From the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) General Command, Dec. 2: To the people of Mexico: To the people of the world: Brothers and Sisters: The attack that our brothers, the people of Oaxaca suffered and suffer cannot be ignored… Read moreEZLN: global mobilization for Oaxaca, Dec. 22
Thousands of Somalis chanted anti-US slogans at an Islamist protest against a Washington-backed plan to send foreign peacekeepers to prop up the country’s weak interim government Dec. 4. In a decrepit Mogadishu football stadium, Somalis shouted “Down with the USA!”… Read moreUS backing Ethiopia’s Somalia intervention?
From Military Families Speak Out, Dec. 6: Military families challenge Iraq Study Group report as “the way sideways,” paving the way for a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq Military Families Speak Out (MFSO), a nonpartisan organization of over 3,100… Read moreMilitary families challenge Iraq Study Group report
Over the issue of the US harboring a terrorist, the headline fails to note. From AP, Dec. 2: Chavez snubs US overture for dialogue President Hugo Chavez snubbed a US overture for dialogue, saying he is always willing to talk… Read moreVictorious Chavez snubs US dialogue offer?
Gus Selassie for Global Insight Daily Analysis via BBC Monitoring, Dec. 5: Ethiopia and Somali Islamists in Last-Ditch Talks to Avert All-Out War Despite the recent war of words and the deep-rooted animosity that appears to exist between the two… Read moreLast ditch talks to avert Ethiopian-Somali war
Here’s a glimmer of hope. Emad Mekay writes from Cairo for IPS, via South Africa’s Mail & Guardian, Nov. 30: ‘I thought Islam told us to do so’ Om Samar didn’t believe the news. “Muslim scholars banning [female] circumcision? This… Read moreIslamic scholars condemn female genital mutilation
From the Jerusalem Post, Dec. 2: A hitherto unknown group calling itself the Just Swords of Islam issued a warning to Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip over the weekend that they must wear the hijab or face being targeted… Read moreIslamists threaten Gaza women
Still think freedom’s on the march in Afghanistan? Or, for those of you on the other side of the coin, that the Taliban insurgents are heroic anti-imperialists? From The Independent, Nov. 29: Disembowelled, then torn apart: The price of daring… Read moreTaliban terror targets Afghan women
Via the Sudan Tribune, Nov. 28: Ogaden National Liberation Front Statement on Events Unfolding in Somalia There has been much written about the events unfolding in Somalia with frequent mention of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and speculations on… Read moreOgaden rebels blast Ethiopia’s Somalia intervention
Via BBC Monitoring: Ethiopian rebel group terms parliament’s decision on Somalia “reckless” Text of statement issued by Ethiopian armed opposition Oromo Liberation Front, OLF, on 30 December The Ethiopian parliament, on its session of 30 November 2006, ratified a declaration… Read moreOromo rebels blast Ethiopia’s Somalia intervention
One question that needs to be asked, is how much of the Iraqi bloodbath is due to the “Salvador option” strategem that Newsweek claimed Negroponte wanted to employ to quell the Sunni insurgency, using Shia militias. From AP, Dec. 1:… Read moreIntel supremo: Iraq worse than Nam
From AP, Dec. 2: CARACAS — A Navy captain arrested this week was allegedly about to deliver to opponents of President Hugo Chavez a list of officers disposed to help topple the government, according to a high-ranking military official. The… Read moreVenezuela: coup rumblings on election eve
