Category Archives: Oil

Not for art’s sake

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 9, 2012

Abstract of keynote presentation given at National University of Taiwan 8th January 2012. Taipei Subscribe to ShahidulNews One of the videos presented. A compilation from several videos on major protests in 2011 Long before CSR had become a buzzword and … Continue reading →

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Dead men tell no tales

by Shahidul Alam Posted on October 23, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Vijay Prashad 21 October 2011 — The Greanville Post – Qaddafi, From Beginning to End NATO’s Agenda for Libya On the dusty reaches out of Sirte, a convoy flees a battlefield. A NATO aircraft fires and strikes the … Continue reading →

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Police brutality

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 12, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By rahnuma ahmed Two hartals, in quick succession. During both, police forces deployed were brutal, as the photos reveal. The similarity ends there, because the hartal called by the National Committee on Protection of Oil, Gas and … Continue reading →

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Rahnuma asks: Who is foreign agent, Anu Muhammad or Tawfiq Elahi?

by Sadia Posted on June 26, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews DHAKA: Renowned writer, researcher and activist Rahnuma Ahmed asks who is a ‘foreign agent’, Anu Muhammad, member-secretary of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports, or Dr. Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, advisor to the … Continue reading →

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Rahnuma Ahmed Injured

by Shahidul Alam Posted on June 15, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Rahnuma Ahmed was amongst around twenty people who were injured as police clashed with protesters at a rally held near the National Press Club in Dhaka on 14th June 2011. Members of the National Committee to Protect … Continue reading →

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WikiLeaks cables: Bangladesh Gas

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 25, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews US nudged Bangladesh to allocate gas blocks BS Reporter / New Delhi December 25, 2010, 0:15 IST Every time India would ask Bangladesh for rights to explore gas, Dhaka would say the country had to first find … Continue reading →

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The Burka Ban – 1

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 1, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Europe’s Open-face Democracy By Rahnuma Ahmed France bans full-face veils in public. Women wearing the niqab cannot enter government buildings, public transport, streets and markets. Burkas are not “welcome” on French soil, says Sarkozy. It is a … Continue reading →

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9/11, Mossad, and a super 9-11 in the offing

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 3, 2010

By Rahnuma Ahmed Anti-Semite, Jew hater, Holocaust denier are the epithets one is bound to gather if one voices criticism of Israel. Of Zionism. Historian Tony Judt, of Jewish background himself, had written on Israel’s 58th birthday, Israel is like … Continue reading →

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The `Mad Dog’ in the Middle East

by Shahidul Alam Posted on April 26, 2010

By Rahnuma Ahmed What Dr Alan Sabrosky has done is bell the cat. Except that it’s a dog, and not a cat.One that’s utterly mad. Insane. In the words of late General Moshe Dayan, who went on to become Israel’s … Continue reading →

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I can kill any Muslim

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 2, 2007

Year end play: The Nuculier God Theatre: The World Set Design: Tony Blair God: George Bush Sacrificial Lamb: Saddam Hussein Slaves: Saudi Royal Family and cohorts Extras: The United Nations Theme song: I can kill any Muslim I can kill … Continue reading →

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