Australia’s military adventure in East Timor is starting to smell more like a small counterinsurgency war than a “peacekeeping” mission—if the world were paying any attention. From Catholic News, March 14: Timor priest accuses Aussie troops As fugitive Timorese rebel… Read moreEast Timor: headed towards counter-insurgency?
From the Iranian Workers’ Solidarity Network, March 14 (as is): Iranian teachers’ leader arrested! According to the latest news from the trade union activists of Tehran province, in the earlier today the security forces arrested a large number of teachers…. Read moreIran: striking teachers arrested
As we have argued, Washington has its own overriding imperatives for a war drive against Iran, which have to do with the global struggle for control of oil and maintaining US global hegemony. But, once again, the indefagitable if myopic… Read moreCongress caves on Iran war provision; AIPAC takes hit
Given all the reactionary prattle we have seen in the New York Times lead op-ed slot of late, it was quite a breath of fresh air to read something downright progressive and courageously iconoclastic: “Whose Oil is It, Anyway?” by… Read moreNYT op-ed: no to Iraqi oil “denationalization”
What does this mean? No extradition from Dubai? From the BBC, March 9: Halliburton, the oil services company formerly headed by US Vice-President Dick Cheney, is moving its headquarters from Texas to Dubai. The company said it hoped the move… Read moreHalliburton plans move to Dubai
Hey, fuck the polar bears. If they don’t have what it takes to survive in an unregulated free-market economy, why does the world owe them a living?* From the San Francisco Chronicle, March 9: U.S. accused of silencing experts on… Read moreWhite House censors scientists —again
A monument to the 191 victims of the March 11, 2004 terror attack has just been unveiled in Madrid. (AP) But that is not what’s dominating the headlines from Spain. Did the huge protest over the release of an ETA… Read moreSpain: ETA “overshadows” 3-11 remembrance
From AP, March 9: GUATEMALA CITY — Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate “bad spirits” after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday. “That a person like (Bush),… Read moreGuatemala: Maya priests to purify sacred site after Bush visit
Thousands march in Montevideo Thousands of people protested in the streets of Montevideo, Uruguay on the evening of March 9, just before Bush’s arrival in the country. A march called by Uruguay’s only labor federation, the Inter-Union Workers Plenary-National Workers… Read moreSouth America protests Bush
On March 8, thousands of Brazilians marched to celebrate women’s day and protest the visit to Brazil of US president George W. Bush, scheduled to begin that evening. The largest march took place in Sao Paulo, with more than 10,000… Read moreBrazil: thousands protest Bush, “agrofuels”
On Feb. 14, six indigenous Mapuche families (about 25 people) began occupying a plot on the 534-acre Santa Rosa estate in Chubut province, in the Patagonia region of southern Argentina. The Italian clothing company Benetton claims ownership of the Santa… Read moreArgentina: Mapuches reclaim land from Benetton
From the New York Post, March 12: Car Kills Woman on Birthday A Queens woman was struck and killed by a car on her 71st birthday yesterday as she crossed an Upper East Side street on her way to celebrate… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
