31 August, 2003
Iraq
Into A Civil War?
By Robert Fisk
For what is happening is not just the back-draft
of an invasion or even a growing guerrilla war against occupation. It
is the start of a civil war in Iraq that will consume the entire nation
Tagore and
Jana Gana Mana
By Monish R. Chatterjee
This article is written in response to the frequently
perpetuated myth that Rabindranath Tagore wrote the song Jana Gana Mana
for the British monarch
30 August, 2003
America's
Other Quagmire
By Peter Symonds
While media attention has been focused on Iraq,
Afghanistan is also becoming a quagmire for the US military
A Costly Friendship
By Patrick Seale
The war on Iraq. How did it all begin? An important part of the story,
though not the whole of it, is the special relationship between the
United States and Israel
Violence Will End
When Occupation Ends
By Hasan Abu Nimah
The road to peace starts with nothing else other
than ending the occupation, wherever that occupation may be
Intellectuals
By Noam Chomsky
Interview with Noam Chomsky
29 August, 2003
Needed:
An Inquiry Into A Slaughter
By John Pilger
In Iraq an estimated 10,000 civilians and 30,000
Iraqi soldiers were killed during the attacked on Iraq. These people
were killed by weapons designed to reduce human beings to charcoal or
to shred them. Why not an enquiry into this massacre?
Fisherman By
Day "Terrorist" By Night
By Niko Price
An interview with an Iraqi resistance fighter.
His account, which mixes verifiable facts with extravagant claims, gives
a rare insight into the secret world of Iraq's anti-American resistance
Mythologies
of Merit
By Gail Omvedt
Indian business as a whole has maintained a deafening
silence on the issue of combating caste discrimination
The Hell That
Was Naroda-Patiya
By Manas Dasgupta
Naroda-Patiya Victims Narrate `Hellish Experience'
To Nanavati Panel
Shiv Sena
Dangles Carrot For Dalits
By Ram Puniyani
The Ambedkar baiter Shiv Sena turns 180 degrees
and
offeres to ally with dalits
28 August, 2003
The
UN, de Mello And The US Occupation Of Iraq
By Peter Symonds
Throughout his time in Iraq, de Mello openly functioned
as a political emissary for Washingtons proconsul in Baghdad,
Paul Bremer IIIsounding out Iraqi leaders, soliciting support
and acting as a go-between
Beware The
Bluewash
By George Monbiot
The UN should not become the dustbin for Americas
failed adventures
A Progressive
Discussion Forum On Kashmir
Report on a dynamic discussion forum on Kashmir
, organized by People for Peace in Kashmir and Social and Cultural Anthropology
Program at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco
A Jew among 25,000
Muslims
By Jonathan Cook
The story of Susan Nathan the only Jew living in
the Arab town of Tamra
Moksha In
Modern Times
By Pankaj Pachauri
Modern India is always wrestling with its ancient
culture and beliefs.Faith is supreme. It rules by ignoring rules. A
reflection on the Kumbh mela
Violence Against
Dalits- The Unused Ammunition
One principal source of continued caste violence
is the lack of
implementation of existing laws in India designed to protect the lower
castes
26 August, 2003
Mumbai
Blasts-A Vicious Cycle Of
Terror, Counter-terror
By Praveen Swami
Monday's murderous twin bombings at the Zaveri
Bazaar and the Gateway of India is part of the longest-running terror
bombing campaign any major Indian city has ever seen
Want A Cow
Bill? Go Tell It To This Child
By Nirmala Ganapathy
Five dalits were beaten, set ablaze on false charges
of cow slaughter in Jhajjar. All 32 accused are out on bail threatening
to do it again
Let Go Of Ayodhya
By Swami Agnivesh & Rev Valson Thampu
All non-Ayodhya intruders into this dispute must
take their hands off and leave it to the Hindus and Muslims of Ayodhya
to resolve what is, essentially, a local issue
25 August, 2003
Killing
The Road Map
By Uri Avnery
The Road Map is dead, and the killing was a classic
putsch
The Nightmare Continues
In Palestine
By Gideon Levy
A generation is growing up in Palestine that is
not only hungry, psychologically traumatized, unhealthy and without
proper education-but is also thirsty for revenge and consumed by hatred
"How
Can I Be sexist? Im An anarchist!
By Chris Crass
Personal Reflections On Challenging Male Supremacy
A War Without
End
By Justin Huggler
Any illusion that the occupation might be working
lies in the ruins of the UN's HQ
24 August, 2003
The
Loneliness Of Noam Chomsky
By Arundhati Roy
An essay written as an introduction for the new
edition of Noam Chomsky's "For Reasons of State"
A New Emergency
By Githa Hariharan
How does this obsessive harking back to the two-child
norm impinge on human rights? Large numbers of women, Dalits, adivasis,
and the poor cannot contest elections to panchayati raj institutions
22 August, 2003
A
Privatized Occupation
By Ceara Donnelley and William D. Hartung
The Price of Freedom in Iraq and Power in Washington
The worst Indian
By Amulya Ganguli
The Choice of the 'worst Indian is bound to fall
on Narendra Modi
Judiciary -Messiah
In Residence
By Ashok Mitra
The much discussed judgment of Indian Supreme Court
is
comprehensively asinine: it is awfully lacking in symmetry
The Right To Strike
By Rajeev Dhavan
Strikes and demonstrations are a democracy's hard-fought
weapons against oppression. They cannot be wished away by a Supreme
Court
A
Blood Red Carpet Welcome
By Praful Bidwai
India is rolling out the red carpet for Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon precisely when Israeli repression of the
Palestinian struggle against occupation has reached new heights
21 August, 2003
America's
Crumbling Authority
By Robert Fisk
UN Attack Underlines America's Crumbling Authority
And Shows It Can Not Guarantee The Safety Of Any One
India - Vital
Importance Of Coming Elections
By V.M.Tarkunde
As will be shown below, NDA government under the
leadership of the BJP has caused grave damage to the secular democracy
of India. If after the coming general election the BJP again come to
power the secular democracy of India may be so materially damaged as
to be on the of path extinction
Terrorists
In Saffron
By Swami Agnivesh
Hindutva is Hinduism's internal enemy. It derives
its inspiration not from Ram, Shiva or Krishna, but from Hitler and
Mussolini. Hindutva is pseudo-Hinduism
Protecting Cows,
Protecting Power
By Praful Bidwai
Faced with uncertain prospects in elections to
five state
legislatures due within three months, India's pro-Hindu coalition is
bringing in a bill in the national parliament to ban the killing of
cows and win the sympathies and votes of Hindus
Pakistan's
Sectarian Menace
By Dr. Iffat Idris
Sectarian killings are a relatively recent phenomenon
in Pakistani society. The origins of sectarian violence in Pakistan
can be traced back to the war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan
20 August, 2003
Why
Us?
By Jamie Wilson
They came to bring relief from war.The UN peace
keepers in Iraq are asking: why us?
Myth
And Denial In The War Against Terrorism
By William Blum
The word "terrorism" has been so overused
in recent years that it's now commonly used simply to stigmatize any
individual or group one doesn't like, for almost any kind of behavior
involving force
State Repression
In The Narmada Valley
By Angana Chatterji
The injustices in the Narmada Valley must be scrutinized
by international human rights organizations. The government must comply
with the rule of law
19 August, 2003
Heat
On Cold Drinks
By Arjun Sen
Coke and Pepsi may be following the Enron foot
steps in India, unless they do not answer the grave environmental and
safety questions raised against them
Hero In War And
Peace
By Uri Avnery
If Sharon and the army command succeed in disrupting
the hudna (truce) and bring about the renewal of the intifada, they
will not break the Palestinians, who will refuse to submit. And after
large-scale bloodshed, Yasser Arafat will make a speech in the Knesset,
as did Sadat, the "Hero of War and Peace".
17 August, 2003
'No
War': A Full Throated Cry
By Robert Jensen
The U.S. `liberation' of Iraq has given way to
a guerilla war against an `occupation army' that grows increasingly
unpopular at home, while at the same time the `distortions and disinformation'
that were used to justify going to war are beginning to unrave
Manufacturing
Consensus For Collective Suicide
By Himanshu Thakkar
The Indian governments move to link major rivers
in India is going to be an environmental disaster. But the authorities
are going ahead with the plan disregarding warnings from environmentalists