From the UK’s New Statesman, Sept. 19, via the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA): As the country wakes up from 25 years of conflict and despair, a young female politician is taking on the warlords and winning…. Read moreWomen of Afghanistan find a leader
From New York City’s Pakistan Post, Sept. 15. Translated from the Urdu by Mohammad Jehangir Khan for the International Press Association. A Pakistani man died of heart attack on September 9 while waiting for his deportation in a New Jersey… Read morePakistani man dies awaiting deportation in NJ prison
Days after receiving similar treatment in New York, Cindy Sheehan and entourage met with police harassment in DC. Writes Sarah Ferguson for the Village Voice Sept. 21: Washington, DC – At just past noon on Wednesday, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan… Read moreDC police harass Cindy Sheehan
On Sept. 22, a student protest at Cali’s Universidad del Valle was brutally attacked by the Colombian National Police special anti-riot unit, the Mobile Anti-Disturbance Squad (ESMAD), which brought in an armored vehicle and fired live ammunition, hurled tear-gas cannisters… Read moreMore ESMAD terror in Colombia
The Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, a militia group from Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta region, has seized a pumping station in protest of the arrest of its leader. More than 100 armed men in boats stormed the Idama flow-station, sources… Read moreNiger Delta: Ijaw militia seizes Chevron installation
Well, somebody, it seems, has found something more creative to do to protest the war in Iraq than march in orderly rows chanting monotonous slogans in unison. From New York Newsday, sept. 22: NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge Thursday… Read moreNYC: Case dismissed in nude anti-war protest
A recent story in New Jersey’s Asbury Park Press sheds light on a highly esoteric group which can make a claim to being an indigenous American form of Islam, the Moorish Science movement. The story concerns Lee S. Crudup, who… Read moreMoorish Science in the news
When a bomb exploded yesterday at the British embassy in Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, causing minor injuries to a security guard, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader suggested it might be linked to Croatia’s application to join the European Union. Britain is the… Read moreRush to judgement in Croatia: UK embassy blast “not terrorism”
In a New York Times op-ed piece that ran Sept. 16 in the International Herald Tribune, Waleed Ziad of the Truman National Security Project questions Washington’s interventionist consensus. In the piece, “Jihad’s Fresh Face,” Ziad writes: The post-9/11 prevailing wisdom… Read moreWonk states the obvious: jihad born of repression
New York City’s Union Square Park, which had been a symbol of free speech in the aftermath of 9-11, has now become a symbol of censorship. This AP account appears in today’s Newsday: NEW YORK (AP) Police cut short a… Read moreCindy Sheehan censored at New York’s Union Square
On Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 7:30 PM, WW4 REPORT editor Bill Weinberg will speak on “The Politics of the Anti-War Movement” in an event sponsored by the New SPACE (New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education): Hard-left elements of the anti-war… Read moreWW4 REPORT editor Bill Weinberg to blast anti-war movement in New York forum
While 11 candidates (out of some 3,000) were barred from Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections for ties to warlordism, many veteran Mujahedeen commanders with pasts tained by human rights abuses—or even ethnic cleansing—seem to have slipped through the cracks. Reported Newsday Sept…. Read moreWarlords to maintain power in Afghan elections?
