International

India: Left stands firm on nuke deal
Israel: Rights group documents torture
Ireland: Unions help defeat Lisbon Treaty
Nigeria: Oil production down 50 percent
Haiti: Drinking water shortage
Cuba: Free lung cancer drug

As worry mounts that the same right-wingers who got us into the Iraq war are now pushing for war with Iran, journalist Seymour Hersh has revealed that the Bush administration is supporting terrorist groups in Iran that are believed to be linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban.

A scandal is brewing that connects right-wing Cuban exiles in the United States with violent Mexican drug gangs trained by the U.S. military. The story first broke in the left-wing Mexico City daily, La Jornada

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party held a widely condemned election on June 29 in which the opposition dropped out because of widespread violence and intimidation. The African Union on June 30 joined the international chorus in rejecting the outcome. South African President Thabo Mbeki is mediating a power-sharing deal between ZANU-PF and the opposition Movement for a Democratic Change.

A pesar de que el Tribunal de Apelaciones del Primer Circuito rechazó la demanda de los periodistas puertorriqueños de que no hubo violación de la Primera Enmienda de la Constitutición de Estados Unidos que otorga la libertad de prensa, el tribunal si dijo que el FBI usó fuerza exeso de fuerza cuando atacaron a periodistas en febrero del 2006 en Rio Piedra, Puerto Rico. Los reporteros estaban cubriendo el allanamiento de una líder independentista, Lilian Laboy.

Los cubanos anunciaron una vacuna terapéutica en contra del cáncer de los pulmones la semana pasada. Gisela González, directora del programa que elaboró la vacuna, dijo que era la primera registrada en el mundo contra esa enfermedad particular. El proyecto para la vacuna empezó hace 16 años en el 1992.

DALLAS, TX – We are one of the cities where routes converge for the dozens of Americans heading for Laredo, Texas, then to revolutionary Cuba. On June 27, 41 of them came to Munger Place United Methodist Church from Little Rock, Oklahoma City, Albuquerque, and Denver.

On June 27, nearly seven years after United States and NATO troops ousted the Taliban government of Afghanistan, the Pentagon issued a comprehensive report to Congress that declared “the Taliban has regrouped and formed a resilient insurgency” and “is likely to maintain or increase its attacks in 2008.”

After blocking the exits at the stadium in Sucre, Bolivia, May 24, thugs beat and verbally abused dozens of Indians in a crowd waiting to greet Bolivian President Evo Morales, a socialist. The local mayor, the university chancellor, and the municipal council president, opponents of the president, looked on, applauding the attacks.

A scandal is brewing that connects rightwing Cuban exiles in the United States with violent Mexican drug gangs trained by the U.S. military. The story first broke in the leftwing Mexico City daily, La Jornada. On June 12, 33 undocumented Cuban immigrants and four Central Americans were picked up by Mexican immigration authorities. A gang of armed men held up the bus transporting the immigrants and kidnapped them.