The polling stations closed last night in what was hailed as Afghanistan’s first free parliamentary elections since 1969. Overseeing the security of the elections in the capital was the special Kabul Multi-National Brigade (KMNB VIII), composed of units from 24… Read moreAfghan elections marred by violence, disenfranchisement of women
We recently aired first-hand accounts from paramedics in New Orleans that police from the suburb of Gretna had turned back refugees attempting to flee the devastated city at gunpoint. A Sept. 17 LA Times story, “A Roadblock to Compassion,” reprinted… Read moreConfirmed: suburban cops turned back N.O. refugees
Venezuela’s left-populist President Hugo Chavez made history this weekend with a visit to New York for an appearance at the UN summit. His brief sojourn in La Manzana Grande consciously evoked his mentor Fidel Castro’s historic 1960 debut address at… Read moreChavez does New York City, blasts US aggression
Violence is reported in Athens, with riot police clashing with left-wing anarchists. The masked protesters threw petrol bombs and stones, and police responded with tear gas. The street-fighting in the student quarter followed a rally by neo-fascists demanding that Turkey… Read moreNeo-fascists rally in Athens, anarchists clash with police
Disasters by Jordan Flaherty September 15, 2005 New Orleans was not devastated by a hurricane. From my travels around New Orleans and surrounding areas, it’s clear that very little damage was done to my city by hurricane Katrina. Bay St…. Read moreExploitation, militarization in New Orleans and diaspora
Israel, which claims it no longer occupies the Gaza Strip and wants the world to see it that way, has not taken long to take back some Gazan land, according to AFP: Israel is to set up a “security zone”… Read moreIsrael takes Gaza land for “security zone”
The Guardians of the Cedars, an outlawed ultra-nationalist mostly Christian party set up during the 1975-1990 civil war has resurfaced in Lebanon. Lebanon’s Al-Safir newspaper reported that at a Sept. 14 news conference, the long-dormant faction announced that “the civil… Read moreUltra-nationalist Lebanese faction re-emerges
At least 80 are reported dead and twice as many wounded in suicide car bomb explosion near a gathering of laborers in Kadhimiya, a Shiite area of north-central Baghdad. About three hours later, another suicide car bomb targeted shoppers in… Read moreIraq: insurgents attack civilians, Syria in US crosshairs
Cindy Sheehan, the grieving military mother whose vigil outside President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, TX, focused the nation’s attention on the human cost of the Iraq war, will be arriving in Covington, LA, joining the ongoing national volunteer effort to… Read moreSheehan builds Camp Casey III on Gulf Coast
In a Sept. 13 update for the Village Voice, Sarah Ferguson reports that Houston mirco-radio activists have sidestepped FEMA bureaucracy to broadcast relief info to Katrina survivors: After a week of wading through FEMA red tape, media activists finally fired… Read moreDome City Radio goes live in Houston
Kristen Lombardi in the Village Voice Sept. 6 remembers 9-11’s forgtten victims—who continue to suffer in silence: Alex Sanchez likes to say he’s “living proof” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s response to the September 11 terrorist attacks bordered on the… Read more9-11 health impacts: residents demand EPA action
Sarah Ferguson reports for the Village Voice Sept. 12 on how the conspiracy set crashed the official 9-11 commemoration: The anguish was palpable at Ground Zero yesterday, as family members made their way down a long ramp into the vast… Read more9-11 conspiracists invade Ground Zero
