Bill Weinberg
Bolivia: Evo to free the land?
From Prensa Latina, March 8:
A call to return illegally owned lands was launched by Bolivia´s President Evo Morales, while warning his administration will put an end to unproductive large landed estates.
Bolivia: military tension with US —already
Just to get both sides of the story, first this account (in rather poor English) from Cuba's Prensa Latina:
La Paz, Mar 8 - Bolivia conditioned the return of weaponry and technology the US supplied to an elite military unit on submitting an official request through the Foreign Ministry.
Mexico: "dirty war" files reveal "genocide plan"
Ginger Thompson writes for the New York Times, Feb. 27:
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 26 A secret report prepared by a special prosecutor's office says the Mexican military carried out a "genocide plan" of kidnapping, torturing and killing hundreds of suspected subversives in the southern state of Guerrero during the so-called dirty war, from the late 1960's to the early 1980's.
More Jews attacked in France
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 anxiety that anti-Semitism is growing among a new generation of French citizens in the country's immigrant-heavy, working-class neighborhoods.
Bangladesh: jihadi arrested, guns blazing
With the word's attention elsewhere, a violent confrontation between security forces and jihadis in Bangladesh. From India Monitor, March 7:
Dhaka: Wanted terrorist and Islamist leader Siddiqul Islam better known as Banglabhai, who founded the jihadi organisation Jagrata Muslim Janata and is blamed for deadly bombings, was captured by security forces on Monday after a dramatic encounter at his hideout in Mymensingh district.
Rumsfeld accuses Iran, blasts media
Rumsfeld exploits the carnage in Iraq to score points against Iran, even as he scolds the media for daring to actually report it. How does he keep a straight face? From Bloomberg, March 7:
Jihad in Chapel Hill?
Great propaganda for the right-wing Human Events Online. This from Robert Spencer's "Jihad Watch" column, March 7. Our editorial interjections added.
Last Friday afternoon, a student named Mohammed Taheri-azar drove an SUV onto the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, trying to kill people and succeeding in injuring nine. He explained that he was "thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah."
Cindy Sheehan supports Iraqi women
Sarah Ferguson writes for the Village Voice, March 6:
Cindy Sheehan took another bust for the anti-war cause Monday. She was cuffed and forcefully dragged away from the plaza in front of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, where she had marched with a delegation of Iraqi women in hopes of delivering a petition to demand the immediate withdrawal of U.S. and other foreign forces from Iraq.

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