Tag Archives: War

IDF soldier belly dancing

Subscribe to ShahidulNews YouTube clip shows IDF soldier belly-dancing beside bound Palestinian woman IDF orders immediate probe after Channel 10 airs clip on national TV. By Haaretz Service A video uploaded to YouTube shows an Israel Defense Forces soldier wriggling in … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on October 5, 2010
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Flotilla Fabrication

Subscribe to ShahidulNews “The average person believes implicitly that the photograph cannot falsify. Of course, you and I know that this unbounded faith in the integrity of the photograph is often rudely shaken, for, while photographs may not lie, liars … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 27, 2010
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Power from the barrel of a lens

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 →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 26, 2010
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How can I speak out?

Subscribe to ShahidulNews As a Muslim I cannot take the easy path of a rousing condemnation of Israel By Tabish Khair guardian.co.uk, Saturday 17 January 2009 11.00 GMT The statistics are clear: about 1,000 Palestinians, including more than 400 children … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 6, 2010
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The Pale Blue Dot

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Carl Sagan “From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that dot. That’s here, that’s home, that’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 3, 2010
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Rachel’s war

Subscribe to ShahidulNews This weekend 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by a bulldozer as she tried to prevent the Israeli army destroying homes in the Gaza Strip. In a remarkable series of emails to her … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on June 6, 2010
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Anti-semitism, and the 9/11, Israel-Mossad Connection Part II

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 →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 17, 2010
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`Owning’ the weather? PART V Katrina and Haiti

By Rahnuma Ahmed The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present—and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 2, 2010
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`Owning’ the weather? PART IV: More on HAARP

By Rahnuma Ahmed It all began with the Haiti earthquake. I must write about it, I thought. Soon after I began researching, I came across HAARP. And then, across a 1996 report for the US Air Force which looked forward … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 24, 2010
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