The renewal of Aung San Suu Kyi’s arrest casts shame on the Burmese junta’s western sponsors, writes John Pilger.

The journalists who have been venting righteous outrage over the recent actions of the Burmese regime have been curiously silent about the UK’s far more destructive actions in Iraq, writes Media Lens.

The Royal Bank of Scotland’s uncritical support for oil has resulted in it nourishing repression and human rights abuses in Darfur, West Papua and Burma, write PLATFORM.

Addressing a London meeting, ‘Freedom Writ Large’, organised by PEN and the Writers Network of Burma, John Pilger pays tribute to Aung San Suu Kyi and the writers of Burma, ‘the bravest of the brave’, and describes the hypocrisy of Western leaders who claim to back their struggle for freedom.

The construction of new golf courses is big business worldwide, writes George Monbiot, but it leads to dispossession and huge environmental damage.

The Conservatives, like George Bush, can praise and cheer the Burmese opposition, but it’s the free market profiteering they idolise that glues the barbarity into place, writes Mark Steel.

If you want to support democracy in Burma, phone Gary Player and the other western businessmen propping up the generals, suggests George Monbiot

... as SchNEWS examines the sudden interest in human rights in Burma.

The proposed transfer to Myanmar (Burma) of a military helicopter containing components and technology from as many as six European Union countries threatens to undermine an EU arms embargo on Myanmar, according to a new report by Amnesty International, Saferworld and other NGOs.