From CBS News, Sept. 15: Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators marched through downtown Washington on Saturday, clashing with police at the foot of the Capitol steps where more than 190 protesters were arrested… [C]ounterprotest groups, including a contingent of… Read more190 arrested at DC anti-war protest
This gives new meaning to the phrase “Where you stand depends on where you sit.” No “global warming skeptics” in Tuvalu! From Reuters, Sept. 13: SEOUL — The tiny Pacific island state of Tuvalu on Thursday urged the rest of… Read moreTuvalu protests global warming
Talk about a vicious cycle. Global warming opens the long-sought Northwest Passage, which will mean easier access to the Arctic and its resources (including oil), thereby exacerbating…global warming. It should also exacerbate the geopolitical struggle over the far north. Russian… Read moreGlobal warming opens Northwest Passage
In a blow to the auto industry, US Judge William K. Sessions III ruled Sept. 12 that the state of Vermont can set limits on car emissions that contribute to global warming, rejecting arguments that only the federal government can… Read moreStates’ rights and global warming
Rebel commanders in Darfur are urging Abdel Wahid el-Nur, founder of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), to agree to go to peace talks with the Sudanese government slated to open at the end of October in Libya under the auspices… Read moreDarfur: Sudan woos some rebels —bombs others
Tuareg guerillas opened fire with AK-47s on a US Hercules military aircraft flying in supplies for Malian troops pinned down at Tin-Zawatine near the border with Algeria Sept. 12. There were no casualties and the plane managed to return to… Read moreMali: Tuareg rebels fire on US military plane
First, the basic facts from the New York Times, Sept. 14: Sunni Sheik Who Backed U.S. in Iraq Is Killed BAGHDAD, Sept. 13 — A high-profile Sunni Arab sheik who collaborated with the American military in the fight against jihadist… Read moreAbu Risha: war criminal?
Some very insightful words from Paul Krugman in the Sept. 14 New York Times on the Kurdish Regional Government’s unilateral oil deals. Fortunately, Ed Strong’s Best That’s Left blog rescues the column from the Times’ elitist pay-per-view policy. Relevant passages:… Read moreOil struggle: Kurds bet on no Iraq
And now for some bad news. From the Italian news agency AGI, Sept. 12: A cholera epidemic has affected at least 7,000 people in the northern provinces of Iraq and may reach Baghdad in the next few weeks. The accomplices… Read moreCholera threatens Baghdad
Hundreds of Iraqis staged a protest against the building of a dividing wall being built by US forces between a Shi’ite and Sunni district of Baghdad Sept. 12. Residents of the Shula and Ghazaliya neighborhoods waved Iraqi flags and chanted… Read moreBaghdad residents protest separation wall
Part of a statement from al-Awda and other groups, online at NYC Indymedia, Sept. 13: We believe that it is critical, necessary and essential that the building of the antiwar movement in the United States take place in a manner… Read moreANSWER sells out Palestinians?
The anarchist blog Three-Way Fight wants to know (despite leaving the question marks off their questions): Why does the media – CNN, MSNBC, FOX, BBC, Harretz, etc – spend today going over and over again, with lots of video footage,… Read moreRussian and Israeli neo-Nazis: media double standard?
