Freedom fighters terrorists or schlemiels?

by | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012

You Decide Freedom Fighters, Terrorists or Schlemiels? By SAUL LANDAU Condi Rice: “What we’re seeing here, in a sense, is the growing birth pangs of a new Middle East.” Jon Stewart: “Birth pangs? Yes, I believe today’s contraction took out a city block.” On January...

When did we stop caring about civilian deaths during wartime?

by | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012

 : When did we stop caring about civilian deaths during wartime?   Robert Fisk                                                                       31 January 2009  The mere monitoring of bloody conflict assumes precedence over human suffering I wonder if we are...

Icc shows world is full of hypocrisy

by | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012

ICC shows world is full of hypocrisy E Qasim Jovial Rantao’s call that the “ICC (International Criminal Court) must act on all leaders’ atrocities” (The Star, March 13), naming former US president George Bush and the Israeli prime minister as...

Massive anti government protest in bahrain

by | Jan 1, 2013 | Archive 2012

By Tom Eley (source: World Social Website) Tens of thousands of Bahrainis demonstrated near the capital city of Manama against the country’s pro-US monarchist regime on Friday. The demonstration comes one year after a series of protests in the small Gulf sheikdom were...