Now here's an hilarious conundrum for the idiot left that cheers on reactionary Islamism as heroic anti-imperialism. Are we supposed to oppose this garbage when conservative Christians do it in the US, but support it when conservative Muslims do it… Read moreIslamo-creationism infiltrates Turkey’s schools
From BBC, Nov. 23: Drivers who get stopped by the police could have their fingerprints taken at the roadside, under a new plan to help officers check people’s identities. A hand-held device being tested by 10 forces in England and… Read moreNext for UK: finger-prints at road stops
From Cuba’s Prensa Latina, Nov. 24 (we’ve annotated, and clarified their typically poor English): Members of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) charged national leaders with genocide and force[d] disappearance at the [federal] Attorney General’s Office [PGR]… Read moreOaxaca: APPO charges Ruiz with “genocide”
From AP, Nov. 25: MEXICO CITY: A violent Mexican drug gang took out a rare, half-page ad in newspapers in which they claimed to be anti-crime vigilantes who wanted to stop kidnapping, robbery and the sale of methamphetamine in the… Read moreMichoacan’s bloody “Family”: anti-narco vigilantes?
General Federation of Trade Unions-Iraq (GFTU-Iraq) Statement on the Merger with the Federation of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (FWCUI): GFTU-Iraq’s first convention was centered on the following statement: “The unity of the working class is the path to… Read moreIraq: labor solidarity against sectarian terror
From Reuters, Nov. 25: MADRID – Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the prison’s former U.S. commander said in an interview on Saturday. Former U.S. Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski… Read moreDid Rumsfeld order Abu Ghraib torture?
Between Nov. 14 and Nov. 17, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “Fugitive Operations Units” arrested 70 immigrants in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Manhattan. Of the total, 27 had been ordered removed by an… Read more“Return to Sender” hits NYC
From Reuters, Nov. 23: BOGOTA – Colombia’s right-wing militia leaders on Thursday called for the establishment of a truth commission that would allow them to reveal who collaborated in their illegal war against left-wing rebels. More than 30,000 paramilitary fighters… Read moreColombia: paras call for “truth commission”
Is it civil war yet? You tell us. Commentators have weaseled out of calling it that by making an arbitrary litmus test the fracturing of the “unity government”—even if that government has little real power and violence on the ground… Read moreIraq: sectarian slaughter threatens “unity government”
We have noted a growing number of cases in which immigrants are targeted for deportation by the Islamophobic policies of the US immigration authorities, only to face oppression by Islamist thugs who rule in the countries they fled. The Homeland… Read moreDeported to Somalia —despite Islamist rule
A civil jury ruled Nov. 22 that rancher and vigilante Roger Barnett must pay $98,000 in damages to a Mexican-American family that he illegally held and threatened at gunpoint. The family were legal residents hunting on lands near his ranch,… Read moreArizona: border vigilante guilty
Zapatista Subcommander Marcos, continuing his “Other Campaign” tour of northern Mexico, arrived once again on the US border Nov. 22 when he stopped in Nuevo Laredo, Tamualipas, a border town which has been torn by narco-fueled violence in recent months…. Read moreSubcommander Marcos in Nuevo Laredo
