Zapatista Subcommander Marcos joined actress Ofelia Medina and other celebrities at a public meeting of activists and artists in the Mexico City district of Coyoacan June 12 to demand that the World Cup not obscure the struggle to demand justice… Read moreMarcos: don’t let World Cup obscure Atenco struggle
First from CBS, June 13, via Chiapas95: LOS ANGELES Dozens of people have been arrested for allegedly violating a court order and obstructing sheriff’s deputies from evicting farmers and supporters from a 14-acre urban garden near downtown Los Angeles. About… Read moreLA: South Central farmers evicted
Another brick in the wall. From AP, June 9: WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court sided with the Bush administration Friday on an electronic surveillance issue, making it easier to tap into Internet phone calls and broadband transmissions. The court… Read moreDC Court of Appeals rules for Bush on wiretapping
Hamas called off a 16-month-old truce with Israel June 9 after attacks by Israeli forces in Gaza killed 10 Palestinians, including three children playing on a beach. “The Israeli massacres represent a direct opening battle,” Hamas said in a statement…. Read moreHamas ends truce following Gaza raids, demands Egyptian intervention
More uneasy deja vu from Lebanon. The sons of the Syria-backed President Emile Lahoud and the bitterly anti-Syria Druze leader Walid Jumblatt get into a shoot-out in Beirut—just as their fathers opposed each other in the civil war. From Lebanon’s… Read moreDeja vu in Lebanon: Lahoud-Jumblatt shoot-out
Nine people were wounded, five seriously, when a bomb exploded in a roadside restaurant in Hub, on the eastern edge of Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province on June 9. “It is done by those who have been carrying out such terrorist… Read moreTerror escalates in Baluchistan
Reuters reported May 29 that Mali’s armed forces are hunting down Tuareg rebels who have taken up arms again, demanding more autonomy for the desert north. According to the report, the rebels used pickup trucks mounted with machine guns to… Read moreMali: Tuareg revolt back on?
Talk about deja vu all over again. The US secretly backs a loose alliance of lawless warlords it had previously fought because they are now opposing an ultra-fundamentalist cleric-led militia with supposed links to al-Qaeda. The clerical militia has just… Read moreSomalia: Afghanistan redux?
This is not the first anti-Semitic killing in Uzbekistan this year. Yet a Google News search for the story reveals only this account from the vile Arutz Sheva (June 9), voice of the Israeli settler movement. Why is that? Jewish… Read moreAnti-Semitic killings in Uzbekistan
We don’t necessarily have a problem with prayers in German being spoken at Auschwitz. But this sad case illustrates how the Holocaust has been hijacked for propagandistic purposes: “reified” as the ultimate evil, something unique and existing outside history, serving… Read morePope at Auschwitz silent on resurgent anti-Semitism
From the NY Daily News, June 4: ‘Love’ then death in Harlem hit-run Coward kills 30-year-old helping date out of cab A 30-year-old law student exchanged kisses with a woman in the back of a cab, helped her from the… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
By now we’ve all heard that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, notorious leader of “al-Qaeda in Iraq,” was killed in a US airstrike late June 7. Seven aides, including two women, were also killed in the raid on a remote area 50… Read moreIraq: Zarqawi killed, US loses strategic scapegoat; death grinds on
