Sri Lankans went to the polls on Tuesday to vote at the end of a hard-fought election campaign to decide whether President Mahinda Rajapaksa or his former army chief General Sarath Fonseka should lead the …

By Satheesan Kumaaran
Although Sri Lanka maintains a dubious status as a democracy, Sri Lankans will vote on January 26 to elect a president. The Tamil voters are in a state of shock and dismay …

The two communities in the north, however deeply divided by religion, share an outlook on life which is different from that prevailing in the south and which bears the stamp of a common heritage. E. …

You may already have read the report on this website by by Krista Clement, A Mother’s Glimpse into the Life and Death of Iraq. We have subsequently been contacted by Emma Brown — a quirk …

This very sad open letter came to 3W, with its account of the present situation for ordinary people in an Iraq still under import/export sanctions imposed by the Gulf War allies. Are their victims real …

By Gharib Hanif
Situated in the extreme north of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent, Kashmir has an area of 85,000 square miles and an estimated population of 13 million. It borders upon China, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.
HISTORY …

This is the text of a speech by David Kerr to the Conference of Secessionist and Independence groups hosted by Third Way in London on 23 February 1997. David is the Editor of Ulster Nation, …

Introduction
The big corporates are at it again, trying to originate or change international agreements and laws to suit their own profiteering purposes, and indifferent to the price paid by the rest of the population… this …

This is an account of the Seattle demonstrations against the activities and plans of the WTO, as given in a free e-zine. We have every sympathy for their cause, but fear that the respite gained …

An article which gives some indication of how much control has already been surrendered to the transnational corporate institutions, and their present style of political operation…
© Copyright by Michel Chossudovsky, Ottawa, 1999. All rights reserved. …

MULTINATIONAL CORPORATION DESTROYSFLEDGLING DEMOCRACY
The small country of Bougainvllle is by geography, race and culture a part of the Solomon group of islands in the Pacific. The island, 170 miles long by 30 miles across, was …

Although it has been some time now since the 1996 hostage situation in Papua New Guinea was concluded, we feel a statement to set the record straight is now appropriate.
The Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM) …