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
Yet again! As in the recent headline-grabbing terror bust in New York City, and as in the 1993 World Trade Center blast itself, it seems the terror plot itself emerged from police infiltrators… From the Toronto Star, June 4: RCMP… Read moreCanada terror bust: RCMP behind plot?
Oaxaca City saw another massive mobilization in support of striking teachers yesterday, with an estimated 100,000 marching from the Juarez monument to the Plaza de la Danza, where a political tribunal was held to hear charges against Gov. Ulises Ruiz… Read moreOaxaca: more labor unrest, political violence
State of Mexico authorities have confirmed the death of Olin Alexis Benhumea Hernandez, one of those detained in the state police incursion into the village of San Salvador Atenco May 4. Authorities cited “cardio-respiratory failure” as the cause of death,… Read moreMexico: new death in Atenco case
This June 2 account from the English-language Dominican Today was typical of what little media attention the recent US military exercises in the Dominican Republic accrued: SANTO DOMINGO.- The United States Army troops that participated in the joint operation New… Read moreDominican Republic: US military exercises end
UN troops and armed gangs exchanged gunfire in Haiti’s Cite Soleil shantytown late June 7, leaving at least three dead. Cite Soleil, on the northern edge of the Poart-au-Prince, was the scene of routine gunfights between gangs and foreign troops… Read moreHaiti: new violence in Cite Soleil
Brzilian lawmakers announced they are seeking to question an imprisoned gang leader suspected of having ordered the onslaught of violence that killed nearly 200 in and around Sao Paulo last month. Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho, known as Marcola, heads the… Read moreBrazil: police link to gang terror probed
From Upside Down World, June 7: About 300 demonstrators protesting the slow pace of land reform invaded the Brazilian Parliament Building June 7. The protesters vandalized the pristine building and destroyed a car waiting to be raffled off to Congressional… Read moreLandless workers invade Brazil’s parliament
Received by email: The Congress of South African Trade Unions issues statement supporting CUPE resolution The President, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario, June 6, 2006 Brother Sid Ryan, On behalf over 1,2 million South African workers organized under… Read moreSouth African Unions support Israel boycott
Violent student protests in the historic town of Merida in Venezuela’s high Andes seem to have accrued little international coverage. This very opinionated account from the very pro-Chavez Venezuela News Bulletin, May 31: Riots and ‘guarimbas’ are running wild in… Read moreVenezuela: student protests rock Merida
Bush just has two years to go. Will he really get around to invading Venezuela? Chavez isn’t hedging his bets. From Reuters, June 3: CARACAS – Venezuela received a shipment of 30,000 new Russian rifles on Saturday, weeks after Washington… Read moreVenezuela: Chavez buys 30,000 Russian AKs
Evo Morales sticks it to the landed elite. He saves the announcement for a trip to Santa Cruz, the section of the country which had threatened to secede if he nationalized the gas (as he has now done). A none-too-subtle… Read moreBolivia: Evo launches “land revolution”
