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Who Killed Arafat And Why?
By Ramzy Baroud

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Qaddoumi broke the news in a press conference in Amman, Jordan on July 12, 2009, asserting that Arafat had entrusted him with the minutes of that secret meeting involving top Israeli, Palestinian and American leaders and officials. The plot, according to Qaddoumi included the assassination of other Palestinian leaders, some of them have indeed been assassinated since while others are still alive, thanks to the failure of Israeli missiles and car bombs

Can An ‘Arab Soul’ Yearn For Israel’s Anthem?
By Jonathan Cook

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Arab pupils expected to learn Zionist song

Mourn On The Fourth Of July
By John Pilger

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From his early political days, Barack Obama has followed in a long tradition among U.S. political leaders of promoting America’s right to rule and order the world

The Way Forward In Sri Lanka
By Rohini Hensman

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The way forward in Sri Lanka involves demilitarisation, restoration of the rule of law, and democratisation. These are interlinked so closely that it is impossible to separate them, and on their fulfilment depends not only the political future of Sri Lanka, but also its economic survival

Teachable Moments Require Willing Learners
By Robert Jensen

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Honoring President Obama’s request that the controversy involving a black Harvard University professor and a white Cambridge police officer become “a teachable moment,” here’s my contribution to an old lesson that we white people tend to be slow to learn

Politicising Faith In Egyptian Crackdown
By Ali Jawad

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For such repressive sectarian agendas carried out by its regional allies, the US holds principal blame not only for its primary engineering of a ‘sectarian war’ discourse shortly after the fall of Baghdad. But also for its wilful neglect, in the name of realpolitik, of sectarian agendas (and the resulting widespread human rights violations) by regional allies in order to contain the so-called “Iranian threat”

Mind Your Language
By Ram Puniyani

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Bahuguna Joshi-Mayawati ugly spat

Prof Sabharwal – To Sir With Love
By Dr. Shah Alam Khan

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On August 26, 2006, a mob of (so called) students lynched Prof. Sabharwal in Madhav College in the holy city of Ujjain. As if the killing of Prof. Sabharwal was not enough, there was more pain to follow. All the six Akhil Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP) members accused in his murder were set free by a Nagpur court. The mockery of Indian traditions and justice was on full public display. Well, if we believe the Nagpur court, no one actually killed Prof. Sabharwal. Its only incidental that he happened to die inside the premises of the Madhav College at the time of college elections

India: Education And Society
By Sharad Sharma

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The Indian education system needs a complete overhaul through proper legislation and its effective implementation. Legislations should be made taking into account the regional diversities of each state

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