July, 2009

• 20 July

  NAM: Bandung to political bankruptcy

  Remember the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)? Like a comet which zooms in the distant sky and makes periodic appearances, the Non-Aligned Movement summit surfaces once in three years — and then, virtually, disappears. There was little media hype over the 15th NAM summit held at the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday and yesterday. Whatever the media attention that …

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• 17 July

  Ottomans and the Tulip heritage of Netherland

  The tulip has become synonymous with the Netherlands. Tourists from around the world visit the country just to see the bright colored flower and the astonishing view over the flower fields. The small Dutch town called Keukenhof is considered the world’s largest flower garden. According to the Keukenhof Park officials, approximately seven million flower bulbs are planted annually in the …

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• 16 July

  America’s War With Muslim Nations, By Ghali Hassan

  “The sooner the extremists are isolated and unwelcome in Muslim communities, the sooner we will all be safer”. U.S. President Barack Obama, Cairo, June 04, 2009. According to U.S. leaders and their Zionist handlers, the term “extremist” is any nation or movement resisting U.S.-Israel domination and murderous ideology is defamed and deemed extremist. Whether in Afghanistan, in Iraq or in …

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• 16 July

  The elephant in the room: Israel’s nuclear weapons, By David Morrison

  At a White House press conference on 18 May 2009, US President Barack Obama expressed “deepening concern” about “the potential pursuit of a nuclear weapon by Iran.” He continued: “Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon would not only be a threat to Israel and a threat to the United States, but would be profoundly destabilizing in the international community as a …

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• 15 July

  Oil fuels crisis in China’s second Tibet

  Xinjiang to China is, perhaps, what Chechnya is to Russia. In no field is the comparison more striking than the oil and pipeline business. Both Chechnya and Xinjiang have oil. Moreover the two provinces are strategically located for oil pipelines. It is through a network of pipelines that wind across Chechnya that Russia and the countries in Central Asia and …

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• 14 July

  Uighur Muslims Uprisings – What China Doesn’t Want Others to Know

  Violence erupted between the native Muslims and the   Hans Chinese migrant settlers on Sunday July 5 in the Western Xingjian’s predominantly Muslim region of Uighur where the people’s struggle for political and religious freedom has been suppressed for long by the Chinese authorities. Within five days 156 people, mostly Uighur Muslims were killed in the city of Urumqi  where the …

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• 13 July

  “Any Sovereign Nation is Allowed to Bomb Another” Biden, Israel and Iran, By GARY LEUPP

  Vice President Joe Biden, apparently speaking on behalf of the Obama administration, has just given Israel the green light to bomb Iran. “Israel can determine for itself — it’s a sovereign nation — what’s in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else,” he told ABC’s “This Week” in an interview broadcast Sunday. “Whether …

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