Iraq’s oft-fractious trade unions issued the following joint statement yesterday at the end of a two-day meeting in Amman, Jordan. The meeting was attended by labor representatives from throughout Iraq. A Joint Statement Issued by the Iraqi Trade Unions Concerning… Read moreIraq trade unions protest IMF policy
An alleged commander of a Mexico’s clandestine Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) and two other suspected guerillas were arrested in the state of Veracruz, officials announced Jan. 12. Gustavo Robles Lopez, 29, and two others were arrested when authorities approached their… Read moreMexico: guerilla suspects arrested in Veracruz
Will Chile be the next to join South America’s growing anti-imperialist bloc? Michelle Bachelet will certainly not prove a radical populist like Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez or Bolivia’s newly-elected Evo Morales. But she could prove a more moderate member of the… Read moreChile to join anti-imperialist bloc?
Gee, we can hardly wait for this one. From Reuters, Jan. 15: TEHRAN – Iran is planning a conference to assess the scale of the Holocaust, which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects as a myth, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi… Read moreIran plans conference to “assess” Holocaust
There they go again. “We apologize, but I can’t tell you that we wouldn’t do the same thing again,” says John McCain. Why do politicians always talk out of both sides of their mouths like this? What does an apology… Read moreAnti-US protests shake Pakistan
Yet another report of peasant protesters killed by the security forces in (nominally communist) China. Is there any national coordination to the fast-growing peasant movement? Is anyone working in the West to loan them solidarity? From the Jan. 17 New… Read moreMore peasant unrest in China
At least 24 undocumented Haitians died as they were being smuggled into the Dominican Republic in a small truck near the northern city of Dajabon on Jan. 10. The victims died of asphyxiation while riding with about 45 other Haitians… Read moreHaiti: death stalks Dominican border
Two US-based groups that carry out solidarity activities with Cuba, the Venceremos Brigade and Pastors for Peace, confirmed on Jan. 9 that the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has fined hundreds of their supporters a total… Read moreCuba: US targets activists, baseball
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez weighs in on the accusations that he made anti-Semitic comments in a Christmas Eve speech. OK, maybe the accusations are part of an “imperialist campaign.” But why is anti-Semitism the only form of ethnic hatred which… Read moreChavez refutes anti-Semitism charges
Business and commerce in Sri Lanka’s port city of Trincomalee were paralyzed as a three-day strike in protest against renewed violence by the Tamil Tiger guerillas entered its last day Jan. 14. Main roads in the town were deserted except… Read moreStrike for peace in Sri Lanka
Maoist guerrillas bombed two police stations and a municipal office on the outskirts of Kathmandu Jan. 14, killing at least 11 officers in the first attacks in the capital region since the rebels ended their cease-fire on Jan. 2. Hours… Read moreNepal: Maoists attack capital; Buddhists march for peace
The real issue behind Druze leader Walid Jumblatt’s latest political clash with Lebanon’s President Emile Lahoud appears to really be continued perceived Syrian domination of the country. Tensions between the Druze and the regime have dramatically escalated since late December,… Read moreLebanon: Druze leader calls for US invasion of Syria
