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WHY WE FIGHT

…local Community Board member Chad Marlow has launched an online campaign to raise momey for Akkas Ali (apparently the correct rendering of his name) via GiveForward. Marlow writes: “Ali has a…

Philip Weiss shills for fascistic demagogue Ron Paul —again

…online attack ad posted by “NHLiberty4Paul.” The ad features video footage of Huntsman in Beijing when he was ambassador to China, as well as of Huntsman speaking Chinese with his…

Napolitano defends Drug War; Costa Rica breaking ranks?

…After the War on Drugs: Blueprints for Regulation, provides specific proposals for how drugs could be regulated in the real world. The book is available for free online. If you…

US kills more civilians in Afghanistan: provincial governor

…Khalili, a commander in the Hezb-e Wahdat faction and now one of President Karzai’s two vice-presidents. (July 7 press release online at Global Policy; report online at Human Rights Watch)…

Bill Weinberg to speak at Left Forum

WW4 Report Video of Left Forum panel on left collaboration with Trump Online at the Marxist-Humanist Initiative… WW4 Report Bill Weinberg disses “left” at Left Forum Online at the Marxist-Humanist…

Human Rights Watch: Trump portends ‘tyranny’

…In Russia, HRW finds that Vladimir Putin “responded to popular discontent in 2011 with a repressive agenda, including draconian restrictions on free speech and assembly, unprecedented sanctions for online dissent,…

Oaxaca: US Congress demands answers in Brad Will case

…Photos online at http://www.flickr.com/groups/87705136@N00/ See our last post on Mexico and the struggle in Oaxaca. See also our last posts on the Brad Will case and press freedom in Mexico….

Mexico: narco gangs kill musicians

…in that case, but are investigating a possible connection between the killing and a video posted online set to one of Elizalde’s songs, “A Mis Enemigos,” or “To My Enemies.”…

Somalia: US backing Ethiopian offensive?

…highway south of the Puntland autonomous region. Puntland militias under warlord Col. Abdi Qeybdiid fought alongside Ethiopian troops in the ground battle for Bandiradley town. (Garowe Online, Dec. 26) Russian-made…

Anarchist bomb blasts in Mexico City?

…MexiBús commuter line at a terminal in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec. There were no casualties. The communique, online at ContraInfo, was full of eco-anarchist rhetoric, pledging more bombings…

UN: Saudi Arabia torturing imprisoned activists

The UN Committee against Torture posted a letter online Dec. 11 that calls on Saudi Arabia to release over a dozen imprisoned activists and cites credible claims of improper treatment, sexual…

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