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Burma: A Growing History of Violence

Will Baxter January 16, 2007 Will Baxter

EI TU TA, Burma-At 35, Naw Win Schwe has already lost more than she cares to think about. During a government military offensive near Mon township in March, Naw Win's husband Maung Thanlwin was arrested and killed by Burma's ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). Since then she has also lost her home, land and almost everything she and her husband had once owned. Eventually she was forced to flee for her own life as well, which is how she ended up in the Ei Tu Ta refugee camp on the eastern edge of Burma's Karen state.

Somalia: Death and despair the ‘benefits’ of war on terror

Rohan Pearce, Green Left Weekly January 16, 2007 Rohan Pearce, Green Left Weekly

In what seems to be becoming a signature atrocity of US President George Bush's "war on terror", US air strikes hit a Somali wedding ceremony, according to a January 10 BBC Online report. Up to 31 people were killed.

Class War Weapon of Choice – For the Holidays and All Days

Joel S. Hirschhorn, COA News January 3, 2007 Joel S. Hirschhorn, COA News

The motto of the United States of Consumption is "In More We Trust." The contribution of American culture to humanity is consumption obsession. Our epidemic of obesity, our land gluttonous suburban sprawl, our monster-size environmental footprint, our ravenous automobile addiction, and our heartless greed are symptoms of a deep-seated, sick mental state that keeps the economy humming. And it keeps increasing economic inequality and apartheid.

In Gaza: Democracy and Its Discontents

Ramzy Baroud January 2, 2007 Ramzy Baroud

It's all too convenient for the BBC website to describe the ongoing bloodshed between Hamas and Fatah supporters in the Gaza Strip as "inter-factional rivalry", and it's equally fitting for the Washington Post to narrate the same unfortunate events - which have left many Palestinians dead and wounded - as if they are entirely detached from their adjoining regional and international milieus.

Who’s confused about alternative medicine?

Robert Verkerk MSc DIC PhD December 20, 2006 Robert Verkerk MSc DIC PhD

Professor Edzard Ernst, the UK's first professor of complementary medicine, gets lots of exposure for his often overtly negative views on complementary medicine. He's become the media's favourite resource for a view on this controversial subject. Yesterday's report by Barbara Rowlands in the Daily Mail (Complementary medicines are useless and dangerous, says Britain's foremost expert, 12 December 2006) is par for the course.

Thailand and Myanmar at Odds over Salween Dams

Will Baxter December 13, 2006 Will Baxter

Signaling a potentially momentous change in its foreign policy toward Myanmar, Thailand's new Energy Minister Piyasvasti Amranand has said he intends to reassess, and possibly abandon, the previous Thai government's controversial joint-plans with Myanmar's military junta to build five hydroelectric dams along the Salween River. More recently, Thailand's new Foreign Minister Nitya Pibulsonggram echoed those sentiments, telling news reporters in Bangkok that Thailand's 'cosy' commercial relationship with Myanmar is at an end. However, Nitya went on to say, "Some of the discussions relating to energy cooperation probably will continue," though he declined to give further details.