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FBI seizes server from progressive internet service provider
by Jamie McClelland, May First/People Link
In an attack on our infrastructure, our movement and the democratic Internet, the FBI seized a server April 19 from one of our cabinets in a colocation facility.
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Thaksin wants to avoid assassination and prison in Thailand
by Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra hopes assassins will stop hunting him, and a deal can be arranged allowing him to dodge imprisonment and return home a free man.
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Via campesina and allies call for global solidarity in fight against land grabs
by Tom Over
As the World Bank promoted its Seven Principles of Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI) at its annual conference in Washington D.C. from April 23-26, food sovereignty activists with Via Campesina, National Family Farm Coalition, and other groups called attention to the bank’s role in land grabs.
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Recent International Issues Articles

Palestine: Those who inspired us in 2011
  December 28, 2011
  Ramzy Baroud

Burma frees a comedian to travel to America
  December 25, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Masked in Gaza: The untold history of Palestinian 'militancy'
  December 14, 2011
  Ramzy Baroud

Thailand's fugitive ex-Prime Minister fails to get pardon
  November 26, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Shaman slaughter in Peru
  November 20, 2011
  Dan Collyns reporting from Lima

Before the beginning: Raven, that Lying Little Bastard
  November 20, 2011
  Greg Palast for TheMudflats.net

Struggling to survive Bangkok's worsening floods
  November 11, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" : The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN
  November 10, 2011
  Greg Palast

Chapter Ten of Greg Palast's Vultures' Picnic
  November 7, 2011
  Greg Palast

Murder and a million amphetamines on the Mekong River
  November 5, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Floods dissolve Thailand's superficial can-do image
  October 27, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Bangkok becomes a medieval-style fortress against deadly floods
  October 19, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

A New War for Barack Obama?
  October 13, 2011
  Pete Johnson

Worsening floods in Thailand kill and destroy
  October 11, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Floods ravage Southeast Asia
  October 8, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

C.I.A. torture chamber at Bangkok's International Airport?
  October 4, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Israel’s Window to Bomb Iran
  October 3, 2011
  Ray McGovern

Ex-massage parlor tycoon rubs away Thailand's police chief
  September 28, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Five years after U.S. embassy wrongly predicted no coup
  September 21, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Bird-Dogging Torturers in NYC
  September 11, 2011
  Ray McGovern

For the love of Israel: Congresswoman’s misguided war on the UN
  September 8, 2011
  Ramzy Baroud

Israel's 'Nice Little War': Gaza, Egypt in the range of fire
  August 25, 2011
  Ramzy Baroud

Islamist guerrillas want southern Thailand
  August 25, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Yingluck America
  August 19, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

US-Arab disconnect: Revolutions restate region's priorities
  August 18, 2011
  Ramzy Baroud

Red Shirts sidelined by Thailand's new government
  August 14, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Thailand's female Prime Minister faces hostile U.S.-trained military
  August 11, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Gaza, Somalia: Humanity lives on
  August 10, 2011
  Ramzy Baroud

Spain's 'Indignados' at the vanguard of a global nonviolent revolt
  August 6, 2011
  Pablo Ouziel

Competing narratives in Syria: Between tired slogans and a looming dawn
  August 4, 2011
  Ramzy Baroud

Blaming the Muslims
  July 28, 2011
  Robert C. Koehler

If Bush or Giuliani had been Stoltenberg
  July 25, 2011
  David Swanson, RootsAction.org

Ground your warplanes, save the horn of Africa
  July 21, 2011
  Ramzy Baroud

Human Rights Watch demands U.S. waterboarding in Thailand be investigated
  July 18, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Female detective
  July 12, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

A July Fourth shame on the founders
  July 5, 2011
  Ray McGovern

Thailand's first female Premier reverses 2006 coup
  July 4, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Thailand election may result in trials against politicians & military
  June 25, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Economy alone fails to explain Turkey’s success
  June 24, 2011
  Ramzy Baroud

Gaza and American ‘Security’
  June 24, 2011
  Ray McGovern

Spain's "Indignant Ones"
  June 15, 2011
  Pablo Ouziel

‘Permanent’ despair: Did Egypt really open Rafah Crossing?
  June 15, 2011
  Ramzy Baroud

A woman may win Thailand's "Clone" versus "Puppet" election
  June 2, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Enlightening the president and press -- Cuba: Facts and realities
  May 28, 2011
  Saul Landau and Nelson Valdés

Ignorant certainty
  May 28, 2011
  Robert C. Koehler

Cleaning up city squares in democratic Spain
  May 27, 2011
  Pablo Ouziel

Strauss-Kahn screws Africa
  May 21, 2011
  Greg Palast

Thailand prepares for election while both sides demand trials
  May 19, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Of humans and rights
  May 15, 2011
  David Swanson

What Osama bin Laden, Troy Davis, and you have in common
  May 8, 2011
  David Swanson

The unholy grail
  May 8, 2011
  Robert C. Koehler

Exploited workers of Southeast Asia unable to unite
  May 3, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Thailand and Cambodia battle on border to dominate temple ruins
  April 24, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Counterfeit U.S. & foreign ID cards on sale for $25
  April 12, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Military Tribunal May Hide 9/11 Motives
  April 6, 2011
  Ray McGovern

CIA suicide after a life of God and guns
  April 5, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Erawan Shrine Dancers
  March 29, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

One more war and another collective silence
  March 25, 2011
  Pablo Ouziel

Civil society and Palestine: The growing power of the ordinary
  March 17, 2011
  Ramzy Baroud

Surrogate mothers offered everyone an "efficient embryo"
  March 2, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

The Tunisia effect
  February 24, 2011
  Robert C. Koehler

Discovering fire
  February 20, 2011
  Robert C. Koehler

No thought for food
  February 20, 2011
  Saul Landau

When “good” dictators go bad
  February 16, 2011
  Norman Solomon

Like Pinochet, Bush can't hide: Forced to cancel speech in Switzerland for fear of arrest
  February 9, 2011
  IndictBushNow

At stake in Egypt: Reading Gaza mom
  February 9, 2011
  David Swanson

Banquet guests and street protests
  February 2, 2011
  Richard S. Ehrlich

Statement from Veterans For Peace regarding current events in Northern Africa
  February 1, 2011
  Veterans For Peace

Decline and fall (Maybe) Jan 31 - Egypt and the false dilemma
  February 1, 2011
  Michael Collins, “Scoop” Independent Media

The context of Cuba's crisis
  January 20, 2011
  Saul Landau and Nelson Valdes

Declaring Palestine: Revisiting hope and failure
  January 11, 2011
  Ramzy Baroud

One more year of inhumanity coming to a close. What happens next?
  January 11, 2011
  Pablo Ouziel

Hope in 2011: peoples, civil society stand tall
  January 2, 2011
  Ramzy Baroud




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