Troops patrol Thailand streets after deadly protests

Amidst the threat of  protestors to intensify their stir in the capital Bangkok today , there is no improvement in the situation in Thailand a day after two people died and over 400 were injured in the...

Puputan - One More Time

"Daybreak, September 20 1906… about 500 adults wearing kamben alancingan putih (white ceremonial uniform), with keris on his back and long spears on their hand rally from Puri Denpasar heading to Taensiat area....

Bangkok protesters.

The people of Bangkok are at it again! The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) have laid seige for the 26th day on Government House, aiming to kick Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and his cabinet out of office,...

Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics

Should we be on the look out for 4 horsemen?"DALLAS - In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards...

Protests in Tibet and the Support Marchers Return to McLeod Ganj, India

McLeod Ganj - 14th March 2008  As the support marchers returned back to McLeod Ganj today, full details of the arrests and the yesterday's events at Dehra have been coming through. The number of support...

After His Loss in Nevada, Edwards Keeps Marching

"He has the advantage of being a white, Southern man in a contest with a white woman and a black man — a fact that he made the heart of his stump speech as he toured the state in the week after the New Hampshire primary."

CBC Series: A week without women

This certainly will be an interesting program to watch, as a small town loses all of it's women and the men have to fend for themselves, Kids and all.  Sort of reminds me of Al Bundy and his fictious No MA'Am...

Nuns join Myanmar protests for the first time!

9/23/2007 Agencies Myanmar: Buddhist nuns joined the growing protests against Myanmar's ruling generals on Sunday, a day after a dramatic appearance by detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi to...

'Chicago Sun-Times' Looks to Redefine Itself as 'Liberal, Working-Class' Paper

The Chicago Sun Times is moving left.It's gotta be a business decision, not a moral or political one. I say this with due deference to publisher John Cruickshank, who in a past lifetime was a fellow journalist at...

Looking for some Dam Justice

Yesterday the group that Christine works for organized a protest against the dams the government is building, among other things like mining and water privatization. Basically, we blocked off an entire lane of the Pan American highway at a major intersection,...

Firefighters Celebrate St. Patrick's Day Despite Marching Orders

" March 18, 2007 New York - The St. Patrick's Day Parade stepped off at 11 a.m. Saturday but the firefighters didn't get going on until nearly two hours later. Way ahead of them were members of the Police Department and the Fighting 69th infantry regiment, and waves of...

Pirates Raid Tampa

Tampa Bay was taken over by party people this weekend.  The yearly celebration has beads, music, parades, and drinking galore.  Nothing like paying homage to those murdering pirates who sacked the city...

A conservationist's dream in Africa

"The marching penguins of Antarctica and homing swallows of Capistrano, Calif., are dwarfed by the thunderous herds of wildebeests and zebras that make their twice-yearly migration across the Serengeti Plain in East Africa."

Art on Parade in Soho

"Even though it is September, it looked more like the Halloween Day Parade arrived early, but in Soho instead of the Village. "

Gunmen attack Shiite pilgrims

"BAGHDAD, Iraq — Gunmen took aim at multitudes of Shiite Muslim worshippers marching through this besieged capital Sunday, killing at least 20 and leaving hundreds injured in a vivid illustration of the sectarian violence driving Iraq toward open civil war. Panicked...

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