06/08/2019
Money earned by the Myanmar military from international and domestic business deals, “substantially enhances its ability to carry out gross violations of human rights with impunity” according to a report released on Monday [5 August 2019] by an independent United Nations group looking into military-business ties in the South East Asian country.
IRIN/Steve Sandford | Two Kachin soldiers stand guard opposite a Chinese dam in northern Kachin state, where more than 85,000 people have been displaced by conflict. Photo: IRIN/Steve Sandford (posted here from UN News).
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06/08/2019
A little-known but influential lobby group in Virginia has fuelled ultra-conservative defunding campaigns for decades.
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06/08/2019
4 August 2019 (Wall Street International)* — David Ray Griffin is a philosopher of religion who has written a dozen books on 9/11, all of which I have reviewed. George W Bush apparently wrote in his diary on September 11, 2001, that “the Pearl Harbour of the 21st-century happened today”, and we now know the foreign policy fallout of this event in terms of the War on Terror, along with domestic measures curtailing freedom and embodied in the Patriot Act.
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