Month: January 2014

Thailand: Protests Neither a "Class Divide" Nor "Anti-Democratic"
January 14, 2014 0

Thailand: Protests Neither a "Class Divide" Nor "Anti-Democratic"

By News Desk

Links Thailand: Protests Neither a "Class Divide" Nor "Anti-Democratic" Protesters are fighting against a loud, violent, and well connected minority led by Thaksin Shinawatra and backed by Wall Street.  January 14, 2014  (ATN) – Even at face value, Eric Sommer’s (under the pen name David Marx) op-ed on Russia’s RT is full of factual errors that call into question both his premise and his conclusion.

Thailand: "Occupy Bangkok" Begins
January 13, 2014 0

Thailand: "Occupy Bangkok" Begins

By News Desk

The New York Times admitted in an early 2013 article titled, " In Thailand, Power Comes With Help From Skype ," that:  For the past year and a half, by the party’s own admission, the most important political decisions in this country of 65 million people have been made from abroad, by a former prime minister who has been in self-imposed exile since 2008 to escape corruption charges.  The country’s most famous fugitive,Thaksin Shinawatra, circles the globe in his private jet, chatting with ministers over his dozen cellphones, texting over various social media platforms and reading government documents e-mailed to him from civil servants, party officials say. The NYT piece would also report:   “He’s the one who formulates the Pheu Thai policies,†said Noppadon Pattama, a senior official in Mr.