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June 22, 2023

Windrush ship at 75: liberation not a celebration

My late Jamaican ex-Second World War veteran father Simeon George Rowe returned to Britain on the iconic former troop ship Empire Windrush that docked at Tilbury on 22 June 1948 after a 5,000-mile...

Why Finnish bio-fuels are not so 'green'

Indonesian partners of two large Finnish companies are accused by civic groups of promoting the destruction of rain forests in Indonesia.Two NGO representatives, Don K. Marut and Rivani Noor said at a press conference in Helsonki on Tuesday that April, a p ...

Iconic Che everything

Amy ReiterYou know the picture all too well: the black beret flecked with a tiny white star; the grim, resolute set of the mouth under a patchy, perpetually hip mustache; the soft-looking flyaway locks of hair lifted as if by the breezes of change. And in ...

Martin Luther King's radicalism 'sanitised' by US leaders

Mel ReevesAmerican civil rights leader Martin Luther King, who was assassinated 40 years ago, was referred to as a politically moderate 'Dreamer' by US daily papers. Even some Black periodicals heralded the occasion by referring to MLK in the same ...

Obama still way ahead after Clinton's Pennsylvania win

Peter Wallsten - Los Angeles TimesPennsylvania voters last night gave Hillary Clinton every reason to continue her campaign to become US President but some crucial questions remain for her.The Democratic electorate in the populous American state did not pr ...

BBC: Why the West's attacks on Mugabe rebound

Peter Greste BBC News, Johannesburg On Wednesday, the United Nations Security Council will convene in New York for a special session chaired by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki. They are meeting to discuss ways of improving co-operation between the ...

US forces 'tortured and killed' Afghan prisoners

American military interrogators tortured Afghan detainees, using methods they learned during self-defence training, reveal Pentagon documents that have just been released to human rights campaigners. Detainees at the Gardez Detention Facility in south east ...

Mixed Reports About Zimbabwe General Strike 'Failure'

According to the BBC News: 'Many Zimbabwean shops and businesses are open as usual despite the Movement for Democratic Change opposition calls for a general strike to press for election results to be published. Harare-based radio executive Nyasha Mpun ...

Oil company profits spark global food riots

UN chiefs have warned that climate change and soaring fuel prices have combined to cause a "perfect storm"   for much of the world's population.John Holmes, under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief co-ordinat ...

Bush is 'divorced from reality'

Chris Gelken Analysts and media op-ed writers have spent the past couple of days dissecting and digesting the Iraq War Report presented by the US military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, and his State Department sidekick, Ambassador Ryan Crocke ...

Clash of rival politics shaping Poland

Rory Porter - in Gdansk, PolandGdansk is a city littered with cranes, and it always has been. The tall, imposing structures reveal the historical development of the city situated on Poland's Baltic coast. They also point to the cross-roads at which the ...

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