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Marines Urinating on Dead Taliban: How Low Will We Go?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 14, 2012

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 →

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Lokkhi Terra Concert at Drik

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 5, 2012

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Drik, Droom Café and friends of Lokkhi Terra have pleasure in inviting you to an evening of Cuban classics, Afro-beat, samba and funky world fusion music by Lokkhi Terra Jazz Quartet Kishon Khan – piano; Jimmy Martinez … Continue reading →

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Britain puts out an unwelcome mat

by Shahidul Alam Posted on October 23, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews For Artists and Performers, Britain Puts Out an Unwelcome Mat (New York Times) From left: John Ewing, Korine Fujiwara, Charles Wetherbee and Kristin Ostling of the Carpe Diem Quartet. Photo: Karina Wetherbee By SARAH LYALL Published: October … 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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Lucas Dolega Award

by Shahidul Alam Posted on October 2, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Designed to support photographers who sometimes work under difficult conditions in dangerous areas, this award aims to reward a photographer who, through his or her personal commitment, involvement in the field, his or her capacity to take … Continue reading →

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9/11 again, responding to readers’

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 28, 2011

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 →

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CONCLUDING PART: Does the `blowback’ paradigm explain 9/11?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 23, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews CONCLUDING PART Does the `blowback’ paradigm explain 9/11? Truth-ers disagree By rahnuma ahmed Before launching into my discussion of the `blowback’ paradigm, let’s take a quick look at the findings from a new poll of New Yorkers: … Continue reading →

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Does the `blowback’ paradigm explain 9/11?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 23, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews PART I Does the `blowback’ paradigm explain 9/11? Truth-ers disagree By rahnuma ahmed In last week’s column, `9/11, growing disbelief at US govt’s account a decade later’ (New Age, September 12, 2011),  I’d wanted to write about … Continue reading →

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9/11, growing disbelief at US government’s account a decade later…

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 11, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By rahnuma ahmed Today, September 11, 2011, is the tenth anniversary of the attacks on New York city’s Twin Towers, and the Pentagon. Eleven days after the attack, president Bush, in his address to a joint session … Continue reading →

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FiveBooks Interview

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 29, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Shahidul Alam on World Photography Image by Nicolás García on Wikimedia The Bangladeshi photojournalist tells us about the power of images and offers some striking examples of the photographer as artist, witness or activist What are your thoughts … Continue reading →

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