Jane Fonda, AKA Hanoi Jane, AKA Beirut Jane is back in the news. She has chosen a rather uncontroversial moment to oppose the Iraq war, doing a bus tour with Iraq veterans’ families. According to the BBC, The star was… Read moreBeirut Jane distorts her history
An extremely insightful commentary on al-Qaeda and the new terror wave from Al-Jazeera. Soumayya Ghannoushi cuts through the propaganda that the attacks are unrelated to Iraq or any other legitimate grievances—without loaning the slightest degree of legitimacy to either criminal… Read moreAl-Qaeda: real grievances, wrong answers
Outrageous quote of the week goes to Israeli Agricultural Minister and rightist, Yisrael Katz: Agriculture Minister Yisrael Katz argued against leaving the greenhouses to the Palestinians. Katz said in the cabinet that doing so would lead to a tough competition… Read moreIsrael to leave greenhouses to Gazans —for a fee
A very interesting story today cites poll results on American versus Japanese attitudes about the likelihood of a new world war, even if random guy-on-the-street quotes are by definition never presented objectively. It is certainly very telling that Americans are… Read moreWhich world war is this?
Via TruthOut: White House Aims to Block Legislation on Detainees By Josh White and R. Jeffrey Smith The Washington Post Saturday 23 July 2005 The Bush administration in recent days has been lobbying to block legislation supported by Republican senators… Read moreCheney lobbies anti-against torture bill
A Muslim-owned store in a Leeds suburb was set ablaze the night of July 22 in what police called a racially motivated attack. No one was injured in the fire, which destroyed a convenience store in the suburb of Harehills…. Read moreRevenge attacks in England
As Condoleezza Rice arrived in Israel yesterday, a series of simultaenous explosions, including four car bombs, ripped through luxury hotels and shops in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 83. The… Read moreTerror in Egypt, Lebanon
You’d think right on the heels of the Live 8 hype, the world would be doing something about this, no? The response to the crisis, which was building throughout the Edinburgh hoopla, appears to be dramatically too little and too… Read moreStarvation in Niger
From the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), via Progressive Newswire: Guantánamo Prisoners Planned Hunger Strike NEW YORK – July 21 – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) confirmed today that in late June, prisoners planned to begin a hunger strike… Read moreGitmo detainees on hunger strike
Another attempted multiple simultaneous bombing on the London transit system, which fortunately seems to have failed–but not without sparking another death on the Underground, this time at the hands of the police. (Remember when London “bobbies” famously didn’t carry guns?)… Read moreMore death in London, fear in New York
Signals continue to be mixed on Sudan’s tentative return to Washington’s good graces. On an official visit to the country, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stopped at Darfur’s Abu Shouk refugee camp, which houses some 55,000 displaced people, and demanded… Read moreRice does Darfur
Note that the imposition of the usual neoliberal economic model is sparking the unrest. Yet it is Islamic fundamentalists—not leftists, as in Bolivia—that are best poised to exploit the backlash. From the Guardian: Yemen Riots Over Subsidy Cut Leave 16… Read moreRiots in Yemen
