In a May 24 op-ed in the New York Times, Niall Ferguson–a history professor at Harvard, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and author of Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire–makes the case for a long-term… Read more“Cowboys and Indians” in Iraq
In an editorial for the July issue of The Progressive, editor Matthew Rothschild makes a serious case for war crimes charges against Rumsfeld and Bush, as well as other White House and Pentagon figures… Stripping Rumsfeld and Bush of Impunity… Read moreWar crimes charges for Rumsfeld, Bush?
The UN conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has closed with little accomplished in the way of new ways to enforce the fast-unravelling treaty. A May 28 report in the LA Times notes: The United States tried to keep the… Read moreNPT conference ends in discord
Well, after all the “Newsweek-lied-people-died” gloating, the Pentagon acknowledges Koran abuse at Gitmo (while denying the toilet incident). Pentagon Admits Five Acts of ‘Mishandling’ the Koran By Rupert Cornwell The Independent UK Friday 27 May 2005 The Pentagon admitted last… Read morePentagon admits Koran desecration
A conference questioning Turkey’s official position on the World War I-era Armenian genocide has been cancelled following pressure from the government. The conference, entitled “Ottoman Armenians at the Decline of the Empire: Academic Responsibility and Issues of Democracy,” was to… Read moreTurkish government threats halt conference on Armenian genocide
James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), the House Judiciary Committee chair, has introduced the Orwellianly named “Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act” (HR 1528) would compel people to spy on their family members and neighbors, and even go undercover and… Read moreBill would force you to narc on your kids
An Islamist prisoner, accused of involvement in the 2003 Casablanca bombings, has died in a Moroccan prison on hunger strike, al-Jazeera reports. The unidentified man died in Autaita prison in the city of Sidi Qasim, where about 1,000 inmates, members… Read moreMoroccan prisoner dead in hunger strike?
Stephen Ulph of the national-secuity think-tank The Jamestown Foundation writes that “militant Islamist forums” in Algeria are circulating a statement dated May 8 purporting to announce the formation of a new al-Qaeda cell, apparenrly seeking to revive Algeria’s dormant civil… Read moreAl-Qaeda announces Algeria franchise
The Intifada which has broken out in Morocco-occupied Western Sahara continues too grow, and has even spread to Morocco proper. Yesterday, bludgeon-wielding police raided a university campus in Rabat to break up a protest by Saharawi students held in solidarity… Read moreWestern Sahara “Intifada” grows
A May 27 article in The Forward, Uzbek Unrest Shines Light on Leader’s Ties to Jewry, highlights the cozy relationship between the repressive Uzbek regime led by President Islam Karimov, organized American Jewry and that great moral authority on democracy,… Read moreOrganized Jewry allied with Uzbek despot
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
