On Jan. 17, members of Paraguayan social and political organizations marched in Asuncion and burned US flags to protest the presence of US soldiers in their country, and to condemn the Paraguayan legislature’s decision last year to let the troops… Read moreParaguay: march against US troops
From the Associated Press: BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 27 Colombia insisted Friday that a false-passport ring it dismantled may have links to al-Qaida and Hamas, despite U.S. doubts about the counterfeiters’ connection to the terrorist groups. Colombian officials said Thursday the… Read moreAl-Qaeda ring in Colombia?
A letter sent to the Colombia Support Network in Madison, WI, from local campesino activsts in Putumayo, Colombia’s Amazon rainforest department bordering Ecuador: Mocoa, January 25, 2006 Beginning in December of 2005 the FARC-EP began a series of attacks upon… Read moreColombia: forgotten war in Putumayo
Two Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents at the border crossing (port of entry) in Douglas, Arizona shot and killed a driver on the night of Feb. 9 after Douglas police officers attempted to stop the man. Apparently trying to… Read moreDeath on the Mexican border
The final pair of missionaries from New Tribes Mission pulled out of their Venezuelan outposts Feb. 9, days ahead of their deadline, after being accused of espionage by President Hugo Chavez. The nearly 40 missionaries, some having worked for 59… Read moreVenezuela: Chavez expels New Tribes Mission
A glimmer of hope from The Guardian, Feb. 8: Sweden plans to be world’s first oil-free economy Sweden is to take the biggest energy step of any advanced western economy by trying to wean itself off oil completely within 15… Read moreSweden: oil-free by 2020
A petition, dated Feb. 9: To: Kurdish Authorities Campaign to defend the life and safety of Marywan Halabjaye Defend this secular writer against the threats of Islamists in Iraqi Kurdistan! Marywan Halabjaye is secular Kurdish write who recently published a… Read moreIraq: Kurdish secular writer under threat
Sent by Mahmood Ketabchi, an exiled follower of the Worker Communist Party of Iran now living in New Jersey and active in support work for workers’ and women’s movements in Iran and Iraq. Emphasis added. Defend Freedom of Press—and the… Read more“Defend the right to blasphemy”
The Palestinian press is raising the possibility that Israel may be trying to provoke a response with a recent large spate of “targeted killings.” From the International Middle East Media Center, Feb. 10: Ongoing Israeli Assassinations by Missile said to… Read moreIsrael assassinates 13 in one week
Violence continues to grow throughout the Muslim world in protests against the anti-Islamic cartoons published in Denmark. In Nairobi, police opened fire as hundreds of protesters advanced on the Danish ambassador’s residence, leaving one injured. Another was killed and four… Read moreViolence escalates in cartoon imbroglio
From AP, Feb. 9: A suicide bomber struck Thursday in Pakistan on the holiest festival for Shiite Muslims, triggering a riot that left a provincial town in flames and at least 27 people dead and more than 50 wounded. After… Read moreAshura violence in Pakistan, Afghanistan
On Tuesday, February 14, at 7:30 PM, the Libertarian Book Club’s Anarchist Forum will present Bill Weinberg, host of the WBAI program “The Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade” and creator of the World War 4 Report website, where important but seldom-seen… Read moreNYC: Bill Weinberg to speak on Iraq’s civil resistance
