WASHINGTON: Truth must be told: Helen Thomas, the 89-year-old dean of White House correspondents is more courageous than the president of the United States, and most members of Congress, when it comes to speaking the truth about Israeli treatment of the Palestinians and about the extremist Israeli policies in the Middle East. Thomas, who has been covering the White House …
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U.N. Chief Names Advisory Panel on War Abuses in Sri Lanka, by Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Jun 22, 2010 (IPS) – Defying a challenge by the government of Sri Lanka, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday named a three-member panel of experts to advise him on how he should proceed with investigating violations of human rights and humanitarian law during the concluding stages of that country's long-drawn-out separatist war last May. "The secretary-general has all …
Read More »US Fear Factory Kills Free Speech, By Yvonne Ridley
AMERICA is still embarrassed by the infamous McCarthy Hearings which ruined the lives of thousands of innocents during the Fifties. Anyone then, suspected of being linked to communism was arrested, interrogated and either imprisoned or forced to give names of others suspected of communist tendencies. And so the fear and intimidation spread like a great plague across the USA. Names were …
Read More »Maharoof takes hat-trick as Sri Lanka beat India
Asia Cup, Dambulla All-rounder Farveez Maharoof bagged a hat-trick as Sri Lanka beat India by seven wickets in the final round-robin match of the Asia Cup. Maharoof removed Ravindra Jadeja lbw, before bowling Praveen Kumar and having Zaheer Khan caught in successive balls. India collapsed from 189-4 to 209 all out in 42.3 overs, losing their last six wickets for …
Read More »CIA report: Israel will fall in 20 years
A study conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has cast doubt over Israel's survival beyond the next 20 years. The CIA report predicts "an inexorable movement away from a two-state to a one-state solution, as the most viable model based on democratic principles of full equality that sheds the looming specter of colonial Apartheid while allowing for the return …
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There are many questions and requests about information regarding the IDDAD of a Muslim widow. This article presents some simple facts about this period – Consider it in the light of a facts sheet. IDDAH (WAITING PERIOD FOR A WIDOW) What is Iddah? The literal meaning of Iddah is to keep count. In Islamic legal terminology, it is the …
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