From AFP, May 7 via iAfrica.com: Riot squads fired tear gas on Sunday at protestors throwing stones, bottles and, in one instance, acid at police in cities across France after right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential victory. Clashes took place at Paris’… Read moreFrance: riots greet “Sarko-fascist” election
Unknown assailants tossed a hand grenade and fired 17 rounds with a semi-automatic weapon into a police station in Athens April 30, damaging police cars and civilian vehicles but causing no casualties. A police official said: “It appears to be… Read moreGreece: anarchists attack?
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed concern that construction of a US missile shield in Eastern Europe would heighten the “threat of causing mutual damage and even destruction.” The proposed scheme “is not just a defense system,” he exclaimed, “this is… Read morePutin: US missile shield threatens stability
The New York Times‘ March 24 review of a new exhibit on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade at the Museum of the City of New York is a depressingly sinister and hypocritical piece of propaganda. Entitled “The Spanish Civil War: Black… Read moreNYT revisionism on Spanish Civil War
Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Elmar Mamediarov and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed a memorandum of understanding on energy cooperation in Washington March 22. Azerbaijan announced it is seeking political support from the US to build new gas export pipelines,… Read moreUS-Russia race for Balkan pipeline access?
British authorities have arrested three men in connection with the July 7, 2005 London bombings that killed 52. Police say they have long suspected that others were involved in the attack besides the four suicide bombers. Two of the suspects… Read more7-7 arrests —and media revisionism
As his trial opened at The Hague March 5, Former Kosova prime minister Ramush Haradinaj pleaded not guilty to charges of war crimes stemming from his time as a regional commander of the Kosova Liberation Army (KLA). Standing trial with… Read moreKosova: more protests as UN trial opens for ex-prime minister
The latest entry in the global wave of anti-Semitism which the left is always trying to tell us is “illusory.” This sort of thing seems to be especially popular in Russia of late. From JTA, March 2: Vandals scrawled swastikas… Read moreVladivostok synagogue vandalized —again
Anti-Semitic acts continue to increase in France, according to a new report by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF). The annual document reports that violence and threats against French Jews increased dramatically in 2006 over a year… Read moreAnti-Semitic attacks rise in France, UK and worldwide
Thousands of Serbs protested in front of the US embassy in Belgrade Feb. 27 against independence for Kosova, which has been under United Nations control since 1999. The protest, organised by the Serb National Council of Kosovo (SNV), drew some… Read moreSerbs protest Kosova independence; Bosniaks protest Serbia genocide acquittal
Anti-war marchers took to the streets in London and Glasgow Feb. 24 to demand the return of all troops from Iraq, and an end to plans to replace the UK’s Trident nuclear missile system. Organizers from the Stop the War… Read moreMuslim alliance in UK peace marches
Wow, like, nostalgia for the ’80s, dude. This should be read to the strains of Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Except that now the Russkies are threatening to nuke former Warsaw Pact members—which just indicates how desperate their post-imperial position is,… Read moreNuclear sabre-rattling in Europe
