…regime. (EuroNews, Oct. 5; Middle East Online, AFP, Reuters, World Bulletin, Turkey, Oct. 4; BIANet, Turkey, World Bulletin, Oct. 3) Turkey called a NATO meeting to discuss a response to the shooting down of…
…are fighting ISIS. In Syria, it could be even worse. Last year, David L. Phillips of Columbia University issued a study (online at HuffPo) on “ISIS-Turkey Links,” citing numerous reports of…
…captured 20 members of an elite unit commanded by Khamis, another of Qaddafi’s sons. (Middle East Online, The Guardian, March 16) See our last posts on Libya, the Maghreb and…
…to “get it.” This from an AP account online at Indian Country Today: As drums and chants echoed in the background, demonstrators briefly staged a mock death scene in the…
…Families for Peace) A petition to tell Bush to “Talk to Cindy!” is online at Bring Them Home Now. See our last post on Iraq, and trouble in the military….
…piece (online at Persian Journal) was apparently written before the French uprising broke out, and concerns the one-year anniversary of the slaying of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by…
…was the first death from such an attack since Israel’s Gaza offensive last year. (Today Online, March 19) On March 21, Israeli soldiers shot dead two young Palestinian villagers near…
…project at the point of bullets.” (Online at Caballero Verde blog) That same day, the Unitary Struggle Command issued a declaration of a “Permanent Peaceful Resistance for Life and Dignity,”…
…official languages, and rejecting political parties formed around ethnic identity. (Online at Amazigh Cultural Association in America) Voices on the left as well as in elite sectors of the West have…
The clandestine online activist network Anonymous has released an Internet video demanding that Los Zetas, Mexico’s bloodiest drug cartel, release one of its members who was kidnapped from a street…
A Jan. 12 New York Times story, online at the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), indicates a civil war breaking out within Iraq’s Sunni insurgency: In town after town, Iraqis…
…the attack. (Ireland Online, Jan. 18) There are growing signs that Afghanistan is spinning out of control. Notes the Center for Defense Information, Jan. 17: Overshadowed by the U.S.-led war…
