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Pacific Countries/Islands
  • LeiLani Dowell , WW Newspaper

    Published May 8, 2008 Rejecting the continued U.S. occupation of the sovereign nation of Hawaii, a group of Native Hawaiians has re-established its own government, named the Hawaiian Kingdom Government. On April 30, that government reclaimed the Iolani Palace, home of the last Hawaiian monarchs before they were overthrown by... » read this article
  • Sara Flounders , Workers World Newspaper

    March 29, 2008 A category of semi-secret U.S. bases is vastly extending the Pentagon’s military presence around the globe. Innocuously called CSLs, for Cooperative Security Locations, these bases are a new, covert form of intervention. The CSLs and other loose security agreements allow the Pentagon to set up facilities and... » read this article
  • Ghali Hassan , Axis of Logic exclusive

    For its entire existence, Israel has been portrayed as a “civilised” society with Western “liberal democratic principles”, defended by an “heroic” army. Western media coverage has been bluntly biased in favour of Israel regardless of the enormity of Israel’s war crimes and Israel’s violations of international law and civilised norms.... » read this article
  • Giff Johnson , Pacific Islands Development Program

    MAJURO, Marshall Islands (Marianas Variety, March 10) — Islanders from two ground zeros for 67 American nuclear tests and a third island that was engulfed in radioactive fallout in a Chernobyl-style nuclear accident are to file lawsuits in United States courts seeking more than $1 billion in compensation. Seeing virtually... » read this article
  • John Chan , WSWS

    16 December 2004 -The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in Taiwan suffered a serious political setback in the country’s parliamentary election on December 11. Having won the presidency in 2000 and retained it in a bitterly contested election last March, the party had campaigned hard to gain a majority in... » read this article
  • Malcolm Burgess in New Zealand , Aljazeera

    Monday 17 May 2004, 13:36 Makka Time, 10:36 GMT  Pacific countries are under pressure to form an EU-style trading bloc, while tackling security issues at the same time. The security issues were high on Australia and New Zealand's agenda at the recent Pacific Roundtable on Counter-terrorism, hosted by the New... » read this article
  • William Niskanen , Financial Times

    April 29 2004 America's first experience of a relatively "easy" war followed by an extended period of guerrilla combat was not in Iraq; it was a century ago in the Philippines. Max Boot, the neoconservative commentator, described the defeat of the Filipino insurrection as "one of the most successful counter... » read this article
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World News
  • Petroleum Sullies the Amazon
    "Now the fish are going to disappear," said Luis Umpunchi, an Awajún Indian, one of about 20 people gathered around a broken oil pipeline in the Jayais community, in the northern Peruvian province of Amazonas....
  • U.S. Uses False Taliban Aid Charge to Pressure Iran
    The Barack Obama administration has given new prominence to a Bush administration charge that Iran is providing military training and assistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan, for which no evidence has ever been produced, and...
  • Trans-Sahara Pipeline to send gas to Europe
    Nigeria, Algeria, Niger Seal $10bn Gas Pipeline Deal Three African countries yesterday signed an accord to build a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe. The project would convey gas...
  • US launches major Afghan assault
    US forces have launched a major military operation in southern Afghanistan in the first big push to drive the Taliban out of a key stronghold since Barack Obama became US president. Four thousand marines, backed...
  • DPRK fires fourth short-range missile off east coast
    The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired the fourth short-range missile in the day off its east coast on Thursday evening, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.     DPRK fired the fourth missile at...
  • Honduras: U.S. friends carry out a coup
    MILITARY OFFICERS and right-wing forces in Honduras with long ties to the U.S. government organized a coup to topple the democratically elected president at the end of June--and the reaction of the Obama administration was...
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