There’s a lot of this going around all of a sudden. Watergate figure and born-again evangelical Chuck Colson wrote for the Christian Post Aug. 18 (in a piece imaginitively entitled “The Clash of Civilizations”): During the Cold War, there was… Read moreChristian fundamentalists remember September 11… 1683
Sarah Ferguson writes for the Village Voice, Sept. 12: Conspiracy Types Lecture Regular Folks at Ground Zero The fifth anniversary of 9-11 brought more sorrow and anguish to New York, but also more questioning of the official narrative of the… Read moreConspiracists crash Ground Zero —again
From Palestine News Network (PNN), Sept. 10: Israeli settlers break into mosque and perform religious ceremonies under guard of Israeli soldiers By Sa’ed Al Shouhki (Hebron) Israeli settlers stormed the southern West Bank’s Halhoul Village Mosque at dawn Sunday. Under… Read moreIsraeli settlers bust into Hebron mosque and pray
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Afghan army troops killed 92 Taliban fighters in the southern province of Kandahar, NATO said in statement Sept. 11. The statement said the figure was separate from the 94 insurgents reported as killed in… Read moreAfghanistan: NATO occupation reaps terror, opium
Thousands of people marched on Sept. 10 in Santiago, Chile to commemorate the Sept. 11, 1973 coup in which Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte overthrew the democratically elected government of Socialist president Salvador Allende Gossens. The march led from the center… Read moreChileans remember September 11… 1973
From AndhraVision.com, Sept. 11: Satyagraha movement completes 100 years A hundred years ago today, Mahatma Gandhi launched the historic Satyagraha movement in South Africa to fight racism and colonial oppression in that country. Later, he used the same principles of non… Read moreGandhians remember September 11… 1906
From El Universal, Sept. 10, via Chiapas95: Unknown perpetrators attempted to burn down the offices of a leftist organization that is taking part in protests in Oaxaca City early Saturday. The door and main gate of offices belonging to the… Read moreOaxaca: arson attack on APPO office
For those who continue to follow events in Mexico’s conflicted southern state of Chiapas, there is an increasingly surreal sense of being through the proverbial looking glass. On a national level, the leftist PRD candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is… Read moreChiapas: reputed paramilitary boss declares for PRD governor-elect
From Spain’s El Pais, Sept. 9, via Chiapas95 (our translation): The entrance of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD, leftist) into Mexico’s institutional life, with the signing of an accord for reforms to the Law of Congress, is a… Read moreMexico: splits emerge in Lopez Obrador coalition
From the Sept. 9 New York Times, buried at the bottom of page 4 (below a much larger “profile” piece on a New Age self-help book written by Slovenia’s president). Links added. Explosions Hit Indian Mosque, Stoking Fear of Further Violence NEW… Read moreTerror blasts at Indian mosque
Now, why should this story make the front page of the New York Times Sept. 9—above the fold, no less? Because the attack was near the US embassy? This is but the latest, and not even the deadliest, in a… Read moreAfghan terror hits front page —at last!
Turkish anti-terrorism police report they have captured four suspected al-Qaeda militants who were plotting to carry out a bomb attack in Istanbul. The raids, in the city’s Bagcilar district, turned up two guns and explosive materials. Police said that the… Read moreIstanbul: “al-Qaeda” cell busted
