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Identity Transduction Arts, Series 1.4: You Are Experienced

Identity Transduction Arts, Series 1.4: You Are Experienced

4th in a series of 'Identity Transduction' Artworks (By Humphrey King) ...

Oklahoma Couple Discover Just How Dangerous The Grasberg Mine Really Is
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Oklahoma Couple Discover Just How Dangerous The Grasberg Mine Really Is

Mike Dillard, chief executive officer of Century Martial Arts and a prominent area developer, is a well known adrenaline junkie — but even he admits he was shaken by his latest adventure. What began as a recent att ...

Shameless Cameron’s hypocrisy in arms peddling

Shameless Cameron’s hypocrisy in arms peddling

"Now Cameron is to sell even more weaponry to a country which, although ostensibly a democracy, is still prosecuting a largely hidden war." ...

West Papua: ‘It is as though there is a war here’

West Papua: ‘It is as though there is a war here’

A local community leader in Keerom district has spoken out about the presence of many military posts in his area as well as along the border (between West Papua and PNG) ...

Karzai backs claim of US massacre cover-up in Kandahar

Karzai backs claim of US massacre cover-up in Kandahar

Afghan President Hamid Karzai today backed claims that more than one person had conducted the massacre of 16 civilians which US forces have blamed on a single soldier. ...

Iraq on the brink of civil war
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Iraq on the brink of civil war

The US government spent over $800 billion and lost approximately the lives of 5,000 US troops in Iraq while fighting the war on terror ...

Caucasus: Frozen Conflicts, Forgotten Lives?

Caucasus: Frozen Conflicts, Forgotten Lives?

Overshadowed by the conflict in the former Yugoslavia at roughly the same time, the three conflicts waged in the South Caucasus in the early 1990s remain as neglected by the international media as ever. Over a millio ...

Who will control the drones watching you?

Who will control the drones watching you?

Whether they are being used for surveillance or all-out combat, drones will soon pose serious risks for all of the world's citizens. ...

Burma must end war in Kachin State

Burma must end war in Kachin State

President Thein Sein’s government is currently increasing troops for the offensive against the KIA in Kachin State and northern Shan State ...

Enforcing Democracy With Violence

Enforcing Democracy With Violence

The presence of the Lords of War in South East Asia is unnerving. They sell everything, from submarines, patrol boats, fifth generation jet fighters to missiles, assault rifles and bombs of every design. ...

London Riots: The Greater Context

London Riots: The Greater Context

Rioting and looting was not the only violent activity being carried out by Englishmen on Sunday night. Some hours before Cameron appeared on our TV screens vowing to take revenge on the risen British youth, his bombe ...

The World’s Longest Ongoing Civil War
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The World’s Longest Ongoing Civil War

For more than 60 years, Karen rebels have been fighting a civil war against the government of Myanmar. ...

War in West Papua Escalates, Claims Civilian Casualties

War in West Papua Escalates, Claims Civilian Casualties

The Indonesian government has closed off access to the Tingginambut district to both Indonesian and foreign human rights and media observers, and local activists have had to march for days across rugged terrain to ge ...

I Want More

I Want More

Collage art by Dawn Arsenaux ...

War Breaks Out in West Papua

War Breaks Out in West Papua

Confirmed reports emerged on Sunday from Puncak Jaya, West Papua, that over 600 Indonesian Army (TNI) troops have been conducting daily full combat operations since July 4 in and around villages in the Tingginambut a ...

South East Asia’s Phantom Menace: Rio Tinto & Freeport-Mcmoran

South East Asia’s Phantom Menace: Rio Tinto & Freeport-Mcmoran

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare said, “Rio Tinto played an active role in military operations that ultimately led to a civil war in which 15,000 people died.” ...

Kachin State, Burma: Soldiers Slaughtered, Women Raped in Newly Ignited Civil War

Kachin State, Burma: Soldiers Slaughtered, Women Raped in Newly Ignited Civil War

The firece fighting between troops from Kachin Independence Army, armed wing of Kachin Independence Organization, and Burma Army claimed over a hundred of Burmese soldiers and two batallion commanders' lives within o ...

Civil War Resumes in Burma- Kachin Independence Organization Declares Defensive

Civil War Resumes in Burma- Kachin Independence Organization Declares Defensive

Burma’s main ethnic armed group, the Kachin Independence Organization, today ordered its troops in Kachin State and Northern Shan State to stage defensive war against Burma's Army, warning that the war would be wid ...

Race of Cain

Race of Cain

Race of Cain by DEVOLVE. art. ...

So It Goes… feat. Kurt Vonnegut

So It Goes… feat. Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut in 1973 and Mary O'Hara from 1957 star on this track that reflects on coping with death and grief through the use of excerpts from the former's novel Slaughterhouse-Five narrated by the author himself. ...

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