From the Aug. 1 AP. Rights groups are protesting that 15 Uzbek refugees are to be forcibly repatriated from Kyrgyzstan. But this is after 440 were flown to Romania to seek asylum in Europe last week over the objections of… Read moreUzbek refugees: political pawns
From yesterday’s Newsday: LONDON — Bombers in the botched July 21 attacks here were avenging the deaths of Muslim civilians in Iraq, one suspect reportedly told authorities, as British and Italian police seized eight more suspects yesterday and extended their… Read moreAccused London bomber: It’s Iraq, stupid!
John McCain—who knows a thing or two about what it is like to be a prisoner of war—steps up to the plate. And it is revealed that even Pentagon legal staff had warned that the current policy would invite abuse… Read moreCongress challenges White House on torture; Bush defiant
Is there a draft in your future? That is the obvious implication of this July 23 story from Economic & Political Weekly, tho the author does not mention it. Unravelling of the US Military Newspapers describe the US army as… Read moreU.S. military “unravelling”?
Riots and gunfire are reported in Sudan’s capital Khartoum following the death of the country’s vice-president, former rebel leader John Garang, in a helicopter crash as he was returning from Uganda. Garang had signed a deal to end 21 years… Read moreSudan: New VP killed in chopper crash —quick end to peace deal feared
Russia says it is outraged by an interview with Chechen guerilla leader Shamil Basayev broadcast by the ABC TV network, and the foreign ministry summoned a senior US diplomat in Moscow to express its “strong indignation” over the show. In… Read moreShamil Basayev: “OK, so I’m a terrorist”
From Weekly News Update on the Americas, July 31: In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the Oral Criminal Court in the Chilean city of Temuco acquitted six Mapuche rights activists in a retrial on charges of “terrorist illicit… Read moreChile: Mapuche acquitted of “terrorist” charges
This report from the July 31 Weekly News Update on the Americas on changes in top State Department positions on Latin America indicates that the White House is preparing to escalate its regime change offensive against Cuba: U.S.: NORIEGA OUT,… Read moreState Department launches Cuba regime change initiative
Osman Hussain, a Somali man believed to be one of the four suspects in the July 21 bombing attempts in London was arrested July 29 in Rome after police traced his cell phone calls across Europe after the attacks. The… Read moreFear in Italy
As we recently noted, Paraguay is currently seeing an upsurge of peasant and popular unrest—just as the US has established a new military presence there (ostensibly aimed at chasing down Islamic militants who have supposedly established the country as a… Read moreParaguay: villagers demand Moonie land
Pakistan’s Tribal Areas along the Afghan border seem to be slipping into all-out war. On July 29, militants launched missiles at the Tochi Scouts Fort, one of the government’s official paramilitary outposts in Miramshah, North Waziristan Agency. No injuries were… Read morePakistan’s Tribal Areas: headed towards war?
The regime of Islam Karimov in Uzbekistan, heretofore attempting to play both sides in the Great Game between Moscow and Washington, appears to have finally and decisively thrown in its lot with the former. From Pakistan’s Daily Times, via AFP… Read moreUzbekistan boots US military
