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  • India unprepared and unwilling to defend democracy
    Bharat Verma, Editor , Indian Defense Review

    With the American declaration of an exit from Afghanistan, Beijing and Islamabad are upbeat. This leaves India in the lurch as it is ill prepared to face the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalists and the Chinese Communists argues Bharat Verma. The creeping invasion by authoritarian regimes will engulf Asia by 2020 as... » read this article
  • China's Prosperity: Capitalist, Communist or "Non-Rational"
    Les Blough. Axis of Logic. , Axis of Logic

    "Yang Chien, the founding emperor of the Sui dynasty, came to power in 581 and though the dynasty itself lasted less than forty years, it's accomplishments, as Arthur Wright has written were 'prodigious and its effects on the later history of China were far reaching.' It was also a time... » read this article
  • Afghan Mujahideen: NOT FOR SALE
    Ron Moreau , Newsweek via PKKH

    Kabul’s Western allies want to pay Taliban fighters to quit the insurgency. Lots of luck. Representatives from nearly 70 countries showed up in London on Jan. 28 for a one-day conference on how to save Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai was there, gamely offering “peace and reconciliation” to all Afghans, “especially”... » read this article
  • Turkey widens aid efforts for Haiti
    Special Report , Turkish Weekly; World Bulletin; Today's Zaman

    Sunday, January 17, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Turkey sends 10 tons of additional aid material to Haiti, bringing its total assistance dispatched to the poor Caribbean nation to 50 tons. DHA photo Turkey widened its efforts Sunday to help quake-devastated Haiti as hard-working rescue teams clawed through the rubble of capital... » read this article
  • Bold Taliban attack shows vulnerable side of Karzai's Kabul
    Sonia Verma , Globe and Mail. Comment - Axis of Logic

    Editor's Comment: The corporate world media is having a difficult time employing their typical language with this report. "Suicide bombers, terrorists, insurgents" - none of them really seem to work that well, although they do manage to emphasize the civilians among the dead. The bottom line: this was another successful... » read this article
  • A ‘very difficult’ thing for Israel
    Cengýz Çandar , Hurriyet Daily News

    Friday, January 15, 2010 Was Turkey able to repel Israel? Yes, it was. Famous for usually being obnoxious and because of that, leading the U.S. administration in a pretty dance, making its European allies sick and tired, Israel bowed before Turkey and apologized for the first time. Turkish President Abdullah... » read this article
  • Israeli deputy FM Danny Ayalon - plays “the Great Dictator”
    Ein Katzenfreund , Aletho News

    The Israeli government is convinced that the world does not understand the true nature of the regime of Tel-Aviv. The Israeli Foreign Ministry has therefore decided to clarify the true character of the regime in Tel Aviv to the world. To that end the Israeli deputy Foreign Minister, Daniel Ayalon,... » read this article
  • AfPak war claimed over 12,500 lives in Pakistan during 2009
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    14 January 2010 The Pak Institute of Peace Studies (PIPS) report published on January 10 makes clear that the carnage from the fighting between the Pakistani military and anti-government Islamist and tribal militants more than matches that taking place in neighbouring US-occupied Afghanistan. In 2009, the low-level civil war in... » read this article
  • China and ASEAN create free trade bloc
    John Roberts , WSWS

    12 January 2010 A Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China came into effect on New Year’s Day, creating the world’s third largest free trade bloc behind the European Union (EU) and the North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA). While limited in... » read this article
  • Obama administration prepares public opinion for attack on Yemen
    Patrick Martin , WSWS

    Editor's Note: It's no surprise that 2010 will end the decade with more of the ever expanding "war on terror". Below, Patrick Martin reports on the preparation of public opinion for opening another front on the U.S./Israeli 'war on terror', this time in Yeman. The recent arrest of the 'Christmas Bomber' in Detroit is an... » read this article
  • The Lap Bomber Mystery
    Justin Raimondo , Antiwar.com

    It just wouldn’t be Christmas in the age of terror if we didn’t have a visitation, ostensibly from al-Qaeda, now would it? ‘Tis the season, and all that. Recall Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber," arrested on December 22, 2001, for trying to blow up American Airlines flight 63, coming into Miami... » read this article
  • Disturbing questions in thwarted US plane bombing
    Barry Grey , WSWS

    28 December 2009 The nearly catastrophic attempt to blow up a US passenger jet during its final approach to Detroit Metro Airport on Christmas Day raises a number of serious questions. While many details of the attempted terror attack and the biography of the would-be suicide bomber remain sketchy, widely-reported... » read this article
  • Pakistan: Did Benazir Die For Democracy?
    Shahid R. Siddiqi. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    DID BENAZIR DIE FOR DEMOCRACY? Or is she being exalted in death to sanitize her successors who have leapfrogged into power? South Asians are sentimental people. Their romanticism and devotion to revered historical icons and deities over several thousand years has shaped their political psyche of nurturing personality cults. To... » read this article
  • Gen Kapoor is on wrong side of history: Gen Hamid Gul
    Azhar Masood interviews General Hamid Gul , Pakistan Observer

    December 7, 2009 Interview Azhar Masood Islamabad—A beaming Lt Gen (Retd) Hamid Gul proudly sitting in his drawing room with a well decorated artifact of a small piece of Berlin Wall, was well prepared to give an interview Pakistan Observer on Indian Chief of Army Staff General Deepak Kapoor’s latest... » read this article
  • Australians slam 'Indonesian Solution'
    TamilNet , News Article

    December 2, 2009 Over a 150 people marched through the streets of Sydney on Sunday [November 29, 2009] calling upon the federal government to abolish its harsh stance on refugees and grant asylum to hundreds of Tamil refugees currently being detained in Indonesia at Australia’s request. Citing persecution faced by... » read this article
  • Sri Lanka: Plea for Sanity.
    Chandi Sinnathurai , Axis of Logic

      SRI LANKA Its a mockery to insanity Fumbling into putting foot 'n' mouth Rambling onto sheer bloody mindedness. Children stare with protruding eyes The skeletons of war and misery. The future hangs in balance of the global players. The locals are victims to lip service and spin doctors. The... » read this article
  • Where is Mullah Omar?
    Arif Ayub , The Nation

    Editor's Note: This is an interesting profile of the man who leads the Taliban against the United States. "Elusive but a commander par excellence", as Pakistan's General Hamid Gul remembers him, "Mullah Omar has wrapped the mightiest country in the world around his little finger."  - Editors WHERE IS MULLAH... » read this article
  • Four more US soldiers killed in Afghanistan
    Tom Eley , WSWS

    24 November 2009 Four US soldiers died in three separate incidents in Afghanistan on Monday, as President Barack Obama’s “war council” is reportedly finalizing its plans to substantially increase the number of soldiers participating in the eight year old occupation. In southern Afghanistan, two soldiers died in a bomb attack... » read this article
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World News
  • Khadr Case Raises Broad Questions on Child Detainees
    Canada's top judges expressed such concern in a Jan. 29 decision, arguing that Khadr has endured and continued to experience violations of his rights under the constitutional Canadian Charter of Rights after the U.S. military...
  • Seeking A Kinder, Gentler Image For Israel
    Israel submitted its formal response last month to a U.N.-commissioned probe that accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes during last winter's war in the Gaza Strip. Israel defended its conduct and pledged to...
  • GREECE: New Migrant Law Tough But Respects Rights
    The newly elected Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) government's plans to move legislation, that will greatly affect migrants and refugees, have been both welcomed and criticised by rights organisations and activists. The interior ministry is ready...
  • Israel Admits Detention of International Activists Illegal
    A state prosecutor admitted before the Supreme Court today that the Immigration Police illegally detained the two international activists arrested yesterday in a pre-dawn raid on the International Solidarity Movement's  Ramallah offices. The two will...
  • Berlusconi, Israel, and The Big Brother
    After the three-day visit of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to Israel and a short visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a judgement is due. Berlusconi came with a large Italian ministry delegation (Foreign Minister...
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