Thursday, 17 June 2010

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Afghanistan, and the world’s resource war, Paul Rogers

A notable feature of the Afghanistan war in 2010 has been the way that assessments of its progress have varied regularly between optimism and pessimism. The current mood in Washington, evident in congressional hearings that have thrown some light on...

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Feminist revolution: population, migration and consumption, Marion Bowman

A temporary, tented town had sprung up in the fields to accommodate the thousands who had travelled far to be there. People were on the move, in search of friends and family they’d become separated from, checking that the children – free to roam...

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The Black Widows of Dagestan: Media Hype and Genuine Harm, Tanya Lokshina

On 9 April, less than two weeks after the explosions in the Moscow metro, the words “black widow” were  all over the Russian and foreign press and rumours were actively circulating that  1,000 widows and sisters of dead militants had...

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Kyrgyzstan: the absence of mercy, David Hayes and Natalia Leshchenko

The deteriorating internal situation in Kyrgyzstan since the sudden ousting of its serving president Kurmanbek Bakiyev on 7 April 2010 has turned into a humanitarian catastrophe. The violence in the southern region around the cities of Osh and...

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Visegrad, memory and justice, Peter Lippman

On 14 June 2010, approximately one hundred people, mostly women, crowded into a yard next to a half-demolished house on Pionirska Street in Visegrad, eastern Bosnia. On that day in 1992, extreme nationalist Serb troops forced about seventy local...

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Oysters Rockefeller, Jim Gabour

A dual update on the oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico:

“Panama City Beach, Florida - A piece of wreckage from the deepsea rig that exploded in April has washed up on a beach in Florida about 190 miles from the site of the disaster.

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It tolls for thee, Zainab Mahmood

In brutal terrorist attacks on two mosques in Model Town and Garhi Shau in Lahore on 28 may 2010, 98 Ahmadis were killed. The enormity of the casualties, ubiquitous media presence and excessive coverage of the events in local and international...

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Legitimising violence: India's red scare, Gautam Das

A few weeks back, the home ministry of the government of India issued a press release that threatened individuals and groups who were found to “provide support” to the Maoist ideology with imprisonment of up to ten years. Tehelka carried a...

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Israel's accession compromises the OECD's principles, Seyfeddin Kara

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), one of the most prestigious economic clubs in the world, was founded in 1961. It currently has 31 member states, mostly EU states and other developed countries including the US....

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