13 March 2010 India’s best known and most celebrated visual artist, Maqbool Fida (M.F.) Husain, last month accepted an offer of Qatari citizenship—a poignant protest against the Indian state’s and political elite’s complicity in his harassment and victimization by Hindu fundamentalists and supremacists. Now aged 94, Husain has been a... » read this article

"... A Bangladeshi garment worker received only 22 US cents per hour, compared to 33 cents in Cambodia, 38 cents in Vietnam, 37 cents in Pakistan, 43 cents in Sri Lanka, 44 cents in Indonesia, 51 cents in India, 86 cents in China, $1.07 in the Philippines and $1.18 in... » read this article

Statement by the Working Peoples Association (Indonesia), Socialist AllianceSocialist Worker (New Zealand), Partido Lakas ng MasaSolidarity (Australia), Labour Party Pakistan and Socialist Alternative (Australia) (Australia), (Philippines), [If your organisation would like to add their names to the statement, please email international@prp-indonesia.org.] February 23, 2010 -- We, progressive, anti-war, anti-neoliberalism and... » read this article

February 22, 2010, Axis of Logic -As recently as in August 2007, USAF lost track of six Advanced Cruise Missiles armed with 150-kiloton nuclear warheads for 36 hours. These missiles were loaded onto wing launch pod of a B-52 H Bomber at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, were improperly... » read this article

Editor's Comment: Most readers are now aware of the new front that President Obama has opened in Pakistan for the U.S. war in Asia. Losing the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. has picked Pakistan as what they see as a softer target in the region. That decision may be another critical... » read this article

16 February 2010 The rapid moves by the Sri Lankan government towards a police state not only spell danger for the working class on this island, but are a warning to workers around the world. As debt crises erupt in country after country and governments encounter resistance to the savage... » read this article

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

"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

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

INTERVIEW : Grégoire Lalieu & Michel Collon- michelcollon.info A pair of trousers catches fire in an aeroplane close to Detroit and missiles rain down on Yemen.  Is this is what is called the butterfly effect?  For Mohammed Hassan, the terrorist threat is only an excuse.  In this latest chapter in... » read this article

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

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

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

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

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

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

January 2, 2009. Axis of Logic - When India exploded its first nuclear device in 1974, culminating a program launched as far back as 1951, Western powers only reacted with customary “show of concern”. But on the other hand, Pakistan’s nuclear program, initiated in response to the Indian acquisition of... » read this article

31 December 2009 In the five days since the abortive attempt by the 23-year-old Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to detonate an explosive device onboard Northwest Flight 253, information has surfaced that indicates an ostensible breakdown in US intelligence and security that is extraordinary in both its character and scale.... » read this article

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

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