Pretty much dumb luck that they gunned this guy down before he hit anyone, which is why this isn’t in the headlines. Perhaps blowback from Yemen’s embroilment in the joint US-Ethiopia proxy war in Somalia? From SomaliNet, Dec. 6: A… Read moreYemen: gunman attacks US embassy
From Copley News Service via the San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 6: MEXICO CITY – The leader of the six-month protest in Oaxaca state was arrested late Monday in Mexico City, just hours before he planned to meet with top officials… Read moreOaxaca protest leader arrested in Mexico City
Under threat of an imminent invasion of the campus by Mexican federal police and Oaxaca state law enforcement, activists representing the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) formally turned over control of Radio Universidad Nov. 30 to the state university… Read more“Eerie calm” in Oaxaca following repression wave
Sarah Ferguson writes for the Village Voice, Dec. 1: The two Oaxacan town officials accused of gunning down Indymedia journalist Brad Will were released from prison today after a state judge claimed there was a “fading of evidence” against them…. Read moreOaxaca: Brad Will’s accused killers released
From the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) General Command, Dec. 2: To the people of Mexico: To the people of the world: Brothers and Sisters: The attack that our brothers, the people of Oaxaca suffered and suffer cannot be ignored… Read moreEZLN: global mobilization for Oaxaca, Dec. 22
Thousands of Somalis chanted anti-US slogans at an Islamist protest against a Washington-backed plan to send foreign peacekeepers to prop up the country’s weak interim government Dec. 4. In a decrepit Mogadishu football stadium, Somalis shouted “Down with the USA!”… Read moreUS backing Ethiopia’s Somalia intervention?
From Military Families Speak Out, Dec. 6: Military families challenge Iraq Study Group report as “the way sideways,” paving the way for a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), a nonpartisan organization of over 3,100… Read moreMilitary families challenge Iraq Study Group report
Over the issue of the US harboring a terrorist, the headline fails to note. From AP, Dec. 2: Chavez snubs US overture for dialogue President Hugo Chavez snubbed a US overture for dialogue, saying he is always willing to talk… Read moreVictorious Chavez snubs US dialogue offer?
Gus Selassie for Global Insight Daily Analysis via BBC Monitoring, Dec. 5: Ethiopia and Somali Islamists in Last-Ditch Talks to Avert All-Out War Despite the recent war of words and the deep-rooted animosity that appears to exist between the two… Read moreLast ditch talks to avert Ethiopian-Somali war
Here’s a glimmer of hope. Emad Mekay writes from Cairo for IPS, via South Africa’s Mail & Guardian, Nov. 30: ‘I thought Islam told us to do so’ Om Samar didn’t believe the news. “Muslim scholars banning [female] circumcision? This… Read moreIslamic scholars condemn female genital mutilation
From the Jerusalem Post, Dec. 2: A hitherto unknown group calling itself the Just Swords of Islam issued a warning to Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip over the weekend that they must wear the hijab or face being targeted… Read moreIslamists threaten Gaza women
Still think freedom’s on the march in Afghanistan? Or, for those of you on the other side of the coin, that the Taliban insurgents are heroic anti-imperialists? From The Independent, Nov. 29: Disembowelled, then torn apart: The price of daring… Read moreTaliban terror targets Afghan women
