WHY WE FIGHT
Welcome to the promised land, Gonpo. From the New York Times, June 23 (emphasis added): From Tibet to New York, a Youth Now Faces a Long Journey to Recovery Gonpo Dorjee, 16, arrived in America on May 26. But he… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
The Andes
Colombia: bombing wave at Pacific port halts hostage talks
Two people were killed, including a three-year-old girl, and seven wounded June 24 when presumed leftist guerillas detonated a bomb in a tourist area of Colombia’s main Pacific port, Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca department), the latest in a series of… Read moreColombia: bombing wave at Pacific port halts hostage talks
Iraq
“Chemical Ali” to hang —another betrayal of historical memory?
“Chemical Ali” Hassan al-Majid has been convicted of genocide and sentenced to death by hanging for his role in the 1988 “Anfal” counter-insurgency campaign in Iraqi Kurdistan, in which up to 180,000 Kurds were killed—some in poisonous gas attacks, some… Read more“Chemical Ali” to hang —another betrayal of historical memory?
Iraq
Iraq: insurgents target Sunni sheikhs
A number of Sunni tribal leaders from the Anbar Salvation Council are among 12 people killed in a suicide bombing at the Mansour Hotel in central Baghdad June 25. Although the hotel is also home of the Chinese embassy and… Read moreIraq: insurgents target Sunni sheikhs
Oceania
Australia: military occupies aboriginal communities
Aborigine community leaders in a remote Northern Territory town set to receive the first police and army troops under an Australian federal government’s plan to combat a reported wave of domestic and sexual abuse are questioning the need for “military… Read moreAustralia: military occupies aboriginal communities
Central America
Honduras: Alcoa plant fires unionists
Management of an auto parts plant operated by New York-based Alcoa, Inc. in El Progreso, Honduras, fired more than 50 union leaders and activists from June 8 to June 15, according to the National Labor Committee (NLC), a US labor… Read moreHonduras: Alcoa plant fires unionists
Watching the Shadows
SOA survives House vote; Cuba regime change funds approved
Late on June 21 the US House of Representatives voted 214-203 against an amendment to the Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill that would have closed the US Defense Department’s Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), a combat-training school for Latin… Read moreSOA survives House vote; Cuba regime change funds approved
North America
Undercover border agent kills migrant
Early on May 31, a Border Patrol agent shot and killed Benito A. Gonzalez after trying to handcuff him in an unincorporated area north of Escondido, California, just east of Interstate 15. Gonzalez was an out-of-status immigrant who lived in… Read moreUndercover border agent kills migrant
North America
Hunger-striking immigration detainee force-fed in NJ
On June 15, a federal judge in Trenton, New Jersey, ruled that officials at the Monmouth County jail in Freehold can use intravenous or feeding tubes to force feed immigration detainee Samuel Izrailovich Shevaniya, who is on hunger strike. Shevaniya… Read moreHunger-striking immigration detainee force-fed in NJ
WHY WE FIGHT
From Long Island Newsday, June 23: Boy on a bike is killed An 11-year-old Wyandanch boy was killed Friday when he biked into the path of a tractor-trailer, which then struck an oncoming minivan, critically injuring two children, police said…. Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Afghanistan
Waziristan: NATO bombing Pakistani territory?
Ten civilians were killed June 23 inside the Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan in a mortar attack from Afghan territory—fired by foreign forces, a local authorities say. “Ten innocent people were reported killed when some mortars hit civilians in… Read moreWaziristan: NATO bombing Pakistani territory?
South Asia
India: debt crisis sparks Zoroastrian split
An internal debt crisis has prompted Zoroastrians in Mumbai to allow advertising billboards into an ancient funeral ground—sparking a split in the community. Zoroastrian dissdients say the signs—exhorting motorists to “Rev up your night life” by buying a popular model… Read moreIndia: debt crisis sparks Zoroastrian split