Well, somebody, it seems, has found something more creative to do to protest the war in Iraq than march in orderly rows chanting monotonous slogans in unison. From New York Newsday, sept. 22: NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge Thursday… Read moreNYC: Case dismissed in nude anti-war protest
A recent story in New Jersey’s Asbury Park Press sheds light on a highly esoteric group which can make a claim to being an indigenous American form of Islam, the Moorish Science movement. The story concerns Lee S. Crudup, who… Read moreMoorish Science in the news
When a bomb exploded yesterday at the British embassy in Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, causing minor injuries to a security guard, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader suggested it might be linked to Croatia’s application to join the European Union. Britain is the… Read moreRush to judgement in Croatia: UK embassy blast “not terrorism”
In a New York Times op-ed piece that ran Sept. 16 in the International Herald Tribune, Waleed Ziad of the Truman National Security Project questions Washington’s interventionist consensus. In the piece, “Jihad’s Fresh Face,” Ziad writes: The post-9/11 prevailing wisdom… Read moreWonk states the obvious: jihad born of repression
New York City’s Union Square Park, which had been a symbol of free speech in the aftermath of 9-11, has now become a symbol of censorship. This AP account appears in today’s Newsday: NEW YORK (AP) Police cut short a… Read moreCindy Sheehan censored at New York’s Union Square
On Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 7:30 PM, WW4 REPORT editor Bill Weinberg will speak on “The Politics of the Anti-War Movement” in an event sponsored by the New SPACE (New School for Pluralistic Anti-Capitalist Education): Hard-left elements of the anti-war… Read moreWW4 REPORT editor Bill Weinberg to blast anti-war movement in New York forum
While 11 candidates (out of some 3,000) were barred from Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections for ties to warlordism, many veteran Mujahedeen commanders with pasts tained by human rights abuses—or even ethnic cleansing—seem to have slipped through the cracks. Reported Newsday Sept…. Read moreWarlords to maintain power in Afghan elections?
The polling stations closed last night in what was hailed as Afghanistan’s first free parliamentary elections since 1969. Overseeing the security of the elections in the capital was the special Kabul Multi-National Brigade (KMNB VIII), composed of units from 24… Read moreAfghan elections marred by violence, disenfranchisement of women
We recently aired first-hand accounts from paramedics in New Orleans that police from the suburb of Gretna had turned back refugees attempting to flee the devastated city at gunpoint. A Sept. 17 LA Times story, “A Roadblock to Compassion,” reprinted… Read moreConfirmed: suburban cops turned back N.O. refugees
Venezuela’s left-populist President Hugo Chavez made history this weekend with a visit to New York for an appearance at the UN summit. His brief sojourn in La Manzana Grande consciously evoked his mentor Fidel Castro’s historic 1960 debut address at… Read moreChavez does New York City, blasts US aggression
Violence is reported in Athens, with riot police clashing with left-wing anarchists. The masked protesters threw petrol bombs and stones, and police responded with tear gas. The street-fighting in the student quarter followed a rally by neo-fascists demanding that Turkey… Read moreNeo-fascists rally in Athens, anarchists clash with police
Disasters by Jordan Flaherty September 15, 2005 New Orleans was not devastated by a hurricane. From my travels around New Orleans and surrounding areas, it’s clear that very little damage was done to my city by hurricane Katrina. Bay St…. Read moreExploitation, militarization in New Orleans and diaspora
