The Corruption That Makes Unpeople of an Entire Nation
By John Pilger - November 27, 2008
During the 1960s and 1970s British governments, Labour and Tory, tricked and expelled the entire population of the Chagos Archipelago, more than 2,000 British citizens, so that Diego Garcia could be given to the United States as the site for a military base. It was an act of mass kidnapping carried out in high secrecy.
Afghanistan: The Neo-Taliban Campaign
By Syed Saleem Shahzad - October 2008
The attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on 20 September, killing some 60 people, was compared to 9/11 in Pakistan and could be a turning point in the conflict in this region. President Bush has authorised ground operations against Taliban bases in Pakistan, which has now become the main theatre in the ‘war on terror’. Meanwhile, the neo-Taliban, operating an al-Qaida franchise there and in Afghanistan, have controlled the escalation of guerrilla resistance in a sophisticated military strategy based on the conduct of the Vietnam war.
Burma’s Mixed Signal
Renowned journalist and founder of the National League for Democracy U Win Tin [was] released from infamous Insein Prison after 19 years of false imprisonment. Also included in this surprising act of humanity were NLA dignitaries Dau May Win Maung, Aung Soe Myint, U Aye Thin as well as 9,000 other prisoners. Obviously not included on this list was Aung San Suu Kyi.
[Video] Victory for the People of Bhopal
[...T]he government [of India] has committed itself to economically rehabilitate Bhopal’s chemical disaster survivors, remediate the disaster site, and pursue legal action against Union Carbide and Dow Chemical.
Burma: 15 Year Old Girl Raped, Killed and Mutilated
An innocent little Kachin girl was rapped and murdered by Burmese government troops. It was a most horrific tale for someone so young to endure. The details of which were beyond imagination.
[Warning: graphic material]
Beijing Olympic Games Opening Ceremony Blacks Out Most of Twentieth Century
By John Chan
Last Friday’s opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was a $US100 million public relations exercise by the Chinese Communist Party to refashion its image as a pro-business regime that has long repudiated its claims to a “socialist” or “revolutionary” tradition.
Bangladesh: Garment Workers Wildcat and Riot After Workers Beaten
Bangladesh Garment Workers RiotThousands of workers from neighbouring factories rioted in solidarity at a garment factory where hundreds of (mainly) women had been fired without pay and two were beaten by private security.
Insurance Companies Financing Death in Burma
There is no level to low for the insurance industry when a profit can be made. At the expense of humanity, insurance companies come to the aid of iron fisted General Than Shwe of Burma. Though Than Shwe is being allowed to starve thousands of people to death, insurance companies world wide have come to the aid of this criminal regime.
Spotlight: G8 Japan
I've put together a list of articles related to G8 demonstrations currently happening in Japan. The list will be updated as new material becomes available.
Updated July 10
Includes:
- Indigenous Peoples' Declaration on G8 Summit
- G8 Accused of ‘Failing the World’ on Carbon Cuts
Committee Questions State Department Role in Iraq Oil Deal
By JAMES GLANZ and RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. - NY Times
Bush administration officials knew that a Texas oil company with close ties to President Bush was planning to sign an oil deal with the regional Kurdistan government that ran counter to American policy and undercut Iraq’s central government, a Congressional committee has concluded.
"Abuse of Foreign Workers Unavoidable"
Elise Stolte, Canwest News Service
EDMONTON - Some abuse of foreigners working temporarily in Alberta is unavoidable because of conditions in their home countries, Alberta's minister of Employment and Immigration suggested Wednesday.
Hector Goudreau was reacting to news that as many as 120 Chinese workers were paid a fraction of what they were owed for work building tanks at a northern Alberta oilsands site.
Racism in the Tar Sands: Exploiting Foreign Workers and Poisoning Indigenous People
By Macdonald Stainsby
The giant corporations that are determined to exploit the Alberta tar sands face a major problem — a serious shortage of local labour to do the actual work. So the Canadian and Albertan governments have a plan, ideal in their eyes, to solve the crunch.
China, Tibet and the Propaganda Olympics
By WILLIAM BLUM - March 29 / 30, 2008
It's nice to see the West's conscience stirred up. They're real good about such things, when the target is not one of their own, particularly against a communist country. In 1980, 62 nations -- including the United States, Canada, West Germany, Japan, and Israel -- boycotted the Olympics in Moscow because the previous year the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan. Four years later, the Olympics were held in Los Angeles. Not a single member of "The Free World" boycotted it, even though the previous year the United States had invaded Grenada...
How Come Zimbabwe and Tibet Get All the Attention?
by Seumas Milne - The Guardian
If a government wants to abuse human rights and rig elections, it needs to have the support of - or be - the western powers...[T]he best chance both of settling the Zimbabwean crisis and of meeting Tibetan aspirations is without the interference of western powers, which would do better improving the human rights records of their allies and themselves.
US Subsidiary Tricks Migrant Workers into Delivering Supplies on Iraq's Highway of Death
Craig Kielburger, Marc Kielburger, Chris Mallinos. The Ottawa Citizen.
Ottawa, Ont.: Apr 6, 2008. pg. A.8
Lured to Kuwait with the promise of work, truck drivers from developing countries say they have been trapped by companies that seized their passports and forced them to join deadly convoys into Iraq to supply U.S. troops.