Red Cross: Wounded trapped in C. African Republic capital
Aid officials pleaded for access to the neighborhoods of Central African Republic's treacherous capital on Wednesday, saying that sectarian clashes between rivaling Christian and Muslim militias make...
View ArticleFalse Equivalencies: ISIS and Assad
It is always a treat to listen to a British prime minister issuing diktats to other countries about the fate of their governments, especially a government that for the past four and a half years has...
View ArticleAttempts to polarize communities on rise, say Muslim clerics
Aligarh: Following the spurt in attacks on minorities, prominent Muslim clerics say they have met at different locations in the country in the past one year to discuss strategies to fight "fascist...
View ArticleHow Afghanistan can succeed
(CNN)My mother used to tell me this Afghan fable when I was growing up. It's the story of a woman who lived on a mountain in a village. Every day, she would carry her calf down the mountainside to the...
View ArticleRefugees Don’t Cause Fascism, Mr. Timmermann – You Do
Europe needs to fascisise its policies, because if it doesn’t – fascism will grow. This was the message from Frans Timmerman, Vice-President of the European Commission following last week’s fraught...
View ArticleBritish Collusion with Death Squads in the Muslim World
The British state has long been adept at cultivating fascistic forces in oppressed countries, the most infamous examples of this collaboration being the British open support for the misnamed Mujahideen...
View ArticleIs there hope for Afghanistan?
Afghan militia forces standing with their weapons in Kunduz. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images) By Jean MacKenzie KABUL, Afghanistan -- After the overheated rhetoric about the Taliban's takeover of Kunduz...
View ArticlePreservation society: how bronze age Britons mummified the dead
New study of ancient death rituals reveals evidence how bodies were smoked over fire, kept in peat bogs, brought out for special occasions, or even cobbled together in parts...
View ArticleOppressed by Taliban, Afghan Sikh families seek help from DSGMC
AMRITSAR: As many as 30 Sikh families of Lashkar Gha, a town in Helmand province of Afghanistan, have appealed to Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee to help them migrate from the war-ravaged...
View ArticleIn UN Assembly speech, Pakistan’s Prime Minister proposes new peace...
(Source: UN - United Nations) 30 September 2015 - Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly, Pakistan's Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif proposed today renewed peace talks with India, aimed...
View ArticleThe Latest: Nearly 70,000 displaced in C. African Republic
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The latest developments from the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, where world leaders are grappling with a multitude of global crises, including the fight...
View ArticleCommentary: Pope’s Address to Congress: A Missed Opportunity
This column is not a criticism of the Roman Catholic Church or, for that matter, of Pope Francis. Rather, it is a profile of leadership, and examples of timid choices having serious consequences. Pope...
View ArticleBritain’s sartorial informality
London: When Robert Peston, the economics editor of the BBC, interviewed British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne on television in an open-necked shirt with collar awry and a wisp of chest...
View ArticleWas Gandhi Averse to Climax? A Psycho-Sexual Assessment of the The Mahatma
Mahatma Ghandi (center), Indian politician, with his granddaughter Mridulaben or Manuben (left) and his grandnephew Kanu’s wife Abhabehn Gandhi (formerly Chatterjee) in Birla House in Delhi – around...
View ArticleWas Gandhi Averse to Climax? A Psycho-Sexual Assessment of the Mahatma
Mahatma Ghandi (center), Indian politician, with his granddaughter Mridulaben or Manuben (left) and his grandnephew Kanu’s wife Abhabehn Gandhi (formerly Chatterjee) in Birla House in Delhi – around...
View ArticleSocialism and IT: Can Technology Liberate Us From Capitalism?
Capitalism, Paul Mason writes in his new book , is more than just legal and financial structures. It is also a Primark factory collapsing in Bangladesh and ‘the rioting teenage girls at the opening of...
View ArticleA Lost Opportunity -- The 1991 Iraq Uprisings
In the days following the decimation of the Iraqi Army during Operation Desert Storm, groups of Iraqi minorities, specifically the Shia in the south and the Kurds in the north, seized on the weakness...
View ArticleIn Saudi officials, I saw Muslims but little Islam: British Hajj pilgrim
A British woman who took part in this year's Hajj rituals in Saudi Arabia says the Saudi authorities running the pilgrimage were Muslims in name only. In an article published on the website of The...
View ArticleEditorials from around New England
Excerpts of recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New England newspapers: The Providence Journal (R.I.), Oct. 1, 2015 It would be nice if a weakened and disengaged America were in...
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