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Binu

India Ratifies Parkinson’s Law
By Niranjan Ramakrishnan

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And though the government had won, it had really won a vote of confidence in its continuation, not specifically the nuclear deal, for there had been little to no discussion of that subject. The Left Parties were opposed to the American connection, the largest opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seemed to have only one grouse, namely that the Congress rather than it had engineered the agreement. As to the government, you could have gathered from its speeches that the nuclear deal was the lone and final key the country had to enter the Kingdom of Heaven

Pakistan Faces Mounting US Demands To Suppress “Terrorism”
By K. Ratnayake

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Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is due in Washington next week for top-level discussions, including with President Bush, in which the escalating war in Afghanistan will certainly be a central focus. The Pakistani government has come under mounting pressure from Washington to take action against anti-US insurgents operating from bases inside the tribal areas near the border with Afghanistan

Iraq: Most NGOs Losing Face
By Ali al-Fadhily & Dahr Jamail

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Welcomed at first after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, most NGOs have run into scepticism and mistrust. Few remain to help

Obama Promotes Wider War In Afghanistan
By Jerry White

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It is clear that the presidential campaign of Barack Obama has become the political vehicle for a significant shift in the focus of US military aggression from Iraq to Afghanistan and Central Asia

Simmering West Africa: A Slow Healing
By Maryam Sakeenah

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As the scars of war slowly heal, West Africa still remains prone to conflict raising its ugly head again. The issue of Blood Diamonds is still very pertinent and awareness of the role of diamonds as currency for conflict is important to create. This is because the root causes of turmoil and unrest in Africa still remain

Army Vet’s Suicide Raises Questions About VA’s Treatment Of PTSD Cases
By Jason Leopold

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The tragic death earlier this month of a 26-year-old Navy veteran who hung himself with an electrical cord while under the care of a Spokane, Washington Veterans Administration hospital depression underscores what veterans advocacy groups say is evidence of an epidemic of suicides due failures by the VA to identify and treat war veterans afflicted with severe mental health problems

The Ordeal Of Mohammed Omer
By Kenneth Ring

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We are used to hearing about the hazards, often fatal, of being a journalist these days. Everyone is familiar with accounts of courageous Russian journalists who have been assassinated and of course with stories of war correspondents who have been killed or gravely wounded in the course of reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan. But what about the dangers of just being a Palestinian journalist who is simply trying to return to his own hometown in Gaza after being abroad? Consider the case of a twenty-four-year-old reporter named Mohammed Omer

Jeff Halper’s An Israeli In Palestine (Part II)
By Stephen Lendman

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According to Israeli-based author and journalist Jonathan Cook, Halper’s book is “one of the most insightful analyses of the Occupation I’ve read. His voice cries out to be heard” on the region’s longest and most intractable conflict. Part II continues the story

Watchovia Company
By David Truskoff

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Obama’s banner slogan “Change” is beginning to look and smell like an old over-used dish rag and has become just as useless. I tell my friends that I will not vote for the lesser of two evils again. If Obama gives specifics on how he will re-store the FDR constraints on the robber barons: if he will say he will withhold funds for Israel until the apartheid wall is taken down, if he says he will stand up to the powerful lobbies that have taken over our congress and government like AIPAC, Then I might consider the idea that he may bring about change, but I know it will not happen. So who do you vote for?

Realistically, 9/11
By Rand Clifford

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What have we earned by allowing government to become a spectator sport, besides such bigger televisions? Had we exposed and excised the cancer of 9/11 before it metastasized so thoroughly, as a people we could at least claim the dignity of having fought back while it still mattered. Choosing the easy, lazy and uncritical route, hoping for the best, we are learning there is no best when it comes to psychopaths, only worse

Why I Said Good Bye To JKLF?
By Dr Shabir Choudhry

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Time and again people ask me why I left JKLF, or more precisely, why we dissolved the JKLF. They know I have worked hard for the party and jeopardised my future ambitions and academic career because of the JKLF and its ideology. After working so hard and making so many sacrifices why on earth I left the JKLF and became part a of new and smaller party Kashmir National Party

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