here is an endangered species out there – strangely it is not an animal, or bird or plant but is in fact a human being – it is the moderate Muslim. Many hundreds of years ago, the moderate and modern Muslim was alive and well and vocal. It was they who engineered and flourished in the great Islamic empires of …
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‘Global order rests on double standards’ JOHN CHERIAN
Interview: Richard Falk, U.N. Special Rapporteur “on the situation of human rights” in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. Richard Falk. He has described the Israeli strikes on Gaza as “war crimes”. RICHARD FALK, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was in New Delhi in February. He is on …
Read More »Lest they forget Iraq
Bush out, Obama in and Iraq forgotten. On March 20, the sixth anniversary of the US occupation of Iraq, which was once a sovereign nation, came and went but there was little media hype. Probably, Iraq is no longer an issue for the Americans, since President Barack Obama who won the race for the White House on his anti-war credentials, …
Read More »International Gathering to Support Palestinians Abandoned by Regimes in the Region
In the aftermath of the 22 day long Israeli carnage which killed over 1330 Palestinians including 411 children ,injured more than 5,450 people , left over 70,000 homeless and virtually turned Gaza into a wasteland ,all what the war battered and impoverished Palestinians wanted was food, medicine , water and the like to keep their body and soul together in …
Read More »Demonized Iranian Women’s Crucial Role in Nation Building Classic Example of How Western Media Deceived the World.
The general image built up by the relentless pro Jewish Western media since the 1979 Islamic Revolution has been that women in Iran were an oppressed lot without any freedom that the women in the West were supposed to have been blessed with. I too was partly a victim of this powerful Western propaganda that is part of the western …
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