From the New York Times, March 16: The U.S. military has sent about 800 troops from Kuwait to Iraq for extra security to coincide with an expected surge of pilgrims to Muslim shrines in coming days, officials said in Baghdad… Read moreIraq: 800 US troops sent in ahead of Arabeen celebrations
From the New York Times, March 15: Ice Retreats in Arctic for 2nd Year; Some Fear Most of It Will Vanish For the second year in a row, the cloak of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean failed to grow… Read moreArctic ice disappearing fast
India’s Maoist Naxalite rebels have been very busy lately, but the wave of attacks is going virtually unreported outside India. From PTI via The Hindu, March 14: Naxalites this morning released the passenger train that they had seized last evening… Read moreIndia: Naxalite rebels in new attacks
An ACLU press release, March 14: PITTSBURGH – The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Pennsylvania today released new evidence that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is conducting investigations into a political organizations based solely on its anti-war… Read moreFBI spies on peaceniks: documents
Just in case you thought it was still the 20th century. From the technology news site The Inquirer, March 15: Robots break Asimov’s first law And so it begins By Nick Farrell THE US Army is deploying armed robots in… Read moreKiller robots fight in Iraq
A March 3 press release from the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee: Attorney Lynne Stewart now faces another battle for her life: the battle against breast cancer. Ms. Stewart’s sentencing is pending following her conviction last year on charges of aiding… Read moreLynne Stewart battles cancer
An ominous sense of deja vu. The US invasion of Iraq and rift with France immediately preceded new oil deals between Saddam and the French giant Total. (Seee WW4 REPORT #56) Now, just as Bush is rattling the sabre and… Read moreFrench oil giant in talks with Iran
From IndyBay.org, March 7: Pyeongtaek, South Korea – On March 6th, 2006, South Korean military riot police began an attack on the autonomous village of Daechuri. For over four years, Daechuri and the nearby community of Doduri have defiantly resisted… Read moreSouth Korea: army sieges “autonomous village”
From Human Rights Watch, March 9: Iranian police and plainclothes agents yesterday charged a peaceful assembly of women’s rights activists in Tehran and beat hundreds of women and men who had gathered to commemorate International Women’s Day, Human Rights Watch… Read moreIran: police attack Women’s Day march; crackdown on Sufis
A March 9 communique from the San José de Apartadó Peace Community in Colombia’s northern Urabá region (our translation): The Peace Community of San José of Apartadó denounces new abuses committed by the public forces against the civil population of… Read moreColombia: more state terror at Peace Community
From the International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC), March 11: Christian Peace Maker Teams (CPT) headquarters in Chicago in the United State has confirmed that CPT member kidnapped in Iraq Tom Fox, 54 was found dead in Baghdad on Saturday… Read moreIraq: Christian pacifist hostage killed
Immigrants and supporters marched and rallied in Chicago on March 10 to demand legalization for out-of-status immigrants and oppose anti-immigrant legislation currently being considered by the Senate. Organizers estimated the crowd at 130,000, while Chicago police estimated 75,000 to 100,000… Read moreThousands march for immigrants’ rights in Chicago, DC
