Despite Indian aid to Pakistan-controlled Kashmir in the wake of the devastating earthquake which has claimed some 25,000 lives, news reports indicate concerns persist in New Delhi about how the divided region’s militant organizations are exploiting the disaster. An account… Read moreKashmir: Indo-Pak proxy politics persist despite disaster
The US military, recently booted from Uzbekistan, has been granted long-term access to Kyrgyzstan, BBC reported Oct. 11. The deal followed talks between US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and President Kurmanbek Bakiev in Bishkek. Kyrgyzstan had earlier urged the… Read moreRice wins deal on Kygyzstan air base
Presumed Chechen resistance fighters carried out a series of attacks in Nalchik, capital of the Russian Federation’s Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, on the morning of Oct. 13. Facilities targeted included the local headquarters of the Interior Ministry and the Federal Security Service… Read moreChechen resistance attacks Kabardino-Balkaria
US immigration judge William L. Abbott issued a written ruling on Sept. 26 in El Paso, TX, that the Convention Against Torture (CAT) bars the US from deporting Cuban-born right-winger Luis Posada Carriles to Venezuela. Abbott accepted the contention by… Read moreJudge blocks Posada Carriles deportation
On Oct. 5, a group of seven Mapuche indigenous students from the Frontier University in Temuco, Chile—on hunger strike since Sept. 29—began an occupation of the Temuco cathedral. Another two hunger strikers did not participate because they were hospitalized on… Read moreChile: Mapuche youth seize cathedral
On Oct. 3 some 300 Paraguayan indigenous people from the departments of Canindeyu, Alto Paraguay, Caaguazu, San Pedro and Caazapa arrived in Asuncion and began a protest encampment in the Plaza Italia to demand that Congress approve reforms to Law… Read moreParaguay: indigenous march
On Sept. 26 Puerto Rican governor Anibal Acevedo Vila told reporters that US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Robert Mueller had ordered an inquiry into the fatal Sept. 23 shooting of nationalist leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios by FBI agents… Read morePuerto Rico: Machetero bled to death
Three unidentified men armed with two AK-47 assault rifles and a 9-mm pistol shot and killed former political prisoner Miguel Angel Mesino in broad daylight on Sept. 18 in the town center of Atoyac municipality in the southern Mexican state… Read moreMexico: campesino leaders assassinated in Guerrero
From New York Newsday, Oct. 11, this harrowing report by staff writer John Riley from New Orleans’ devastated Lower Ninth Ward: Six weeks after the storm, no neighborhood in this ravaged city faces longer odds than the financially impoverished but… Read moreEthnic cleansing in New Orleans: it’s official
Another courageous strike by the heroic Iraqi resistance against the US occupation forces… oops, we mean against Shi’ite civilians. From AP, Oct. 5, via TruthOut: A bomb exploded at the entrance of a Shiite Muslim mosque south of Baghdad as… Read moreIraq: Ramadan blast kills 25
On Sept. 28 Robert Bonner announced he would retire as commissioner of Customs and Border Protection (CBP). He served for four years, first as head of US Customs, then as head of CBP after Customs was merged into the Department… Read moreBorder Czar out; ICE nominee probed
From the Sept. 30 edition of the New York Bangladeshi community paper Bangla Patrika. Translated from the Bangla by the NY Independent Press Association: Federal and local law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, raided the Darul Ulum Shady Brook, a… Read moreFeds raid Connecticut madrassa for vegetables
