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  • ZIMBABWE: Treason charge is Mugabe's latest poll ploy

    On February 25, the presidential candidate for Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai, was formally charged with "high treason", a crime that can carry a death sentence. Tsvangirai was allowed to

  • BRITAIN: Detention centre burns

    It is feared that five women and an unknown number of children may have died in the fire which broke out on February 14 at England's Yarl's Wood detention centre. As of February 27, 25 detainees were still unaccounted for.

  • MAURITIUS: Anti-terrorism law leads to political crisis

    [On February 19, Mauritius' interim president, Supreme Court Chief Justice Arianga Pillay, signed into law anti-terrorism legislation over which his two predecessors had resigned. Twice passed by parliament, the Prevention of Terrorism Bill, deemed

  • UNITED STATES: What's wrong with Black Hawk Down

    [The following is a slightly abridged version of a speech given at an anti-war forum at Columbia University in New YorkIII, one of the actors in the movie Black Hawk Down.] When I first read the script to

  • UNITED STATES: Bush dynasty up to its eyeballs in Enron

    CHICAGO — If the congressional committees investigating Enron really want to get to the bottom of the scandal, they could begin by hauling in George Bush to testify. The entire Bush dynasty has been up to its eyeballs in Enron

  • UNITED STATES: War profiteers have a field day

    Towards the end of Bill Clinton's presidency in 2000, the moaning and groaning of US "defence" contractors reached new heights — their profits were drying up as US military budgets shrank to a post-Cold War low. Following the

  • ZIMBABWE: Mugabe relies on repression to survive

    The ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) has intensified its violent campaign against the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in a desperate attempt to save President Robert Mugabe's hold on

  • TURKEY: Campaign launched for refugees' rights

    On February 28 the International Federation of Iranian Refugees (IFIR) and the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees began a joint international campaign against the lack of rights for asylum seekers in Turkey. Currently,

  • ISRAEL: Divisions grow over war

    Israeli society is becoming increasingly polarised. On one side there are those who have lost, or are losing, faith in a military strategy to crush the current intifada, and who are beginning to understand that without justice for

  • SCOTLAND: Protesters blockade Trident base

    GLASGOW — At 5am on February 11 a convoy of mini buses, cars and vans carrying 500 anti-nuclear activists from across Europe made their way to the home of Britain's Trident nuclear missile submarine base at Faslane on the Clyde

  • YEMEN: Saleh joins Bush's 'war on terrorism'

    LONDON — Whatever authoritarian aspirations Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh may have cherished in the past, tribal and regional fiefdoms have always served as a brake on centralised power. Now, thanks to September 11, the