Richard Goldstone’s Washington Post op-ed reconsidering the UN report on Israel’s Operation Cast Lead loans dangerous credibility to the Orwellian concept of “collateral damage.”
US Attorney General Eric Holder announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other co-conspirators will be tried before a military commission for their roles in the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
Reports are emerging of US and British military advisors arriving in Benghazi, as a Qaddafi spokesman said the regime is open to reform—but that “the leader has to lead this forward.”
As engineers at Fukushima resort to building silt mounds around the leaking reactor to filter radioactive particles, public advocates insist there is no safe dose of radiation—despite official assurances.
The Libertarian Book Club, New York City’s oldest active anarchist institution, kicks off a new season of its Anarchist Forum series as Bill Weinberg leads a discussion on Libya, the Arab Spring and the crisis in North Africa.
Thousands of Hondurans demonstrated in a “National Civic Strike” called by teachers’ unions and the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP), a coalition of unions and grassroots organizations.
Thousands of workers marched on the congress building in Mexico City to protest a proposed reform of the labor code they say “intends to finish off collective contracts and make the workers modern slaves.”
Sae-A Trading Co. Ltd, South Korea’s leading apparel manufacturer, is pushing ahead with plans to open a large garment assembly plant near the coastal village of Caracol in Haiti’s agricultural Northeast department.
Peruvian indigenous forest dwellers have been forced to set up a guard post to protect a reserve established for “uncontacted” peoples, after the authorities ignored their repeated pleas for action.
Brazil signed an agreement with Bolivia to fight cocaine production and trafficking, replacing assistance formerly provided by the US DEA, which was ejected from the country by President Evo Morales in 2008.
Former Argentine general Eduardo Cabanillas was sentenced to life in prison for running the Automotores Orletti secret detention center in Buenos Aires during the period of military rule from 1976-83.
Thousands of members of Black and indigenous groups in Honduras marched on the capital, Tegucigalpa, to demand territorial rights and protest recent repression by the regime of Porfirio Lobo.
