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!
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
