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Obamas covert wars

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 By Peter Symonds

(source: World Socialist WebSite)

Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI)

A lengthy article in the New York Times on Sunday entitled “A Secret Assault on Terrorism Widens on Two Continents” has provided a glimpse into the extent of the Obama administration’s covert wars. Obama has not only continued, he has expanded the murderous operations that were waged under the banner of the “war on terror” by the CIA and Pentagon during the Bush administration.

As the authors explain: “In roughly a dozen countries—from the deserts of North Africa, to the mountains of Pakistan, to former Soviet republics [in Central Asia] crippled by ethnic and religious strife—the United States has significantly increased military and intelligence operations, pursuing the enemy using robotic drones and commando teams, paying contractors to spy and training local operatives to chase terrorists.”

Obama has dramatically intensified the CIA’s drone missile attacks against alleged insurgents inside areas of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan. The White House has “approved raids inside Somalia,” it has “carried out clandestine operations from Kenya,” and it has collaborated with European allies in covert operations in North Africa, including a recent French strike in Algeria.

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Why Isarael only is tired hypocritical

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By Professor Farid Essack

(source: Mail & Guardian / City Press – Friday, 15-10-2010)

Robert Fine’s piece “Blame Game won’t lead us to peace” (October 8), commenting on the rather tepid University of Jo’burg senate resolution to the call by (now more than 270) South African academics, including the vice-chancellors of three South African universities to end its apartheid-era relationship with Ben Gurion University, raises some interesting points.

Desmond Tutu is indirectly, but not so subtly, accused of anti-Semitism because he warns that those who support the severance of ties may lose research funding and, at the same time, urges Jews not to forget their own past as victims of discrimination.

Tutu does not say who might withdraw research funding, so he is not trotting out some canard about “Jewish money power”.

He is making the (clearly accurate) statement that opposition to Israeli policies is not popular among those who dole out research money (mostly in Europe and the United States) and that people critical of Israel can be, and often are, penalised. Those who do the penalising are not necessarily Jewish — most are probably not. And to ask Jews to remember their past is hardly anti-Semitic. Jewish activists do this all the time.

During apartheid, it was common for liberal Jews to say that their fellow Jews should empathise with the oppressed because Jews had the same experience: no one except the right-wing fringe accused them of being anti-Semitic or “self-hating”.
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Why women convert to islam

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This is a reader’s contribution from a Muslim woman

(source: www.hizb.org.uk)

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Cheap media and government insults fail to deter increasing numbers converting to Islam

A recent report conducted by the University of Swansea and commissioned by the Faith Matters Forum, has produced unprecedented statistics regarding the rates of conversions to Islam amongst Britons since 2008. The study which has been widely discussed by certain quarters of the media including articles in both tabloid and broadsheet papers and radio shows, has sought to understand the reasons surrounding the phenomena of British women in particular, especially white women, who have embraced Islam. While the report looks at many factors it has unequivocally exploded many common myths surrounding female converts to Islam.

These include statistics showing that 62% of women as opposed to 38% of men have converted, that their was no evidence that conversions had to do with marrying a Muslim man as was previously the common explanation offered as to why women would wish to convert, and that the vast majority changed their appearance after converting by wearing the hijab. And also converts believed that they should be a force for good by building bridges between the Muslim and Non Muslim communities in order to understand Islam better.

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Press release congratulations university of johannesburg

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In what is the first of its kind in our country, the University of Johannesburg (UJ), has taken a historical and momentous step, in its decision to support the call for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.

In a ground breaking pronouncement, the UJ will be severing all relations, established under the apartheid regime, with the Ben – Gurion University (BGU) in Israel.

The Zionist entity of Israel is no stranger to boycotts. It has imposed cultural, academic, economic and political boycotts on the occupied territories. The boycott of Gaza must be the most brutal and naked siege on a group of human beings in the history of humankind.

BGU represents and embodies a country that lives and thrives on murder, theft and mendacity. It is sufficiently obvious that it cannot be an honest and a trusted partner in any relationship.

The Media Review Network (MRN) congratulates and supports this move by the UJ. The MRN also calls on all NGO’s and civil society structures in South Africa and our Government to identify with the position taken by UJ and to support the call for the BDS movement against Apartheid Israel.

Ibrahim Vawda

Senior Researcher,

Media Review Network

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