It has hardly made international headlines, but there has been a wave of bombings at Spanish resorts by ETA in recent months–not claiming any lives, but causing several injuries and wreaking some property damage. Now the Basque regional government is… Read moreDeja Vu in Spain: Basques v. Fascists
Baluchi guerillas shut down Pakistan’s top gas field with rocket attacks on the pipeline. Why is nobody paying attention? ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Supplies from Pakistan’s main gas field have been fully restored, officials said on Saturday 11 days after a… Read morePakistan guerillas hit pipeline
If it hits the fan in Pakistan, Bush’s victory in neighboring Afghanistan could be a Pyrric one… From AP: QUETTA, Pakistan – Three rockets fired by unidentified assailants landed in a residential area of this deeply conservative southwestern Pakistani city,… Read moreNext: Free Baluchistan?
Nobody’s paying much attention, but Pakistan is on the brink of civil war. Taliban-types have taken power in much of the Northwest Tribal Areas along the Afghan border, while tribespeople in Baluchistan–also along the Afghan border, to the southwest–have launched… Read moreIran behind Pakistan guerillas?
Robert Scheer’s hyperventilating latest is getting much circulation in cyberspace (see below). A typical sample: "cabal of Machiavellian neoconservatives" A "cabal," no less! It is amazing the degree to which Scheer’s writing hasdeteriorated since he became an opinion columnist. He… Read moreIs al-Qaeda Just a Bush Bogeyman? (Well, no…)
The New Haven (CT) Board of Alderman voted to ask the US to end its occupation of Iraq and bring the troops home. This was the culmination of a lot of hard work involving hundreds of peace activists which was… Read moreNew Haven to US: Out of Iraq!!
Jayyous, a town of 3,400 in the West Bank, is being cleansed quickly through illegal Israeli settlement expansion, funded indirectly with US tax dollars. The Rhode Island Qalqilya Alliance has background information, and says what you can do to take… Read moreSAVE JAYYOUS: Palestinian village being ethnically cleansed
NEW YORK — December 15, 2004 — The Court of Appeals, New York State’s highest court, announced Saturday that it will consider whether dismissed and sealed cases may be considered in imposing jail sentences on four political demonstrators who protested… Read moreNYS’ highest court to review protest case
Sorry, but this is revisionism (“How Silent Are The ‘humanitarian’ Invaders Of Kosovo?” ZNet, December 2004) no less than that of the propagandists Pilger is critiquing. He seems to want us to forget that 200,000 Kosovar Albanians (out of a… Read morePilger gets it wrong on Kosovo
An interesting and important piece, but a little irksome. We don’t doubt that the CIA and State Department are pulling out all the stops to aid the Yushchenko forces, and this certainly warrants exposure. But the implicit assumption here seems… Read moreIs the US behind Kiev turmoil?
