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Hugo Chavez Sets up Dictators Resort, Welcomes Mubarak

Jack Hidary | Posted 05.25.2011

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The resort has all the amenities of a 5-star property including Canyon Ranch spa and wellness center. The resort also offers psychological services to help the former rulers cope with their diminished circumstances.

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Burma Refugees Return Home After 'Sham' Election

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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YANGON, Myanmar — A senior member of Myanmar's military-backed party says it has so far captured 75 percent of parliamentary seats in the countr...

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Burma's Revolution: Goodbye, Generals (with Shaazka Beyerle)

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 05.25.2011

In honor of the upcoming elections in Burma, here is a re-post of an article published at Truthout by me and Shaazka Beyerle in October of 2007. The...

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Burma's Continuing Agony

Doug Bandow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Spdc, Junta, Sanctions, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Asean, Nuclear Proliferation, Jim Webb, Myanmar, Foreign Policy, North Korea, World News

Nobel laureate and Burmese democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi turned 65 today. She has spent 15 of the last 21 years in prison or under house arrest. There is no end to her, or her nation's, agony in sight.

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US, ASEAN Drop Call For Suu Kyi's Release

AP | VIJAY JOSHI | Posted 05.25.2011

SINGAPORE — President Barack Obama on Sunday told Myanmar's junta to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during an unusual face-to-face i...

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Myanmar Court Accepts Suu Kyi Appeal

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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YANGON, Myanmar — A Myanmar court agreed Friday to hear an appeal by detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi of the criminal conviction that...

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U.S. Senator Jim Webb In Burma To Meet Leader

nytimes.com | SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and SHARON OTTERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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An American senator arrived in Myanmar on Friday to meet with the leader of the junta there, just days after the country's pro-democracy leader, Daw A...

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UN Chief Visits Burma: A Political Gamble

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

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With an agenda that asks the ruling military junta to open its doors to national "reconciliation", Ban Ki-moon is convinced he can persuade the country's leaders that reforms are for their own good.

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Twin-Track Talks in Burma Raise Peace Hopes

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aung San Suu Kyi, Junta, Salween River, 12 Generals, Burma, Thailand, Myanmar, Spdc, Knu, Knla, Karens, Dkba, Norway, World News

The junta hopes that by making a token attempt at democracy it can convince the West to ease the sanctions it's imposed on Burma and re-open economic relations.

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Karen Independence Movement: Seven Decades Of Futility? (Pt. 2)

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Karens actually arrived in Burma before the Burmans, but in the sixteenth century, the Burmans conquered most of Burma and proceeded to impose their will on the ethnics.

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Burma Lawyers Risk Jail For Doing Job

Inter Press Service | By Marwaan Macan-Markar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Burma Rule of Law, Burma, Assistant Association for Political Prisoners in Burma, Rangoon, Burmese Lawyers, Nyi Nyi Htwe, Burmese Jails, Junta, Southeast Asia, Legal System in Burma, Saw Kyaw Kyaw Min, Lawyers in Burma, Burma Lawyer's Council, Jail, Dagon University, Dictatorship in Burma, Inter Press Service, World News

To be a lawyer in military-ruled Burma is to court danger, invite arrest and risk being jailed in the country's notorious prisons. It is the price...

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Period Panties Protest

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Menstruation, Rape, Sharon Stone, Victoria's Secret, Underpants, Crimes Against Women, Panties for Peace, Thailand, Myanmar, Lindsay Logan, Human Trafficking, Sexual Slavery, Junta, Period, Underwear, Burma, Sex Slaves, Karma, Protests, Upskirting, Women's Underwear, Period Panties, Cyclones, China, Ralph Lauren, Political Protest, Panties, The Giving Life, Healthy Living News

I always knew my undies were powerful. In college someone went to the trouble of breaking into my apartment to steal them. (Side story: the perp wa...

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Myanmar: Why You Won't Be Going There Anytime Soon

Richard Walden | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Generals in charge of Myanmar, isolated from world opinion as they may be, are intent on achieving "Failed State" status with or without a cyclone disaster.

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Myanmar Junta Continues To Arrest Scores Of People

Reuters | Aung Hla Tun | Posted 05.25.2011

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Despite gradually easing its iron grip on Myanmar's main city on Thursday, the junta continued to round up scores of people and grill hundreds more ar...

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Myanmar Buddhist Monks Spearhead Largest Protests Against Junta In Two Decades

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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About 20,000 protesters led by Buddhist monks and nuns on Sunday mounted the largest anti-government protest in Myanmar since a failed 1988 democratic...

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Junta Threatens Myanmar Monks

The Guardian (U.K.) | Ian MacKinnon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Burma's military rulers last night threatened to "take action' after up to 100,000 demonstrators protesting against the regime flooded the streets of ...

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