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Boston Suspect's Writing on the Wall
by Ray McGovern
Quick, somebody tell CIA Director John Brennan about the handwriting on the inside wall of the boat in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding before Boston-area police riddled it and him with bullets. Tell Brennan that Tsarnaev's note is in plain English and that it needs neither translation nor interpretation in solving the mystery: "why do they hate us?"
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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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Recent International Issues Articles

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee condemns Gaza attacks
  December 30, 2008
  Marvin Wingfield

Witnessing the decay of Western hegemony and the role of the organic
  December 28, 2008
  Pablo Ouziel

Iraq's US security charade
  December 4, 2008
  Ramzy Baroud

Yellow-shirt mob seizes Bangkok's International Airport
  November 29, 2008
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Gaza: salvation in a news broadcast
  November 28, 2008
  Ramzy Baroud

A funny thing happened to me on my way to the Damascus Conference
  November 23, 2008
  Cynthia McKinney

Bangkok dangerous: bombs, sleaze and paralysis
  November 21, 2008
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Will the young rescue unions?
  November 16, 2008
  Dick Meister

What does Iran have to do with your town? Here's what it has to do with mine
  November 13, 2008
  David Swanson

Playgrounds for Palestine: one marathon at a time
  November 6, 2008
  Ramzy Baroud

World food day: global crises’ double standards
  October 24, 2008
  Ramzy Baroud

Unofficial referendum in Vicenza, Italy: 95% opposed to new U.S. base
  October 8, 2008
  Enzo Ciscato

Grassroots movements, global elites and political economy in times of panic
  October 7, 2008
  Pablo Ouziel

The war to promote terror
  October 4, 2008
  Robert C. Koehler

Palestinian economy: from bad to wretched
  September 29, 2008
  Ramzy Baroud

Predator and prey
  August 21, 2008
  Robert C. Koehler

Family politics and the new Gaza crisis
  August 20, 2008
  Ramzy Baroud

Harper again serves as Bush's mouthpiece in Canada.
  August 19, 2008
  Jim Miles

Thaksin is the world's newest international fugitive
  August 19, 2008
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Global trends that will shape the next decade
  August 12, 2008
  Muqtedar Khan

Obama joins the club
  August 3, 2008
  Ramzy Baroud

Revealing a massacre, or stating the obvious
  July 22, 2008
  Ramzy Baroud

Rabbi Lerner invited by Saudi King to International Interfaith Conference
  July 15, 2008
  Tikkun

On Iran And Mideast peace: Who is Obama trying to please?
  June 16, 2008
  Jalal Alavi

Burma blames Suu Kyi & fake donors for cyclone riots
  June 2, 2008
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Suu Kyi amid Burma's cyclone
  May 27, 2008
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Coexistence, not Apartheid
  May 27, 2008
  Ramzy Baroud

60 years of denial
  May 17, 2008
  Ramzy Baroud

Enemies Burma & America meet over cyclone aid
  May 14, 2008
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Burma stages a vote while cyclone victims suffer
  May 11, 2008
  Richard S. Ehrlich

The grim reality of economic truths
  May 10, 2008
  Pablo Ouziel

Burma blocks aid, fearing subversive foreigners
  May 9, 2008
  Richard S. Ehrlich

USAID team
  May 9, 2008
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Burma not thankful for U.S. warships offering cyclone aid
  May 7, 2008
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Cyclone help for Irrawaddy Delta survivors
  May 6, 2008
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Coups & superstitions
  May 6, 2008
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Trip report by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan
  May 4, 2008
  President Jimmy Carter

As Italy’s elections go from bad to worse, Vicenza remains the silver lining
  May 3, 2008
  Stephanie Westbrook

National Lawyers Guild urges Israel to permit Richard Falk to enter Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories
  April 26, 2008
  David Gespass, NLG

America's secret plan to nuke Vietnam & Laos
  April 15, 2008
  Richard S. Ehrlich

The Spanish 'adios'
  April 6, 2008
  Pablo Ouziel

What else is on?
  March 17, 2008
  Tim Buchholz

Dayton stands (and rocks) for Darfur
  March 13, 2008
  Christina Dendy

The day after the bombing of Iran
  March 13, 2008
  David Swanson

Kosovo Brief
  March 12, 2008
  Ivan Simic

Kathmandu blackout
  March 4, 2008
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Inequality, not identity, fuels violence in Kenya
  February 10, 2008
  Diana Duarte

Gandhism is alive and expanding
  February 4, 2008
  Jesse Jackson

Guantanamo as a symbol
  January 20, 2008
  Ramzy Baroud

The eternal underdog
  January 19, 2008
  Robert C. Koehler

A perspective on relations with Somalia
  January 4, 2008
  IGC

Let’s toast to ten good things about 2007
  January 1, 2008
  Madea Benjamin

Machiavellian Musharraf
  January 1, 2008
  Ramzy Baroud




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