The Iranian town of Boroujerd, Luristan province, is tense and divided following the Nov. 10 destruction of a hosseinieh or monastery belonging to the Gonabadi Sufi order by the police and Basij paramilitary forces. According to Mohsen Yahyavi, the conservative… Read moreIran: paramilitaries destroy Sufi monastery after clash
Iran’s hardline daily newspaper Jamhouri Eslami made a rare attack on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for making espionage accusations against a former nuclear negotiator, Hossein Mousavian, and saying that influential politicians were using their power to have him cleared. Mousavian was… Read moreIran: Ahmadinejad dissed, Revolutionary Guards threaten “tsunami”
A statement by the Organization for Women’s Liberation—Iran, Nov 8: We condemn the war against people in Iran! The risk of a military attack against people in Iran is imminent. The US administration is adamant about an attack against Iran…. Read moreIranian dissidents oppose US aggression —again
Your tax dollars at work. From the marijuana advocacy site CelebStoner, Nov. 14: California crop report: Nearly three million pot plants destroyed California not only leads the nation in pot production, but also in plant eradication. With the outdoor harvest… Read moreCalifornia tops marijuana eradication record
Boy, does this ever speak to WW4 Report‘s existential dilemma! Your struggling writer recently griped: “The dumbing-down and contraction of print media generally has dried up much of the freelance market and forced me into self-publishing on the Net. The… Read moreNYT op-ed: Pay Internet writers!
From the New York Times, Nov. 21: The American military is sending an Iraqi photographer for The Associated Press it accuses of aiding the insurgency into Iraq’s criminal justice system, according to the American authorities and The A.P. The photographer,… Read moreUS accuses Iraqi photojournalist of aiding insurgents
The Nov. 21 New York Times includes a profile of Venezuela’s recently retired army commander-in-chief Gen. Raul Isaias Baduel, a longtime confidant of Hugo Chavez who led the paratrooper raid that restored him to power following the abortive 2002 coup… Read moreAnti-Semitism in Venezuela —again?
Some 800 students from Mexican teachers colleges occupied the state legislature building in Chilpancingo, capital of the southern state of Guerrero, at about 3 PM on Nov. 14. The students—largely young women from 16 teachers colleges, chiefly those in Saucillo,… Read moreMexico: student protesters attacked in Guerrero
Tens of thousands of protesters occupied the Gen. San Martin bridge, which links the Argentine province of Entre Rios to Uruguay, on Nov. 11 to protest Uruguayan president Tabare Vazquez’s decision to let the Finnish company Botnia start operating a… Read moreArgentine eco-protesters again block Uruguay border
On Nov. 13 Puerto Rican environmental activist Alberto de Jesus (“Tito Kayak”) ended a week-long protest at a small island near San Juan with a spectacular escape from a police operation that included four launches, motorboats and a helicopter. De… Read morePuerto Rico: eco-activist eludes police
From the International Herald Tribune, Nov. 15, links and emphasis added: Unorthodox sects face prosecution in Indonesia JAKARTA — Indonesian human rights lawyers are again questioning the country’s commitment to religious freedom after the recent arrests of several unorthodox Islamic… Read moreIslamic “heretics” persecuted in Indonesia
An open letter to the world human rights community and Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, from PetitionOnline: Delaram Ali is a woman’s activist who has been given a custodial sentence for 28 months with 10 lashes for taking part in a… Read moreFree women activists in Iran
