What ironic timing. An official visit by the US Energy Secretary to Azerbaijan to mark the opening of the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline was immediately preceeded by violent repression of pro-democracy protests there. From the May 29 New York Times: Washington –… Read moreAzerbaijan: pipeline opens, political space closes
A front-page story in the NY Times reveals some details of the secret air fleet the CIA uses to carry out “renditions”–but unfortunately fails to emphasize the global outcry over the practice from human rights groups and even the judiciary… Read moreSecret CIA “rendition” fleet revealed
The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado released documents May 18 confirming that the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in Denver is targeting peaceful political activists for harassment and building files on constitutionally-protected political activities that have nothing to… Read moreJTTF targets protesters
A June 2 AP article reports that North Korea called Vice President Dick Cheney a “bloodthirsty beast” and lambasted him for calling the Democratic People’s Rebublic (DPRK) leader Kim Jong Il “irresponsible.” Said an unnamed North Korean Foreign Ministry source,… Read moreDPRK: Cheney a “bloodthirsty beast”
From Spanish TV ABC.es, Sevilla, May 26: When I see Bush, he reminds me of Benito Like the great humorists, who are certainly the most sad, Harold Bloom will never laugh at his own jokes nor betray the effect they… Read moreLIT CRIT DUBS DUBYA DUCE
Yonatan Ben Artzi, an pacifist Israeli who the IDF refuses to recognize as such, was again denied conscientious objector status by Israel’s High Court of Justice on June 1. The army and state have been wrestling with Ben Artzi, who… Read moreIsraeli pacifist denied CO status — again
Hundreds of Egyptians, many of them women dressed in black, rallied in Cairo May 31 to demand the resignation of Habib al-Adly, the interior minister. Activists said they held the minister responsible for the fact that police stood by last… Read moreEgyptians protest attack on women activists
Much to our dismay, our story by Frank Morales in the current issue of WW4 REPORT, “The Provacateur State: Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi ‘Insurgents’?“, has been picked up by the neo-Nazi Stormfront, which bills itself as “the first… Read moreWW4 REPORT makes Stormfront
The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is protesting the arrest of a second representative in Sudan. Vincent Hoedt, a Dutch national and regional coordinator for MSF in Darfur, was arrested May 31 in Nyala. A… Read moreDarfur: Doctors Without Borders volunteers arrested
The following June 2 article is from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Waxman: Investigate anti-Semitism charges A Jewish lawmaker asked the U.S. Defense Department to investigate charges of anti-Semitism at the Guantanamo Bay military prison. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) on Wednesday… Read moreAnti-Semitism at Gitmo?
Just four days after the last one, another mosque was hit by a suicide bomber in Pakistan last night. This time the blast, at a Shi’ite mosque in Karachi, killed five and wounded 18. It also sparked a night of… Read morePakistan: still more sectarian terror
France will “soon” offer Libya a cooperation agreement to help Tripoli develop its civilian nuclear energy program, the French foreign ministry said today. “The principle of cooperation in the area of peaceful applications of nuclear energy is a given, but… Read moreFrance-Libya nuclear cooperation seen
