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 survivors' ongoing search for justice:

A statement from the Iraq Freedom Congress, June 26:

Dissolving Al-Maliki Government Rather than Initiating 'National Reconciliation'
Is the solution for ending the Iraqis’ Burdens

The pro-occupation prime minister of Iraq has come up with an initiative to end the violence, naming it National Reconciliation.

Tibet's historic isolation is about to be radically broken, both by a new Lhasa-Beijing rail link (the world's highest), and the opening of a new border crossing into India through Sikkim. Tibetan nationalist leader (and Dalai Lama nephew) Khedroob Thondup portrays the rail line as an artery for Tibet's militarization, making the Himalayan realm a possible staging ground for a Chinese invasion of India. From Reuters, July 5:

A nephew of the Dalai Lama has likened a new railway linking China and Tibet to a second invasion of his homeland that will make its people "an endangered race".

This optimistic June 26 analysis by Kavi Chongkittavorn in Thailand's The Nation is one of the very few accounts we've been able to find that even mentions the question of Nepal's indigenous peoples in the new order which is emerging. We've highlighted the reference to the Madeshi tribal people of the lowland plains of the country's southwest side. Our own observations will follow.

This is heartwarming in its own way. Homophobia is doubtless equally entrenched among India's Hindu and Muslim fundamentalists. Heaven forfend the fundis should stop blowing each other up long enough to realize how they are united by their mutual irrational prejudices. We say good for the prince for sticking it to those fools. From Gujarat's GG2 News, July 8:

An Indian prince has been disowned by his family after he publicly announced he was gay in a country where homosexuality is outlawed by a 145-year-old law.

Once again, someone feels compelled to prove the intellectual superiority of their position by killing scores of random civilians. Some details from the Financial Times, July 11 (link added):

Within minutes, seven explosions on the railway that forms Mumbai's spinal cord left at least 163 people dead and possibly more than 1,000 wounded in one of the worst terrorist attacks in India.

Yet more sacrifices for the American way of life. From Newsday, July 10:

Five dead in Bronx multiple-vehicle crash

In a deadly crash that killed two half-brothers, their uncle, his 8-year-old daughter and a family friend, and left two others severely injured, an out-of-control sedan jumped the center median of the Bronx River Parkway and caused a three-car pileup on the other side of the highway, officials and witnesses said.

With each horrific escalation they always say the same thing: civil war is "imminent". At what point do we acknowledge that civil war has arrived? As we have noted before, everybody—left, right and center—seems to have an interest in denying the obvious reality. From Newsday, July 10:

Sunnis ID'd, executed
Morning attack on a Baghdad neighborhood thought to be revenge for a mosque bombing; security adviser warns of imminent 'civil war'