Category Archives: Liberty

The Economist bids See-yah to the Thai Junta

February 3, 2008 – 1:01 am

The Economist led into the story about the Thai junta retiring to the barracks With the headline. GOOD RIDDANCE.

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‘I Little Slave’ a book

January 28, 2008 – 1:48 am

I read this interview on http://www.worldpress.org/Asia/3051.cfm from www.2bangkok.com Ona trip to laos in 1997 I was amazed by the widespread deforestation. The country had been denuded of trees. The loggers were political prisoners like Bounsang Khamkeo. The timber produce chopsticks in Japan and toilet paper for the rest of the world. The writer survived seven years in the secret jungle […]

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