Here are the first vaguely credible claims that Darfur refugees are being recruited for the Chad insurgency. But numerous questions are left unanswered. Its a little ironic that Chad’s President Déby is using these claims to imply that Sudan is… Read moreDarfur refugees caught in Chad civil war
From Newsday, April 23: LAGOS – A militant group that has been attacking Nigeria’s oil pipelines and helping to drive up world oil prices added a new tactic last week by detonating a car bomb in a major oil city… Read moreNiger Delta insurgents escalate tactics
On April 19, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 1,187 immigrant workers employed by IFCO Systems North America, Inc., which manufactures and recycles pallets and crates. ICE also arrested seven current and former IFCO Systems managers on criminal… Read moreMassive raid reflects new ICE strategy?
From Reuters, April 20: TORONTO – Native protesters used a mound of burning tires and parked vehicles to blockade a road in a southern Ontario town on Thursday after provincial police evicted a group occupying a local construction site. The… Read moreOntario: Mohawks clash with provincial police
Anti-mining protests have made some international news from Mongolia and Indonesia. The latest entry is from the French colonial holding of New Caledonia. Note that protests causing “millions of dollars” in damages to the mine took place weeks ago with… Read moreAnti-mining protests rock New Caledonia
Here’s a clue as to the political scorecard in Kyrgyzstan. From Turkey’s Zaman, April 20: The United States was asked to evacuate its military base in Uzbekistan last year and now it has been delivered a “note over its base”… Read moreKyrgyzstan warns US over Manas base
The situation in Mongolia certainly seems to be escalating. But what can be gleaned of the politics? The ruling Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) certainly seems throroughly market-oriented and globalist, its name as much an anachronism as that of China’s… Read moreMongolia: protesters launch hunger strike, self-immolate
The New York Times does it again. The placement of two seemingly unrelated articles (perhaps unintentionally?) reveals more about the world than either would alone. On the op-ed page today, Tony Judt weighs in, somewhat sympathetically, on the Walt/Mearsheimer thesis… Read moreNY Times: it’s China, stupid!
Via Kibush: Activists describe West Bank violence by Katherine Cox The Stanford Daily 18 April 2006 Two young human rights activists spoke last night in California about the Palestinian population of Tel Rumeida, Hebron, a West Bank neighborhood that also… Read moreHebron: Israeli settlers torture Palestinian children
Now we can forgive him for Let’s Roll and supporting Reagan. The crazy, mixed-up populist crooner, we knew his heart was still in the right place! From the New York Times, April 18: LOS ANGELES, April 17 — Neil Young,… Read moreNeil Young: impeach Bush
The following are some Palestinian reactions to the April 17 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, that killed 9 and injured dozens. It was the largest such attack in two years, and claimed by Islamic Jihad & the al-Aksa Martyr’s Brigades…. Read morePalestinian reactions to suicide bombing
Insurgency and counterinsurgency grind on in the North Caucasus, with the world’s attention elsewhere. Two police were killed and five wounded April 15 when gunmen ambushed their armored personnel carrier in Chechnya, Russia’s RIA reported. One was killed by a… Read moreNorth Caucasus: violence, repression in Cechnya, Dagestan
