The ascendance of the center-left Romano Prodi as Italy’s new prime minister in the narrow (and contested) April elections will apparently mean at least a phased withdrawal of Italian troops from the US-led mission in Iraq, depriving Bush of one… Read moreItaly to expand Afghanistan role
For a second consecutive night yesterday, French police battled hundreds of Muslim youth in the Paris suburbs of Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil. (Seattle Times, June 1) This makes headlines; the ongoing institutionalized racism that fuels these periodic eruptions does not. From… Read moreContinued racism behind resumed Franco-Intifada
What a breath of fresh air! The website Screw Loose Change reports that Gedeon and Jules Naudet, the French film-makers who captured images of the first plane striking the World Trade Center on 9-11, have sent a “cease and desist”… Read moreFrench film-makers threaten 9-11 conspiracy vultures
Alan J. Kuperman, author of Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion and Civil War, has a positively ghastly op-ed in the New York Times May 31, blaming the Darfur guerillas for sparking the genocide–as if they had taken up… Read moreDarfur: NY Times op-ed blames the victims
Pretty bad times to be part of an ethnic or religious minority in Iran, it seems. From the New York Times, June 1: Members of the Bahai religious minority in Iran said this week that the government had recently intensified… Read moreIran: Bahais under attack
From the Pakistan Tribune. June 2: KABUL: U.S. troops fired into a crowd of hundreds of stone-throwing rioters, killing at least three Afghans, as their convoy left the scene of an accident that triggered Monday’s anti-American riots, Kabul’s chief of… Read moreAfghanistan: US kills more civilians
From the Mumbai Mirror, June 2 (link added): Baghdad: A pregnant woman was shot dead at a US checkpoint in Iraq while on her way to give birth, officials said on Thursday, sparking further controversy amid a furor over an… Read moreIraq: US kills more civilians
When Slobodan Milosevic died, he was in a prison cell at The Hague facing war crimes charges, and it made world headlines. The May 27 passing of Guatemala’s equally genocidal dictator of the late ’70s and early ’80s, Romeo Lucas… Read moreGuatemalan war criminal dies a free man
Following a prisoner uprising at Guantanamo last week, the campaign of passive resistance at the detention center is again growing. Reports the AP, May 29: The number of Guantanamo Bay detainees staging a hunger strike has grown from three to… Read moreHunger strike grows at Gitmo
On May 27, América del Valle, leader of the Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land, in hiding since the May 3 violence at San Salvador Atenco, spoke to the international Telesur TV network from a clandestine location. She said… Read moreMexico: Atenco leader speaks from hiding
As of May 25, two immigrant mothers who began a hunger strike in Chicago on May 10 were still consuming only liquids as they called for an end to all deportations until Congress finalizes a legalization bill. Elvira Arellano and… Read moreImmigrants on hunger strike in Chicago; more raids from coast to coast
According to a May 27 CBC news report, the Ontario section of Canada’s largest union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has voted overwhemingly to support a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel. There are over 200,000… Read moreOntario labor union votes to support Israel boycott
