More unsettling news on the falling barriers between foreign intelligence and domestic policing. Thanks to TruthOut for catching this one. Military Expands Homeland Efforts Pentagon to share data with civilian agencies By Bradley Graham The Washington Post Wednesday 06 July… Read morePentagon steps up domestic spying
Press release from www.m26.org: Contact: Eric Monse (646) 479-9168 Court Orders Records of Protesters’ Prior Dismissed Cases to be Resealed New York State Court of Appeals reverses lower Court Decision In a unanimous reversal of a lower court’s decision, the… Read moreNYC Palestine activists get legal victory
News reports of the Deep Impact space probe’s explosive Independence Day rendezvous with a comet could not have made clearer that the whole affair was barely-disguised patriotic propaganda, very convenient at a time when the Iraq war is turning into… Read moreDeep Impact: “science” as propaganda
It seems Baghdad’s occupiers are emulating those of Palestine. The city now has a “security fence” cordoning off the Green Zone, mirroring Israel’s “Apartheid Wall.” An excerpt from a story carried by the July 5 New York Times: Iraqis call… Read moreBaghdad gets “Apartheid Wall”
India Express reports that authorities on the Indian side of divided Jammu & Kashmir state are on “red alert” as Hindus prepare for protests following yesterday’s attack by presumed Islamic militants on Ayodhya, the disputed holy site in Uttar Pradesh…. Read moreHindu nationalists support Pakistan’s Ismaili separatists
Six were killed today as unidentified militants attacked the bitterly contested holy site of Ayodhya in India’s Uttar Pradesh. First, a likely suicide bomber in a jeep blew up an outer security wall; then a group of five others posing… Read moreNew violence at Ayodhya
Edinburgh’s constabulary mixed it up with anarchists at the G8 summit protests in Edinburgh yesterday, resulting in about 100 arrests and 20 injured (including two police) in six hours of street clashes. Stay tuned for more fun, as environmentalist protesters… Read moreViolence in Edinburgh
Al-Qaeda’s supposed top man in Saudi Arabia has been killed. Will it mean any de-escalation of violence in the desert kkingdom? Or is this a hydra-headed monster? This July 4 AFP account from Qatar’s Gulf Times: Qaeda chief killed in… Read moreAl-Qaeda’s man in Saudi Arabia dead?
Claims of civilians wiped out in US air raids, journalists detained by security forces, GIs missing in combat. My, things just look better and better in Afghanistan. Thanks to Lebanon’s Daily Star for this report which, while compiled from wire… Read moreUS kills more civilians in Afghanistan: provincial governor
Has anyone noticed the unsubtle political jockeying over which country gets to host the new fusion energy research facility offically known as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)? It finally went to France, over the predictable objections of Washington. Writes… Read moreFrench nuclear threat: invisible menace
Finally the State of Israel is admitting that its “separation barrier,” most of which is illegally built on occupied Palestinian territory in the West Bank, is not placed where it is solely due to “security” considerations. The form of admission… Read moreIsraeli state: fence not temporary
More reports of unspeakable horror, courtesy of the leader of the free world, and its junior partner. Thanks to
