In this Nov. 8 commentary for Truthout, Jason Leopold saves some salient facts about the incoming Defense Secretary from the Orwellian Memory Hole. It seems that like the outgoing Rumsfeld, he was instrumental in building US intelligence and military links… Read moreRobert Gates: another ex-Saddam symp takes helm at Pentagon
From AP, Nov. 7: ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal public defender who took on some of the nation’s most high-profile terrorism cases after Nine-Eleven has died at age 64. Frank Dunham Junior died Friday of brain cancer at his northern… Read moreFrank Dunham, terror war public defender, dead at 64
From Mexico’s El Universal, Nov. 7 via Chiapas95: GENEVA – The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), embroiled in a conflict with the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), will present a report before the UN human rights officials on Wednesday saying that… Read moreMexico: torture up 300% under Fox
Amnesty International has officially called upon the Mexican government to release the names of those detained by federal police in Oaxaca, and the charges they face. The arrested now number above 80. Many are being held incommunicado and there are… Read moreTorture in Oaxaca; Amnesty demands info on detained
From the AP, Nov. 7: Hundreds protest border fence in Mexico CIUDAD ACUNA, Mexico — The mayor of a Mexican city on the Texas border led about 400 people on a 55-mile march Tuesday to protest U.S. plans for new… Read moreProtests against border wall both sides of the line
How ironic. We noted in August that ex-Israeli security chief Uza Dayan was warning the US against emulating Israeli strategies in securing the Mexican border. Now it appears that Elbit Systems, an Israeli firm which is building the “Aparthied Wall”… Read moreIsraeli firm gets Mexico border wall contract
There have now been 84 “arbitrary detentions” by the Mexican federal police in Oaxaca, according to the Miguel Augustin Pro-Juarez Human Rights Center (PRODH), which has dispatched a team of investigators to the besieged city. The group also reports 59… Read moreOaxaca: siege continues; solidarity builds across Mexico
Bombs exploded at three high-profile targets in Mexico City early on the morning of Nov. 6, causing property damage but no injuries. A door was damaged and windows blown out at the Federal Electoral Tribunal (TRIFE), a body which had… Read moreBombs rock Mexico City
Under the slogan “the struggle of Oaxaca is the struggle of Puebla,” representatives of the Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) met with local activists in the capital of neighboring Puebla state Nov. 3. Leaders of the Frente Civico Poblano… Read more“Popular Assembly of the State of Puebla” proclaimed
From Reporters Without Borders, Nov. 3 via Chiapas95: While noting that two of Indymedia cameraman Brad Will’s alleged killers were arrested and taken before a judge yesterday in Oaxaca, Reporters Without Borders today condemned the shortcomings in the investigation into… Read moreOaxaca: Brad Will’s killers still at large?
Oaxaca’s beseiged Gov. Ulises Ruiz continues to resist calls for his resignation from all three of Mexico’s major political parties. He insisted Nov. 4 that the conflict in his state affects only “one avenue in one of 570 municipalities.” (La… Read moreOaxaca: Ruiz intransigent despite growing resistance
Tens of thousands of protesters from across Mexico have gathered in Oaxaca City Nov. 5 to defy federal police control of the streets in what organizers are calling a “mega-march.” Cars and buses from throughout the country arrived at Oaxaca‘s… Read moreOaxaca: “mega-march” defies federal police
