Maria Antonieta Trinidad Ramirez del Valle, popularly known as La Trini, returned to the conflicted central Mexican village of San Salvador Atenco Nov. 25 after more than six months in clandestinity at an unknown location. She was accompanied by Don… Read moreMexico: Atenco protest leader out from clandestinity
From La Jornada, Dec. 11 via Chiapas95 (our translation): GUADALAJARA – Some 100 sympathizers of the popular movement in Oaxaca announced the formation of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Jalisco (APPJ), whose primary aim will be “the unity… Read more“Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Jalisco” proclaimed
Growing signs of a revolutionary convergence in Mexico—open solidarity between the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). From AP, Dec. 11 via Chiapas95: OAXACA – A leader of Mexico’s largest… Read moreOaxaca: PRD marches for APPO
More fodder for our ongoing Irony Watch. We have little doubt that Mengistu is guilty of genocide. But—as we have had the unfortunate duty to point out—so, it seems, are Ethiopia’s current rulers, if not quite on the same scale…. Read moreEthiopia: Mengistu found guilty of genocide
In our last post about the Holocaust denail confab in Iran, we asked whether the rumors are true that anti-Zionist writer Norman G. Finkelstein is participating. Alan “torture could be justified” Dershowitz explores the question on the ostensibly liberal Huffington… Read moreIs Norman Finkelstein at Tehran Holocaust-denial confab?
This short piece exposes an interesting phenomenon at the Washington Post: citizen-soldier-book reviewers. Received via e-mail from our correspondent Brian Hennessey, Dec. 11: To review Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, the Washington Post [Dec. 10] chose a Jewish… Read moreOn Goldberg’s review of Carter in Washington Post
From Human Rights Watch, Dec. 11: The Iranian Judiciary should prosecute officials responsible for the arbitrary detention and alleged torture of several bloggers in 2004, instead of prosecuting the bloggers for expressing their opinions, Human Rights Watch said today. On… Read moreHRW to Iran: Prosecute torturers, not bloggers
From The Scostman, Dec. 12: A conference of the world’s most prominent Holocaust deniers opened in Iran yesterday amid international condemnation and protests by dozens of Iranian students, who burned pictures of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and chanted “death to the… Read moreIran: protesters condemn Holocaust conference
From the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), Dec. 7: Darkest Scenario for Women of Iraq: Public executions of women by Islamist militias in Baghdad Shia Militias: A new wave of public executions against women is undertaken by Al… Read moreOWFI: “Darkest scenario for women of Iraq”
Former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (1973-1990) died of heart failure at the age of 91 in the Santiago Military Hospital the afternoon of Dec. 10. Dozens of his right-wing supporters gathered outside the hospital as soon as they… Read morePinochet dies untried
A sneak preview of our upcoming film review by cultural critic Shlomo Svesnik… MEL GIBSON’S HEART OF DARKNESS Apocalypto Reveals More About Mel than the Maya Here we go again. Mel Gibson’s 2004 surprise mega-hit The Passion of the Christ… Read moreMel Gibson garbles Maya history
Mexican federal police searched the offices of Oaxaca’s state police forces Dec. 8, seizing hundreds of weapons. The federal Public Security Secretariat said in a statement that the search was carried out to check the permits for weapons used by… Read moreMexican feds raid Oaxaca state police; violence continues in countryside
