Myanmar junta stage-manages visit by UN chief

Myanmar's ruling junta wanted Ban Ki-moon to go into a grandiose drug museum through the back door to prevent the U.N. secretary-general from making a rock-star entrance.

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Mauritania junta's promise of democracy in doubt

The small clique of army generals who masterminded Mauritania's latest coup say all the right things: they want to end authoritarianism, they want elections, they want real democracy.

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Myanmar politics roiled, but junta grip firm

The cyclone that devastated Myanmar's heartland has also roiled a political landscape dominated by the military for more than four decades.

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Myanmar capital in sharp contrast to cyclone zone

Getting to see one of the world's most reclusive military strongmen requires a VIP flight, armed escorts and soldiers pointing the way — not to mention a disaster of epic proportions.

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Experts: Myanmar cannot run aid effort alone after cyclone

With only a few aging helicopters and little disaster experience, Myanmar's junta is risking the lives of millions of cyclone survivors by running the relief operation alone, aid experts said Friday.

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US Envoy Wants Int'l Pressure on Myanmar

Fresh international pressure is necessary to push Myanmar's military rulers toward reform because the momentum for change after last year's demonstrations has been lost, the top U.S. diplomat in the country said Friday.

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Arms Easy to Buy for Myanmar Junta

Military-ruled Myanmar is a pariah state to many because of its dismal human rights record, slapped with an arms embargo by the U.S. and European Union. But to some of the world's other top weapons dealers, Myanmar is just another customer.

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From the Toronto Star, via Associated Press. Here's the beginning portion of the article:

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Tells of the civilian refugees (mostly Kokang, ethnic Han) who're getting away from Burma due to erupted clashes last week happening in the Northern part of Burma. Some of the refugees include rebel fighters who've given themselves up to the Chinese authorities.

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The decision to extend Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest has sparked outrage in Brussels. The EU has proposed "targeted measures" against the junta, while British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is calling for a worldwide ban on the sale of arms to the Asian country.

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The State Department on Tuesday said it revoked four visas -- and is reviewing all others -- of people serving in the de facto Honduran government that ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya last month.

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Clothing companies Nike Inc., Gap Inc., and Knights Apparel have released a joint letter to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to call for the restoration of democracy in Honduras.

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Hopes for the release of Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi were dashed today with the announcement she has been arrested for violating the terms of her house arrest and could face up to five years' confinement after a bizarre intrusion by an American who swam across a …

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The Idiot's Guide to Using Political Ideology Terms To Attack Someone You Don't Like

It really upsets me when people throw out attack code words to accuse people of not being as 'American' as they are, for daring to have different beliefs and / or ideas than they do... especially when the people using those words don't even know what they mean.

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RANGOON, Myanmar—Let it not be said that the month of March went by without the outside world taking a moment to remember Burma's drawn-out struggle for freedom.

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The world must act now to stop genocide in Burma

Soldiers entering villages and killing people on sight. Landmines blowing pregnant women to smithereens. There's no way this is really going on. The world would never tolerate this.

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The Burmese military junta ruling the once prosperous southeast Asian nation for nearly five decades now, marks indepdence day with defiance in preparation for what independent observers call sham elections in 2010..

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The military junta that has ruled Burma for more than four and half decades with an iron fist policy is determined to have civilians "friendly" towards it elected in the 2010 general elections.

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The Burmese military junta, ruling the once prosperous nation in southeast Asia have arrested the De Jure elected leader and Nobel laureate Daw Aung Sang Suu Kyi.

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The Armed Forces Press Service has initiated a propaganda campaign designed to convince the American people that deploying the 3rd Infantry Division in the United States in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act is a good thing.

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Greek Riots or A Greek Civil War?

Yesterday night the smoke covered for third day the city centre of Athens.

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How Do You Say "Bailout" in Spanish?

Events of the past weeks have made my job explaining The Army of the Republic a lot easier. I no sooner say "It's set in a near-future America that's gone through a financial collapse . . ." than a smile of recognition comes across my listener's face.

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Six months after a huge cyclone tore through Burma's Irrawaddy Delta, killing up to 150,000 people, thousands of people remain dependent on food aid.

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A review of Army of the Republic by pentagon whistleblower Karen Kwaitkowski.

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Caving to big oil demands, the Senate on Tuesday approved a plan that intensifies trade sanctions against Burma's military regime but abandons an earlier push to penalize Chevron, the last major U.S. company propping up the repressive junta.

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doctors and aid workers returning from remote areas of the delta are offering a less pessimistic picture of the human cost of the delay in reaching survivors. They say they have seen no signs of starvation or widespread outbreaks of disease.

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Zimbabwe's crisis deepened significantly last night as the country's leaders ordered the indefinite suspension of aid distribution, while a group of US and British diplomats were detained at gunpoint by thugs of the Mugabe regime.

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The renewal of Aung San Suu Kyi's arrest casts shame on the Burmese junta's western sponsors

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MOPV/my own view

I feel compelled to write an article about the travesty in Myanmar. I have, over the years, learned many and sundry swear words, horribly nasty words, but I have not learned a word nor a phrase which will do justice to the military Junta in Myanmar.

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Canadian women have launched a Panties for Peace! campaign to send their undergarments to the Myanmar military junta to frighten it into ending suppression.

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YANGON, Myanmar -- International aid workers have finally begun entering Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta area after being blocked for more than three weeks by the country's military junta, officials said Tuesday.

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The Burmese regime continues to restrict news coverage on the devastation left by cyclone Nargis, in some cases deporting foreign journalists.

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