Media accounts portray Tarek Mehanna as a dangerous conspirator—but he never actually received “terrorist training” in Yemen, and the texts he apparently translated were al-Qaeda propaganda videos.
Local environmentalists and Philippine opposition lawmakers charge that unbridled logging and mining activities in Northern Mindanao are behind the devastating floods that have left nearly 1,000 dead and hundreds missing.
Ron Paul wants to privatize the national parks, abolish the EPA and open up virtually all offshore waters to BP and Exxon. Why are so-called “progressives” continuing to shill for this shill of Big Oil and the resource industries?
Even as the White House censures Venezuelan officials for “narco-terrorist” ties, the Hugo Chávez government handed a top Colombian drug trafficking suspect, Maximiliano Bonilla Orozco AKA “Valenciano,” over to US authorities.
Peru’s President Ollanta Humala called off the state of emergency in Cajamarca region after local leaders agreed to suspend their civil strike against Newmont Mining Corp.’s Conga gold project pending talks with the government.
Unknown gunmen opened fire on a helicopter carrying Freeport-McMoRan mining company workers in Indonesia’s restive West Papua, injuring one passenger. The attacks comes as thousands of workers settled a months-long strike.
Kazakh interior ministry troops fired on striking oil workers in the Caspian Basin city Zhanaozen, leaving at least 10 dead. The violence came in a move to oust hundreds of workers from a square they had been occupying for six months.
The Germany-based Society for Threatened Peoples warns that Libya could face an imminent Berber revolt, if the ruling National Transitional Council does not end Qaddafi’s policies of “Arabization” and recognize cultural rights.
The Pakistan-based Foundation for Fundamental Rights, representing the victims of drone attacks, is seeking an international warrant for the arrest of CIA station chief Jonathan Banks who has fled the country to avoid prosecution.
“Narco-banners” hung from Nuevo Laredo overpasses and signed in the name of Los Zetas declared: “We are not terrorists or guerrillas. We concentrate on our work and the last thing we want is to have problems with any government.”
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir arrived in Washington to meet with Hillary Clinton, World Bank president Robert Zoellick and international investors—as biofuel and resource industries scramble for the new nation’s lands.
Security forces have blocked roads leading to the village of Wukan, in China’s Guangdong province, after residents chased out police. Villagers are demanding the central government intervene over a land grab by local officials.
