It’s a sign of the times that this fringe sect is on the front page of the New York Times Metro section Jan. 15. This story makes clear that Neturei Karta is distinct from the Satmars, an Hasidic sect which… Read moreNeturei Karta in the news
A telling story by Marc Perelman for New York’s Jewish weekly The Forward Jan. 12 (links and emphasis added): A campaign to convince Iran’s 25,000 Jews to flee the country has stalled, with most opting to stay in their native… Read moreIranian Jews resist outside pressure to emigrate
We’ve argued repeatedly that strategic imperatives related to global control of oil are propelling the US towards intervention in Iran. But it is looking more and more like Israel could throw the first punch. Tragically, the bellicose Israelis seem to… Read moreIDF officer calls for strikes on Iran
Scott Ritter is the latest to join the fast-growing chorus that would exculpate the petro-elites by blaming the Iraq adventure—and now the looming Iran intervention—on the Israel lobby. Supposed progressives like Democracy Now! are lapping it up. We will point… Read moreScott Ritter: Israel lobby pushes Iran attack
In a Jan. 12 Washington Post opinion piece, the Trilateral Commission’s ideological guru and Carter administration National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski comments on Bush’s speech pitching an escalation (oops, we mean “surge”) in Iraq: The speech reflects a profound misunderstanding… Read moreBrzezinski: Iraq adventure is “colonial war”
Impeaching George Bush is a damn good idea. But the full page ad in the Jan. 12 New York Times by ImpeachBush.org appears to be a bid by the unrepentantly Stalinist Workers World Party to garner mainstream liberal support, probably… Read moreStalino-fascists go mainstream
As we have noted, this is the latest in a wave of dangerously specious terror cases which have produced an atmosphere of paranoia in New York City. Now it seems the convict’s entire family is to be deported. From the… Read moreNYC: family deported in specious terror case
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials were scheduled to appear before Judge L. John Kane in federal court in Denver on Jan. 12 in a follow-up hearing to a civil lawsuit filed by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local… Read moreUFCW pursues lawsuit over Swift raids
Palestinian immigrant Fawaz Damra, the former imam at the Islamic Center of Cleveland, Ohio, was deported on Jan. 4—a year after reaching an agreement with the US government to give up his fight to remain in the US. That agreement… Read moreDeported imam arrested by Israel
Chanting “We are students, not criminals,” nearly 600 students and their supporters marched on Jan. 8 toward the University of Phoenix stadium in Glendale, Arizona, to protest a recently passed state law denying in-state tuition to out-of-status immigrants. Arizona voters… Read moreArizona: students march against anti-immigrant measures
Francisco Lopez Barcenas writes for La Jornada, Jan. 10, via Chiapas95: On January 1 of this year, Oaxaca woke up with one more municipality, that of San Juan Copala, created by Triqui communities who officially belong to the Mixtec municipalities… Read moreOaxaca: “autonomous municipality” declared; Ruiz wants federal police back
Its last effort having resulted in a mistrial, the Justice Department is again trying to get narco-terrorism charges to stick against a Colombian guerilla commander. From BBC News, Jan. 9, emphasis added (note to BBC fact-checker: learn how to spell… Read moreDC: case opens against FARC commander
