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Burma: hunted down

12 Sep 2008 2 minute read

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Burma: hunted down

The first anniversary of the popular protests against fuel price
rises in Burma has come around. And the security forces...

The new superpowers

20 Aug 2008 2 minute read

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The new superpowers

As US power falls, people-power is rising...

Never before has a United States’ Presidential election been given so much...

Morales wins – and so do his enemies!

11 Aug 2008 1 minute read

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Morales wins – and so do his enemies!

Bolivia’s indigenous president easily won Sunday’s ‘recall vote’, securing between 60 and
63 per cent of the vote. That’...

Bolivia divided

24 Jun 2008 2 minute read

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Bolivia divided

It comes as no surprise that the southern province of Tarija voted for autonomy from Bolivia last weekend.

NI contributor's freedom of speech under threat

23 Jun 2008 3 minute read

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NI contributor's freedom of speech under threat

NI co-editor Dinyar Godrej, alterted us to the...

Burma: Dizzying efficiency

31 May 2008 3 minute read

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Burma: Dizzying efficiency

Sometimes the urge to fling the nearest available projectile at the
television set can take some suppressing. I found...

Burma’s referendum among ruins

10 May 2008 5 minute read

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Burma’s referendum among ruins

I’ve been reading today’s edition of propaganda rag The New Light...

Burma: Seeing but not believing

8 May 2008 2 minute read

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Burma: Seeing but not believing

Of all the images that have emerged from cyclone-hit Burma, the most
shocking for me were the most long distance ones....

Ballot boxes Burma

30 Apr 2008 2 minute read

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Ballot boxes Burma

May 10th vote may give Burma's generals permanent control...

From a country that employs one soldier for every citizen...

Indigenous Sunrise

25 Apr 2008 2 minute read

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Indigenous Sunrise

A brighter horizon may finally be dawning for some of the world’s 350 million indigenous peoples. It’s a nice change. In...

Privatization continued

16 Apr 2008 2 minute read

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Privatization continued

Inside the minds of politicians privatizing public assets...

Despite widespread and vocal global disgruntlement about...

Conservative victory in Iran? Look again

20 Mar 2008 2 minute read

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Conservative victory in Iran? Look again

The recent elections in Iran have been
widely interpreted as a victory for conservative forces and a boost
for...

Fidel Castro - the verdict

28 Feb 2008 4 minute read

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Fidel Castro - the verdict

Since
the darkest night of the 'missile crisis' in 1962 - when I doubted I'd
live to see the next dawn - Cuba has...

Binayak Sen and the 'tattered Gandhian dream'

23 Feb 2008 1 minute read

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Binayak Sen and the 'tattered Gandhian dream'

You may recall that we ran a special feature by regular NI contributor Mari Marcel Thekaekara...

Human Rights Olympics

20 Feb 2008 1 minute read

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Human Rights Olympics

The starters' gun has gone off. We're all in the running. Many say it's the most important race of all - the human race. In a...

11 Jan 2008 7 minute read

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Let us not find revolutionaries where there are none

Kenyan journalist, Mukoma Wa Ngugi, makes a plea for a genuine people-based democratic movement in Kenya.

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