Some 500 Mexican army troops and Federal Preventative Police took over the Public Security Secretariat of southern Tabasco state March 17, and arrested three high-ranking police commanders. The three officials, summarily fired upon their arrests, are part of a clique… Read moreMexican federales raid Tabasco police
From the American Civil Liberties Union, March 15: DENVER – The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a complaint against three White House staffers for illegally ejecting Denver residents from a taxpayer-funded town hall with President Bush, even though they… Read more“Denver Three” sue White House staff
One of 15 immigrants arrested in March 2002 in connection with a supposed plot to attack the US Embassy in Rome with chemical agents has been awarded $133,000 for wrongful detention. Tunisian-born Abdelmoname Ben Khalifa Mansour, initially charged with being… Read moreItaly pays in bogus terror bust
Iran’s representative to UNESCO, Mohammad-Reza Dehshiri, issued a protest in a letter to the UN cultural organizaiton’s director general against the Warner Brothers blockbuster 300, calling it an insult to Iranian culture. Dehshiri called on UNESCO to bring the issue… Read moreIran protests to UN over “300”
On March 17, Trokavec village in the Czech Republic voted its opposition to a US radar base slated to be built in a nearby military zone as part of Washington’s proposed “missile shield.” Seventy-two out of 90 eligible voters in… Read moreCzech villagers vote against US radar base
More than 500 Muslim villagers gathered at southern Thailand’s Sabaiyoi town March 18 to demand justice after a midnight attack on an Islamic school left two young students dead and eight wounded. Students were asleep at the boarding school when… Read moreThailand: who is behind school-house attack?
Three suicide bombers exploded trucks loaded with explosives and tanks of chlorine gas in Iraq’s Anbar province March 16, killing at least two Iraqi police and sickening more than 350 people. In the first attack, a pick-up truck carrying chlorine… Read moreIraq: who is behind chlorine attacks?
It is endless, and it comes (tellingly) from the both the right and the left. The latest entry is from Columbia University scholar Mahmood Mamdani, writing in the March 8 London Review of Books—who probably fancies himself on the left…. Read moreMore denial on Darfur —this time from the “left”
BBC Monitoring reports on a March 14 story on the website of the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat, “Libya hints at [possibility of] expelling the Palestinians under the pretext of combating settlement in the diaspora”: The Palestinians have expressed surprise at… Read moreLibya to expel Palestinians?
Talk about hideous historical ironies. Ammar Alwan writes for Reuters, March 16: TANAF, Iraq – Hameda Um Firas has lived most of her 70-odd years as a refugee — now she is stranded in a tent again at Iraq’s border… Read moreIraq’s Palestinian refugees face new exile
From AP, March 16: NORTHAMPTON – Maha Ghosananda, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated monk who rebuilt Buddhism in Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge, has died. Ghosananda, who lived in Leverett and Providence, R.I., was believed to be in… Read moreGhosananda, “Gandhi of Cambodia,” dies in Massachusetts
The Bush administration has announced a new $750 million aid package for development and security in Pakistan’s northwest, where the tribal areas are thought to be a staging ground for Islamist militant attacks both into Afghanistan and increasingly within Pakistan…. Read moreCongress gives Pakistan blank check
