A new communique from Subcomandante Marcos—this one more typically personable and verbose—sheds further light on the “red alert” recently declared by Mexico’s Zapatista rebels. The screed notes the deadlock which has persisted in the Zapatistas’ struggle for indigenous rights since… Read moreChiapas: Marcos speaks on “Red Alert”
This from the BBC, June 24. We know that the Indonesian regime (which the White House is seeking to reward with renewed military ties) is harshly intolerant of marijuana-smokers as well as ethnic separatists. We were hoping the separatists of… Read moreSharia law in Aceh
Just as the White House has rejected creation of an independent commission to investigate abuses at Gitmo and elsewhere (Reuters, June 21), comes this deeply disturbing news. It is (as we’ve recently noted) taboo to say this sort of thing,… Read moreDoctors involved in Gitmo interrogations
The US may soon be facing a counterinsurgency quagmire in Afghanistan as well as Iraq soon, even if the former still fails to grab headlines. Largely because the US has been more effective at grooming proxies to do the fighting,… Read moreAfghan war widening
The continuing violence in Lebanon seems to be forcing the situation there to a head: June 24, 2005 Lebanon’s anti-Syrian coalition urges president to resign Lebanon’s anti-Syrian coalition on Thursday accused President Emile Lahoud of being responsible for a series… Read moreWho is behind Lebanon violence?
A friend writes from Philadelphia, scene of the recent anti-biotech protests (where, as we noted, a police officer died of a heart attack): Please donate bail money! A dozen or so protesters were arrested at the Biodevestation protests in Philadelphia… Read moreBiodevastation protesters need help
Freedom’s on the march. That’s why a South Asian man gets detained by the police for taking photos on the streets of New York. Gotta love the irony. Thanks to the Independent Press Association’s Voices That Must Be Heard, “the… Read moreAward-winning Indian film-maker harassed by NYPD
With Congress considering new privacy-eroding measures in Patriot Act (and making the law permanent), and similar measures being weighed by the Homeland Security Department, comes this disturbing news. This did make the front page of the NY Times today, albeit… Read moreSocial Security shared data with FBI
A very unfortunate turn of events at the protests against the biotech industry confab that just concluded in Philadelphia, organized under the banner Biodevastation to Biojustice. This June 21 account from Philly’s KYW News Radio: A Philadelphia police officer involved… Read moreCop dead in Philly biotech protest
The EZLN has issued a new communique clarifying somewhat the “red alert” announced two days ago. This English translation from the website of the Zapatista Front, civil counterpart of the armed organization, states that the alert is a “precautionary measure”… Read moreZapatistas speak on “Red Alert”
The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center in Chiapas (Centro FrayBa) offers this June 21 list of “antecedents” to the “red alert” declared by the Zapatista Army two days ago: 1.- Military movements: For the past two months… Read moreChiapas: “antecedents” to Red Alert
Here’s an ominous one. We bet this won’t be the last we hear of this news item. Where the hell is “Southwestern Asia” and why the secrecy about the location of the crash? Doesn’t the secrecy combined with the unsubtle… Read moreIran gets “Gary Powers” affair?
