After two decades of silence, architect Rosa María Alvarado Martínez come forward July 9 to say that at least three bodies—likely the remains of student protesters killed by the army at Mexico City’s Tlatelolco Plaza in 1968—are buried under a… Read moreMexico: bodies found from Tlatelolco massacre?
Honda, Nissan, Hershey’s, Kellogg, Grupo Modelo and other multinational companies temporarily shut their plants in western Mexico after rebels attacked a key natural gas pipeline. The Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR) guerrillas claimed responsibility for the explosions. The government ordered an… Read moreMexico: guerillas bomb pipelines
A suicide bomber targeted a NATO patrol in a marketplace filled with children in Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province July 10, killing 13 elementary-school students and at least four other people. Eight Dutch soldiers and at least 35 Afghans were wounded. The… Read moreAfghanistan: the new Iraq?
The Iranian government confirmed July 11 that a man was executed by stoning last week for adultery, and that 20 more men would be executed in the coming days on morality violations. The stoning of Jaffar Kiani, 47, was carried… Read moreIran: execution by stoning for adultery
July 11 marks the twelfth anniversary of the massacre of some 8,000 Muslims at the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, and little has changed for the survivors who continue to wait for a modicum of justice. Up to 30,000 survivors… Read moreSrebrenica: 12 years later, still no justice
Gee, just what Musharraf needs—the State Department weighing in for his repression, augmenting the (accurate) perception that he is Washington’s toady. Don’t they have enough sense to keep quiet? This brings Pakistan one step closer to an Islamist coup, which… Read morePakistan: US-approved state terror
This reminds us of an old R. Cobb cartoon. From the New York Times, July 9: New York Plans Surveillance Veil for Downtown By the end of this year, police officials say, more than 100 cameras will have begun monitoring… Read moreNYC: “surveillance veil” for Lower Manhattan
From Reporters Without Borders (RSF), via the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), July 6: Reporters Without Borders has condemned the arrests of two journalists by intelligence officers in the past six days. Both Mohammad Asif Nang, editor of the… Read moreAfghanistan: dissident journalists arrested
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari warned July 9 against a quick withdrawal of US troops. Zebari said Iraqis “understand the huge pressure that will increase more and more in the United States” ahead of the progress report by the US… Read moreIraq: foreign minister warns of civil war
At the recent African Union summit in Accra, Senegalese music star Youssou N’Dour—recently selected by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential personalities in the world—voiced support for the idea of a United States of Africa, and said… Read moreYoussou N’Dour: president of Africa?
From Reporters Without Borders (RSF), via the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), July 6: RSF deplores President Rafael Correa’s verbal attacks on the press and above all his decision not to give any more news conferences. The aggressivity of… Read moreEcuador: media under attack?
Boy does this sum up everything which is wrong with the USA. Apart from the charming touch of cops brutalizing a woman old enough to be their grandma, is the absurdity of mandatory water-profligance in the middle of a desert…. Read morePolice brutalize elderly woman for conserving water
