A bomb blast ripped through a crowd of laborers lining up for work offers in a square in Baghdad’s Shi’ite Sadr City enclave Oct. 29, killing at least 25 people and wounding 60. It was the most recent of several… Read moreIraq: US-occupied Sadr City on edge after terror blast
Pakistan’s army admitted Oct. 31 it had killed up to 80 in an early-morning strike on a supposedly al-Qaeda-linked madrassa in a tribal area near the Afghan border. The military action sparked protests in the area, and in the neighbouring… Read morePakistan: protests as air strike wipes out madrassa in Tribal Areas
An Oct. 24 explosion at the University of Atlantico left four students dead and four wounded in the city of Barranquilla, capital of Atlantico department on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. (Some sources say three students were killed and five wounded.) The… Read moreColombia: explosion kills four students
On the night of Oct. 18, or the early hours of Oct. 19, suspected hired killers shot to death university student leader Milton Hernan Troyano Sanchez in Mosquera park in the city of Popayan, capital of the southwestern Colombian department… Read moreColombia: another student leader killed
On the order of President Vicente Fox, thousands of federal police backed up by army troops stormed past barricades in embattled Oaxaca City Oct. 29, seizing control of the city center from protesters who have held it for five months…. Read moreFederal police take Oaxaca City center; at least two more dead
Nervous Democrats are distancing themselves from Jimmy Carter’s forthcoming Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, and urging him not to use the term to describe the continuing Israeli occupation and colonization of the Palestinian territories. It should be noted that Ha’aretz, Israel’s… Read moreDemocrats task Carter over “apartheid” Israel tome
From the UK Independent, Oct. 22, via Common Dreams: Nothing else quite like it has happened at any time in the past 10,000 years. In just over a month an entire Antarctic ice shelf, bigger than a small country, disintegrated… Read moreGlobal warming link to Antarctic ice melt: study
From CTV, Oct. 28: NATO’s top commander apologized Saturday for civilians killed during battles between NATO-led forces and the Taliban militia in Afghanistan this week. The death of a civilian “is something that causes anybody in uniform to lose a… Read moreAfghanistan: NATO blames civilian deaths on “asymmetric warfare”
Brad Will (Bradley Roland Will), 36, a photojournalist for New York City’s Independent Media Center (IMC) was fatally shot Oct. 27 when gunmen opened fire on a protest barricade in the besieged capital of Oaxaca state in southern Mexico. According… Read moreNYC Indymedia reporter killed in Oaxaca; Fox sends in federal police
First this, from DPA, Oct. 25: Police protection given to German MP in headscarf row BERLIN – A female member of parliament from the Greens party has been given police protection after calling on Muslim women in Germany to give… Read moreAnti-woman Islamism in the news
On Oct. 26 at a White House ceremony, President George W. Bush signed a bill authorizing 700 miles of new fencing along the nearly 2,000-mile US-Mexico border in what was viewed as an effort to boost anti-immigrant Republican candidates just… Read moreBush signs border fence bill
From AP, Oct. 25: BUENOS AIRES — Argentine prosecutors asked a federal judge on Wednesday to order the arrest of former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani and seven others for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center that killed scores… Read moreArgentina demands arrest of Iran ex-prez
