Government violence reduced number of street protests, but movement has become more difficult to control. By Behzad Yaghmaian (MR No 16, 13-Nov-09) The presidential election of June 12, which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared to have won, gave birth to a grassroots movement that has been evolving politically, embracing broader segments of the population, discovering […]
New Wave of Violence Against Iraqi Gays
Rights advocate speaks of an "extraordinarily brutal campaign", saying hundreds may have been killed in last few months. By IWPR trainees in Baghdad (ICR No. 295, 3-July-09) Iraqi gays are being targeted and killed in what rights campaigners say is some of the worst violence against the community in recent years. At least 68 gay […]
U.S. Political Insight Encore: How separatism could be used to defend America from NAU agenda
The Flag Of The Republic Of Cascadia. The elite driven political-military-industrial complex is pursuing an agenda to create a North American Union (NAU), in which capitalism can flourish, without being interfered with by the democratic aspirations of "ordinary Americans". NAU is essentially a project to create a new continental government run by elites, […]
Metro Inc. plans to cancel Dominion Name in Ontario at the prospective expense of shareholders
A Quebec company plans to get rid of Dominion, that has enjoyed a renaissance in southern Ontario, in favour or the name "Metro" based upon a francophone business model that may not work in southern Ontario. Dominion has been on the southern Ontario supermarket landscape since the 1920’s. The plan of Quebec’s […]
Assyrians, the indigenous people of the Middle East, leave home
On a sizzling summer afternoon in 1974, my mother was trailing behind me, running hastily home to escape one of the stone battles that raged between neighbourhoods in Syria’s northeastern city of Qamishli. Once we crossed the sand bridge that separated the Assyrian quarter from the rest of the city, we were out of the […]
Some Respite for Displaced Sunnis
Baghdad truce allows uprooted families, some of whom have been expelled several times, to return home. By Shawkat Al-Bayati in Baghdad Khalid Mohammed Rashid has lived a life of uncertainty for more than two years. Following the 2006 bombings of the Shia holy shrines in Samara, Rashid, a Sunni, his wife and their three children […]
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