From the Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC), March 22: Letter to the Anti-War and -Occupation Forces of the World On the Fifth Anniversary of US Administration and its Allies’ Barbarism The memory of March 19th puts out terror in the world…. Read moreIraq Freedom Congress statement on five years of occupation
Just as the UN is warning of a global food shock (in part due to the diversion of croplands into production of “biofuels“), come reports of dangerous new fungus with the ability to destroy entire wheat fields spreading from Africa… Read moreWheat-eating fungus spreads to Iran, fueling “food shock” fears
Days after the harsh crackdown on protests in Lhasa, Chinese authorities are now arresting hundreds of Tibetans elsewhere in Tibet and Tibetan regions of neighboring Gansu and Sichuan provinces. The Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy reports that in… Read moreTibet: 1,000 arrested, hundreds “disappeared”
The Bay Area group Direct Action to Stop the War marked the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion March 19 by blocking key intersection in downtown San Francisco, staging “die-ins” and halting traffic. The corporate headquarters of Chevron and Bechtel… Read moreMore than 100 arrested in San Francisco anti-war actions
At least 52 are dead following a March 17 bomb blast near the shrine of Imam Hussein, a pilgrimage center for Shi’ites in Karbala. Most reports identified a female suicide bomber as the perpetrator, but the Karbala police chief said… Read moreIraq: 52 dead in Imam Hussein shrine blast
The official Chinese news agency Xinhua March 16 quoted the 11th Panchen Lama Gyaincain Norbu harshly condemning the Tibetan uprising: “The rioters’ acts not only harmed the interests of the nation and the people, but also violated the aim of… Read moreBeijing-groomed Buddhists diss Dalai Lama
While little news is now coming out of Lhasa, the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) reports that at least three Tibetan protesters were shot dead by Chinese security forces March 18 during a peaceful demonstration in Kardze… Read moreTibetan protests continue; Dalai Lama calls for coexistence
On March 18, protests broke out in Ganja, a nomadic village 25 kilometers north of Labrang in Amdo (traditional Tibetan region in Gansu province), with some 2,000 marching on government township office with Tibetan flags and portraits of the Dalai… Read moreNomadic villages join Tibet uprising
On Jan. 17 the Review Court of Rome dismissed the Italian case against former Uruguayan navy captain Nestor Jorge Fernandez Troccoli, who was arrested in Salerno on Dec. 23 in connection with Operation Condor, a clandestine program of cooperation between… Read moreUruguayan ex-officer wins round in “dirty war” case
On Feb. 25 the body of retired Argentine military officer Lt. Col. Paul Alberto Navone was found by an employee of the Air Force’s Hotel Parque, in Ascochinga, a town some 55 kilometers north of Buenos Aires. He had been… Read moreArgentina: suicide of ex-officer in “dirty war” case?
At around noon on March 14 a group of armed men killed farmer leader Armando Villarreal Martha with submachine gun blasts near his house in Nuevo Casas Grandes municipality, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Villarreal Martha was the… Read moreChihuahua: rural activist killed
Colombia has asked Mexico to investigate ties between Mexican citizens and the FARC guerrillas after four Mexicans were found among the dead in Colombia’s March 1 strike on a rebel camp in Ecuador. In disclosing the request, Mexico’s Exterior Secretariat… Read moreMexico to probe FARC link
