Some 1,700 indigenous people participated in a July 23-27 caravan to Bogota from Santander de Quilichao in the southwestern Colombian department of Cauca to demand peace, to call for popular unity and to oppose a “free trade” agreement (TLC, from… Read moreColombia: indigenous protest in capital
Irene Khan, general secretary of the UK-based human rights organization Amnesty International (AI), is scheduled to visit Mexico July 30-Aug. 5 for what AI calls a “high-level working visit” to address its concerns about human rights violations in Mexico. The… Read moreMexico: human rights groups investigate
In the early morning of July 28 people thought to be members of the rebel Revolutionary Popular Army (EPR) assaulted a site in Chiapa de Corzo, in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, where a federal prison is being built…. Read moreMexico: guerillas attack Chiapas prison
Early on July 15, a man waved down agents from the Border Patrol’s Tucson sector patrolling near Arizona highway 289 and told them his brother was sick and convulsing. Agents found the man nearby, unresponsive; they called paramedics, but the… Read moreMore border deaths in Arizona
From July 16 to 20, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 274 immigrants in the area of Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Those arrested included 233 men, 28 women and 13 children, said ICE spokesperson Carl Rusnok. Of the 274, 99… Read moreHundreds arrested in Dallas area ICE raids
Our July issue featured the stories “No Green Zone for Ethnic Minorities in Iraq” by Bill Weinberg, arguing that the ethnic and sectarian warfare is approaching a “genocidal threshold”; “Israel & Palestine: One State or Two?,” excerpts from the debate… Read moreGenocide in Iraq, Palestine’s future, free speech in Venezuela: one reader writes
Media revealed this week that at a high-level meeting in Riyadh in January, Saudi officials confronted then-US Iraq envoy Zalmay Khalilzad with incriminating documents on Iraq’s prime minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki. One purported to be an early alert from al-Maliki… Read moreSaudis rewarded with high-tech arms for destabilizing Iraq
Radical students July 27 again occupied Islamabad’s Red Mosque—hours before a suicide bomber killed 13 people in a market down the street from the mosque. Seeking a political solution to the multiple converging crises he faces, Pervez Musharraf reportedly met… Read moreUS to invade Pakistan?
Colombia’s imprisoned paramilitary warlords July 24 announced an end to cooperation with prosecutors investigating massacres and other atrocities, throwing into question the country’s peace process. The move was taken to protest the July 11 ruling of the Supreme Court of… Read moreColombia: para commanders break off peace process
In another exercise in understatement, this terrifying July 27 Washington Post piece by Walter Pincus is entitled “Bush order on freezing assets is unusually broad.” Do those “threatening the peace or stability of Iraq” include striking oil workers and other… Read moreBush executive order targets Iraq solidarity efforts
Well well, look who’s running for the Diet. An almost perfect analogy to the vile Alessandra Mussolini in Italy. She was (officially) “shunned” by the “post-Fascist” National Alliance—even as doing so only helped legitimize and mainstream the party whose roots… Read moreUS abets Japanese remilitarization —and revisionism
We love how the headlines always say “ex-cop.” He was still a cop when he killed Julio Ortega-Moncada. He was sacked because of the incident. From AP, July 25: Ex-cop gets prison for DWI fatality NEW YORK – A former… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
