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1945'de, Japonların müttefik kuvvetlere teslim olmasının ardından, Japon silahlı kuvvetlerinin Filipinlerdeki komutanı General Tomoyuki Yamashita bir ABD askeri mahkemesi tarafından savaş suçlarından yargılandı, suçu sabit bulundu, ve idam edildi.

What was different about this uprising was that large numbers of Shia rose up against the occupation forces.

I suppose the shock and horror that has greeted reports of Iraqi prisoners being abused by their American and British captors makes a change from shock and awe: but it is just as hypocritical.

If Air America is successful with its current lineup, they are unlikely to ever reach out to other groups. Why mess with a winning formula? This is why the problem needs to be addressed now.

The Anti-War Movement and the Occupation of Iraq

During the last three years, the United States has moved farther to the corporatist, imperialist, fundamentalist and even fascist right than many of us thought possible.

What sort of "quick relief," I wondered, does that last article's author recommend for the latest American GI to lose a limb for George W. Bush's stupid imperial adventure or to the latest Iraqi family devastated by U.S. "pacification"? By Paul Street

Caterpillar, the industry leader in heavy equipment manufacturing, has put its brand name at risk by becoming the industry leader in transforming construction equipment into military equipment.

What was so striking was not merely that the 450 recently killed in Falluja came last on the list, but the absence of outrage at the scale of the killing.

The U.S. position returns Middle East diplomacy to its pre-1991 position, when Palestinians were excluded from all negotiations. Israeli-U.S. negotiations become the substitute for Israeli-Palestinian talks, with the U.S. free to concede Palestinian land and rights.

Bush now planning to pursue policies in the Middle East that commit the United States to a "forward strategy of freedom"?

An understanding of the current crisis requires a sense of Haiti's history.

Free trade agreement threatens Costa Rican environmental protections.

Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was murdered at daybreak on Monday. Israel Air Force helicopters fired missiles at the car carrying the wheelchair-bound paraplegic head of the Islamic group as he left a mosque near his house in Gaza City.

We are presently in the third decade of what has come to be called the "war on drugs." It continues to dominate the headlines everywhere, as millions of individuals are consistently rounded up, convicted and incarcerated in the nation's prison system on drug charges.

"The responsibility for the current situation lies with all citizens of Kosovo," said Holkeri, warning that there should be no presumptions made that the drive-by shooting of eighteen-year-old Serb medical student Jovica Ivic on Monday night was ethnically motivated.

One year after the invasion of Iraq, what has the peace movement accomplished? And where do we go from here?

What an amazing political dynamic emerged in Spain.

We are carbonizing the oceans with dire consequences

If the circumstances weren't so calamitous, the US-orchestrated removal of former President Jean- Bertrand Aristide from Haiti would be farcical.

Whether yesterday's attacks in Spain, in which 190 people were killed and nearly 1500 wounded, were carried out by the Basque separatist ETA or by al-Qaeda, they make one thing very clear: terrorism cannot be fought by military means.

President Bush's call for changes in international rules on the sale of nuclear equipment would effectively revoke the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty's provision allowing countries to pursue atomic energy if they pledge not to build nuclear weapons.

For years, they made us believe that genetically modified (GM) crops reduce pesticide applications and thereby help in protecting the environment. For years, they worked hard, manipulating scientific data, to justify the increasing public investment in a risky technology.

The twin spectres of "politicizing" the UN and damaging the "fragility" of non-existent peace talks between General Sharon and the decrepit Palestinian Authority are again being invoked, this time to scuttle the upcoming deliberations in the International Court of Justice at the Hague on the legalit

Israel is ethnically cleansing Rafah

The real intelligence failure is ours, in allowing all of this to happen. That's an intelligence failure among the media, among the political opposition, and among all of us... by Rahul Mahajan; Empire Notes

Hunger is not a curse that some among us have to live with. Hunger is a reflection of our misplaced emphasis towards growth for a few. The hungry do not need our sympathies. They need a helping hand, and they can do the rest. by Devinder Sharma

As the new year begins, however, that has changed. My major new year's resolution is to become more directly involved in helping to build a massive and activist movement as quickly as possible on the issue of global warming or, to be more accurate, catastrophic climate disruption.

The war with Iraq that followed had even less justification and subverted the system of international cooperation that the U.S. had worked since World War II to create.

In the days following the discovery of mad cow disease in Washington State, the U.S. cattle industry has been hard at work trying to calm Americans' fears about tainted meat.