A NATO official said the alliance is considering air-strikes on Libya’s ancient Roman ruins of Leptis Magna, sparking statements of concern from the UN. Qaddafi’s forces have already reportedly shelled the World Heritage Site of Ghadamès.
We noted last year the FBI raids on activists in the midwest over their alleged ties to the PFLP and the FARC. We’ve also noted the hardline proclivities of federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, whose harsh “anti-terrorist” measures have bottlenecked free… Read moreActivists protest FBI raids in FARC-PFLP case
Haitians left homeless by the January 2010 earthquake demonstrated in Port-au-Prince to demand action on the housing situation and an end to forced evictions from the displaced persons camps.
US cables released by WikiLeaks show that “[t]he US embassy in Haiti worked closely with factory owners…to aggressively block a paltry minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers” in 2009.
Statistic from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives indicate that a total of 70% of nearly 30,000 illegal guns the Mexican government seized in 2009 and 2010 came from the US.
Campesino organizations from the Lower Aguán Valley marched in Tegucigalpa to protest the killings of Aguán campesinos and to demand that the government keep its land distribution promises.
Four Mapuche activists imprisoned in Chile’s central Araucanía region have ended a liquids-only hunger strike they started on March 15 to protest convictions in what they considered an unfair trial.
Glenn Greenwald hyperventilates about a WikiLeaks cable revealing that (gasp!) US oil companies didn’t like Qaddafi, as he betrays the Libyan rebels by portraying “regime change” as just a cynical conspiracy by Exxon & ilk.
Libyan rebels broke through the Qaddafi-loyalist forces besieging Misrata and once again advanced toward Tripoli—despite complaints that NATO had failed to back their drive to break the siege with air power.
A judge for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned the release of Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee Hussein Salem Mohammed Almerfedi, finding circumstantial evidence that he is part of al-Qaeda.
Al-Qaeda leader Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, said to be behind the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was killed at a checkpoint in Somalia by forces who didn’t realize he was the most wanted man in Africa.
A “peace caravan,” which has spent a week travelling through Mexico to protest against drug-related violence and the “war on drugs,” crossed into the US at El Paso, where protest leader Javier Sicilia called for a halt to the Merida Initiative.
