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
Via the Sudan Tribune, Nov. 28: Ogaden National Liberation Front Statement on Events Unfolding in Somalia There has been much written about the events unfolding in Somalia with frequent mention of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and speculations on… Read moreOgaden rebels blast Ethiopia’s Somalia intervention
Via BBC Monitoring: Ethiopian rebel group terms parliament’s decision on Somalia “reckless” Text of statement issued by Ethiopian armed opposition Oromo Liberation Front, OLF, on 30 December The Ethiopian parliament, on its session of 30 November 2006, ratified a declaration… Read moreOromo rebels blast Ethiopia’s Somalia intervention
One question that needs to be asked, is how much of the Iraqi bloodbath is due to the “Salvador option” strategem that Newsweek claimed Negroponte wanted to employ to quell the Sunni insurgency, using Shia militias. From AP, Dec. 1:… Read moreIntel supremo: Iraq worse than Nam
From AP, Dec. 2: CARACAS — A Navy captain arrested this week was allegedly about to deliver to opponents of President Hugo Chavez a list of officers disposed to help topple the government, according to a high-ranking military official. The… Read moreVenezuela: coup rumblings on election eve
We wonder if a year from now the big semantic debate in the US media will be whether there is a “civil war”…in Mexico. From The Scotsman, Dec. 2: MEXICO CITY — Felipe Calderon took the oath of office as… Read moreMexico: Calderon sworn in amid chaos
From AP, Nov. 29: MEXICO CITY — A Mexican court reinstated an arrest warrant for former President Luis Echeverria on Wednesday, just four months after a federal judge dismissed the same charges of genocide in a 1968 student massacre. It… Read moreMexico: Echeverria “genocide” trial to proceed
In a seven- or eight-month investigation ending Nov. 30, ICE agents joined with officers of the New York City Department of Probation in arresting 81 immigrants with prior criminal records in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Manhattan. The raids were… Read moreMore ICE raids in NYC area
An ACLU press release, Nov. 28, online at Common Dreams: Khaled El-Masri, Victim of CIA Kidnapping and Abuse, Seeks Acknowledgement, Explanation and Apology RICHMOND, Virginia – The American Civil Liberties Union today argued before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals… Read more“Rendition” victim seeks re-instatement of suit against CIA
From Agencia Proceso (APRO), Nov. 25 via Chiapas95 (our translation): OAXACA — The Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO) has announced the “forced disappearance” of the movement’s spokesperson, Cesar Mateos Benitez, and of Jorge Sosa, cousin of its… Read moreOaxaca: APPO leaders “disappeared”
This, as we have noted before, is how censorship works in the USA: by other names—which, of course, makes it more insidious. From AP, Nov. 27: DENVER — A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident… Read morePeace sign Christmas wreath banned in Colorado
