Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in the southern state of Chiapas announced Sept. 16 he will leave the group’s jungle strongholds and embark on a six-month tour of all of Mexico, promising to “shake this country… Read moreChiapas: Marcos announces national tour
From the Somerville, MA, Divestment Project: Dear Friends, The Somerville Divestment Project collected 4,400 signatures (more than the 3966 required, which is 10% of registered voters in Somerville) on a petition (copied below and posted at http://www.divestmentproject.org/petition.shtml ) to place… Read moreJudge kills divest-from-Israel petition in Massachusetts
With the approval of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the ultra-fundamentalist Jewish “Ateret Cohanim” organization “is at the moment conducting a dig” at a depth of 12 meters beneath a building just 80 meters away from the walls of Islam’s… Read moreSecret wars for the Temple Mount
The Fall edition of Yes! magazine carries a proposal by Erik Leaver of Foreign Policy in Focus, entitled “Operation Homcoming: How to End the Iraq War.” The progressive end of the wonk spectrum is weighing in—but is anybody missing? U.S…. Read more“Operation Homecoming”: How to end the Iraq war
From the front page of the Washington Post, via TruthOut: New Reports of Abuse of Detainees Surface Mistreatment Was Routine, Group Is Told By Josh White Saturday 24 September 2005 “Some days we would just get bored so we would… Read moreReport: abuse “routine” at US bases in Afghanistan, Iraq
This profile of Maryam Rajavi, leader of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, in the Sept. 24 New York Times (online at Iran Focus) is a skillful piece of subtle obfuscation. It notes (largely in the past tense) the ties between the… Read moreIran: Mujahedeen Khalq new US proxy?
Some 1,600 immigrants who say they were abused at the Elizabeth detention center in New Jersey between August 1994 and June 1995 have won a $2.5 million settlement from the private prison company which operated the facility. The suit was… Read moreFederal contractor to pay in detainee abuse case
British MP George Galloway, current darling of the left for his testimony against the Iraq war before the US Senate earlier this year and for slaying such mediocre dragons as Christopher Hitchens, reveals a disturbing side in a Sept. 9… Read moreGeorge Galloway: blame the Jews
From the UK Guardian, Sept. 21: Western aid groups and journalists, including the BBC, helped Islamists in a bid to overthrow the Uzbek government, prosecutors claimed yesterday at the start of a trial of 15 men accused of organising May’s… Read moreUzbek prosecutors: BBC-jihad conspiracy
From Direland, Doug Ireland’s political blog, Sept. 22: The internationally renowned correspodent for The Independent — the great British journalist Robert Fisk — has been banned from entering the United States. Fisk has been covering war zones for decades, but… Read moreUS bars Robert Fisk from entering country
A group of some 3,000 indigenous people gathering to mark the official opening of a new reserve are trapped in the remote village of Maturca, Roraima state, after its bridge burned down. Authorities say settlers opposed to the creation of… Read moreArson traps indigenous gathering in Brazilian Amazon
A man splashed his own blood on a column outside the federal courthouse in Binghamton, NY, where four anti-war protesters were on trial for engaging in a similar protest at a military recruiting station. Gary Kline, 50, of Montour Falls,… Read moreUpstate NY anti-war protesters spill own blood
