Morocco’s leading independent human rights group called on the government Aug. 29 to start talks to try to end a hunger strike by prisoners from Morocco-occupied Western Sahara who are demanding better conditions. The Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH) said… Read moreWestern Sahara prisoners on hunger strike
The group of New York cyclists who join the monthly Critical Mass Bike Ride is asking Mayor Michael Bloomberg to join in so he can see first-hand how they’re treated by police. They also say they are going to launch… Read moreNYC Critical Mass to Bloomberg: Join us!
One man was killed and five officers were injured during clashes between Kurdish protesters and police in southeastern Turkish city of Batman Aug. 29. The violence flared after some 1,000 Kurds marched to demand the release of the bodies of… Read moreKurds clash with Turkish police, one dead
Expounding its ideology in a lengthy manifesto, the group “al Qaeda in Iraq” says the insurgency is stronger than the US admits and vows to “destroy the American empire.” The group says in an e-book which surfaced on the Internet… Read moreAl-Qaeda in Iraq vows to “destroy the American empire”
Oil prices hit new record highs, crossing $70 a barrel in Asian trading, as Hurricane Katrina threatened the Gulf of Mexico region and Bush urged residents of New Orleans to comply with a general evacuation order. A state of emergency… Read moreKatrina hikes oil over $70 mark; National Guard police New Orleans
Violence continues to escalate in Haiti, with the world paying very little note. In a grim irony, the latest massacre—carried out with the complicity of police forces—took place at a football match organized to promote peace. UN “peacekeeping” forces are… Read moreNew massacre in Haiti; Dominican Republic steps up deportations
Henry Kissinger, a key architect of the US war in Vietnam told CNN‘s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer” Aug. 28 that he has “a very uneasy feeling” that some of the same factors that damaged support for the war in… Read moreIraq: Kissinger “uneasy,” has Vietnam deja vu
A Reuters report Aug. 18 depicts the situation in the Sinai Peninsula escalating to a small counter-insurgency war between Egyptian security forces and Bedouin Islamic militants. A landmine damaged an Egyptian police vehicle in northern Sinai Aug. 27, injuring a… Read moreEgyptian security forces hunt Bedouin militants in Sinai
Despite repeated denials by Prime Minister Tony Blair that the Iraq war made the UK a target for terrorists, a letter from Michael Jay, the Foreign Office permanent under-secretary, to the cabinet secretary, Sir Andrew Turnbull—obtained by the UK Observer—makes… Read moreUK Foreign Office: It was Iraq
From Iraq scholar Juan Cole’s Informed Comment website. While we share Prof. Cole’s concern about civil war in Iraq, we question whether the US troop presence is forestalling or hastening it… Monday, August 22, 2005 Ten Things Congress Could Demand… Read moreJuan Cole weighs in on Iraq withdrawal
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating allegations that several Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportation agents assaulted and tortured Nigerian detainee Daso Abibo at the ICE office in Oklahoma City on June 14, 2004. FBI spokesperson Gary Johnson… Read moreFBI probes ICE torture case
On Aug. 13, New Mexico governor Bill Richardson declared a state of emergency for counties along the Mexico border. Governor Janet Napolitano did the same for Arizona on Aug. 15. The states of emergency allow the two governors to spend… Read more“State of emergency” in Southwest border states
