Jeffrey Goldberg in a story in The Atlantic, “The Point of No Return,” claims that Israel will attack Iran by the end of the year. But readers may recall that there was a flurry of such predictions last year too.
Members of the indigenous Dongria Kondh tribe dance in India’s Orissa state. In an unprecedented move, India’s Environment Ministry blocked Vedanta Resources’ controversial plan to mine bauxite on the sacred hills of the Dongria Kond.
Photo: Survival International
Indigenous leaders are warning of “war” after Brazil’s President Lula da Silva signed a contract allowing the construction of the controversial Belo Monte mega-dam on the Xingu River.
Mayor Bloomberg, winning praise over his position on the “Ground Zero Mosque,” weighs in against Native Americans’ right to tax-free tobacco sales on their reservations in blatantly racist terms.
Two car bombs exploded in Ciudad Victoria, capital of Mexico’s conflicted Tamaulipas state, as authorities investigate the massacre of 72 migrant laborers at a ranch near the US border.
Mexico’s Navy found 72 bodies on a ranch near the US border in Tamaulipas state. The dead are apparently migrants from Central and South America slain in a massacre by Los Zetas.
The US Treasury and the UN announced sanctions against a supposed al-Qaeda leader who also is Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law for serving as a top financial official in the terror organization.
Yemeni authorities announced that a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who apparently rejoined “al-Qaeda in the Arabian Penninsula” has turned himself in to the authorities.
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance joined critics of French mass deportations of Roma and demolition of their encampments. The commission accused France of “stigmatizing migrants.”
The UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) is on the defensive following reports of mass rapes a few kilometers from a MONUSCO base.
US Army Private First Class Nasser Abdo, 20, is seeking a discharge on the ground that his religious belief as a Muslim forbids him from fighting in any war as a member of the US military.
Bradley Manning, a 22-year-old intelligence analyst stationed in Iraq, stands accused of disclosing a classified video published by WikiLeaks that depicts US troops shooting civilians.
