the campaign of passive resistance at the detention center is again growing. Reports the AP, May 29: The number of Guantanamo Bay detainees staging a hunger strike has grown from three to… Read moreHunger strike grows at Gitmo
On May 27, América del Valle, leader of the Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land, in hiding since the May 3 violence at San Salvador Atenco, spoke to the international Telesur TV network from a clandestine location. She said… Read moreMexico: Atenco leader speaks from hiding
As of May 25, two immigrant mothers who began a hunger strike in Chicago on May 10 were still consuming only liquids as they called for an end to all deportations until Congress finalizes a legalization bill. Elvira Arellano and… Read moreImmigrants on hunger strike in Chicago; more raids from coast to coast
According to a May 27 CBC news report, the Ontario section of Canada’s largest union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has voted overwhemingly to support a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel. There are over 200,000… Read moreOntario labor union votes to support Israel boycott
Leave it to Los Angeles. The media start paying attention when big-name stars flock to the cause. Meanwhile, heartening to know that this grassroots effort at urban-renewal-from-below has lasted as long as it has. From the LA Daily News, May… Read moreLos Angeles: struggle for the land
How long before this particular axe falls? What is ironic about the pro-drilling rhetoric is that it implicitly or explicitly demonizes the Arabs (as well as the environmentalists, of course) for driving up oil prices. Meanwhile: a.) the Arabs are… Read moreANWR: Republicans try again
Revelations by Human Rights Watch May 26 that Darfur’s Janjaweed have overrun villages in Chad. The rapidly shifting alliances are dizzying here. On the face of it, this is simple: Chad’s government has backed the Darfur guerillas and this is… Read moreHRW: Janjaweed raid Chad
Exactly four years after winning its independence from Indonesia, East Timor is tragically descending into chaos, and Australia has sent a “peacekeeping” force. Excerpts from a Reuters account via TV New Zealand, May 27: Gangs of youths allied to feuding… Read moreAussie imperialism exploits East Timor unrest
A victory for Western designs on Capsian oil 20 years in the making, this heightens the regional contradictions in several ways. It places greater pressure on Turkey to crush the Kurdish PKK insurgents who are making trouble in precisely that… Read moreTrans-Caucasus pipeline in first tanker delivery
At a joint news conference with Tony Blair in Washington, Bush said he regretted saying “bring ’em on” when responding in July 2003 to a question about the Iraqi insurgency. Bush now says the remark was “kind of tough talk,… Read moreIraq: Bush shows contrition; DoD reveals civilian killings
The outside world is paying no attention, but if the National Council of Resistance (Mujahedeen Khalq) is to be believed, the Azeri uprising in northern Iran is spreading. Of course Mujahedeen Khalq (with some degree of likely US connivance) would… Read moreIran: Azeri uprising spreads?
