Glad some hearty souls are keeping the anti-globalization flame alive, even in the post-9-11 world, and even under the heavy hand of the Chinese state. From AP Dec. 17: Police removed hundreds of protesters who staged a sit-in that shut… Read moreAnti-WTO protests rock Hong Kong
Our readers are aware that the leaders of the San José de Apartado Peace Community in Colombia have been forced to take refuge in a camp they have dubbed San Josecito (Little San José) since their village was occupied by… Read moreColombia: new threats against “peace community”
From ITN: A teacher has been shot dead in southern Afghanistan by suspected Taleban guerrillas after he ignored their orders to stop teaching girls. The attack was carried out by two armed men who arrived at the secondary school in… Read moreAfghanistan: Taliban target teachers
From Socialism Now, the website of the Left Worker Communist Party in Iraq: We denounce the Coward Terrorist Act Of Kidnapping Two of our Comrades by a Militant Gang in Baghdad On the morning of Wednesday, December 7, 2005 an… Read moreIraqi socialists kidnapped
We recently noted how Ethiopia and Eritrea, as they mutually demonize each other, are both engaging in a crackdown on their own media. Now the Committee to Protect Journalists, in their year-end report on imprisoned journalists worldwide, finds the two… Read moreReport: US sixth among nations jailing journalists
Alert Oliver Stone. But this piece by our frequent contributor Dr. Michael I. Niman (which originally appeared Nov. 10 in ArtVoice of Buffalo, NY, and is archived on Dr. Niman’s website) makes a disturbing case. Who Killed Pat Tillman? by… Read moreDid US government kill Pat Tillman?
The discovery of yet another clandestine torture center run by the Shi’ite-dominated Interior Ministry provides helpful propaganda to the Sunni jihadis. Around it goes. From Newsday, Dec. 13: BAGHDAD – Five Islamic extremist groups denounced Iraq’s parliamentary elections this week… Read moreIraq: dialectic of terror as elections begin
From the Committee to Protect Journalists: New York, December 12, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the assassination today in Beirut of Gebran Tueni, a journalist and member of parliament who was a fierce critic of Syria and its policies… Read moreAssassination of Lebanese journalist protested
Predictably, even as tensions rise between the two Horn of Africa rivals, Ethiopia and Eritrea are mirroring each other in a crackdown on the press. In a Dec. 12 press release, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists protests the… Read morePress crackdown in Ethiopia, Eritrea
From the New York Times, Dec. 12 (and apparently little-reported elsewhere): BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, Dec. 11 – In the remote hamlet of Tamga, residents frustrated by corruption and the sorry legacy of a chemical spill did something that would have been… Read moreEcological struggle in Kyrgyzstan
Declaration of the Left Worker-Communist Party of Iraq-LWPI Regarding the “Elections” of December 15, 2005 Amidst the current grim situation in Iraq, the bourgeois media is escalating its propaganda for the so-called governmental elections to be held on December 15,… Read moreIraq: left opposition denounces elections
From Reuters Dec. 9: The founder of Argentina’s leading human rights group was laid to rest yesterday, 28 years after she was abducted during the country’s military dictatorship. Family and friends buried the ashes of Azucena Villaflor on a prominent… Read moreArgentina: rights crusader dead, “dirty war” legacy lives on
