The US is under review by the UN Committee Against Torture in Geneva, and spin control is the name of the game. State Department legal counsel John Bellinger testified out of both sides of this mouth today, saying the US… Read morePrevarication in Geneva
It has now been reported everywhere that Zacarias Moussaoui, upon being sentenced by a federal jury to life imprisonment, shouted, “America, you lost… I won!” Obviously, he had been rehearsing the line for months, and was prepared to use it… Read moreMoussaoui verdict: who won?
Will this mean the end of Atenco’s status as a rebel “autonomous municipality”? And how will the Zapatistas, already on “red alert” in response to the repression, respond to this escalation? This is very ominous timing for Fox, with the… Read moreMexico: police storm Atenco
Look who’s laughing all the way to the bank. Good thing for Exxon that everybody’s blaming the Jews. From the LA Times via Newsday, April 28: OIL PRICES SHOCK AND AWE: GAS CRISIS An $8.4B tiger in Exxon’s tank As… Read moreOil shock good news for Exxon
We wonder how he feels to be briefly on the Reuters wire April 30? Eritrea’s last native Jew tends graves, remembers 58-year-old Sami Cohen has fond memories of friends, parents and families in the Horn of Africa. Now there’s little… Read moreEritrea’s Jews: down to one
Tens of thousands of Mexican workers from a wide range of unions left work and took to the streets on April 28 to express their opposition to the labor policies of center-right president Vicente Fox Quesada and to demand the… Read moreMexico: strike against Fox labor plans
From El Universal, April 16, via Chiapas95: The special prosecutor’s office set up by President Fox to investigate the violent campaign against leftists more than a generation ago failed to file its report on the case Saturday, the day it… Read moreMexico: government roadblocks “dirty war” investigation?
Subcommander Marcos of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), speaking in Mexico City’s historic Tlatelolco Plaza May 3, stated that the Zapatistas are officially going on “red alert” in response to violence in San Salvador Atenco, a village in the… Read moreUprising in Mexico state; Zapatistas on “red alert” again
From Venezuelanalysis, May 2: Venezuelans celebrated International Worker’s Day yesterday with two large marches that wound through the streets of Caracas. One in support of the Chavez-led “Bolivarian Revolution,” and the other with the opposition. This marks the sixth year… Read moreDeuling Mayday marches in Venezuela
A “hoax”? What the hell is that supposed to mean? If the leaflet was produced by one or two lone wackos instead of an organization, so much the better. But it was assuredly produced by real racists. From CBC News,… Read moreCanadian Nazis exploit Mohawk uprising
It seems Mehlman and the AJC have not heard the message from more moderate elements of the Israel lobby, or from right-wing pollster Frank Luntz. The following May 3 AP article ran in the
Sarah Ferguson writes for the Village Voice, May 2: A Day Without White People On May Day, the masses rose up in New York. But where were the white peaceniks? A bit of revolution hit the streets on May Day… Read moreNYC: May Day mobilization report
