The NY Times notes today that when accused Serbian war criminal Vladimir Lazarevic surrendered himself to the UN tribunal at The Hague last month, he was hailed in his own country as a national hero. Serbia’s Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica… Read moreAccused Serbian war criminal hailed as hero
In the men-only elections for half the seats on Saudi Arabia‘s municipal councils–a landmark step towards democracy by Saudi standards–results are in from the capital, Riyadh, and over 30 losing candidates are claiming the seven winners violated campaign guidelines. The… Read moreOpposition: Islamists cheat in Saudi elections
In a case being compared to that of Chico Mendes, the Amazon defender killed in 1988, US missionary Sister Dorothy Stang was shot dead by unknown assailants at a remote jungle settlement near Anapu in the Brazilian state of Para… Read moreForest defender assassinated in Amazon
Pakistan’s restive province of Baluchistan was hit with devastating floods when torrential rains burst the Shadikor Dam near Pasni, sweeping people, homes and livestock into the Arabian Sea. A smaller dam also burst elsewhere in the province, while landslides also… Read moreCatastrophic floods hit Pakistan, Venezuela; Chavez sees climate threat
Ecologists protested at the US embassy in London Feb. 12 over President Bush’s refusal to join the Kyoto agreement to cut greenhouse gases and tackle climate change. The long-stalled treaty goes into effect this week, committing 136 countries to reduce… Read moreKyoto takes effect —without world’s biggest polluter
The UK Independent reports Feb. 14 that over 5,000 neo-Nazis swarmed the official 60th anniversary commemoration of the Allied bombardment of Dresden, effectively "hijacking" the event in the east German city. Bused in from all over Germany, they overwhelmed the… Read moreNeo-Nazis “hijack” Dresden commemoration
International Solidarity Movement volunteer Pat O’Connor has been held for over two weeks in Israeli prison in awaiting deportation. O’Connor was denied entry in 2003, and since gained entry on another passport. Israel is expelling him because he is an… Read moreJailed ISM activist: Israel is failing the moral test
Indian Country Today, the national weekly published by the Oneida Nation in upstate New York, ran an editorial Feb. 10, "The Churchill Episode: Two Unfortunate Currents." The piece decries that the affair has been exploited by right-wing pundits and defends… Read moreIndian Country Today: Churchill must come clean on identity
A newly declassified report from the 9-11 Commission–released five months late and heavily censored, with several passges blotted out by thick black ink lines–reviews Federal Aviation Administration daily intelligence briefings to airport administrators in the months leading up to the… Read more9-11 Commish FAA revelations: more fodder for conspiranoia mill
The current White House drive for intervention against Iran may actually have more to do with strategic control of oil and gas resources than Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Pakistan’s Daily Times reports Feb. 11 that at the Third Asia Gas Buyers’… Read morePipeline politics behind Iran intervention drive?
At a massive Tehran rally marking Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution Feb. 10, President Mohammad Khatami pledged that no Iranian government would abandon the country’s program to devlop peaceful nuclear technology. (AP, Feb. 10) He promised a "burning hell" for any… Read morePro-nuke rally in Tehran
Now isn’t this interesting? A front-page headline in the Feb. 11 NY Times reads: "North Koreans Say They Hold Nuclear Arms; Assert They’ll Refuse to Rejoin Negotiations." The article states this stance could "bolster" those in the US administration who… Read moreNorth Korea: dialogue or “destabilization”?
