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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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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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The Great Hiroshima Cover-up

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 7, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Greg Mitchell The Nation In the weeks following the atomic attacks on Japan sixty-six years ago this week, and then for decades afterward, the United States engaged in airtight suppression of all film shot in Hiroshima and … Continue reading →

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THE “KILL TEAM” PHOTOGRAPHS

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 24, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Posted by Seymour M. Hersh The New Yorker La Mohammed Kalay, Afghanistan, 2010. Abu Ghraib, Iraq, 2003. Soldiers rest just after the My Lai massacre, 1968. My Lai 4, Vietnam, 1968. It’s the smile. In photographs released by the … Continue reading →

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We all helped suppress the Egyptians. So how do we change?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 11, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Johann Hari The Independent Friday, 4 February 2011 Very few British people would beat up a poor person to get cheaper petrol. But our governments do it all the time. Why? The old slogan from the … Continue reading →

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PART I THE END OF AUTHORITARIANISM IN THE ARAB WORLD?

by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 7, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews `Go, Mubarak go!’  USA’s tottering user-friendly tyrants… By Rahnuma Ahmed Having grown up amidst popular uprisings, such as the Civil Disobedience movement in 1969, and much later, having participated in mass uprisings, foremost among them, the one … Continue reading →

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Blasting war, hoping for peace

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 31, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews An inspiring soliloquy by Chris Hedges to those preparing for arrest in front of the White House protesting the continuous wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, intercut with interviews with Daniel Ellsberg and returning war veterans

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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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Bangladesh army’s advancing business interests

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 16, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Kamal Ahmed BBC News, Dhaka The army is becoming increasingly involved in business activities. The Bangladeshi army has over the years played a key role in the country’s political life, but it has now also emerged as … Continue reading →

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That’s not the way to do it

by Shahidul Alam Posted on June 12, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Bangladesh Politics reverts to Punch-and-Judy type Jun 10th 2010 | Dhaka The ECONOMIST “THE chances of another coup in Bangladesh are close to zero,” says a former general in Bangladesh’s army. That sounds excellent. But the country’s … Continue reading →

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