Activist Mahadeo (“Emo”) Sadloo was shot dead at his automobile tire shop in eastern Tegucigalpa; just one day later, activist journalist Medardo Flores was gunned down near his farm in the north.
US diplomats suspected in 2004 that the business owner at the center of land disputes in the Lower Aguán Valley may have been involved in three drug-related incidents at one of his properties.
World War 4 Report editor Bill Weinberg, in the second Internet edition of the Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade, discusses the emerging struggle for post-Qaddafi Libya and the potential for ethnic war as Arabs are pitted against Tuaregs and Berbers.
The “Truthies” and sectarians who protested in downtown Manhattan continue to fetishize 9-11 as much as the patriots they loathe. For both the patriots and the protesters, it is all about the USA—while the Muslim world is finally moving on.
The US Justice Department announced its findings from a three-year investigation that the Puerto Rico Police Department has engaged in repeated unlawful behavior, including unconstitutional arrests and failure to protect First Amendment rights.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has broached supporting recognition by the US Senate of the Armenian genocide as part of a diplomatic offensive against Turkey, the Hebrew-language daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
Xenophobes and Christian fundamentalists are behind the anti-sharia measures now passed or pending in more than a dozen states—but secular progressives resist efforts to impose sharia on the unwilling in the Muslim world. Can we avoid confusion?
Egyptian authorities declared a state of emergency after protesters broke into the Israeli embassy in Cairo and dumped hundreds of documents out of the windows. The embassy’s Israeli flag was torn down, and a Palestinian one raised.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed the 2010 denial of habeas corpus for Guantánamo detainee Shawali Khan, an accused member of Gulbuddin Khan’s Hezb-Islami insurgent group in Afghanistan.
Thousands of teachers and students took to the streets of several Colombian cities to protest President Juan Manuel Santos’ proposal to “reform” higher education, weakening job security and increasing tuition.
The Peruvian NGO Cusichaca Andina won a grant from the World Bank to promote the revival of ancient Andean crops and agricultural methods in peasant communities to help them adapt to the ravages of climate change.
Workers at the Cerro Verde copper mine in Peru’s Arequipa region began a 48-hour strike, demanding higher pay and threatening to launch an indefinite strike in one week if an agreement isn’t reached with multinational Freeport-McMoRan.
