The April 28 suicide car blast in Karbala occurred at a checkpoint on an approach to the city’s golden-domed Al-Abbas shrine, amid crowded shops and restaurants near the Shi’ite holy site. “Once again the dark forces and terrorists have targeted… Read moreKarbala carnage escalates factional strife
We agree that there is something utterly perverse about the fact that the Darfur genocide is now entering its fifth year, as the world stands by and watches. And of course the vast majority of those participating in the Global… Read moreGlobal Day for Darfur —but not Palestine
So much for all the incessant Republican balther about how “We’re fighting them in Iraq so we don’t have to fight them here at home.” The terrorists love the GWOT. It is their biggest recuiting and propaganda tool, their very… Read moreState Department: global terrorism surges —again
On April 23 in Arizona, Cochise County Attorney Ed Rheinheimer filed a felony complaint against US Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett, charging him with four counts of homicide: first- and second-degree murder, manslaughter and negligent homicide. On Jan. 12, Corbett… Read moreBorder Patrol agent faces trial in killing
On April 24, some 60 federal agents armed with rifles and dressed in bulletproof vests raided the Little Village Discount Mall on Chicago’s southwest side. The agents closed off exits, locked down the mall and stopped about 150 shoppers and… Read moreChicago mall locked down in ICE raid
On April 20, ICE agents arrested 13 Mexican immigrant workers employed at the Eagle Bag Corporation factory in East Oakland, California. Twelve of the workers were arrested at the factory; one was picked up at a residence. The workers were… Read moreICE raids Oakland military contractor
On April 4, ICE agents searched apartments and stopped people on the street in the mid-Hudson community of Valatie, New York, arresting eight out-of-status immigrants. In nearby Chatham, ICE arrested two men on the street. ICE spokesperson Mike Gilhooly verified… Read moreOperation “Return to Sender” hits New York’s mid-Hudson
Federal regulators have fined the operators of New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant $130,000 for failure to meet an April 15 deadline to install a new emergency siren system for the 10-mile evacuation zone around the plant. Officials from… Read moreNew York’s Indian Point nuke plant fined $130K
A group of Mexican writers, intellectuals and artists have issued an open letter to Gov. Patricio Patrón Laviada of Yucatan state demanding the release of 22 people still being held in Mérida after being arrested at the March 13 protests… Read moreYucatan: demand release of anti-Bush protesters
The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba), based in the Highlands of Mexico’s conflicted southern Chiapas state, has issued a new report charging that 13 years after an armed uprising in the state, the roots of the… Read moreFrayba: causes of Chiapas conflict still prevail
The Mexican senate has passed a package of reforms to Article 139 of the Federal Penal Code modeled on anti-terrorist legislation in the United States—above the objections of the left-opposition PRD, PT and Convergence, whose legislators assailed the changes as… Read moreMexican senate passes anti-terror package
Aunty Maiduguri, a Nigerian lesbian who married four other women last weekend in Kano State, has gone into hiding from the Islamic police, along with her partners. Under Sharia law, adopted in the state seven years ago, homosexuality and same-sex… Read moreNigeria: polygamous lesbians flee Islamic police
