AltWeeklies Wire
Is New Mexico Funding Schools With Darfur Dollars?new
The State Investment Office, which invests state money that primarily benefits schools, holds $42.3 million worth of stock in seven "highest offender" companies with oil and gas operations in Sudan.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Dave Maass |
11-02-2007 |
International
Distant Flamenew
Portlanders protest the 2008 Beijing Olympics and call for the U.S. to boycott the Summer Games.
Willamette Week |
Amanda Waldroupe |
10-31-2007 |
International
Tags: international
Pasadena's Broken Rosesnew
A new year's float representing China forces civic leaders to grapple with international human rights concerns.
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
10-29-2007 |
International
Tags: international
The One-Baby Boonnew
One-child policy may be tyrannical, but there are worse things -- like famine, climate change and civil war.
NOW Magazine |
Gwynne Dyer |
10-26-2007 |
International
Tags: international
Burmese Refugees Working for Democracynew
Soe Naing hid in a jungle along the Burma-Thailand border after the military killed hundreds of peaceful protesters in 1988, and eventually ended up in North Carolina. The same military junta recently lashed out against Buddhist monks and pro-democracy demonstrators.
INDY Week |
Charles Duncan |
10-25-2007 |
International
Tags: Burma, international
'We Massacred Them'new
Armenian genocide bill in U.S. has Turks threatening to block military supply line to Iraq.
NOW Magazine |
Gwynne Dyer |
10-19-2007 |
International
Tags: international
Are Chinese Spies at Work in Montreal?new
Potential Beijing 2008 protesters worry about information gathered in Canada.
Montreal Mirror |
Samer Elatrash |
10-19-2007 |
International
War on Hugo Chaveznew
An outlaw and former spook takes on the Venezuelan dictator.
Miami New Times |
Janine Zeitlin |
10-15-2007 |
International
Burma Callingnew
Should we boycott China for propping up brutal regime? Activists can't decide.
NOW Magazine |
Andrew Cash |
10-12-2007 |
International
Tags: Burma, international
Burma's Pent-up Demandsnew
A first-hand view of the rebellion's infancy.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Hanna Ingber Win |
10-12-2007 |
International
Tags: Burma, international
Should We Divest From Iran?new
Oregon's pension funds help keep Iran's government afloat, but some would like to change that.
Willamette Week |
Corey Pein |
10-10-2007 |
International
Tags: Iran, international
The Cold Case of Brad Willnew
Oct. 27 marks the first anniversary of the assassination of New York Indymedia photojournalist Brad Will by police in Oaxaca, Mexico, under the thumb of a corrupt and tyrannical governor -- yet those who killed him are walking the streets.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
John Ross |
10-10-2007 |
International
Tags: international
Failed State Diarynew
As a member of the House of Representatives' Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, I traveled with a couple of my colleagues to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Chad last month.
Artvoice |
Rep. Brian Higgins |
10-05-2007 |
International
Tags: international
Tyranny for Now in Burmanew
The Burmese are now pinning their hopes on foreign intervention, but that is never going to happen -- sooner or later, though, the extreme corruption of the army's senior officers will destroy its discipline.
NOW Magazine |
Gwynne Dyer |
10-05-2007 |
International
Tags: international
Mission of Burmanew
Far from Myanmar, refugees try to tell us what's going on in their former home.
Willamette Week |
Jonah Sandford |
10-03-2007 |
International
Tags: international
