Former US Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan famously spills the beans in his new memoir, The Age of Turbulence: “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.” (London… Read moreAlan Greenspan vs. Naomi Klein: who has rights to Iraq’s oil?
For those who know their history, the notion of Serbian neo-Nazis is almost as wacky as Israeli neo-Nazis. Serbia was occupied by the Nazis in World War II, and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (ruled by the Serb royal family) dismantled… Read moreNeo-Nazis mobilize in Serbia
From the Center for Constitutional Rights, Sept. 24: On September 24, 2007, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted a petition to the Supreme Court asking it to intervene in the case of Libyan Guantánamo client Abdul Ra’ouf Al Qassim… Read moreGitmo detainee fears “disappearance” to Libya
From the Los Angeles Times, Sept. 25 (links added): WASHINGTON — A decision Monday night by a military court of review will pave the way for the Pentagon to restart its terrorism tribunals for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba…. Read moreRuling paves way for Gitmo tribunals
Another blow in Iraq’s escalating Sunni civil war—and further evidence that any attempt at “reconciliation” will be doomed as long as the US remains in Iraq, allowing the jihadis to pose as the “resistance,” and anyone advocating co-existence to be… Read moreIraq: occupation kiss of death for “reconciliation”
While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Sept. 24 soapbox session at Columbia University sparked high-profile protests and a media feeding-frenzy, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s appearance that same day at a Shi’ite mosque in Queens went largely unnoticed—despite the fact that… Read moreAl-Maliki does Queens, nobody protests
The following was reported by Amit Cohen in the center-right Israeli paper Ma’ariv in Hebrew on Sept. 19: Abu Mazen instructed his general “Slaughter them” The clip [shown at the Ma’ariv link] apparently shows a meeting in Abu-Mazen’s [President Mahmoud… Read morePalestinian president: Slaughter Hamas
History is being made in Burma, as some 100,000 protesters led by Buddhist monks marched through Rangoon Sept. 24, the largest demonstration since a 1988 pro-democracy movement was brutally crushed by the military regime. Surreptitiously shot photographs and videos show… Read moreWill Burmese democracy movement become pawn in pipeline wars?
In an unusual move, the US State Department has protested the police sweeps of opposition politicians in Pakistan over the weekend. “Some of this is troubling and we’ve certainly told the Pakistanis,” Condoleezza Rice told Reuters. The detainments come as… Read moreIt hits the fan in Pakistan —as pipeline talks open with Iran
Here’s a rather perverse irony. Amid all the war hysteria over Iran‘s nuclear ambitions, a US utility has ordered a new nuclear plant for the first time since the 1979 Three Mile Island accident. Of course this time they are… Read moreNew US reactors ordered for first time since Three Mile Island
Not for the first time. From AFP, Sept. 24: UNITED NATIONS — Iranian pro-democracy activists strongly oppose any military attack on their country but want the world to condemn Tehran’s human rights violations, Iranian dissident journalist Akbar Ganji said in… Read moreIranian dissidents oppose US aggression
On Sept. 14, dozens of immigrant workers from Haiti marched through several localities in the northwest of the Dominican Republic to demand their basic rights. The protesters, most of them undocumented agricultural workers, held signs showing newspaper articles about oppressive… Read moreHaitian workers march in Dominican Republic
