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Berlin's moment of freedom that turned world history » "Twenty eight years and 91 days!" said the elated east Berliner I met walking up the Friedrichstrasse soon after the wall was breached. On the day the Berlin Wall went up, 13 August 1961, his parents had wanted to go to the cinema in west Berlin, but he, then aged 11, had been too tired. Next morning, they awoke to the sound of tanks. In all his adult life, he had never been to the western half of his own city. He told me how moved he was by an improvised poster that read "only today is the war ...
Venezuelen student's arrest mired in politics » President Hugo Chavez's government says Julio Cesar Rivas is a violent militant intent on fomenting civil war. Rivas' supporters say the 22-year-old university student is just one of many Venezuelans jailed for challenging a populist government that they contend is increasingly intolerant of dissent.As the Chavez government approaches 11 years in power, many of its most prominent opponents are in exile in foreign countries or under criminal investigation here.But human rights and legal policy gr...
Show trials and apologetics » The Stalinist show trial of Saturday August 1 – when a number of prominent ‘reformists’ appeared on Iranian state TV to ‘thank their interrogators’ before repenting – was not the first such event in the Islamic republic’s history. Leaders of the ‘official communist’ Tudeh Party were similarly paraded on Iranian TV to denounce their own actions in the 1980s, while in the 1990s we had the trials of ‘rogue’ elements of the ministry of intelligence.However, this time the Islamic leaders forgot that ...
A backbone that cannot be broken » Thirty years ago – I was living in Poland as an English teacher at the time – I saw the unthinkable become real. In 1980, strikers in Gdansk  and across Poland demanded a free trade union. Western commentators were united in their belief that the demand was unreal. With good reason: Leonid Brezhnev, who had given his name to the "Brezhnev doctrine" because of his fondness for sending tanks into countries which stepped a few millimetres out of line, was in power in the Kremlin. It could neve...
Attawapiskat Protest- Thru their eyes » Sister to Attawapiskat- where are the promises? Attawapiskat are still continuing to struggle after they declare 2 state of emergencies this year in 2009. The first call came when the demolition of the school, old water plant, 3 valve tanks and the old fire hall. The most affected was around the school, where the old school acted as a cap exposed toxic contamination onto the air making the community sick. They were force to shut down the school and declared their first State of Emergency. INAC r...
No more war » Some people believe that war is necessary in order to stop injustice. The belief that some wars are worth fighting is called "Just War Theory."People who are against war are often called pacifists. "Pacifism" is the refusal to kill. "Nonviolence" is a philosophy made popular by Mahatma Ghandi, an Indian leader who successfully practiced nonviolent resistance in his country's struggle to free itself from British rule.World War I (1914-1918) was known as "the war to end all w...
Iran's Karroubi under attack at rally » TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Bodyguards for Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karroubi fired warning shots into the air following a confrontation with supporters of the conservative regime.Karroubi came under attack by supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a press fair during the weekend in Tehran, reports Radio Zamaneh, an independent Persian broadcaster in the Netherlands.Demonstrators reportedly attacked Karroubi, who challenged Ahmadinejad in June, with clubs and managed to remove...
The Year Life Won in Serbia: The Otpor Movement Against Milosevic » Vision and Motivation In the 1990s, citizens of many of the Balkan states were suffering from political repression, economic hardship and sanctions. Slobodan Milosevic, the President of the Socialist Republic of Serbia, who had risen to power in 1990 on a wave of nationalist Serbian feeling, inflamed tensions between Serbs, Bosnians, Croats, and Albanians. As brutal inter-ethnic conflicts raged throughout the former Yugoslavia, Milosevic bolstered his regime by expanding the reach of the milita...
Electoral Fraud Proved in Honduras » While most international news organizations took obedient dictation of the Honduras coup regime's claims of more than 62 percent voter participation in the November 29 "elections," authentic journalist Jesse Freeston did what real reporters are supposed to do: He went directly to the source, asked questions, took notes, and videotaped the evidence.Freeston today publishes this bombshell report, above, on The Real News that documents definitively that Honduras electoral officials knowingly lied a...
Thousands Protest Against Philippine President Arroyo » Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said in her final state of the nation address Monday that she doesn't plan to extend her time in office beyond her current term limit in 2010, flagging that the race to succeed her is under way. Ms. Arroyo, who is scheduled to meet President Barack Obama in Washington on Thursday to discuss security and climate-change issues, has struggled to shake off speculation that she aims to stay in power after her term expires in June.