Oct
22

U.S.: Report Details Tea Party Ties with Hate Groups

Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Oct 21, 2010 (IPS) – Asserting that "the majority of Tea Party supporters are sincere, principled people of good will", the head of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP) and other U.S. civil rights leaders are calling on the populist political…
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Oct
20

CHINESE SUPPRESSION OF TIBETAN LANGUAGE LEADS TO PROTESTS

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GNB’s Global Analyst B.RAMAN In the wake of the first  Xinjiang Work Conference held  at Beijing from May 17 to 19, 2010, to draft a blueprint for the  Chinese-controlled province’s economic  development until 2020, the Chinese authorities had embarked on a campaign in Xinjiang, which de-emphasised the Uighur ethnic identity of the province and highlighted…
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Oct
20

CHINA: On the Thousand Mothers March

Global News Blog – Global Analyst / IPS By Ida Karlsson STOCKHOLM, Oct 20, 2010 (IPS) – Rebiya Kadeer has taken up a campaign for the rights of a people usually far from world headlines: the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority in China. Before she was arrested and imprisoned for nearly six years for criticising…
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