Note the highlighted section and sound off, readers. From the CBC, July 14: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Friday that Pakistan is still harbouring “terrorist elements,” jeopardizing the peace process between the two countries as tensions remain high in… Read morePakistan’s ISI behind Mumbai terror?
Note the highlighted section and sound off, readers. From the New York Times, July 15: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 14 — A suicide bomber struck in the southern port city of Karachi on Friday, killing a prominent Shiite leader, his 10-year-old… Read moreCIA behind Pakistan sectarian strife?
IOL (SA), July 15: South Africa open to debate on cutting ties with Israel While the government is not currently entertaining thoughts of cutting diplomatic ties with Israel, it is open to debate on the issue, says Minister in the… Read moreSouth Africa considers Israel sanctions
Ha’aretz, July 7: Chavez: U.S. support for Israel will end in a ‘Holocaust’ Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday that U.S. backing of Israel is responsible for flaming tensions in the Middle East and putting the world on course toward… Read moreChavez: US support of Israel leading towards “Holocaust”
Text of report by Dubai-based news channel Al-Arabiya TV on 14 July, as translated by BBC Monitoring: At a time when the Jordanian monarch, King Abdallah II, left for Cairo to meet Egyptian President Husni Mubarak in an effort to… Read moreJordanians protest Israeli aggression —but where were the Islamists?
Tom Regan of the Christian Science Monitor provides this July 14 round-up of the fast-escalating Israel-Lebanon crisis and international reactions. We especially love Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon’s invocation (yet again) of US atrocities in Afghanistan, and Russia’s in Chechnya—as… Read moreLebanon carnage escalates; media silence on Israeli protests
We don’t know when lefties started cheering on CIA agents. But it’s no weirder than the White House blowing their cover. We applaud Valerie Plame for not going along with the journalist-bashing that has infected right and left alike in… Read morePlame sues Cheney —not journalists
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This is the surest sign yet that the Bush boys have been humbled. In addition to the unfavorable Supreme Court decision on the Guantanamo detainees, this July 11 AP clip notes some of the political considerations behind the decision to… Read moreWhite House capitulates on Geneva Conventions
Joining the estimated 500,000 who took to the streets of Mexico City July 8 to demand a recount in the contested presidential elections is, of all places, the Financial Times. The upper-crust British daily supported the officially victorious conservative candidate… Read moreMexico: demand grows for recount
Marking their completion of 10 ten years in prison, the two accused Zapatista collaborators being held at the state prison in Tacotalpa, Tabasco, began an indefinite hunger strike July 10 to demand their liberation. The prisoners, Angel Concepcion Perez Vazquez… Read moreZapatista political prisoners launch hunger strike
Despite the recent tensions between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, both governments seem equally paranoid about Western-backed subversion within their borders. And perhaps with reason. From RFE/RL, July 12: A Tashkent court today ordered the closure of the Urban Institute, a U.S.-based… Read moreUzbekistan cracks down on NGOs
