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Demilitarizing Okinawa (9/00)

In July, the G8 Summit Meeting was held in Okinawa, a group of islands in Japan that serves as a US stronghold with huge military bases. In response, the Japanese Peace Committee called for international support end to this occupation. Here is the group’s statement:

Like a colony, Okinawa is burdened with US military bases, a situation with no parallel in other sovereign states in the world. Huge bases occupy more than 10 percent of the whole territory (20 percent of the main island). They were built in violation of international law. read more

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India’s Holy Wars (8/00)

India is in deep turmoil on a number of religious fronts. While the mainstream press focuses mainly on the conflict between predominantly Hindu India and predominantly Muslim Pakistan over the threatened separation of the Indian Jammu and Kashmir state, the death toll rises in other parts of the country as internecine war widens.

Muslim-Hindu Clashes

On Jun 25, a bomb exploded in a mosque in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, injuring two people. An ensuing riot injured five more, including a TV crew. This led to a one-week curfew in Muslim-dominant areas of Guntur and the state capital, Hyderabad, where police guarded both mosques and churches. It was yet another sad chapter in the boiling conflict between Indian Muslims and Hindus. read more

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Funding Terror In East Timor (6/00)

Statement to the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Human Rights
May 11, 2000

Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, my name is Allan Nairn. Last fall I testified before this committee after witnessing the final days of the physical destruction of East Timor by the Indonesian armed forces (TNI). I recently returned to a free East Timor, and also managed to enter Indonesia and examine military operations in the rural zones.

The Indonesian military and security forces are now politically discredited, and the movement against them — that began in the streets — has now reached the Jakarta elites. Freedom and democracy are now within realistic reach in Indonesia, but only if the illegitimate power of the armed and security forces can be broken. The key determining factors in this struggle will be continued protest on the ground and action by the US Congress to maintain and strengthen the current military aid ban. read more

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Asia Goes Mad (8/98)

 

When I was a boy, my family and I joined hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in yearly anti-nuclear demonstrations through the center of London. The demonstrations were replicated in every capital city of democratic Europe, in the US, Australia, and New Zealand. We would go to "die-ins" outside Britain’s nuclear research facility at Aldermaston, and my mother would frequently join the women camped outside the military base of Greenham Common, protesting the presence of the US-made Cruise missiles. Few people now know what Greenham Common represented. But for politically aware Brits of my generation, the very words evoke a maelstrom of emotions. read more

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June / July 2001, Corporate Crimes and Prison Watch

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Volume 50, Number 3


  • Print Edition: Table of Contents

June/July 2001  (VOL. 50, NO. 3)

CORPORATE CRIMES
Mineral Obsession: Inside the Canadian push to make a killing on Kenya’s titanium – ROBERT OTANI 

Dirty Laundry: Multinational banks as bagmen for global crime syndicates – RON CHEPESIUK 

PRISON WATCH       
Demanding Justice for Peltier : FBI admissions underscore the need for  a new hearing -DAVE DELLINGER read more

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December and October 2001, Roots of Disorder

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Volume 50, Number 5 and 6

=&0=& =&1=&=&2=&Prison Nation  Driven by fear, the US has surrendered to carceral KeynesianismSASHA ABRAMSKY

In Bad Company     
How US criminal "justice" stacks up with the rest of the world
RON CHEPESIUK

Abuse Behind Bars                      
Sexual violence against women runs rampant in US prisons
ANDREA C. POE read more