LONDON, April 5 (Reuters) – Anti-terrorism detectives escorted a man from a plane after a taxi driver had earlier become suspicious when he started singing along to a track by punk band The Clash, police said on Wednesday. Detectives halted… Read moreFear of music
The countdown continues: how long before the idiot left in the West starts rallying around Lukashenko? From AP, March 24: MINSK, Belarus – Police stormed the opposition tent camp in the Belarusian capital early Friday and rounded up hundreds of… Read moreBelarus: police break opposition protests
From AP, March 22: ROME — Italian police said Tuesday they have arrested five people suspected in the killing of a local politician who was shot last year at a polling station in southern Italy where he was voting in… Read moreCalabrian ‘Ndrangheta Europe’s leading crime machine —legacy of Kosova war?
Lukashenko is doubtless correct that the protesters are backed by the West—or are about to be. Can we—meaning progressives in the West—possibly think of a more creative response to this dilemma than rallying around Lukashenko? From the BBC, March 21:… Read more“Regime change” for Belarus?
This March 12 piece by Nerma Jelacic from The Guardian reflects our sentiments precisely. Even in death, Milosevic wins again The death of Slobodan Milosevic has put a smile on many Bosnian faces, but I am sad. Not because the… Read moreSlobodan Milosevic cheats fate
Why is it only the right-wing press that ever demonstrates any outrage over this sort of thing? Just asking. From the New York Times, March 7: PARIS, March 6 — Three attacks against Jews over the weekend have added to… Read moreMore Jews attacked in France
From the Times of India, March 2: Britain’s far right British National Party (BNP) has handed out thousands of leaflets showing the controversial Danish cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, reports said on Thursday. According to reports, the BNP, a small… Read moreBritish xenophobes distribute Danish cartoons
From AP via the Glasgow Herald, Feb. 27: Tens of of thousands of demonstrators, including ministers and politicians of all stripes, united in a show of force against racism and anti-Semitism yesterday, marching through the capital after the torture and… Read moreFrance: torture-killing sparks anti-racist march
From South Africa’s Mail & Guardian, from wire sources, Feb. 15: Italian minister to wear Muhammad cartoon T-shirt A prominent Italian government figure planned on Wednesday to wear a T-shirt sporting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that have sparked violent… Read moreSartorial front in “cartoon jihad”?
Yet more evidence of the Western democracies’ sterling commitment to freedom of expression. From the Washington Post: LONDON, Feb. 15 — The House of Commons on Wednesday backed a bill that would make “glorification” of terrorism a criminal offense, a… Read moreUK: anti-free speech measure advances
Bosnian Muslims burned the Croatian flag in front of the country’s Sarajevo embassy Feb. 8, in a protest over the publication of the Danish cartoons in a Croatian weekly magazine. Hundreds of Bosnian Muslims also protested at the Danish, Norwegian… Read moreBosnia: Croatian flag burned in cartoon protest
Sent by Mahmood Ketabchi, an exiled follower of the Worker Communist Party of Iran now living in New Jersey and active in support work for workers’ and women’s movements in Iran and Iraq. Emphasis added. Defend Freedom of Press—and the… Read more“Defend the right to blasphemy”
