The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) served papers the week of Jan. 30 on seven US activists relating to a march and fast the group Witness Against Torture carried out in Cuba in December. The OFAC… Read moreUS strikes back against Gitmo protesters
On the morning of Feb. 10, agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Puerto Rico started a series of raids on the homes of independence activists in the cities of Mayaguez, San German, Rio Piedras and Trujillo… Read morePuerto Rico: FBI agents raid homes
A very interesting piece from the Feb. 6 Christian Science Monitor, online at RethinkVenezuela. Smells like the usual “regime change” recipe, doesn’t it? Democracy’s ‘special forces’ face heat CARACAS, VENEZUELA — A diplomatic row between the United States and Venezuela… Read moreVenezuela: US funds opposition
What, us worry? From the AP, Feb. 10: WASHINGTON — The government concluded its “Cyber Storm” wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers…. Read moreHomeland Security holds “Cyber Storm” war game
A jazz musician and a bookstore owner? OK, could be. But this smells to us like another sleazy FBI fishing expedition in which the only “al-Qaeda” connection was the undercover federal agent. These guys may have wanted to collaborate with… Read more(Dubious) terror case opens in NYC
This is practically Orwellian. Is the Algerian regime using the printing of the anti-Islam cartoons—blurred and denounced—as an excuse to crack down on pro-Islamist newspapers? From Al-Jazeera, Feb. 13: Algeria and Yemen have arrested journalists working for newspapers that have… Read moreArab journalists arrested in cartoon controversy
Bosnian Muslims burned the Croatian flag in front of the country’s Sarajevo embassy Feb. 8, in a protest over the publication of the Danish cartoons in a Croatian weekly magazine. Hundreds of Bosnian Muslims also protested at the Danish, Norwegian… Read moreBosnia: Croatian flag burned in cartoon protest
On Jan. 17, members of Paraguayan social and political organizations marched in Asuncion and burned US flags to protest the presence of US soldiers in their country, and to condemn the Paraguayan legislature’s decision last year to let the troops… Read moreParaguay: march against US troops
From the Associated Press: BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 27 Colombia insisted Friday that a false-passport ring it dismantled may have links to al-Qaida and Hamas, despite U.S. doubts about the counterfeiters’ connection to the terrorist groups. Colombian officials said Thursday the… Read moreAl-Qaeda ring in Colombia?
A letter sent to the Colombia Support Network in Madison, WI, from local campesino activsts in Putumayo, Colombia’s Amazon rainforest department bordering Ecuador: Mocoa, January 25, 2006 Beginning in December of 2005 the FARC-EP began a series of attacks upon… Read moreColombia: forgotten war in Putumayo
Two Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents at the border crossing (port of entry) in Douglas, Arizona shot and killed a driver on the night of Feb. 9 after Douglas police officers attempted to stop the man. Apparently trying to… Read moreDeath on the Mexican border
The final pair of missionaries from New Tribes Mission pulled out of their Venezuelan outposts Feb. 9, days ahead of their deadline, after being accused of espionage by President Hugo Chavez. The nearly 40 missionaries, some having worked for 59… Read moreVenezuela: Chavez expels New Tribes Mission
