Clashes between Moroccan security forces and Saharawi demonstrators have broken out in towns across Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, following the violent repression of pro-independence protests. Saharawi human rights activists say that nineteen people are missing in police custody, including one whole… Read more“Intifada” erupts in Western Sahara
At least 25 are dead in an apparent suicide bombing at the Bari Imam Sufi shrine at Nurpur village outside Pakistan’s capital Islamabad this morning. Thousands of devotees were attending the last day of a five-day festival at the time… Read morePakistan: more sectarian terror
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), darling of the liberal left, made an extraordinary observation to the crowd at the AIPAC convention on May 24: “There are those who contend that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about Israel’s occupation of the West Bank… Read morePelosi: it’s not the occupation
The village of Bil’in in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which is losing more than half its land due to Israel’s “separation barrier,” wrote the following letter for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to give to President Bush. On their way to… Read morePalestinian village writes to Bush
In recent weeks, we’ve been following Washington’s current regime change offensive, in which the White House is seeking to encourage–and, presumably, co-opt–opposition activists in countries which really are unhappily authoritarian, but (more to the point) insufficiently compliant with US interests…. Read moreEgypt next for “regime change”?
Police in Edinburgh are asking for a ban on a major anti-war rally slated for the Scottish capital during the G8 summit meeting, alleging that its organizers have been linked with “violence and disruption.” The UK’s Stop the War Coalition… Read moreEdinburgh police: no anti-war march at G8 summit
On the morning of May 26, a car bomb exploded in Madrid, causing proprty destruction and leaving 50 with mostly minor injuries. Phone calls to media outlets immediately before the explosion warned that it was coming and claimed responsibility in… Read moreArrest after ETA attack “slams door on peace”
A week after calm started to return to Uzbekistan (see out last blog post), signs of simmering unrest continue, and the geopolitics of the conflict are starting to become clearer… Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline (RFE/RL) reported May 23 that… Read moreUzbekistan-China alignment
We applaud Human Rights Watch for continuing to document the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan even as it has fallen off the media radar screen. But we question their assumption that Karzai “needs more support from the US,” given that it… Read moreAfghanistan: Violence Surges
The same day Amnesty International released its annual report with unprecedented criticism for the US, comes this chilling release from Human Rights Watch: Pakistan: US Citizens Tortured, Held Illegally Human Rights Watch Tuesday 24 May 2005 FBI participated in interrogations… Read moreUS citizens tortured in Pakistan
Amnesty International’s 2005 annual report, released today, accuses the US government of damaging human rights worldwide with its attitude to torture and treatment of detainees, which granted “a licence to others to commit abuse with impunity.” The report criticizes the… Read moreAmnesty International annual report blasts US
Although it has recieved little coverage elsewhere, the Cuban daily Ahora reports today that on May 20, Bush received a Cuban-American delegation at the White House led by Luis Zúñiga Rey of the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), presumably to… Read moreBush entertains terrorist at White House?
