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Burma: Billion dollar con
Submitted by Dinyar Godrej on May 9, 2008 - 3:35pm.
Ever got a bum deal when changing money in a foreign country? Here’s an exchange rate scam to beat them all. Read more »
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Burma’s referendum among ruins
Submitted by Dinyar Godrej on May 9, 2008 - 3:00pm.
I’ve been reading today’s edition of propaganda rag The New Light of Myanmar. Normally all the railing against ‘foreign stooges’ and exhortations to ‘national duty’ (ie following the diktats of the ruling generals) is good for a cynical chuckle. But, as the song goes, that joke isn’t funny anymore. Read more »
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Burma: Seeing but not believing
Submitted by Dinyar Godrej on May 7, 2008 - 3:15pm.
Of all the images that have emerged from cyclone-hit Burma, the most shocking for me were the most long distance ones. NASA released satellite images of the country before and after the cyclone. The ‘after' image is barely recognizable - the amount of the Irrawaddy delta in the south that is now blue instead of green is staggering. The southern outline of the country bears no relation anymore to what one would expect to see. Read more »
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Burma: destruction and gundown
Submitted by Dinyar Godrej on May 6, 2008 - 4:42pm.
Tropical cyclone Nargis – which hit Burma around midnight on Friday – has ruined many parts of a country which already has poor infrastructure due to the history of blundering by its military dictators. Foreign journalists have posed the question: what will the Burmese people think of a regime that rushes armed soldiers onto the streets to quell any signs of protest but which has been sluggish in assisting the thousands in dire need? I doubt the Burmese will be spending much time over that one - they have more pressing worries and they know the true colours of their rulers well enough by now. Read more »
An important victory against water privatization in South Africa
Submitted by Adam Ma'anit on May 2, 2008 - 12:40pm.
Some great news coming out of Johannesburg in the battle against water privatization.
A High Court Judge has ruled the city's controversial usage of prepayment water meters unconstitutional. This is a tremendous victory for those fighting water privatization in South Africa, and particularly for residents of townships such as Soweto where the use of prepayment meters has restricted people's access to water drastically. Read more »
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International arms trade fair comes to Adelaide, Australia
Submitted by Simon Loffler on April 28, 2008 - 6:33am.
I just had news that my lovely home-town solar city of Adelaide, Australia will be the venue for the next Asia Pacific Defence & Security Exhibition.
Its purpose is to provide military companies from all over the world with an opportunity to display their latest war fighting machinery.
So to counter all of this war mongering, I was wondering if anybody would be interested in getting together a little peace gathering around the same time. Read more »
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China arms ship: union says ‘return to China only option’
Submitted by David Ransom on April 22, 2008 - 4:44pm.
This is a press release from the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF), dated 22 April 2008 Read more »
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Our daily bread – and our trespasses
Submitted by Dinyar Godrej on April 15, 2008 - 8:40am.
The spiraling world food grains crisis has been a long time coming. There have been warnings aplenty, but they didn't really grab the headlines. The two things that seem to have caught the world's attention are rising prices (ie food seen in monetary terms) and the social unrest of riots. We rightly fear instability. Read more »
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Food - wake-up call
Submitted by David Ransom on April 14, 2008 - 2:28pm.
The excellent Oakland Institute in California has produced this useful briefing which sheds a little more light on what's really going on.
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