From the AP, Aug. 26: YAMOUN, West Bank – They were struggling in a boy band, working the West Bank wedding circuit and dreaming of stardom. Now the five singers who make up the Northern Band have come a little… Read moreNasrallah makes Palestine pop charts
From the Mehr News Agency, Aug. 24: TEHRAN — Iran’s National Orchestra will be performing the symphony “Nuclear Energy” composed by Kambiz Roshanravan at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on August 27 in a program which President Mahmud Ahmadinejad is scheduled to… Read moreIran National Orchestra performs “Nuclear Energy Symphony”
As we noted in the case of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Europe’s xenophobe right is appropriating the causes of feminism and secularism. Through the proverbial looking glass. From the New York Times, Aug. 24 (emphasis added): BRESCIA — A series of… Read moreItaly: xenophobes make hay from (apparent) honor killing
The Ibrahimi mosque/Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron/Khalil has been a flash point for decades. It was split into Muslim and Jewish sides after Israeli settler Dr. Baruch Goldstein massacred 29 Palestinian worshipers in 1994. From Ma’an News Agency, Aug…. Read moreHebron: Israeli settlers steal ancient mosque window
An International Solidarity Movement press release, Aug. 25: Peace Demonstrators Beaten in Bil’in At today’s weekly demo against the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in soldiers attacked protesters with batons and fired rubber bullets at them from close range. Around 100 protesters… Read moreWest Bank: protesters beaten, shot
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What a revealing piece of propaganda this is. British forces abandon Camp Abu Naji at Amarah, in southern Iraq, and not only Moktada al-Sadr but also the official Maysan provinical authorites proclaim it as a victory against the occupier. The… Read moreBrits go “guerilla” in Iraq marshlands; Sufis declare jihad
Mexico’s Defense Secretariat has dispatched troops from the 36th Infantry Battallion, based at the 44th Military Zone headquarters in Minatitlan, Veracruz, to the Oaxaca City, which has been paralyzed by civil protests for weeks. The situation has promped the Popular… Read moreMexico: army mobilized to Oaxaca
This is how censorship works in the USA: by other names—which, of course, makes it more insidious. An ACLU press release, Aug. 24: Village Cannot Impose Prohibitive Insurance Requirement as Condition of Free Speech, NYCLU Warns NEW YORK — The… Read moreLong Island anti-war group faces censorship
We welcome the Aug. 23 Amnesty International report taking Israel to task for massively targeting Lebanon’s civilian infrastructure. But there is an ominous Achilles’ heel to Amnesty’s arguments. Contrasting Israel’s actions to the “lawful targeting of military objectives” implicitly loans… Read moreAmnesty’s Lebanon report: legitimizing “collatoral damage”?
From page 5, below the fold, of the New York Times, Aug. 25: 8 Killed in Raid by U.S. Forces in Afghanistan KABUL — Eight civilians, including a child, were killed in an operation by American forces in eastern Afghanistan… Read moreAfghanistan: US kills more civilians
This report from India’s northeastern Bihar state is analogous to situations we have noted in Colombia. Caught bewteen the government and guerillas, self-governing peasant communities are finding a voice of their own via village-based radio. From the Christian Science Monitor,… Read moreGrassroots radio empowers India’s peasants
