World

  • Colombia: Army mass grave discovered

    In December, a delegation of British MPs visiting Colombia reported that a mass grave had been discovered in La Macarena, a small town in the Meta region, 250 kilometres south of Bogota.

  • Indonesia: 'Our goal is a new workers' party'

    Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana is the international relations officer for Indonesia’s Working People’s Association (PRP). In 2003, Mahendra was imprisoned for two years for “insulting the government” of then-president Megawati Sukarnoputri. In recent months, the PRP has initiated a number of joint statements from left groups across the Asia-Pacific region on common struggles.

  • Google bans Cuban blogger

    Internet giant Google Inc. has cut off Cuban writer and essayist Henry Ubieta’s access to his “La Isla Desconocida” (“The unknown Island”) blog, hosted on Blogger, and blocked his access to his gmail account.

  • Bolivia: Bittersweet election win highlights obstacles to change

    Although final figures will not be known until April 24, the results of Bolivia’s April 4 regional elections have ratified the continued advance of the “democratic and cultural revolution” led by the country’s first indigenous President Evo Morales.

  • Burma: Poll boycott planned, Aus trade grows

    Burma Campaign Australia said on March 30 that Burma political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), will not register in the forthcoming national election in Burma.

  • John Pilger: Have a nice war, folks

    Here is news of the Third World War. The United States has invaded Africa. US troops have entered Somalia, extending their war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and now the Horn of Africa.

  • Afghanistan: Why the puppet seeks distance from master

    When the US and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001, they brought a president with them — Hamid Karzai. Unlike some powerful (and brutal) warlords in his government, Karzai has no private army. But like the warlords, he is loathed by the people. Even in the capital, Kabul, Karzai cannot venture out without a large contingent of US bodyguards. Soldiers from the US/NATO occupation force guard his palace.

  • Dracula's Army and war atrocities

    That the contents of a previously suppressed Pentagon video has come as a nasty shock to so many, highlights the noxious disinformation fog in which Western citizens are cocooned.

  • China, population and the environment

    At the failed December United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen, the issue of population control was put on the agenda by the delegation from China.

  • Venezuela: Cuban doctors helping the poor

    April 16 will be the seventh anniversary of the Venezuelan government’s health care program, Mission Barrio Adentro, which has used Cuban doctors to bring free health care to millions of the poor.