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Sex workers' art portrays violence, oral sex and Islamic repression
by Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Southeast Asian sex workers, supported by the United Nations, exhibited their paintings, photographs and multimedia depicting violence, oral sex, repression under Islamic sharia law and other personal experiences.
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Indefinite Enemies
by Robert C. Koehler
You’re strapped to a metal table, unable to move. They stick a two-foot plastic tube up your nose, then down the back of your throat into your stomach. They squirt in the liquid protein. You gag, bleed, vomit. It’s unbearably painful.
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Dr. Gerald Caplan & the Rwanda genocide cranks
by Don DeBar with Keith Harmon Snow
War and plunder continue to rip apart great swathes of Africa. The perpetrators are known, and many have been named and exposed. The regimes on Ethiopia, Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan and Uganda continue to foment covert international guerrilla wars, backed by the Pentagon, NATO and Israel, while persecuting and defrauding their own people, even (at this writing) engaged in genocide. Meanwhile, leading white apologists whitewashing war crimes and genocide in Africa continue to squeal about anyone who does not tout the racist white power establishment line they worship and profit from.
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A Floor of Decency
by Robert C. Koehler
“Everywhere near the building, the stench of death was overpowering. Men in surgical masks sprayed disinfectant in the air.”
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Buddhists irked by Buddha on toilets and as Disney's dog
by Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A Buddhist group says it successfully convinced a French factory to stop printing Buddha's face on toilets, but failed in a lengthy campaign to censor a Walt Disney movie series featuring a dog named Buddha.
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American photographer Al Rockoff testifies at Khmer Rouge Tribunal
by Richard S. Ehrlich
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- An American combat photographer said his picture of captured U.S.-backed Cambodian officials, hours before they were "bludgeoned to death" by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in 1975, is the most important testimony he gave at an international tribunal.
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The death of Ieng Sary, Cambodia's "Murderous Thug"
by Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- In November 1975, seven months after Pol Pot seized Cambodia, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger asked Thailand's representatives about Pol Pot's brother-in-law, Ieng Sary.
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Vaya con Dios, Hugo Chàvez, mi amigo
by Greg Palast
For BBC Television, Palast met several times with Hugo Chàvez, who passed away today.
Venezuelan President Chavez once asked me why the US elite wanted to kill him. My dear Hugo: It’s the oil. And it’s the Koch Brothers – and it’s the ketchup.
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Letter from a drone protester's jail
by Brian
Dear Friends,
Greetings from the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton, South Dakota! As of this writing, I am two months into a six month sentence imposed due to my protest of war crimes committed by remote control from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri against the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Cambodia: Former King Sihanouk's war of words survive his cremation
by Richard S. Ehrlich
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Former king Norodom Sihanouk was cremated on February 4, but the flames could not destroy the legacy of his words, describing how he transported weapons to Vietnam's communists to kill Americans, and promising guns and ammunition to Cambodians to avenge the coup which toppled him.
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Recent International Issues Articles

The arrogance of power, per annum
  December 27, 2005
  Michael Winship

Rice authorized National Security Agency to spy on UN Securit
  December 27, 2005
  Jason Leopold

Beware Iraqization
  December 26, 2005
  Mike Ferner

US Russia warplanes
  December 22, 2005
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Thoughts from the heartland
  December 10, 2005
  Glenn Yeagley

Bush finds soul mate in Russia's bloody Beria
  December 7, 2005
  Mark Anderson

An international peace movement building
  December 4, 2005
  David Swanson

CIA’s “Torture Taxi” in the spotlight
  November 23, 2005
  Mike Ferner

America's corporatacracy says "No MAS"
  November 20, 2005
  Jason Miller

Leaks can be good: secret government sucks
  November 15, 2005
  Stephen Crockett

American euthanasia
  November 8, 2005
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Sweet dreams for America's ruling elite and their sycophantic loyalists
  November 6, 2005
  Jason Miller

War Keyensianism
  November 6, 2005
  John H. St.John

Rove and Cheney caught in Fitzgerald's web. Will they go down too?
  October 30, 2005
  Jason Leopold

Where is the Grand Inquisitor when you need him?
  October 27, 2005
  Jason Miller

Burma U.S. military
  October 25, 2005
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Koran Muslims
  October 21, 2005
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Was the vote on the Iraqi constitution fixed? A rotten foundation is hard to build on
  October 21, 2005
  Kevin Zeese, DemocracyRising.US

Surrender is not an option
  October 18, 2005
  Jason Miller

Dissent isn’t taken lightly down under
  October 6, 2005
  Scott Parkin

Bringing the war home to the Pentagon
  September 27, 2005
  Mike Ferner

Katrina Tsunami
  September 7, 2005
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Rev. Jackson comments on personal meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
  August 30, 2005
  Rainbow/PUSH

Hopping off ears
  August 12, 2005
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Halliburton Sold Iranian Oil Company Key Nuclear Reactor Components, Sources Say
  August 10, 2005
  Jason Leopold

George Bush Knows Why They Hate Us
  August 10, 2005
  Jason Miller

Superstitious women
  July 19, 2005
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Bin Laden Souvenirs
  July 13, 2005
  Richard S. Ehrlich

George and Tony Get their al-Qaeda Fix
  July 13, 2005
  Greg Palast

Interview with Norman Solomon: “War Made Easy”
  July 8, 2005
  Adrian Zupp

CIA Hmong
  July 8, 2005
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Turkey is Not a Role Model for the Middle East
  July 1, 2005
  Gene C. Gerard

Suu Kyi birthday (Sunday, June 19)
  June 23, 2005
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Terrorism threat and Press Freedom
  June 18, 2005
  Kamala Sarup

Pope's comments are saddening and painful to millions of Catholics
  June 8, 2005
  Jay Smith Brown

French fried Friedman
  June 8, 2005
  Greg Palast

CAFTA's hollow reforms
  May 28, 2005
  Cyril Mychalejko

Radio Havana Interviews Chomsky
  April 24, 2005
  Noam Chomsky

Capitalist Globalization and Resistance in Guatemala
  April 21, 2005
  Cyril Mychalejko

Vanunu faces new prison term: will they bury him? Dan Ellsberg calls fellow whistleblower "a prophet"
  April 17, 2005
  Mark Gaffney

A kick in the pants...
  April 17, 2005
  Sheila Samples

Is the US Navy vulnerable in the Gulf? The myth of US invincibility
  April 17, 2005
  Mark H. Gaffney

Senior Advisor at the United Nations Foundation to address the international state of women
  April 13, 2005
  Patrick Terrien, President and CEO, Columbus Council on World Affairs

An existential struggle
  April 6, 2005
  Mazin Qumsiyeh

International Women's Day: Honoring the Lives of Women in Perilous Times
  March 1, 2005
  Lucinda Marshall

Dictators of the 21st Century
  February 15, 2005
  Dr. J. Alva Scruggs

First North American Heroin Maintenance Study Now Underway in Vancouver
  February 11, 2005
  DRCNET

Editorial: A Cautious First Step
  February 11, 2005
  David Borden,Executive Director DRCNET, borden@drcnet.org

Exit stage Baghdad
  February 7, 2005
  Cynthia L. Butler, Esq.




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