November, 2010

• 22 November

  Hajj 2010

  Yesterday marked the start of the Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Press Agency said that a record number of Muslims were expected to make the Hajj this year – over 3.4 million anticipated over the five days of the pilgrimage. One of the pillars of Islamic faith, the Hajj must be carried out at …

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• 22 November

  The Real Obama-Clinton Game Plan For Israel/Palestine?, By Alan Hart

    On the face of it the package of “incentives” Secretary of State Clinton offered Prime Minister Netanyahu to persuade him to buy and sell to his coalition government a one-time-only freeze of 90 days on settlement construction in the occupied West Bank could be summed up with one “c” word – criminal. Criminal because by excluding occupied Arab East …

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• 18 November

  White House Says Child Soldiers Are Ok, if They Fight Terrorists , By Michelle Chen

  You cannot be completely happy with all these wounds—both in your body and in your mind.”  —15 year-old child soldier     -The phenomenon of child soldiers, like genocide, slavery and torture, seems like one of those crimes that no nation could legitimately defend. Yet the Obama administration just decided to leave countless kids stranded on some of the world’s bloodiest battlegrounds. …

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• 18 November

  Wholesale Treason, Why Israel Bought Congress. by Gordon Duff

  You Can't Make Stuff Like This Up! "Step two, "shock and awe" for Iran followed by a full scale invasion that, according to military experts directly responsible for drawing up our war plans, requires the fall of Pakistan, its "Balkanization and the military occupation of Baluchistan as a staging area." AIPAC, the Israel lobby used to, well, we don't exactly …

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• 18 November

  Guantanamo Inmates Set To Receive Payouts Of Up To £1Million By Nigel Morris and Tom Peck

  

  British former inmates of Guantanamo Bay are to set to receive large payments from the Government to drop claims that British secret agents knew they were being tortured. Ministers are expected to announce today that a settlement has been reached with at least seven men in a combined pay-off likely to run into millions of pounds. One of the former …

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• 18 November

  Bush Can’t Travel Abroad Without Risking Arrest, By Matthew Rothschild

  George W. Bush better stay at home. The confessed waterboarder is a marked man. If he travels abroad, other countries can—and should—nab him and try him for the crime of torture. In his memoir and in last week’s NBC interview, Bush acknowledged ordering waterboarding. He says the lawyers told him it wasn’t torture. But he got bad legal advice. Attorney …

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• 15 November

  Islam – a Mercy to all Creatures Big and Small, By Asiff Hussein

    This article proposes to explore the concept of animal rights in Islam. Islam as we know is not just a religion but also a way of life that governs all aspects of life based on rights and obligations. Rights in Islam not only covers the Rights of God over Man (Islamic Worship), but also the Rights of man over …

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