As Christianity and Islam vie for the title of “religion of peace”… From AP, Dec. 21: THESSALONIKI – Rival groups of monks wielding crowbars and sledgehammers clashed yesterday over control of a thousand-year-old monastery in a community regarded as the… Read moreMonastic slugfest rocks Greek abbey
From BBC, Nov. 23: Drivers who get stopped by the police could have their fingerprints taken at the roadside, under a new plan to help officers check people’s identities. A hand-held device being tested by 10 forces in England and… Read moreNext for UK: finger-prints at road stops
On Oct. 30, activists in Naples rallied at the local Mexican consulate in protest of the repression in Oaxaca, where Mexican President Vicente Fox has sent in a massive force of federal police. (Chiapas IMC) But Naples itself may soon… Read moreItalian army to occupy Naples?
From AP, Oct. 30: MARSEILLE — France’s interior minister sent riot police to patrol the southern port city of Marseille yesterday after a group of marauding teenagers torched a bus, gravely burning a young woman. French police braced for violence… Read moreMarseille: intifada redux
Could someone possibly please explain what this one is all about? A rather opinionated report from the right-libertarian Liberty Forum, Oct. 20: Thessalonica – The Greek Government will move, as early as this weekend, to have armed police forcibly remove… Read moreRebel monks pledge to resist police at Greek abbey eviction
The political trajectory of Oriana Fallaci speaks to one of the funamental political dilemmas on the planet at this strange juncture. The daughter of an Italian anti-fascist militant, a veteran Vietnam war correspondent, a survivor of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre… Read moreOriana Fallaci, exponent of “left” Islamophobia, dies at 77
Here we go again. Israel’s envoy to Norway complains that a cartoon goes “beyond free speech.” What the hell does that mean? Beyond good taste? Beyond acceptable discourse? Beyond what should be permitted in a free society? Where are these… Read moreIsrael v. Norway: cartoon wars redux
The Srebrenica Genocide Blog notes the July 11 ceremony at the Bosnian town to commemorate the mass murder that took place there precisely 11 years ago—an anniversary largely overlooked by the world media, despite some important new developments in the… Read moreSrebrenica: 11 years later, still no justice
With the world’s eyes elsewhere, the still-unresolved status of Kosova is a major crisis just waiting to erupt. Kostunica delivered this speech outside a 14th-century monastery in the town of Gracanica rather than at the Plain of Blackbirds, the site… Read moreKostunica emulates Milosevic on Kosova?
Scotland Yard’s anti-terror chief is awarded “Commander of the British Empire”—in the wake of a controvesial shooting of a young Muslim man in a police raid that turned up nothing. From The Telegraph, June 17: There has been a storm… Read moreUK honors anti-terror chief after shooting
Remember those innocent days when terrorists were radical leftists rather than Islamic fundamentalists? The Greeks do. From Ekathimerini, June 1 (links added): Culture Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis had informed the heads of police and the Public Order Ministry about an increase… Read moreGreece: armed left in new attack
For a second consecutive night yesterday, French police battled hundreds of Muslim youth in the Paris suburbs of Clichy-sous-Bois and Montfermeil. (Seattle Times, June 1) This makes headlines; the ongoing institutionalized racism that fuels these periodic eruptions does not. From… Read moreContinued racism behind resumed Franco-Intifada
