By rahnuma ahmed The last two months plus flashed by as I burned the midnight oil, working on three manuscripts, intended for Boi Mela 2012. While it is true that I’ve accomplished a lot, there are still chunks left that … Continue reading
In the digital age, people document and share everything – even insults to the fallen Jonathan Jones guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 January 2012 18.17 GMT A still from a YouTube video allegedly showing US marines urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban … Continue reading
Jan 13 2012 by Sherene Seikaly and Maya Mikdashi Golden, like a shower, said one of the US marines as he urinated, along with three of his fellow officers, on three dead Afghans. Over the last forty-eight hours this grizzly spectacle … Continue reading
By Ethan Casey Huffington Post Posted: 1/13/12 11:45 AM ET I haven’t fully digested the disgusting news that U.S. Marines have been caught on video urinating on dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, so this post is not offered as a coherent … Continue reading
Defence funding bill allows American citizens to be arrested as terrorists on home soil and held indefinitely without trial Chris McGreal in Washington guardian.co.uk, Thursday 15 December 2011 04.34 GMT Article history Americans can be arrested on home soil and taken … Continue reading
By rahnuma ahmed The accused — former President of the United States George W. Bush and former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair — were tried in absentia at the tribunal’s hearings. Their absence, presumably, was not due to lack … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews By rahnuma ahmed On hearing news of the Libyan leader colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s death, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton gleefully proclaimed — while paraphrasing the words of the Roman emperor Julius Caesar, Vini, vidi, vici, `I … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews By rahnuma ahmed Truth has been the first casualty of `war’ in Libya, I wrote last week. As anti-war groups gather evidence including pictures and videos of war crimes committed by NATO and NATO-backed rebels in Libya, … Continue reading
Subscribe to ShahidulNews 9/11 again, responding to readers’ By rahnuma ahmed My two-part series on 9/11 and the blowback paradigm has elicited considerable response from readers, not, I must add, in the pages of New Age but through e-mails, addressed … Continue reading
