South-Central Asia

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Musharraf has destroyed the constitution, the judiciary, and his own credibility. Time for him to go.

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Democracy is the outcry of dissent.

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On February 22, 2007, the unionized BJ&B garment factory in the Dominican Republic suddenly announced that it was closing and would lay off all workers. The owners of the factory are shifting the work to Vietnam, where independent unions are banned, and possibly to Bangladesh, where unions are banned in "export processing zones."

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Impeachment is a vital protection against evisceration of the balance of power among the three branches of government.

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"I'm often asked whether there aren't big differences between the Iraq War and Vietnam. And I'm always quick to say, of course, there are differences. In Iraq, it's a dry heat. And the language that none of our troops or diplomats speak is Arabic rather than Vietnamese." -Daniel Ellsberg

Summary:While the US debates whether a civil war is raging in Iraq, thousands of Iraqis face the possibility of death every day all over the country.

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The Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) isn't what most experts think of as a site of research on militarization and demilitarization. But that oversight may be due to many militarization experts' narrow views of ''expertise.'' The WCRC is an energetic organization located in downtown Oakland, California, that develops programs for Asian- American, African-American, Native American, and Latina women in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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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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Joe Gerson on Siddhartha