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Binu

When You Shoot The Messenger
By Mel Frykberg

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The assault of IPS Gaza correspondent Mohammed Omer has left Israeli security personnel with a lot of explaining to do. And they are not doing a very good job of it

From Triumph To Torture
By John Pilger

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Israel’s treatment of an award-winning young Palestinian journalist is part of a terrible pattern

Iraq Oil Deals Fulfill Cheney’s Goals
By Jason Leopold

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Two years after the Baker report, the United States – along with Great Britain and other allies – invaded Iraq. Now, more than five years after that, with Hussein dead and a U.S. expeditionary force still occupying Iraq, the U.S. oil industry finally appears to be in a strong position relative to Iraq’s oil riches. However, the price that has been paid by American troops, Iraqi civilians and the U.S. taxpayers has been enormous

‘The US Is Not A Republic Anymore’
By Gore Vidal & Afshin Rattansi

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An interview with Gore Vidal

Zimbabwe And The New Cowardly Colonialism
By Brendan O’Neill

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Western intervention against Robert Mugabe’s ‘evil regime’ put Zimbabwe into an economic straitjacket and disempowered its people

Obama’s War Room
By Elizabeth Schulte

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Elizabeth Schulte looks at the some of the veterans of U.S. war crimes past and present that Barack Obama is adding to his team of foreign policy advisers

Wrong On Russia
By Stephen F. Cohen

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Neither of the two major American presidential candidates has seriously addressed, or even seems fully aware of, what should be our greatest foreign policy concern – Russia’s singular capacity to endanger or enhance our national security

Arundhati Roy- Our world Laid Bare
By Priscilla Jebaraj

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Arundhati Roy’s latest book The Shape of the Beast is an exercise in connecting the many dots that she first started plotting over a decade ago in The God of Small Things

Terrorism – How Not To Combat It
By Asghar Ali Engineer

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The remedy for terrorist violence is also simple. Declare war against terrorism, do away with concept of humans rights, find some puppets to fight its war against terror, put some suspected youth in jails and torture them till they die or go mad and feel safe from further terrorist attacks. Who commits sins and who pays? What do authorities care? They care only for their lust for power and money

Spritual As Criminal?
By Subhash Gatade

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Time to ban ‘Hindu Janjagruti Samiti’ and ‘Sanatan Sanstha’

Grow Paddy And Become Pauper
By Pandurang Hegde

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Paddy farmers everywhere are facing the crunch and want to quit in favour of cash crops

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