International Features

Muslim ‘Terrorists’ Manufactured by the Media, By Yoginder Sikand

It is not just the ‘loony’ ‘vernacular’ media, as many are given to believe, but even the ‘respectable’, ‘mainstream’, ‘national’ English-language press in India that have sedulously cultivated the notion of ‘Islamic terrorism,’ so much so that the image of Muslims in general being either terrorists or their sympathizers enjoys wide currency today. While it is true that some of …

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Al-Megrahi: Whatever Works, By Gwynne Dyer

Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was an intelligence agent. Since he worked for the Libyan government, he probably did some bad things. But he probably did not do the specific bad thing for which he was sentenced to 27 years in prison in Scotland. He only served eight years. He was released on compassionate grounds last Thursday by the Scottish Justice Secretary, …

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Our Suicide Bombers, By John Feffer

The actor Will Smith is no one’s image of a suicide bomber. With his boyish face, he has often played comic roles. Even as the last man on earth in I Am Legend, he retains a wise-cracking, ironic demeanor. And yet, surrounded by a horde of hyperactive vampires at the end of that film, Smith clasps a live grenade to …

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Racism And Corruption In Pro-Coal, Pro-War, Pro-Zionist, Climate Criminal Apartheid Australia By Dr Gideon Polya

Racism and corruption are entrenched in politically correct racist (PC racist) White Australia, a deeply racist country that is committed to war, occupation, mass murder and race-based discrimination but ignores the consequences of its actions and vehemently protests that it is not racist. Of course most ordinary Australians are indeed not racists but the major Parties – the Liberal Party-National …

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Afghan polls: A load of bull in Kabul

In what is largely seen as a sham election, Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul and a few other areas where United States and NATO troops are in control, went to the polls yesterday to elect a president. Though the West tries to portray the election as a healthy sign of Afghanistan’s fledgling democracy, independent analysts say a majority of the Afghan …

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