From La Jornada, Oct. 11 via Chiapas95 (our translation):

Culiacan, Sinaloa -- Felipe Calderon Hinojosa will not last six years as president of the Republicin light of the social disconent generated by the electoral fraud and the social mobilizations that are occurring throughout the country, affirmed Subcommander Marcos of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN).

From AMATE news agency, via Narco News, Oct. 11:

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN in its Spanish initials), together with its leader Subcomandante Marcos, paid homage to Cuba and to guerrilla leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara on the 39th anniversary of his October 9, 1967 murder in a remote area of Bolivia.

More nameless dead. A photo caption in the Oct. 11 New York Times, not online:

Two killed in Traffic Accidents Blocks Apart

Two people died in accidents within two blocks of each other on the Uopper West Side yesterday, the police said. Left: Shortly before 6 p.m., a 73-year-old woman was hit by a truck on Amsterdam Avenue at 74th Street, Right: A 66-year-old man fell into the path of a city bus on Broadway at 73rd Street around 4:10 p.m. Neither person's name was released.

A new military operation on Mindanao and growing impetus for a sweeping "anti-terrorism" bill in Manila, both aimed at the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF)—which denies involvement in the terror blasts which have targeted markets and other public places, leaving a dozen dead in recent days. From the Philippines' Sun-Star Network, Oct. 11:

While the Mexican Senate ponders dissolving the powers of Oaxaca's state government, thousands of activists from the Oaxaca Popular Peoples Assembly (APPO) and the striking teachers union are camped outside, having marched 290 miles cross-country from the conflicted state to Mexico City.

After rejecting an offer from the federal government to end the five-month standoff in Oaxaca, striking teachers and community leaders are preparing a counter-proposal in the tense negotiations. Meanwhile, thousands of teachers and activists have arrived at the outskirts of Mexico City after marching 466 kilometers (290 miles) from Oaxaca.

As of this writing, some 12 hours after North Korea announced its first test of a nuclear weapon, at an underground site in North Hamgyong province, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has still not moved the hands of the famous Doomsday Clock, which last moved forward in February 2002 and now stands at seven to midnight—just as it did at its unveiling in 1947. Has North Korea indeed now joined the elite "nuclear club," heretofore consisting of the US, Russia, UK, France, China, India, Pakistan and Israel?

The New York Times notes Oct. 6 that charges were dropped against Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, whose fictional character committed the crime of refering to the "Armenian genocide." But almost simultaneously, charges were brought against another writer, Hrant Dink, who dared to uphold historical truth. This Sept. 29 report from Turkey's BIA news agency indicates growing dissent among Turkish intellectuals: