I'm only linking this
Caution by Junta's Asian Neighbors Reflects Their Self-Interest
By Edward Cody
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, September 28, 2007; Page A16BANGKOK, Sept. 27 -- The United States and Europe have fiercely criticized Burma's military rulers for clinging to power during another round of pro-democracy protests, this time led by unarmed monks. But closer to home, the junta's Asian neighbors and trading partners -- China chief among them -- have walked a distinctly more cautious line, expressing distress over the violence and, after long hesitation, renewing calls for reconciliation and eventual transition to democracy.
...as a reminder that there's always more to the story than you are told in the newspapers of record.
Channel 4 Dispatches - Burma's Secret War
Evan Williams goes undercover to investigate the mass ethnic cleansing, forced labour and vicious clamping down of political opposition by a military dictatorship supported by Unocal (Chevron) and TOTAL Oil. Additional information can be found here
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Good reminder.....
Good reminder. When people say "you can't trust everything you read on the Internet", I usually respond by saying "you can't trust everything you read on ANYNET".
"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses." - Malcolm X