Another turn of the screw. From AlJazeera, Dec. 13, emphasis added: A Guantanamo prisoner who won a landmark US Supreme Court ruling in June lost his bid to challenge his detention when a federal judge dismissed the case because of… Read moreUS judge dismisses Gitmo case
Another sign of de-escalation in Oaxaca? From AP, Dec. 11: OAXACA – A labor group allied with the government of the southern state of Oaxaca announced on Monday that it was ending a controversial, 1 1/2-year blockade of the offices… Read moreOaxaca: siege ends at opposition newspaper
From Afrol News, Dec. 11: An Algiers bomb attack against oil workers that killed an Algerian driver and wounded nine people, including several Western citizens, has raised fears that Algeria’s trend towards peace and stability may end. As the US… Read moreAlgeria: Salafists target Halliburton
From The Guardian, Dec. 13: Bushmen forced out of the Kalahari desert by Botswana’s government won a landmark legal victory today as the country’s high court ruled they had been illegally removed and should be allowed to return. The panel… Read moreKalahari Bushmen win land battle
A press release from the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) at Harvard, Dec. 13: Retaliatory Attacks Also Kill Highlanders in Gambella Region Cambridge, MA – Soldiers in the Ethiopian military have killed, raped, and otherwise abused hundreds of Anuak civilians… Read moreEthiopia: military atrocities against Anuak civilians
Hermann Bellinghausen noted some salient comments in his report from Zapatista Subcommander Marcos’ tour stop at Bagdad Beach (on the Rio Grande, just outside Matamoros) for La Jornada, Nov. 24. Via Chiapas95: BAGDAD, Tamaulipas – December 1, the day that… Read moreSubcommander Marcos: revolution or civil war
Maria Antonieta Trinidad Ramirez del Valle, popularly known as La Trini, returned to the conflicted central Mexican village of San Salvador Atenco Nov. 25 after more than six months in clandestinity at an unknown location. She was accompanied by Don… Read moreMexico: Atenco protest leader out from clandestinity
From La Jornada, Dec. 11 via Chiapas95 (our translation): GUADALAJARA – Some 100 sympathizers of the popular movement in Oaxaca announced the formation of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Jalisco (APPJ), whose primary aim will be “the unity… Read more“Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Jalisco” proclaimed
Growing signs of a revolutionary convergence in Mexico—open solidarity between the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). From AP, Dec. 11 via Chiapas95: OAXACA – A leader of Mexico’s largest… Read moreOaxaca: PRD marches for APPO
More fodder for our ongoing Irony Watch. We have little doubt that Mengistu is guilty of genocide. But—as we have had the unfortunate duty to point out—so, it seems, are Ethiopia’s current rulers, if not quite on the same scale…. Read moreEthiopia: Mengistu found guilty of genocide
In our last post about the Holocaust denail confab in Iran, we asked whether the rumors are true that anti-Zionist writer Norman G. Finkelstein is participating. Alan “torture could be justified” Dershowitz explores the question on the ostensibly liberal Huffington… Read moreIs Norman Finkelstein at Tehran Holocaust-denial confab?
This short piece exposes an interesting phenomenon at the Washington Post: citizen-soldier-book reviewers. Received via e-mail from our correspondent Brian Hennessey, Dec. 11: To review Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, the Washington Post [Dec. 10] chose a Jewish… Read moreOn Goldberg’s review of Carter in Washington Post
