From NY1, Oct. 15: Toddler Dies In Livery Cab Accident In East Harlem A two-year-old child was killed in a car accident at the corner of 111th Street and Fifth Avenue in East Harlem Friday afternoon. Police say a livery… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Heavy rains have caused floods and landslides throughout Central America, leaving at least 18 dead, thousands displaced and many roads impassable and communities cut off. Fourteen were killed in Costa Rica Oct. 11 when a mudslide brought down a hillside… Read moreDeadly floods leave thousands displaced in Central America
At least 21 Afro-Colombian barequeros, or small-scale miners, are dead and 28 others injured after a hillside collapsed Oct. 13 following several days of heavy rains on the banks of the Rio Cauca, near Suarez, Cauca department. The open-pit mine… Read moreColombian gold miners killed in landslide
An Oct. 13 New York Times story, “Energy Crunch Threatens South American Nations,” poses the problem in terms of “growth…outpacing fuel supplies”—but actually sheds much light on the continent’s political fault lines, which persist despite the predominance of populist or… Read moreEnergy populism divides South American nations
From the Colombia Support Network (CSN), Oct. 12: The Colombia Support Network (CSN) has received word from the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó that two members of the Peace Community, Arley Tuberquia and Martha Basquez, were detained by… Read moreColombian peasant pacifists detained by Israeli authorities
Forgive our cynicism but it smells to us like a quick cash-in (albeit a year late, so as not to seem unseemly) on the Da Vinci Code hype. The official website of the Holy See has a link right on… Read moreVatican opens Knights Templar archives
From BBC News via Sufi News & World Report, Oct. 11: More than 130 Muslim scholars have written to Pope Benedict XVI and other Christian leaders urging greater understanding between the two faiths. The letter says that world peace could… Read moreMuslim scholars reach out to Vatican
At least two people were killed and nearly 20 injured when a bomb exploded inside the revered Sufi shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti at Ajmer in India’s western state of Rajasthan Oct. 11. The attack came when the shrine was… Read moreIndia: terror blast at Sufi shrine
As the Great Powers condescendingly admonish Darfur’s guerillas to participate in the peace talks to open in Libya next week, on Oct. 11, some 22 representatives of Darfur rebel groups were stopped by Sudanese government forces on their way to… Read moreSudan detains Darfur rebel leaders; South pulls out of peace deal
None of the media accounts (e.g. London Times, Oct. 12) note the hysterical irony. We suppose Henry Kissinger‘s Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 was even more ironic, but at least his co-winner Le Duc Tho refused to accept the prize…. Read moreOxy oil scion Gore wins Nobel for global warming work
From NJ.com, Oct. 12: Officials investigate crude oil spill PAULSBORO — Coast Guard and New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection officials are investigating the spill of at least 2,300 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River from a ship… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Despite the ignorant blather of his brainless liberal apologists that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is “not a ‘Holocaust denier’” but merely calls for more research into whether it happened (gee, thanks for raising this subtle distinction), BBC Monitoring notes an… Read moreMahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ann Coulter united in Jew-hatred
