Are domestic Islamophobes starting to emulate the tactics of their counterparts in India? Note that this comes on the heels of the atrocious mosque desecration in Maine. From AP, Sept. 23: Shots were fired at a mosque in Melbourne, Florida… Read moreGunmen open fire on Florida mosque
Tell us again how the anti-Semitic upsurge is all in our imagination. We keep forgetting. From KNBC, Los Angeles, Sept. 22: ENCINO, Calif. — Two flags depicting Nazi swastikas were draped over a freeway overpass in Encino on Friday, on… Read moreSouthern California neo-Nazis wish Jews happy Rosh Hashana
From our correspondent Jennifer Fasulo: Chavez’s Shameful Embrace of Iranian President Ahmadinejad: Show Solidarity with the Women and People of Iran, not their Oppressors! Hugo Chavez, one of the key important figures in the left populist movements spreading throughout Latin… Read moreFeminist dissent from Chavez embrace of Ahmadinejad
The Sept. 22 Daily News carries the front-page headline: “BIG APPLE TO BIG MOUTH: ZIP IT!” It gleefully quotes various New York politicians bashing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez for calling Bush a “devil,” including Sen. Chuck Schumer (“despicable and disgusting”),… Read moreUS politicians bash Chavez …but that doesn’t mean he isn’t really getting a little wacky
Our one-time contributor Keith Harmon Snow has won an award from Project Censored for his article, co-written with David Barouski, “Behind the Numbers: Untold Suffering in the Congo” (ZNet, March 2006). Project Censored dubs the story “High-Tech Genocide in Congo,”… Read moreProject Censored v. WW4 Report: war of perceptions on African genocide
From the Mexican news agency APRO, Sept. 20 via Chiapas95 (our translation): JALAPA – Protesting the failure of authorities to indemnify hundreds of families left homeless by a flood this past June, and to complete public works in the region,… Read moreVeracruz: indigenous occupy dam
This report contains the usual condescension of mainstream (English-language) media accounts on the Zapatista movement. For instance, the Zapatista-led protests around the Atenco crisis earlier this year were quite significant, and dominated the news in Mexico before they were overshadowed… Read moreSubcommander Marcos declares Lopez Obrador legitimate winner
As if things weren’t “interesting” enough in Somalia already, it looks like they are about to get much more so. The Taliban-style militia which has taken power in the capital, Mogadishu, seems to be waging a low-level war against the… Read moreSomalia militia pledges jihad
How many times a day do we have to say “A plague on both your houses”? First Saddam vows to “crush the heads” of Kurds testifying about his genocidal 1988 “Anfal” campaign. Then the judge in the case, Adullah al-Almiri,… Read moreHRW: “judicial independence” trampled in Saddam trial
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 17, via Chiapas95: Labor turmoil following disaster draws in USW Accused by government of $55 million theft, leader of Mexican mine union flees to Canada with help of Pittsburgh-based labor giant The horrific Pasta de… Read moreUnited Steelworkers embroiled in Mexican labor showdown
A textbook case in how Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is viewed differently by the Imperium and the global south. First this, from the Voice of America, Sept. 20, on day two of the annual UN General Assembly debate: Chavez brought his… Read moreChavez calls Bush “Devil”, proposes “Bank of the South”
We sure hope this is Jewish paranoia! From the Jerusalem Post, Sept. 19 (emphasis added): Venezuelan Jews fear Chavez-Iran ties On the day that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived for a 30-hour visit, it seemed appropriate that Venezuela’s Jewish community… Read moreHezbollah training Venezuela’s Wayuu Indians?
