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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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Power from the barrel of a lens

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 26, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Satish Sharma Forget about the power that, according to Mao, flows from the Barrels of Guns! A lot more power actually flows through the matte black barrels of lenses. Camera lenses! And this is a power … Continue reading →

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Anti-semitism, and the 9/11, Israel-Mossad Connection Part IV

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 31, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Rahnuma Ahmed “History cannot be permanently falsified; the myth cannot stand up to the scrutiny of research; the sinister web will be brought into the light and torn to pieces, however artfully it has been spun.” – … Continue reading →

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Anti-semitism, and the 9/11, Israel-Mossad Connection Part II

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 17, 2010

By Rahnuma Ahmed “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality,” an unnamed Bush official told reporter Ron Suskind, quoted by Eric Alterman, Bush’s War on the Press, The Nation (2005) Even when the US … Continue reading →

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Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who provides the best security of them all..?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 25, 2010

By Rahnuma Ahmed In the aftermath of the `underwear’ bomber incident, an increasing clamour of voices insist that the rest of the world should learn airport security from Israel, and El Al, its national airlines. Their record is impressive, writes … Continue reading →

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Pentagon’s Prayers

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 6, 2010

By Rahnuma Ahmed As more US troops surge into Afghanistan, as Predator drone attacks on Pakistan’s north-western villages increase, as news of operations by killing squads of US Special Forces on the Afghanistan side of the border intensifies, as yet … Continue reading →

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9/11 Suicide Hijackers. Risen from the dead

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 30, 2009

by Rahnuma Ahmed “Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (1865) It’s old news. So, why bother writing about … Continue reading →

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The West’s Immortal `Terrorist’

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 22, 2009

By Rahnuma Ahmed Who else…, but Osama bin Laden? He’s alive. Not only in the western imagination which needs an unlimited supply of bogeymen as its alter. To create and re-create myths of its innocence which serve to justify the … Continue reading →

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`Conspiracy theories.’ Learning from 9/11

by Shahidul Alam Posted on April 17, 2009

By Rahnuma Ahmed The truth is, conspiracies sometimes do occur. Michael Meacher, current Labour MP, former British minister for the environment `Bangladeshis love conspiracy theories’ was a comment I came across in foreign news reports, news analyses and blog talk … Continue reading →

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What Matters

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 28, 2008

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