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City of whispers
Among Rangoon’s six million souls, a few have secret conversations with Dinyar Godrej.

Dinyar's Burma blog
Prior to the cyclone Burma already had poor infrastructure due to the history of blundering by its military dictators.

Stale news is best
Burmese editor Aye Chan Myate invites us into her office for a day.

The price of defiance
Former political prisoners speak out.

‘All history is propaganda’
If you are a student in Burma.

A shrunken world
Refugees in Shan state, on the run from the military.

Eye candy
The delights of national television.

BURMA – THE FACTS

Caucus of terrorists
Dinyar Godrej concludes his report: meeting enemies of the State – and looking to the future.

Corporate hogwash
Investors in Burma have blood on their hands, according to Maung Maung.

Action
and worth reading on Burma

News, views, and & voices

SPECIAL FEATURE

Was Jesus Christ a revolutionary?
Jesus kept some shady political company. And his lifestyle has obvious radical resonance: he was homeless, averse to material possessions, socially marginal, a friend to outcasts and pariahs, and a scourge of the rich and powerful. But was he out to overthrow the state? Terry Eagleton examines the Gospels for evidence.

Letter from Cairo

A world apart
Maria Golia hears about the jinn that wrecked a marriage in her Letter from Cairo.

Currents
Russian nuclear plant threatens sacred sea; Iraqi unions fight Western oil theft; Drop the Debt campaign 10 years on.

BigBadWorld
Polyp’s take on one of Joni Mitchell’s most famous lines.

Mixed Media
Includes an Argentinean film about a hermaphrodite, handbooks for the transition towns movement and for mobilizing to save civilization (is that all?) plus an African Scream Contest.

Southern Exposure
Guns as art, as seen by Mozambican photographer Carlos Litulo.

View from Montevideo
History from the viewpoint of the marginalized, served up by Eduardo Galeano.

Essay: Homeless in Delhi
Jeremy Seabrook ventures inside a night shelter in India’s capital city.

Country Profile – Uruguay


 

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