A bomb exploded at a Citibank in Athens, gutting the ground floor of the building. Authorities suspect Revolutionary Struggle, a militant group that fired a grenade at the US embassy in 2007.
The “Real IRA” claimed responsibility for an attack that left two soldiers dead and four others, including civilians, seriously injured at the British army’s Massereene Barracks in Antrim.
The CIA submitted a classified document to The Hague listing former Serbian intelligence chief Jovica Stanisic’s collaboration with the US spy agency’s intelligence activities in the ex-Yugoslavia.
An EU court for Kosova reached its first verdict, sentencing ethnic Albanian Gani Gashi to 17 years for guilty of crimes committed during the Kosovo-Serbian conflict in 1998-1999.
Bosnia war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic refused to enter pleas to charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in a hearing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Arguments began in the new trial of former Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, accused of embezzling and laundering nearly $20 billion from Yukos Oil.
Supporters of outlawed Basque parties say that without the banning of their slate, they would be the majority in the regional parliament, with more than 100,000 voting for the banned candidates.
Former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic was acquitted of war crimes charges by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia—although five co-defendants were convicted.
Having already barred pro-independence parties from the Basque Country’s regional elections, Spanish judge Baltazar GarzĂłn went further and banned all their activities, closing their offices and websites.
Neo-Nazis and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators clashed with riot police and each other in the German city of Dresden on the 64th anniversary of the 1945 Allied bombardment.
In Episode 17 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg discusses growing repression against the Tatar people of the Crimea, and the abrogation of their autonomous government by the Russian authorities since Moscow's illegal annexation of the peninsula. This is a clear parallel to violation of the territorial rights of the Lakota people in the United States through construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the legal persecution of indigenous leaders who stood against it. The parallel is even clearer in the cases of the Evenks and Telengit, indigenous peoples of Siberia, resisting Russian construction of pipelines through their traditional lands. Yet the US State Department's Radio Free Europe aggressively covers the Tatar struggle, while Kremlin propaganda organ Russia Today (RT) aggressively covered the Dakota Access protests. Indigenous struggles are exploited in the propaganda game played by the rival superpowers. It is imperative that indigenous peoples and their allies overcome the divide-and-rule game and build solidarity across borders and influence spheres. Listen on SoundCloud, and support our podcast via Patreon.
Jonathan Freedland writes for The Guardian: “As British Jews come under attack, the left must not remain silent. It is possible to condemn Israel’s brutal action in Gaza while taking a stand against anti-Semitism.”
