News + world news English + Japan news English + Alternative news/オルタナティヴニュース：ビデオなど + archived news stories:1997-2002

World Issues (mixed topics: spans globalization, etc.from previous website)

January 13, 2010 by Paul

2002-2008

There is no category corresponding to the 2002-2008 category called World Issues, so we will link these to news.

http://www.tokyoprogressive.org/index/archivesindex.html#dworld

archived news stories:1997-2002

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news sites (many) /ニュースサイト（いろいろ）

January 12, 2010 by Paul

VIDEO, AUDIO and NEWSWIRES (English)

Democracy Now Video News

デモクラシー・ナウ

益岡賢のページ

インターネット新聞JanJan

Alternative news/オルタナティヴニュース：ビデオなど

Japan Press Service News

February 1, 2010 by Paul

2010 JANUARY 20 - JANUARY 26

Anti-U.S. base candidate elected as Nago mayor
In the Nago City mayoral election on January 24 in Okinawa, Inamine Susumu, who opposes the construction of a new U.S. military base off the city’s Henoko district in the name of “transferring” the U.S. Futenma Air Station, was elected to be the next mayor.

Japan news English

Recent Israel, Iran, Iraq, Wall Street, and more: from Information Clearing House, ZNET, and other sources

June 23, 2009 by Paul

As news comes in with various takes on the legitimacy of the presidential vote in Iran, not much is cleaer except one thing: the hypocrisy of western news media and government offcials who downplay, ignore or criminalize dissent in their own, supposedly democratic country but are its most vociferous defenders when the perpertrators are the so-called "rogue states".