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.
READ THE ARTICLE

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.
READ THE ARTICLE

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.
READ THE ARTICLE

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.”
READ THE ARTICLE

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.
READ THE ARTICLE

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.
READ THE ARTICLE

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.
READ THE ARTICLE

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.
READ THE ARTICLE

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.
READ THE ARTICLE

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.
READ THE ARTICLE

Recent International Issues Articles

Ten of my favorite things about 2012
  December 28, 2012
  Medea Benjamin

Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities
  December 10, 2012
  David Swanson

Pile of Skulls
  December 7, 2012
  Robert C. Koehler

Internal Security Act clamped on Bangkok to stifle coup demand
  December 4, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Brand Names and Mass Graves
  November 30, 2012
  Robert C. Koehler

Internal Security Act clamped on Bangkok to stifle coup demand
  November 30, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Panetta expects Taliban won't turn Petraeus's adultery into propaganda
  November 26, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Obama following his grandfather to Burma
  November 19, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Two Members of Pussy Riot Sent to Russian Penal Colonies
  November 9, 2012
  Hacker/Activist News

New demands for an immediate coup in Thailand
  November 1, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

China mourns Sihanouk's death & continues advancing in Cambodia
  October 17, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Empire and its Consequences
  October 12, 2012
  Robert C. Koehler

13 Murders on the Mekong River
  September 28, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

International Peace Day from Kabul, Afghanistan
  September 24, 2012
  Johnny Barber

The Innocence of U.S. Foreign Policy
  September 20, 2012
  Robert C. Koehler

Funding teachers doesn't get embassies attacked
  September 17, 2012
  David Swanson

Love, Hate and Indifference: singer/songwriter/activist David Rovics
  September 14, 2012
  Tom Over

The Hidden Agenda of Green Party VP Candidate Cheri Honkala
  September 14, 2012
  Tom Over

A Black, Green and White Talk with Shamako Noble of Hip Hop Congress
  September 14, 2012
  Tom Over

New American judge may help bring five more Khmer Rouge to trial
  September 10, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Julian Assange, International Intrigue and What’s Going On With Ecuador
  September 3, 2012
   Sergio Di Cori Modigliani

Yes We Camp
  August 30, 2012
  Tom Over

Beyond Money
  August 23, 2012
  Robert C. Koehler

Love is the key ingredient for successful social movements, not religion, per se.
  August 20, 2012
  Tom Over

1,500 fake "Bomb Detectors" fail to stop explosions in Thailand
  August 17, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

SPECIAL REPORT -- EXPOSING U.S. AGENTS OF LOW-INTENSITY WARFARE IN AFRICA: The
  August 15, 2012
  keith harmon snow, Conscious Being Alliance

Neocons vs. the ‘Arab Spring’: Back on the Warpath
  August 10, 2012
  Ramzy Baroud

Iran and everything else
  August 7, 2012
  Michael Parenti

Beyond the two-state solution
  August 6, 2012
  David Swanson

Thailand's robots can save your life or kill you, but not yet love you
  July 22, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

War and Climate Change
  July 13, 2012
  Robert C Koehler

Flesh-eating fish are feeding on tourists' feet
  July 12, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Veterans For Peace supports U.N. committee in questioning U.S. recruitment, killing of children
  July 11, 2012
  

Seeking a Visa for Dr. Wee Teck Young
  July 5, 2012
  Kathy Kelly

NASA's atmosphere probe is grounded by Thailand's squabbling
  June 29, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

For Love or Money
  June 29, 2012
  By Robert C. Koehler

Julian Assange's Artful Dodge
  June 22, 2012
  Ray McGovern

Turkish court indicts Senior Israeli Military Officials in murders on Gaza flotilla: On the Second Anniversary of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
  June 5, 2012
  Ann Wright

Aung San Suu Kyi leaves Burma after 24 years
  June 2, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

No one hears the poor
  May 28, 2012
  Kathy Kelly

Millions of Illegal Methamphetamines Made From Medicine in Thailand's Hospitals
  May 23, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

FBI seizes server from progressive internet service provider
  May 15, 2012
  Jamie McClelland, May First/People Link

Thaksin wants to avoid assassination and prison in Thailand
  April 30, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Via campesina and allies call for global solidarity in fight against land grabs
  April 26, 2012
  Tom Over

Proud to wear a forbidden burqa in France
  April 19, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

A message of peace and friendship from Iran
  April 10, 2012
  David Swanson

Aung San Suu Kyi stoops to conquer Burma
  March 30, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities
  March 19, 2012
  David Swanson

Why Israel attacked Gaza: Bibi stirring trouble
  March 16, 2012
  Ramzy Baroud

Columbus Activists Look South to help build Global Justice Movement
  March 14, 2012
  Tom Over

Alcohol & politics: A volatile mix in Thailand
  March 11, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Activists Call for Kroger's Support of Migrant Farm Worker Rights
  March 9, 2012
  Tom Over

Large coalition asks for Obama's Nobel Peace Prize to be rescinded
  March 2, 2012
  War is a Crime

Iranians allegedly posted "Baked Clay" signs to attack Bangkok
  February 26, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Alleged Iranian bombers cavorted with Thai women in beach resort
  February 24, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Cold war in warm waters: US-China's dangerous contest for Asia-Pacific
  February 23, 2012
  Ramzy Baroud

Three alleged Iranian bomb-makers arrested after bungling the plot
  February 20, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Happy savages
  February 20, 2012
  Robert C. Koehler

Food Sovereignty Activist Calls for Alliances between Progressives and ' Radicals '
  February 15, 2012
  Tom Over

Alleged Iranian bomb-maker blows off his own leg
  February 15, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Obama's Super-Bowl Fumble on Iran
  February 8, 2012
  Ray McGovern

A Banquet Feasts on Yingluck's Troubles in Thailand
  February 7, 2012
   Richard S. Ehrlich

Thai government promotes Red Shirt leader & pro-Mugabe supporter
  January 28, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Terror suspect says ammonia in his "Cool Packs" not for bombs
  January 23, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Alleged terrorist reveals stockpile of bomb-making chemicals in Bangkok
  January 21, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Church of the Dude, inspired by The Big Lebowski, sets up in Thailand
  January 18, 2012
  Richard S. Ehrlich

A tale of 2 countries
  January 12, 2012
  Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés

Aljazeera coverage: The revolution will be televised, and also manipulated
  January 12, 2012
  Ramzy Baroud

Read International Issues Articles by Year:
2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000