Brad Will (Bradley Roland Will), 36, a photojournalist for New York City’s Independent Media Center (IMC) was fatally shot Oct. 27 when gunmen opened fire on a protest barricade in the besieged capital of Oaxaca state in southern Mexico. According… Read moreNYC Indymedia reporter killed in Oaxaca; Fox sends in federal police
First this, from DPA, Oct. 25: Police protection given to German MP in headscarf row BERLIN – A female member of parliament from the Greens party has been given police protection after calling on Muslim women in Germany to give… Read moreAnti-woman Islamism in the news
On Oct. 26 at a White House ceremony, President George W. Bush signed a bill authorizing 700 miles of new fencing along the nearly 2,000-mile US-Mexico border in what was viewed as an effort to boost anti-immigrant Republican candidates just… Read moreBush signs border fence bill
From AP, Oct. 25: BUENOS AIRES — Argentine prosecutors asked a federal judge on Wednesday to order the arrest of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani and seven others for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center that killed scores… Read moreArgentina demands arrest of Iran ex-prez
From Al-Jazeera, Oct. 27: Niger has suspended its plans to deport thousands of ethnic Arab nomads to Chad. The central African country’s cabinet decided against carrying out the deportations after neighbouring countries spoke out against the plan, the country’s communications… Read moreNiger plans ethnic cleansing of Arab nomads
Villagers seized three Shell Oil platforms in the Niger Delta region Oct. 25, forcing a halt of production at each. A nearby Chevron platform was also closed. Members of the Kula community invaded the facilities, accusing the company of not… Read moreNiger Delta oil war back on
Remember the two immigrant girls who got caught up in a bogus suicide-bomber scare in the New York metro area last year? An update on one in the Oct. 26 New York Times says a great deal about the general… Read moreCleared of terror plot, fighting deportation —and genital mutilation
We have recently been warning of the imminent emergence of a Taliban state in central Iraq. Today the New York Times op-ed page catches up with us. From “What Osama Wants” by Peter Bergen, a senior fellow of the New… Read moreNYT op-ed warns of Iraqi “Taliban” state
Historian Allen Barra provides some all-too-revealing historical perspective on the New York Times op-ed page, Oct. 26: One hundred twenty five years ago, three lawmen – Marshal Virgil Earp and his brothers Wyatt and Morgan – and their friend Doc… Read moreOK Corral shoot-out echoes 125 years later
About a dozen heavily-armed police, some wearing ski-masks, raided the homes of environmental activist Carlos Zorrilla, executive director of the NGO Intag Defense and Environmental Conservation DECOIN, and his neighbour Roberto Castro on Oct. 17, according to reports from the… Read moreEcuador: police raid home of environmentalist
Mexico’s President Vicente Fox, trying to put a good face on things as he leaves a bitterly divided country as his legacy, boasted to a meeting of businessmen at the National Chamber of Industry that the crises of Chiapas and… Read moreFox: Crisis? What crisis?
The Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) issued a “call for a popular peaceful insurrection” Dec. 1 if the state’s governor, Ulises Ruiz, has not stepped down by then. The call steps up pressure on president-elect Felipe Calderon, already facing… Read moreOaxaca: APPO calls for “peaceful insurrection”
