Is there a draft in your future? That is the obvious implication of this July 23 story from Economic & Political Weekly, tho the author does not mention it. Unravelling of the US Military Newspapers describe the US army as… Read moreU.S. military “unravelling”?
Riots and gunfire are reported in Sudan’s capital Khartoum following the death of the country’s vice-president, former rebel leader John Garang, in a helicopter crash as he was returning from Uganda. Garang had signed a deal to end 21 years… Read moreSudan: New VP killed in chopper crash —quick end to peace deal feared
Russia says it is outraged by an interview with Chechen guerilla leader Shamil Basayev broadcast by the ABC TV network, and the foreign ministry summoned a senior US diplomat in Moscow to express its “strong indignation” over the show. In… Read moreShamil Basayev: “OK, so I’m a terrorist”
From Weekly News Update on the Americas, July 31: In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the Oral Criminal Court in the Chilean city of Temuco acquitted six Mapuche rights activists in a retrial on charges of “terrorist illicit… Read moreChile: Mapuche acquitted of “terrorist” charges
This report from the July 31 Weekly News Update on the Americas on changes in top State Department positions on Latin America indicates that the White House is preparing to escalate its regime change offensive against Cuba: U.S.: NORIEGA OUT,… Read moreState Department launches Cuba regime change initiative
Osman Hussain, a Somali man believed to be one of the four suspects in the July 21 bombing attempts in London was arrested July 29 in Rome after police traced his cell phone calls across Europe after the attacks. The… Read moreFear in Italy
As we recently noted, Paraguay is currently seeing an upsurge of peasant and popular unrest—just as the US has established a new military presence there (ostensibly aimed at chasing down Islamic militants who have supposedly established the country as a… Read moreParaguay: villagers demand Moonie land
Pakistan’s Tribal Areas along the Afghan border seem to be slipping into all-out war. On July 29, militants launched missiles at the Tochi Scouts Fort, one of the government’s official paramilitary outposts in Miramshah, North Waziristan Agency. No injuries were… Read morePakistan’s Tribal Areas: headed towards war?
The regime of Islam Karimov in Uzbekistan, heretofore attempting to play both sides in the Great Game between Moscow and Washington, appears to have finally and decisively thrown in its lot with the former. From Pakistan’s Daily Times, via AFP… Read moreUzbekistan boots US military
In an op-ed in the July 28 New York Times, “Oil and Blood,” Bob Herbert insists on looking at the glaringly obvious elephant in the room that so many on all sides of the Iraq debate are blinding themselves to:… Read moreBob Herbert: It’s the oil, stupid!
The Brownsville Herald reports that the US has temporarily closed its consulate in Nuevo Laraedo following a gunbattle the night of July 28 between drug traffickers armed with grenades, rocket launchers and heavy machine guns. US Ambassador Tony Garza said… Read moreRocket launchers in Nuevo Laredo
Its a little ironic. The Irish Republican Army has actually been portrayed since 9-11 as the “good terrorists,” in contradistinction to Islamic extremists who supposedly have no “grievances” and with whom there can be no dialogue. Henry Kissinger wrote in… Read moreIRA disarmament: irony and skepticism
