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  1. Behind Kony 2012 and Ugandan war criminals

    Imperialism & war Kony The Kony 2012 film, produced by the Invisible Children NGO, has gone ... Invisible Children. There is no doubt the huge support it has generated is based on a genuine desire to take ... action against a war criminal, but the issues behind the film, the backing of the Ugandan military and ...

  2. Afghans react to burning of their country

    Imperialism & war Tony Iltis There has been a surge in protests and attacks against the US-led ... military advisors, shot inside the Afghan Ministry of the Interior on February 25 by an Afghan intelligence ... President Barack Obama鈥檚 plans for a 鈥渢roop withdrawal鈥 at the end of 2014. Modelled on the post-occupation ...

  3. Colombia: 'Carbon credit' scheme a cover for land grab

    Imperialism & war Economy Agriculture Democracy Climate crisis Latin America & the ... executed in public plazas in broad daylight. Women and young girls were openly raped and abused. Since the ... what one survivor called a region of 鈥渃oncentration camps鈥. Seven years on from the AUC demobilisation, ...

  4. Revolution in Bloom: Occupy Chicago launches Rebel Arts Collective

    Economy Books & music This is an abridged version of an article that first appeared on ... veterans of the 鈥60s anti-war movement, have reprised old classics for protesters in Liberty Square. ... a big publisher of Irish poetry in North America. 鈥淎rtists live on the edge at the same time as they are ...

  5. Colombia: Political prisoner freed after international campaign

    International Network in Solidarity with the Political Prisoners (INSPP) received the wonderful news on February ... be released on bond the next day. Obando had been in jail for three years and seven months on charges ... of "rebellion". Obando was arrested on August 8, 2008 while serving as the human rights ...

  6. John Pilger: Mark the first signs of an Indian spring

    during the 1971 war with Pakistan, civil defence units in soup-plate helmets and lungis toured the ... humiliating, this proud new metropolis would surely be enabling. On August 15, 1947, it was the setting for ... Indians than ever are living in poverty than anywhere on Earth, including a third of all malnourished ...