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
On Sept. 21 the Mexican government’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) urged President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa to start “the gradual withdrawal” of the military from a high-profile anti-crime campaign he launched at the beginning of the year. The CNDH based… Read moreMexico: report army drug war abuses
Employment and wages declined in Mexican maquiladoras (tax-exempt assembly plants producing for export) during the 2000-2006 administration of former president Vicente Fox Quesada, according to a report by Huberto Juarez Nunez, an economics analyst at the Distinguished Autonomous University of… Read moreMexico: maquilas declined under Fox
Although the group says it disavows violence, more than one criminal case related to the San Diego Minutemen is now pending in the California courts. In one case now coming to trial, John Monti of Bellflower, a Los Angeles suburb,… Read moreAnti-immigrant violence in San Diego
On Sept. 15, some 100 people rallied outside the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, a privately-run immigration prison, to protest the treatment of immigration detainees. The rally culminated a week-long 105-mile march through six counties, organized by the Prison… Read moreAnti-ICE protest at Georgia prison; nationwide raids continue
From the New York Times, Sept. 19: World’s Languages Dying Off RapidlyOf the estimated 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, linguists say, nearly half are in danger of extinction and are likely to disappear in this century. In fact, they… Read moreGlobal language die-back accelerates
From the New York Times, Sept. 19: Settlements Do Not Deter 9/11 Plaintiffs Seeking Trials Families of 14 of the people killed in the planes hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, have settled their lawsuits, but relatives of other victims said… Read more9-11 survivors play into hands of police state?
