Two years ago when we reported revelations that two Czech NATO commanders in Afghanistan had worn Nazi SS regalia while on duty, everyone told is it was an isolated incident and not to make a big deal of it. What do you say now, pronoiacs?
Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan has been on hunger strike since Dec. 17, and Physicians for Human Rights now say that his life is at risk. His protest against administrative detention has sparked solidarity demonstrations across the West Bank.
Deadly street clashes erupted in the Maldives, with protesters reported to be seizing police stations on some islands, after the archipelago nation’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Nasheed, was removed in a coup d’etat.
Adbusters and Chris Hedges, recently boosters and heros of the Occupy movement, have won some bad karma with the protesters, alienating activists on the ground in Chicago and Oakland by issuing pronouncement from on high…
The Court of Appeals in Milan overturned a lower court’s conviction of Tunisian former Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohamed Riadh Ben Nasri on charges of “terrorist association.” His lawyer argued the conviction was based on statement made under torture.
Norma Andrade, a prominent activist who has waged a campaign for justice in the unsolved murders of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juárez, may seek asylum outside Mexico after being wounded in two separate attacks in two different cities.
Honduran police detained 13 campesinos leaders in the conflicted Lower Aguán Valley as talks about financing a proposed settlement for long-term land disputes broke down. Venezuela has proposed funding to purchase lands for campesino communities.
Montreal-based Osisko Mining Corporation announced that it would suspend exploration for a proposed gold mine at the Nevados de Famatina mountain after weeks of protests blocking access to the site.
Protesters blocked highways in the latest round between Panama’s largest indigenous group and rightwing president Ricardo Martinelli over environmental protections in indigenous territories.
