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The Independent – Robert Fisk: This is not about ‘bad apples’. This is the horror of war

January 13, 2012 | By Robert Fisk How many other abuses took place off camera? How many Hadithas? How many My Lais So now it’s snapshots of US Marines pissing on the Afghan dead. Better, I suppose, than the US soldiers pictured beside the innocent Afghan teenager they fragged back in March of last year. [...]

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CNN – Why women are world’s best climate change defense

December 12, 2011 | By Mary Robinson , Special to CNN Editor’s note: Mary Robinson is President of the Mary Robinson Foundation — Climate Justice. She served as President of Ireland from 1990-1997 and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002. She is a member of the Elders and the Club of Madrid and serves [...]

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The Sun – Mahathir’s most frightening moment

By Pauline Wong KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 9, 2011): While Malaysians may know Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad as a man who neither minced his words nor feared his political enemies, the former premier today revealed that the moment which frightened him most in his 22 years of leadership was when he pegged the US dollar to [...]

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The Star – Vying for dubious achievements

November 23, 2011 | By Marina Mahathir We are great at railing against idiotic politicians at mamak stalls and on social websites, but when it actually comes to doing something, we make excuses; and with that, we disempower ourselves. IN 2000, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called The Tipping Point, defining it as “the moment of [...]

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Utusan – Isytihar perang sebagai jenayah

November 20, 2011 | By Ku Seman Ku Hussain Mulai semalam hingga Selasa ini bekas Presiden Amerika Syarikat (AS) George W. Bush dan Perdana Menteri Britain, Tony Blair “dibicarakan” di Kuala Lumpur. Mereka dibicarakan kerana dituduh melakukan jenayah perang terhadap Iraq pada 2003. Akibat jenayah itu dianggarkan 1.4 juta orang awam di Iraq terkorban, berjuta [...]

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