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US To Hold 50 Guantanamo Prisoners Indefinitely
By Barry Grey

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The US Justice Department has determined that nearly 50 of the remaining 196 detainees at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba are to be held indefinitely, without charges or trial, according to a front-page article published Friday by the Washington Post

How I Fought To Survive Guantánamo
By Patrick Barkham

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For nearly six years, British resident Omar Deghayes was imprisoned in Guantánamo and subjected to such brutal torture that he lost the sight in one eye. But far from being broken, he fought back to retain his dignity and his sanity

Climate Sceptics And The Himalayan Glacier Melt
By Marianne de Nazareth

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A huge furore has erupted over whether the Himalayan glaciers are melting or not. Here is a rebuttal by Syed Iqbal Hasnain one of India’s foremost glaciologists from TERI who is now at the heart of the controversy

Can Sudan Marriage Be Saved?
By David Morse

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Sudan, the largest country in Africa, is a time-bomb set to go off next year. 2011 was the date specified under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (widely referred to as the CPA) signed five years ago by the warring North and South. On that date, the South can vote to secede from a confederation that everyone acknowledges is a marriage of convenience, at best

Dealing With Peak Oil
By Salvatore Cardoni & Dr. Brian Schwartz

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Peak oil is going to fundamentally change the way we live. We will be dragged there kicking, screaming, and resisting, but we will get there nonetheless. We will live in different communities, in different houses, eat differently, get around differently, and get our energy from much different sources. I think much of what is coming will provide us with benefits – better diets, better health, stronger communities—so I am not a pessimist about this issue

A Global Push For Renewable Energy
By Alice Slater

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With 142 member nations already signed on, the new International Renewable Energy Agency is promoting a fast, global transition to clean, safe, and renewable energy

Perseverance
By Timothy V. Gatto

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It takes a long time to defeat entrenched interests, but we must not shirk this duty to try. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to change the makeup of the political system in America. Dogged determinism should be the phrase of the day. Sooner or later we’ll catch a break or make one. We have no other choice but to change what is to what should be

Free Idiots: An Indian Amir’s New Stooges
By Partha Banerjee

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A review of the Bollywood blockbuster “Idiots”

In The State Of Telangana
By Kalpana Kannabiran

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At the time when the movement for the State of Telangana reaches its peak, and even as the leaders of this movement craft the contours of this state that is one step towards liberating the people of this region from a history of economic, political and cultural oppression, it is important to think about which way we would like to go

Frescoed Words
By Prabhat Sharan

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Review of Amit Sengupta’s book Colour of Gratitude – A compilation of selected writings

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