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May, 2009
- 29 May
Muslim Resistance to LTTE in East First Major Obstacle to Eelam, By By M. M. Zuhair, P.C. Former Member of Parliament
Muslims across the island joined in the national celebrations that marked the end of three decades of war, culminating in the liberation of the brutalized Tamils, Muslims, and Sinhalese of the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka. Indeed, the end of Velupillai Prabakaran, signifies the liberation of the entire country, nearly 504 years after the Portuguese invasion of Sri …
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Hypocrisy unlimted By S.L.Gunasekara
In this Nov.. 18, 2008 file image reviewed by the U.S. Military, guards escort a Guantanamo detainee carrying a book at the Camp 4 detention facility at the U.S. Naval open air common area at the U.S. Military Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP) Can one visualize a greater violation of International Law, International Humanitarian Law and the most basic …
Read More » - 28 May
Obama Aide Puts Israel’s Nukes in the Diplomatic Mix By Helena Cobban
(IPS) – Last month in Prague, President Barack Obama vowed that he would seek a world without nuclear weapons. On Tuesday, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller spelled out that this policy would apply to Israel, as well. Speaking at a conference on the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Gottemoeller said that “Universal adherence to the NPT itself, including …
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The Forms of Islamic Financial Institutions
Although the Islamic mode of banking is mandated and adopted by the Islamic Republics of Iran , Pakistan and Sudan, the supply of innovative Shari’a -compliant products has been primarily led by the private sector .In fact , private Islamic banks as a group are becoming some of the largest private -sector financial institutions , with growing networks through branches …
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The Torture Paradigm By Noam Chomsky
Over the past 60 years, victims worldwide have endured the CIA’s “torture paradigm,” developed at a cost that reached $1 billion annually, according to historian Alfred McCoy in his book A Question of Torture. He shows how torture methods the CIA developed from the 1950s surfaced with little change in the infamous photos at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. There is …
Read More » - 27 May
Civilians Pay Price of War from Above By Robert Fisk
“The Independent” — Of course there will be an inquiry. And in the meantime, we shall be told that all the dead Afghan civilians were being used as “human shields” by the Taliban and we shall say that we “deeply regret” innocent lives that were lost. But we shall say that it’s all the fault of the terrorists, not our …
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