Washington’s closest South American ally plays the wimp-baiting and commie menace cards in his bid to become president for life. Sadly, the polls indicate it is working. From Reuters, May 6: BOGOTA – Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, expected to win… Read moreColombia: Uribe accuses opponents of “masked communism”
It was heartening to see a picture of Subcommander Marcos in the New York Times May 10, even if it was on page 12. The masked Zapatista leader sat down in a Televisa studio for a nationally-broadcast interview May 9,… Read moreMarcos does Televisa, DF cops gird for repression
Samir Adil, president of the Iraqi Freedom Congress, is on a tour of the United States sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee. He most recently spoke in Barre, VT. The following May 5 account from Vermont’s Rutland Herald is… Read moreIraqi civil resistance leader tours US
From the Egyptian NGO, Civil Monitors for Human Rights, in Cairo, May 11: Egyptian Authorities Continue Crackdown on Opposition Today Continuing in their policy of oppression, the Egyptian authorities are trying to prevent protests which the Egyptian opposition is organizing… Read moreEgypt: opposition crackdown continues
From the American Library Association, May 5: Brandeis Students Protest Removal of Palestinian Art Some 100 people, many of them students at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, marched May 4 to protest the removal a week earlier of “Voices from… Read moreBrandeis students protest removal of Palestinian art
An exhibition of artwork at Brandeis University featuring 17 paintings by Palestinian youths from the al-Rowwad cultural center at the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank, was removed by the university last week, after several… Read moreCensorship at Brandeis
Gee, what reason would these people have to be so angry? Note that the refugees accuse the guerilla leader who signed the peace deal of being a traitor. Note that they are very eager for Western, and especially American intervention…. Read moreUprising at Darfur refugee camp
There’s oil in Cuba! Can the invasion be far behind? Actually, the fact that this story (complete with maps of the divided offshore zone and the exploration blocs) appears on the front page of today’s New York Times indicates that… Read moreCuba opens Florida Straits oil zone
This sort of thing has become so common in Iraq that it rarely makes headlines any more. But this one inconveniently happened just as a break has been announced in the deadlock over forming a new government. This obvious escalation… Read moreIraq: bomb blast greets new government
From The Jurist, May 8: Afghan parliament descends into chaos as lawmakers attack female legislator The floor of the Afghan parliament has witnessed its first outbreak of violence, with lawmakers physically and verbally assaulting a controversial female legislator who called… Read moreAfghanistan: woman legislator physically attacked on parliament floor
The BBC reports today that price of oil is back up to over $70 a barrel following a drop of more than $1.50 following news yesterday that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had written Bush a personal letter. This was initially… Read moreAhmadinejad letter signals escalation
As we have noted, more sophisticated minds have questioned his math. From AFP, May 6: WASHINGTON: United States President George W Bush has said the September 11 revolt of passengers against their hijackers on board Flight 93 had struck the… Read moreBush: GWOT is World War III
