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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

On Gaza drivers, rumors and Egypt’s steel wall
  December 31, 2009
  Ramzy Baroud

It's the system, stupid: The Ragnarok of globalized corporate capitalism and the rise of the planetarian paradigm
  December 30, 2009
  James Heddle

Palestine/Israel: A single state, with liberty and justice for all
  December 30, 2009
  Susan Abulhawa with Ramzy Baroud

Obama's rejection speech
  December 11, 2009
  David Swanson

Peace movement objects to Peace Prize
  December 10, 2009
  Michael McPhearson and Josh Brollier

Afghanistan: What Obama and the US Media Aren't Telling Us
  December 4, 2009
  Evan Davis

Columbus Free Press editors Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman speak out against sending more US troops to Afghanistan
  December 2, 2009
  Tom Over

Afghanistan: Our 177th Colony
  December 1, 2009
  David Swanson

The Meaning Of The Gift-Giving Season, According To Rev. Billy Of The Church Of Life After Shopping
  November 28, 2009
  Tom Over

A paradigm shift in Singapore: yet Apec offers no clear answers
  November 25, 2009
  Ramzy Baroud

Dissidents make noise -- oops, news
  November 24, 2009
  Saul Landau

Thai military wants U.S. satellites to hunt Islamist rebels
  November 20, 2009
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Globalization unchecked: How alien media is suffocating real culture
  November 18, 2009
  Ramzy Baroud

Death to no one
  November 15, 2009
  Bitta Mostofi

America won't lift sanctions unless Suu Kyi is freed for election
  November 15, 2009
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Admiral Mullen announces Afghanistan strategy: prepare to nonviolently resist
  November 15, 2009
  Jeff Leys, Co-Coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence

America Appeals to Extradite Russia's Alleged "Merchant of Death"
  October 23, 2009
  Richard S. Ehrlich

War, negation and Muslim identity revisited
  October 22, 2009
  Ramzy Baroud

Obama’s test: democracy or chaos in Latin America
  October 12, 2009
  Ramzy Baroud

The G-20 Announces the New World Order
  October 1, 2009
  Michael Collins

Crucial questions on Afghanistan war
  September 2, 2009
  Free Press Editorial

The scapegoat's apology
  August 28, 2009
  Robert C. Koehler

Fighting for the right to walk
  August 27, 2009
  Ramzy Baroud

The heart of the future
  July 18, 2009
  Robert C. Koehler

Italy to declare independence from US military
  July 8, 2009
  David Swanson

Israel attacks justice boat: kidnaps human rights workers, confiscates medicine, toys and olive trees
  June 30, 2009
  Greta Berlin

North Korea: "sanity" at the brink
  June 27, 2009
  Michael Parenti

A boy and an artificial leg: a Gaza story
  June 11, 2009
  Ramzy Baroud

Is anyone speechless?
  June 8, 2009
  Iqbal Jassat

Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi is on trial because an American had "A Vision"
  June 1, 2009
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Support U.N. Economic Crisis World Conference
  May 22, 2009
  Ramsey Clark, winner of the 2008 U.N. Human Rights Award

Gaza disowned: the Pope, Israel and "reconciliation"
  May 20, 2009
  Ramzy Baroud

Applying the lessons of Nuremburg to the USA in 2009
  May 19, 2009
  Paul Lehto, Juris Doctor

Vets Speak Out! Interview with Rick Reyes
  May 17, 2009
  Joan Brunwasser, OpEdNews

Goliath's vulnerability is the truth
  May 16, 2009
  Robert C. Koehler

Harvest of suicides
  May 11, 2009
  Vandana Shiva

The Hague's International Criminal Court will not put Bush on trial
  May 10, 2009
  Richard S. Ehrlich

War without context: Fatah, Hamas and flawed language
  May 8, 2009
  Ramzy Baroud

CAIR's humanitarian mission to Iran
  May 6, 2009
  Mahmoud El-Yousseph

Sixth Nobel Nomination for Leonard Peltier
  May 5, 2009
  Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee

The international criminal court and a rogue empire
  April 27, 2009
  David Swanson

Wall of fear
  April 25, 2009
  Robert C. Koehler

The big strike
  April 25, 2009
  Dick Meister

Somali piracy or Somali patriotism?
  April 20, 2009
  Steven R. Linnabary

Israel investigated, but will it repent?
  April 10, 2009
  Ramzy Baroud

Intifada: A third chapter
  March 21, 2009
  Ramzy Baroud

American protester critically injured by soldiers in Ni'ilin
  March 16, 2009
  AATW

Engaging Hamas: Will history repeat itself?
  February 28, 2009
  Ramzy Baroud

A new Afghanistan nightmare
  February 23, 2009
  Ramzy Baroud

A new Afghanistan nightmare
  February 21, 2009
  Ramzy Baroud

Under siege again, but Gaza will not die
  February 12, 2009
  Ann Wright, AfterDowningStreet

The moral dead zone
  January 20, 2009
  Robert C. Koehler

Children of Gaza, run to the angels
  January 12, 2009
  Suzanne Baroud

Let Gaza live
  January 12, 2009
  Cynthia McKinney

Gaza: Plan of Attack
  January 1, 2009
  Jim Miles




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