From the New York Times, Jan. 18: BRASÍLIA — Far more Indian groups than previously thought are surviving in Brazil’s Amazon rain forest isolated from the outside world, but they risk destruction at the hands of encroaching loggers and miners,… Read moreAmazon’s “uncontacted” peoples: more than thought, facing peril
From the New York Times, Jan. 18: BISBEE, Ariz. — A Mexican immigrant was shot and killed on Friday by a Border Patrol agent in Arizona, prompting an investigation by federal authorities and condemnation from President Felipe Calderón of Mexico…. Read moreMexico protests new shooting on border
The following statement from DeleteTheBorder.com, was presented to the Zapatista Encuentro held in Chiapas over the New Year weekend: As long as the US/Mexico border has existed, people having been struggling against it. It is a highly militarized, violent boundary… Read moreProtest camp planned against US-Mexico border militarization
Received via Chiapas95, Jan. 16: Hello, My name is Bina Darabzand. From Tehran, Iran. I run a Leftist Site Salam-Democrat.com, in persian language for the Iranian “Radical Left” Young Student movement in Iran. We only heard of Oaxaca Movement after… Read moreIranian solidarity with Oaxaca
Received via Zapagringo blog, Jan. 18: Brad Will’s Family Seeks “a Vigorous Prosecution of the Guilty Parties” Human Rights Attorney Miguel Angel de Los Santos Takes the Case to Mexican Court by Craig Will Brother of Brad Will (1970-2006) The… Read moreBrad Will’s family take case to Mexican courts
From Mexico’s Centro de Medios Libres, Jan. 15: Adherent to the Other Campaign seriously injured. Solidarity required. After the Meeting of the Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World was over, Ricardo, an adherent to the Other Campaign in… Read more“La Otra” activist brutally attacked in Chiapas
Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, bishop of the Chiapas Highlands, called upon Mexico’s federal government to urgently address the recent spike in tortilla prices, invoking the possibility of a new uprising in the restive state. “With all respect for the federal authorities,… Read moreMexico: Chiapas bishop warns of unrest; agbiz exploits “tortilla crisis”
Israeli historian Benny Morris, once seen as a post-Zionist dissident, produces a terrifying piece of war propaganda. Far be it from us to be optimistic, but this scenario strikes us as a long shot. Is Ahmedinejad likely to still be… Read moreBenny Morris predicts new Holocaust
It now stands at five minutes to midnight. Before this change, it stood at seven to midnight, having moved forward two minutes in February 2002. That was the same position it stood at when the clock was unveiled in 1947…. Read more“Doomsday Clock” two minutes closer to midnight
Another step closer to global catastrophe. From Kuwait News Agency, Jan. 9 (emphasis added): TOKYO — Japan on Tuesday upgraded the Defense Agency to a full-fledged ministry for the first time since World War II, when the US stripped Japan… Read moreJapan gets Defense Ministry
From The Scotsman, Jan. 18, links and emphasis added: Mullah Omar, leader of the Taleban, is living in Pakistan under the protection of the country’s intelligence service, a captured Taleban spokesman has told Afghan interrogators. Mohammad Hanif, a Taleban spokesman… Read morePakistan protecting Mullah Omar?
Another reason for Iraqis to be grateful. From Human Rights Education Associates, Jan. 16: Nearly 6,400 Iraqi civilians were killed in the November-December period, slightly less than in the preceding two months, as rampant and indiscriminate killings, sectarian violence, extra-judicial… Read moreIraq: 34,000-plus dead in 2006
