The Colombian human rights group Red de Defensores (Defenders Network) reports in a May 10 alert of a massive illegal detainment of over 100 students, mostly minors, by an elite National Police unit in the conflicted oil city of Barrancabermeja…. Read moreMore SMAD terror in Colombia
The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) is requesting international support for a campaign to free three imprisoned trade union leaders in Eritrea. Tewelde Ghebremedhin, chair of Eritrea’s IUF-affiliated food and beverage… Read moreTrade unionists imprisoned in Eritrea
There is a vigorous if not always civil debate going on in WW4’s weblog over the Israel lobby. See here, and here. Part of the debate is over referring to the US Congress as “Israeli occupied territory” or “Likud occupied… Read moreWeinberg vs. “self-haters”: you decide
Among the commemorations around the world of the 60th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany was a memorial service at Boston’s Faneuil Hall marking the liberation of the death camps. Around 20 members of a neo-Nazi group from… Read moreNeo-Nazis crash Holocaust commemoration
Luis Posada Carriles couldn’t have been too happy to see his face on the front page of the New York Times yesterday (“Case of Cuban Exile Could Test the U.S. Definition of Terrorist,” May 9). The anti-Castro extremist, who is… Read moreCuban terrorist seeks refuge in U.S.
The Spanish anarchist website A Las Barricadas reports that Nicolás Neira Alvarez, a 15-year-old student who was marching with an anarchist contingent May 1 in Bogota when it was attacked by the riot police, has died of injuries sustained that… Read moreDeath in Bogota Mayday violence
Positive developments are reported in the case of two Muslim immigrant girls in New York City detained following spurious suspicion of plotting suicide attacks. Reports the NY Times May 7: One girl, an immigrant from Guinea, was back in her… Read moreImmigrant girls released
Did anyone catch this one? What a shame the EU wimped out… On April 21 the United Nations Commission on Human Rights voted 22-8 with 23 abstentions against a resolution proposed by Cuba for the organization to investigate charges of… Read moreUN rejects Cuban call for Gitmo probe
Hey, anyone remember Haiti? At least five Haitians were killed on April 27 in an exchange of fire between police and demonstrators during a march in Port-au-Prince. Police agents, many wearing black cloth masks over their faces, were seen firing… Read moreHaiti: cops kill five in demo
The “peak oil” phenomenon, which has so far received more serious treatment in the foreign press than here in the USA, is starting to break through to the mainstream–at least among the business media. On May 4, Bloomberg.com opinion columnist… Read moreAre you ready for $100/barrel oil?
CNN reports May 5: New York – Two “improvised explosive devices” made from “novelty-type grenades” have exploded in front of the building that houses the British Consulate in New York City, police and officials said. The early Thursday morning blasts… Read moreNYC: “improvised grenades” go off at UK consulate; activists face scrutiny
Its back to the drawing board yet again for the fractious fraternity of moguls and bureaucrats charged with overseeing redevelopment of Lower Manhattan’s Ground Zero, site of the 9-11 disaster, which still sits empty (but for a new trans-Hudson rail… Read moreNYC gets second chance: Don’t rebuild it!
