Judge Javier Gomez Bermudez read out the verdicts Oct. 31 in the long-running Madrid 3-11 terror trial. Three of the defendants—Jamal Zougam, Emilio Suarez Trashorras, and Osman Gnaoui— were found guilty of murder and handed prison terms of up to… Read moreSpain: survivors protest 3-11 verdicts —despite 40,000-year sentences
With the price of oil creeping ominously and seemingly inexorably towards an unprecedented $100 per barrel, the long and equally unprecedented mega-profit-fest for Exxon and the other industry majors is nonetheless starting to level off. It seems that consumption is… Read moreConsumers get revenge on Exxon …a little
The northern Israeli village of Pekiin turned into a battleground Oct. 30 as clashes between police and Druze protesters left some 16 police officers and a similar number of medics and residents injured. One resident was in serious condition after… Read moreIsrael: Druze riot against cellphone antennae
An appellate court in Tehran confirmed a five-year sentence against imprisoned union leader Mansur Osanlu Oct. 30. The court also upheld a two-year prison sentence against another senior member of Osanlu’s union, Ebrahim Madadi, for acting against Iran’s national security…. Read moreIran: prison for transit union leaders
Uruguayan police clashed with Argentine environmentalists who were on a boat to protest a Finnish paper mill they fear will spew pollution into a border river Oct. 27. Police boarded one of 20 boats in a protest flotilla on the… Read moreUruguay police clash with Argentine eco-activists
WORLD WAR 4 REPORT editor Bill Weinberg led another modestly-attended presentation this evening about the Iraq Freedom Congress, this time at a meeting of the New York chapter of the Socialist Party USA. An announcement for the event, which featured… Read moreIraq’s civil resistance: the debate continues
On Oct. 10, federal judge Charles R. Breyer of US District Court in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction barring the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from launching a planned crackdown on workers whose social security numbers don’t match the… Read moreSan Francisco federal judge halts crackdown on immigrant workers
In a two-week sweep that ended Oct. 2, ICE officers arrested 1,327 immigrants in five southern California counties: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura. A total of 530 people were arrested in their communities on immigration violations; ICE… Read moreOver 1,300 arrested in California ICE sweeps
On Oct. 2, officials in Nassau County on New York’s Long Island called for a federal investigation into an “anti-gang” sweep carried out by ICE Sept. 24-30 during which 186 immigrants were arrested in Nassau and neighboring Suffolk county. Nassau… Read moreLong Island ICE raids challenged
You know, every time we start to develop a soft spot for a politician, he wastes no time in disabusing us of our comfortable illusions. The most recent case in point is New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. After taking flack… Read moreSpitzer capitulates on license plan
Amos Schocken, the publisher of Israel’s liberal daily Ha’aretz newspaper, has defended his paper’s applying the word “apartheid” to the Israeli- occupied West Bank, as well as the phrase “Jews-only roads.” According to journalist and blogger Phillip Weiss, who attended… Read moreIsraeli publisher defends paper’s use of terms “Jews-only,” “apartheid”
We have noted before that, contrary to contemporary assumptions, the first “terrorism” identified by that name was a state phenomenon: that of the Jacobins in the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution—which, ironically given its radicalism, was the origin of… Read moreNYT op-ed: Bush est un terroriste
