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  1. John Pilger on Ken Burn's 'Vietnam War': The killing of history

    "events" of American television, The Vietnam War, has started on the PBS network. The directors are Ken ... Burns and Lynn Novick. Acclaimed for his documentaries on the Civil War, the Great Depression and the ... United Nations on 19 September- a body established to spare humanity the "scourge of war"- he ...

  2. 'Don't let Afrin become another Kobane', say human rights activists, academics in open letter

    Imperialism & war Democracy International solidarity Rojava Afrin Autonomous Administration of ... Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Academics and international human rights activists launched a petition ... calling upon world powers to act against Turkish aggression against Afrin, ANF News reported. On January ...

  3. Northern Syrian movements condemn Turkish invasion

    (YPG) Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) The umbrella organisation of ... a statement on recent attacks and threats by the Turkish state. Turkey has attacked the Afrin district in ... Units (YPG), Women鈥檚 Defense Units (YPJ) and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) 鈥 armed groups supporting ...

  4. Nepali Communists win landslide, but face big obstacles to win change

    districts out of 75 districts. Only five women won the elections in the FPTP system on the open seats ... for House of Representatives of Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal held in two phases on November 26 ... seats out of 165 determined by FPTP. Two parties based on the Madhesi ethnic people, the Rastriya Janata ...

  5. John Pilger: Why the documentary must not be allowed to die

    on London. The War Game 聽was banned. 鈥淭he effect of this film,鈥 said the BBC, 鈥渉as been judged to be ... of limited mental intelligence鈥. Most of the press swallowed this. The ban on聽 The War Game 聽ended ... Thames Television broadcast聽 Death on the Rock, a documentary about the war in Northern Ireland. 聽It was ...

  6. Iran rocked by mass anti-regime protests fuelled by poverty

    relying heavily on imprisonment, executions and suppression of just demands of workers, women, youth and ... by the International Alliance in Support of Workers in聽Iran on January 1. It is followed by ... officials on all levels as well as brutal political repression. These protests are mostly unsystematically ...

  7. Revolt by the poor shakes Iran

    hostile to the West. The latest protests have centred on economic injustices, but the slogans and demands ... vigil in Tehran. However, the 2009 protests were very focussed on Tehran, whereas the current protests ... said 90% of detained protesters are under 25, Firat News Agency reported on January 2. The protests ...

  8. After Catalan independence movement wins elections, Spanish state prepares new showdown

    untrustworthy. Caught in its war with the upstart Citizens, PP aggression has been intensifying on all fronts. ... women in uniform were alert and ready to defend the unity of their country. On January 8, PP general ... National liberation Democracy Elections Dick Nichols Barcelona The main war aim of the People鈥檚 ...