Articles 2009 |
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| 14 December 2009 |
"This is how we lost our people from education to fighting." A Kurdish refugee remembers life in Turkey.... Click title to read more
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| 14 November 2009 |
Community work has long been recognised as consisting of both emancipatory and oppressive practice. Its roots in Colonial pacification of 'the natives' are well recognised ... Click title to read more
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| 11 November 2009 |
Rush transcript of phone interview with Noam Chomsky conducted before live audiences at three venues in Edinburgh and Glasgow on 10 November 2009... Click title to read more
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| 20 October 2009 |
The war in Afghanistan stinks: The land is still illegally occupied by the imperial powers that have got no regard for the people of Afghanistan.... Click title to read more
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| 20 October 2009 |
A peace group from PKK bases in northern Iraq entered Turkey yesterday, in response to what they describe as "the current halting of the peace initiative."... Click title to read more
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| 15 October 2009 |
A new report by the "Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan–Peace in Kurdistan" initiative says that Human Rights in Turkey have taken one step forward and two steps back... Click title to read more
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| 22 September 2009 |
There is a pressing need to investigate in detail how it has come about that there has been a form of death in this case – the death of justice – and who should be found responsible.... Click title to read more
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| 09 September 2009 |
The continued building and expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank of Palestine, even in the face of protestations from the international community, is further proof of Israel’s intention to expand its borders and ethnically cleanse the occupied territories ... Click title to read more
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| 27 August 2009 |
The election in Afghanistan was marred by fraud, intimidation, violence and low turnout in many areas. Democracy is dead in Afghanistan no matter how much oxygen is pumped by the US, UK and NATO into its mouth... Click title to read more
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| 30 May 2009 |
Belfast Telegraph columnist Lindy McDowell complains that dillydallying with paramilitaries has been official policy in Northern Ireland.... Click title to read more
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| 29 May 2009 |
More than 20,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the final throes of the Sri Lankan civil war, most as a result of government shelling, an investigation by The Times has revealed.... Click title to read more
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| 17 May 2009 |
Five members of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign are charged with 'racially aggravated conduct' following a protest against the Israeli siege of Gaza. ... Click title to read more
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| 11 May 2009 |
On Thursday 14 May it will be two years to the days since Binayak Sen was arrested under the Chhattisgarh Public Securities Act. ... Click title to read more
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| 07 May 2009 |
Both Hamid Karzai and Asif Zardari are standing with Barack Obama but the big question is who is standing with the victims of the American and NATO bombing?... Click title to read more
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| 22 April 2009 |
Obama's mission of "Redefinition Accomplished" is in full swing.... Click title to read more
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| 10 April 2009 |
Background to Tamil Protests in London, including a brief history of events in Sri Lanka... Click title to read more
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| 09 April 2009 |
The death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests in London as he was attempting to make his way home from work, certainly demands a criminal investigation into the actions of the police,... Click title to read more
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| 06 April 2009 |
Audio: Ilina Sen (wife of jailed Indian human rights activist Binayak Sen), and Kavita Srivastava (secretary, PUCL) spoke at a public meeting in Edinburgh on 9 March 2009... Click title to read more
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| 30 March 2009 |
The hype surrounding Wednesday’s impending protest in the City of London against the fat cats and bankers deemed responsible for the current economic crisis is eerily reminiscent of the hype which surrounded the planned protests during the G8 back in 2005, when it was held in Gleneagles.... Click title to read more
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| 26 March 2009 |
The UK and US operation in Afghanistan is "worthless" and akin to the start of the Vietnam War, former SAS commander Maj Sebastian Morley has said. Now we have President Barack Obama who said that the US must have an "exit strategy" in Afghanistan, even as Washington sends more troops to fight Taliban militants. ... Click title to read more
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| 24 March 2009 |
The government's new counter terrorism strategy was unveiled yesterday accompanied by the usual fanfare of publicity, designed to remind us that terrorists are lurking under the bed... Click title to read more
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| 17 March 2009 |
Poem in honour of Dr Binayak Sen, a doctor and human rights activist jailed in India... Click title to read more
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| 09 March 2009 |
The recent attack on a British army base in Antrim by, it appears, so-called republican dissidents, will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with politics in the six counties of Ireland or who's spent even a small amount of time there.... Click title to read more
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| 16 February 2009 |
Paul Donovan says this country's unjust system of detention without trial should be brought to book... Click title to read more
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| 15 February 2009 |
Departure of the Viva Palestine aid convoy has been marred by 9 arrests... Click title to read more
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| 06 February 2009 |
Qaribur Rahman Saeed, representative of the peace and reconciliation council of Hezb-E-Islami Afghanistan in Europe, predicts hard timed for Richard Holbrooke, Obama's special envoy to Afghanistan, unless he recognises some of the reality on the ground. ... Click title to read more
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| 18 January 2009 |
This is no ceasefire. Israel has momentarily stopped bombing schools, mosques, hospitals, universities and residential buildings.... Click title to read more
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| 17 January 2009 |
'I hope my murder will be seen not as a defeat of freedom but an inspiration'... Click title to read more
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| 11 January 2009 |
Hamas' actions cannot serve as a pretext for a cruel, all-out war against 1.5 million Palestinian civilians.... Click title to read more
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