Eastern Asia

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The news was devastating. Two weeks after a successful speaking tour of the US in June 2007, two of the Vietnamese Agent Orange victims on the delegation were dead.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong and Mr. Nguyen Van Quy, suffering respectively from terminal breast and stomach cancer, had come to share their stories with the people of the US.

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Paul Joseph, reviews Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World Nuclear weapons are different. We need to think differently too.

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Naresh Dadhich reviews People Power: Fifty Peacemakers and Their Communities

People Power's artistic storytelling personalizes and universalizes success stories of nonviolent struggle.

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There is a very narrow window available for an international agreement keeping space free of weapons.

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The US maintains an unprecedented infrastructure of more than 700 US foreign military bases.

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The stakes of the US-Korean crisis are far greater than is popularly understood.

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Unarmed Insurrections by Kurt Schock, University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

Reviewed by Dave Taber, a Peacework intern and a freelance journalist.

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When the Salvadoran workers tried to unionize, Tainan, a Taiwanese company, closed the factory. Union workers took over the factory themselves.

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Are the issues regarding Iran’s nuclear program capable of resolution? It certainly seems possible.