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Links Thailand: Anti-Regime Protesters Tell Their Side of the Story January 10, 2014  ( ATN ) – Akanat Promphan is a spokesman for Thailand’s current protests. He has created a series of brief videos  explaining the political conflict from the protesters’ point of view. Quite clearly, the message he is telling is different than what the Western press has attempted to claim
Links Thailand: Army to Regime – You Will Be Held Accountable for Violence January 7, 2014  ( ATN ) – Thai Royal Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha has issued a stern and clear warning to the regime that it will be held responsible if any violence breaks out. Thai PBS reported in their article, " Army chief to hold government responsible if violence breaks out ," that: "Army commander-in-chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha said the government must be held responsible if the protest escalated to violence similar to the 2010 riot.  The army chief did not rule the possibility of a military coup when asked about the current coup rumor after unusual movement of a large number of troops and their armory in the capital." While the regime and its Western backers claim this is an unwarranted threat made by a rogue military, the warning comes after the regime of Thaksin Shinawatra and his nepotist-appointed proxy, sister Yingluck Shianwatra , deployed black-clad gunmen twice ( here  and here ), resulting in multiple deaths, as well as unleashing its " red shirt" enforcers to confront political opponents with violence and intimidation  almost daily
Link: Thailand: Regime Threatens Covert Violence Against Protesters
Thailand: Regime’s "Red Shirts" Attack Protesters Regime directly controls "red shirt" enforcers, is directing violence and intimidation as it clings to power. January 5, 2014  (ATN) – Regime "red shirts" attacked peaceful protesters in the northern city of Chiang Mai today, as thousands of fellow protesters marched simultaneously in Bangkok.
Links Who is to blame for the crisis in South Sudan? The nascent civil war in South Sudan is a product of kleptocratic governance, systemic corruption, and political posturing that has reignited deep ethnic divisions between the nation’s two largest tribal groups
Links Thailand: Civil War is Impossible But terrorism dressed as "civil war" likely. Vigilance and swift, decisive action against regime’s leadership can stop it. January 4, 2014  (Tony Cartalucci) – The embattled regime of Thailand’s Thaksin Shinawatra and his substantial Western backers  are attempting to hold peace, stability, and the nation’s future hostage in order to extort from Thailand the perpetuation of their current grip on power
Image : Thailand’s Thaksin Shinawatra & Cambodia’s Hun Sen – two despots with deplorable human rights records coddled by the West for their shameless selling-out of their respective nations to the Fortune 500. The Cambodian people have lived under the tyrannical rule of dictator-for-life Hun Sen for several decades. His "People’s Power Party" has seen uninterrupted rule for over a quarter of a century. In 1997, when last Hun Sen lost an election, he butchered and exiled his opposition  in a bloodly military coup. Those who failed to flee, according to Human Rights Watch, were brutally tortured and murdered
Links Terror in Volgograd Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on RT to discuss the recent terror attacks in Volgograd, Russia. Draitser explains the political and geopolitical context within which the bombings should be examined