Even as the White House is opposing measures to reduce emissions in the new energy bill (NYT, June 15) and stands accused of cooking science on global warming, comes this comforting news: ‘Record Volume Rise’ in World Energy Consumption By… Read moreWorld energy consumption surges
The Mexican daily El Norte reports June 15 that drug gangs in army-occupied Nuevo Laredo swapped insults this week with rival gangs and federal authorities over the police VHF channel. Hundreds of soldiers and federal police agents took over the… Read more“Zetas” vow defiance in army-occupied Nuevo Laredo
Kudos to Newsday, which (unlike the NY Times thus far) today notes the approaching one-year anniversary of Rasul v. Bush, the Supreme Court ruling that Guantanamo detainees are entitled to judicial review. It was hailed as a victory by civil… Read moreRasul v. Bush: one year later
Police in Zimbabwe fought running battles June 14 with residents of Makhokhoba, one of the oldest townships of the country’s second city, Bulawayo as they demolished illegal structures. One woman stripped naked in protest after police destroyed her shack (a… Read moreZimbabwe police demolish township
Western governments are flouting their own rules and contributing to grave human rights abuses by selling arms and weapons systems to Nepal, Amnesty International said in a statement today. The rights group accused the UK, US and India of supplying… Read moreAmnesty: West arming Nepal dictatorship
NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is something of a mixed bag: he makes frequent noises like a Terror War hardliner and quasi-Ashcroftian freedom-hater, but (even if, perhaps, for some bad Arabophobe reasons) he was among the first to raise the… Read morePakistan arrests rape victim
Mexican federal army troops have taken control of the border city of Nuevo Laredo, and detained 41 local police for questioning. The crackdown comes after local police opened fire on federal agents sent in to investigate the murder of the… Read moreFederal troops occupy Nuevo Laredo
It seems the US and Russia, acting in concert to protect their mutual ally Islam Karimov, exerted pressure at a NATO meeting in Brussels to make sure language calling for an investigation into last month’s bloody repression in Uzbekistan would… Read moreUS blocks NATO call for probe on Uzbek repression
More explosions are reported in Iran this morning, this time in the southeastern city of Zahedan, near the border with Afghanistan and Pakistan. The three blasts took no lives, but injured two people and caused property damage. Authorities were unclear… Read moreMore blasts in Iran; pipeline deal signed
Well, at least this makes the NY Times, even if they buried it on page 14. Thanks to TruthOut for forwarding it: Some Held at Guantánamo Are Minors, Lawyers Say By Neil A. Lewis The New York Times Monday 13… Read moreMinors held, beaten at Gitmo?
Bomb blasts struck Iranian government buildings June 12 in Ahvaz, capital of oil-rich Khuzestan province bordering Iraq, followed within hours by two other bombs in central Tehran, killing nine and injuring over 85. The attacks come days before presidential elections…. Read moreTerror and courage in Iran
A suicide bomber crashed his car into a US military patrol just outside Kandahar June 13, killing himself and wounding four US soldiers, one seriously. The US ambassador in Kabul, Zalmay Khalilzad, condemned such attacks as “cowardly acts of desperation,… Read moreUS troops under attack in Afghanistan
