Sent to us by New York’s Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants is this action alert in the case of two Muslim immigrant girls detained following spurious suspicion of plotting suicide attacks: Vigil to Release Detained Youth! Get on… Read moreVigil for detained immigrant girls
From VOA, May 4: At least 14 people are now dead following an explosion that rocked a soccer stadium in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, as the prime minister addressed his supporters. The cause of Tuesday’s blast is still unknown. Prime… Read moreBlast in Somalia; Uganda delays troop deployment
WHY US? (On the academic boycott) Tanya Reinhart Yediot Aharonot, May 4, 2005. Translated from Hebrew by Mark Marshall. A boycott decision, like that passed by Britain’s Association of University Teachers to boycott two Israeli universities, naturally raises a hue… Read moreTanya Reinhart on the academic boycott
On the 35th anniversary of the murder of four non-violent protestors at Kent State, comes this press release from the International Solidarity Movement: School Children Murdered by Israeli Military at Anti-Wall Protest Beit Liqya, Ramallah, West Bank Two cousins, 14… Read moreIDF kills 2 teens at protest
Larry Franklin, the Pentagon analyst suspected of passing classified information to American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) bigs, has been arrested by the FBI. Franklin, who recently went back to work at the Pentagon, turned down goverment offers to cooperate…. Read morePentagon analyst arrested in AIPAC spy scandal
That was the headline on the Jewish Telegraphic Agency website on May 3. The article continues: Shimon Peres sided with religious activists in opposing a gay parade planned for Jerusalem. Israel’s vice premier said in a statement Tuesday that Jerusalem… Read morePeres comes out against parade
From a May 3 report in South Africa’s Cape Times: Cape Town – With the rapid decline of global oil supplies, the United States is heading for an economic crash unlike anything since the 1930s. And the collapse of the dollar… Read moreIraq and “peak oil”: Its a “resource war,” stupid!
A tribal woman in India’s Andaman Islands who was paid just two rupees, or four cents, in compensation for damage to her coconut groves by the December tsunami has angrily returned the check from the local government, an official acknowledged…. Read moreIndia: four cents for tsunami aid
Reviving a perennial theme of the reigning energy oligarchs, President Bush told the National Small Business Week Conference in DC April 27 that more nuclear plants are the answer to rising oil costs. “We’ve got a fundamental question we got… Read moreBush: Yes nukes!
Five Muslim-Americans have filed suit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security claiming racial profiling after they were detained and fingerprinted by border agents upon crossing back into the U.S. from a religious conference in Canada. The suit, filed in… Read moreMuslims sue Homeland Security
Seven suspected Islamist militants have been ordered to stand trial in Italy, charged with belonging to a cell that planned to recruit suicide bombers for attacks in Iraq, judicial officials said. The police closed in on the seven in May… Read moreItaly: jihadi cell broken?
M. Cherif Bassiouni, a professor of law at DePaul University in Chicago who was the UN Human Rights Commission’s independent expert for Afghanistan, released a 21-page report last week, accusing U.S. military forces and civilian contractors of “engaging in arbitrary… Read moreUN investigator on U.S. abuses in Afghanistan: out
