On March 5, the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM), the global union federation for oil workers, issued a call for “strong condemnation” by supporters of workers’ rights of US-led military raids on union offices… Read moreUS raids Iraqi oil workers; union calls for solidarity
A suicide car bomber barreled into a flatbed truck packed with some 70 Shi’ite pilgrims March 11, leaving at least 32 dead. The latest attacks followed a week in which hundreds of Shi’ite pilgrims were killed trying to reach the… Read moreIraq: more Shi’ite pilgrims killed
The UN Human Rights Council High Level Mission to Sudan has delivered a critical report, accusing the Sudanese government of orchestrating “gross and systematic” human rights abuses in Darfur, and decrying that the international response has been “inadequate and ineffective.”… Read moreUN report: war crimes in Darfur
Afghan drug lords linked to the Taliban get busted. Others get appointed to government posts. From AP, March 9: Afghan Anticorruption Chief Sold Heroin in Las Vegas in ’87 KABUL — When the deal went down in Las Vegas, the… Read moreAfghan corruption czar was smack dealer
Words of wisdom from an Iranian diplomat. Imagine. From the Chicago Tribune, March 11 (emphasis added): BAGHDAD — The United States and Iran traded blame for the violence engulfing Iraq at a conference of Iraq’s neighbors Saturday that was hailed… Read moreIran: “surge” is “vicious cycle”
Via Save Tibet, dated March 10: The Statement of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the Forty-Eighth Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising On the occasion of the forty-eighth anniversary of the Tibetan people’s peaceful uprising in Lhasa in 1959,… Read moreDalai Lama: continue struggle for Tibet autonomy
From Phayul.com, March 11 (links added): NEW YORK – As the Tibetans all over the world commemorate the 48th Tibetan National Uprising day hundreds of Tibetans walked with pro-independence banners, placards and Tibetan national flags in the heart of New… Read moreTibetans march in NYC
From Ria Novosti, March 9: PETROZAVODSK — One man was killed in a brawl between locals and migrants from the Caucasus in northwestern Russia in the early hours of Friday, local police said. A 19-year-old local man was stabbed in… Read moreRussia: anti-“black” pogrom —again
Abu Abduallah Ahmad, financial officer of the so-called “al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb,” confirmed to AlJazeera’s Morocco office that his group was responsible for two attacks in Algeria over the March 3-4 weekend that killed seven police and four… Read moreAlgeria: Islamist insurgency back on?
From No War, No Warming: Fight Climate Change, Not Wars for Oil! It’s time to bridge the divide between the peace movement and the climate action movement. For far too long, our groups have been working on one or the… Read moreNew coalition bridges Iraq war, climate change
Three weeks ago, the New York Times told us in a front-page story that there is more oil in Iraq than we ever dreamed of. Now comes another front-page story telling us that reserve estimates for the United States—and everywhere… Read moreNew technology outsmarting “peak oil”?
Now they are openly calling some of these increasingly specious terror conspiracies “fictitious,” which they certainly are. Two guys are getting sent up the river for a plot hatched by an FBI informant, which had no independent basis in reality…. Read moreNYC: real sentence in “fictitious” terror plot
