Chomsky: Starving the Poor

By Noam Chomsky
The International News
Wednesday 16 May 2007
The chaos that derives from the so-called international order can be painful if you are on the receiving end of the power that determines that order’s structure. Even tortillas come [...]

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Jihad Pendidikan

Jihad Pendidikan
oleh Jaya Suprana
BAGI yang tidak menghayati hakiki maknanya, banyak prestasi yang tercatat di Museum Rekor Indonesia atau Muri terkesan remeh, sepele, bahkan janggal. Termasuk di antaranya Kabupaten Jembrana, Bali, sebagai penerima piagam penghargaan Muri atas prestasi sebagai kabupaten pertama yang berhasil menyelenggarakan pendidikan secara cuma-cuma bagi segenap warganya.

NAMUN bagi yang mau dan mampu [...]

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Three animal or plant species become extinct every hour

By Alister Doyle
Reuters
Wednesday 23 May 2007
Oslo – Human activities are wiping out three animal or plant species every hour and the world must do more to slow the worst spate of extinctions since the dinosaurs by 2010, the [...]

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Money Does Not Buy Happiness

By Annie Kahn
Le Monde
Monday 21 May 2007
Work more to earn more is the watchword of the new government. As though it were self-evident that earning more is a guarantee of universally-desired happiness.
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Perda Syariah di Tangerang Masuk BBC News

 
 
Islamic law by the back door
 

By Lucy Williamson
BBC News, Jakarta

Half an hour’s drive from Indonesia’s parliament, the civilian police in the district of Tangerang go on patrol every evening.
A dozen men, crammed into the back of a pick-up truck, cruise the dimly-lit streets, looking for anywhere serving alcohol or any [...]

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We’re No. 1! : A Nation of Firsts Arms the World

By Frida Berrigan
TomDispatch.com
Sunday 20 May 2007
They don’t call us the sole superpower for nothing. Paul Wolfowitz might be looking for a new job right now, but the term he used to describe the pervasiveness of [...]

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We’re No. 1! : A Nation of Firsts Arms the World

By Frida Berrigan
TomDispatch.com
Sunday 20 May 2007
They don’t call us the sole superpower for nothing. Paul Wolfowitz might be looking for a new job right now, but the term he used to describe the pervasiveness of [...]

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We’re No. 1! : A Nation of Firsts Arms the World

By Frida Berrigan
TomDispatch.com
Sunday 20 May 2007
They don’t call us the sole superpower for nothing. Paul Wolfowitz might be looking for a new job right now, but the term he used to describe the pervasiveness of [...]

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We’re No. 1! : A Nation of Firsts Arms the World

By Frida Berrigan
TomDispatch.com
Sunday 20 May 2007
They don’t call us the sole superpower for nothing. Paul Wolfowitz might be looking for a new job right now, but the term he used to describe the pervasiveness of [...]

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Carter Criticizes Bush and Blair on War in Iraq

Reuters
Sunday 20 May 2007
Washington – Former President Jimmy Carter criticized George W. Bush’s presidency in interviews released Saturday as “the worst in history” in international relations and faulted Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain for his loyal relationship with [...]

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