February 26, 2011, marks the eighth anniversary of the imprisonment of Dr. Rafil Dhafir. Dhafir continues to pay the price for feeding the children of Iraq during the US- and UK-sponsored UN sanctions against that country. According to the United Nations’ own statistics, every month throughout the 1990′s, 6,000 children under the age of five in Iraq were dying from …

The All Ceylon YMMA Conference, as one of its major projects , will be granting 150 Scholarships to 150 Students sitting for the G.C.E. (O/L) and (A/L) Examinations in 2011/2012. The Ceremony to handover these ScholarshipS will be held on Saturday 19th March 2011 at the YMMA Conference , Dr. A.M.A. Azeez Auditorium starting from 9.a.m.. Students from various parts of the …

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 8, 2011 (IPS) – When Muammar el-Gaddafi went on an arms-buying spree in the 1970s and 80s – stockpiling a staggering array of sophisticated weapons systems both from the East and West – the United States warned that Libya was in danger of becoming one of the world's most "overarmed" countries. If military forces from the United …

When the Earth is Shaken to its (utmost) convulsion And the Earth throws up Its burdens ( from within) And man cries ( distressed) What is the matter with it? On that Day will it Declare its tidings; For that thy Lord will Have given it inspiration. On that Day will men Proceed in companies sorted out, To be shown …

  Regular readers will know that I have long been concerned by the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist whose story is one of the murkiest in the whole of the “War on Terror.” Dr. Siddiqui disappeared with her three children in Karachi in March 2003, and for five years neither the US nor the Pakistani authorities acknowledged holding her, even …

  Up to 26 people are reported to have been killed after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Japan, triggering a 10-metre-high tsunami along parts of the country's northeastern coastline. The massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake struck Japan on Friday, sweeping away cars, boats, homes and people as widespread fires burned out of control. Japan's NHK television reported many injuries and showed …