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October, 2003
Environmental
Refugees
By Andrew Simms
Global warming could create 150 million environmental
refugees - but the countries responsible are in no hurry to carry their
share of the costs
Sharon Stirs Up
Conflict In Pursuit Of
Greater Israel Policy
By Jean Shaoul
Israel has taken an unprecedented series of measures
aimed at heightening tensions with its neighbours, Syria and Lebanon,
provoking a conflict that can be used as a pretext to launch a supposedly
defensive campaign as a cover for Prime Minister Ariel Sharons
expansionist policy
Witnessing The
Rafah Atrocity
By Laura Gordon
Eyewitness account of the invasion of Rafah
IMF
Confidential
By Greg Palast
To reduce its deficit per IMF decree, Argentina
had cut $3 billion from government spending-a cut that was necessary,
the authors note here, to "accomodat[e] the increase in interest
obligations." The Secret Documents the Masters of the Universe
Would Rather You Not See
14 October, 2003
Inside
The Iraqi Resistance
By Zaki Chehab
Popular anger is forging an alliance between diverse
strands of Iraq's guerrilla movement
Rafah: New Nakba,
More Refugees
Nine Palestinians were killed, including two children
and two teenagers, and about 80 injured, leaving 2000 homeless during
the Israeli raid on Rafah refugee camp that began on Thursday night,
October 9
Human Shield
By Uri Avnery
A personal account from Gush Shalom activist Uri
Avnery who is in the courtyard of Arafat's Mukat'ah (compound) in Ramallah
as a human shield
Being
A Eunuch
By Siddarth Narrain
The eunuchs of India constitute a much-misunderstood
community; they are often denied humane treatment by the state machinery
and are deprived of the rights that other citizens enjoy
13 October, 2003
Anxious
Time Ahead For World Economy
By Nick Beams
The annual report of the United Nations Conference
on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) issued in Geneva earlier this month
pointed to an anxious time for the global economy.
Iraq's Hidden
War
By Rory McCarthy
Almost every day brings news of another US death
in Iraq, but we hear almost nothing of the hundreds - maybe thousands
- wounded by Saddam loyalists. In a rare visit to an army hospital,
Rory McCarthy glimpses the victims of a hidden war
US Soldiers
Bulldoze Farmers' Crops
By Patrick Cockburn
Americans soldiers are resorting to brutal 'punishment'
tactics against villagers in central Iraq as part of a new policy of
collective punishment of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas
attacking US troops
Dominance
And Its Dilemmas
By Noam Chomsky
Violence is a powerful instrument of control, as
history demonstrates. But the dilemmas of dominance are not slight
Downsizing
American Imperialism
By Richard Gwyn
As most people around the world are uneasy at,
or are enraged by, American power, so are most Americans
Muslims In
The Forces
By A.G. Noorani
Even over half a century after Partition, communal
prejudice continues to blight Muslims hopes of economic advancement
in India
12 October, 2003
Stalking
Syria
By Christopher Kremmer
Cornered and up against clever enemies, Syria is
running out of luck. Israel's air strike is just the beginning of the
torment
Why Women Turn
To Suicide Bombing
By Kevin Toolis
As the honour codes that bound Palestinian familes
unravel, Islamic Jihad has stepped up its recruitment of women. A report
on the cycle of slaughter that drove an ambitious female lawyer to become
a human bomb
The War on
Human Rights in Colombia
By Philip Cryan
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez's accusation
that human rights organizations are "serving terrorism" would
be understood by right-wing paramilitaries as a green light to execute
human rights defenders
Misquoting To
Save Advaniji
By Manoj Mitta
Anju Gupta was in charge of Advanis security
on the day Babri Masjid fell. Her testimony is the most damning against
him. And yet, Rae Bareli magistrate quotes her to discharge Advani
10 October, 2003
Iraq,
Six Months On
A survey of the good, the bad and the uncertain
No Money, No
Play:US On The Brink In Iraq
By Herbert Docena
The US is now forced to turn to the creditor countries,
including war opponents France and Germany, and international financial
institutions because it has nowhere else to go
09 October, 2003
Turkish
Troops In Iraq:
Recipe
For A Civil War
By Pepe Escobar
If the Turks are allowed to go mobile in Iraq,
nothing could prevent Iranians from doing the same in the Shi'ite-dominated
south. This would be the recipe for a sectarian civil war
Slow Motion Ethnic
Cleansing
By Uri Avnery
"But there are other ways to implement ethnic
cleansing: not dramatically, but slowly, daily, even routinely. Like,
for example, what's happening now in Bethlehem."
Israel's Date
With A Runaway Freight Train
By Hasan Abu Nimah and Ali Abunimah
The Haifa attacker was a young woman training to
become a lawyer. Why would a person who ought to have had everything
to live for choose, instead, to end her life in such a cruel and devastating
manner? As we learned about her victims, we also learned that she too
was a victim
Dalit Killed
For Attempting Puja
By Alok Chamaria
A Dalit of Bahera village under the Karam Chat
police
station of Kaimur district was killed on Saturday evening when Dalits
of the village tried to offer prayers and prasad to Goddess Durga, defying
the long-standing ban imposed on them by upper caste villagers
Ayodhya's
Voice
By Asghar Ali Engineer
"Hindu-Muslim unity is more important than
the temple" This is the voice from Ayodhya
08 October, 2003
Is
The US Plotting To Murder
Venezuelas President?
By Bill Vann
There is no reason to doubt that elements within
the Bush administration have ordered plans drawn up for the realization
of regime change in Venezuela by means of assassination
Al-Sayafa: A Case
Study In Dispossession
By Jacob Pace
Al-Sayafa was home to a successful agricultural
development project during the Egyptian occupation of Gaza from 1948-1967.
The land now is dry and bare and a fence cut across the land
Israel's
Proxy War?
By William Bowles
Israels attack on Syria this past weekend
revives an aspect of the Cold War period.War by proxy a tactic
used so effectively by the US in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Afghanistan,
Angola and elsewhere in the 1970s and 1980s
Over 1,500 Violent
Civilian Deaths
In Occupied Baghdad
From April 14th to 31st August, 2,846 violent deaths
were recorded by the Baghdad city morgue. When corrected for pre-war
death rates in the city a total of at least 1,519 excess violent deaths
in Baghdad emerges from reports based on the morgue's records
Right To Education:
China Fails
To Make The Grade
UN Special Rapporteur Katarina Tomasevski's two
week visit of china destroyed every myth about China's upholding of
the right to education. It was failing to provide education to children
of migrant workers, barred children from receiving religious education,
and covered only 53 percent of school funding
Marad Settlement
Mocks The Justice System
By The Moderator, India Thinkers Net
The youth of Kerala can now be assured that being
a goonda,preferably a communal goonda or terrorist is much more worthwhile
than being a model citizen. If one gets injured or killed in a clash
, there will be 'state insurance' for huge amounts plus government jobs
History
At The Madrasas
By Nita Kumar
If our aim is to have a successful teaching of
secular and nationalist history, the madrasas are not the main defaulters
at all. Insofar as they offer free or subsidised teaching to children,
try to preserve a continuity between home and school and invest in most
of the paraphernalia of modern schooling, they are indeed institutions
to be emulated
07 October, 2003
A Lethal
Step Towards War
By Robert Fisk
US gave Israel greenlight for attack on Syria
Will
Syria Reply Via Lebanon?
By Nicholas Blanford
The Lebanese-Israeli border, the traditional venue
for Syria to settle scores with its arch enemy, was bracing yesterday
for a possible flare-up of violence after Israeli jets bombed a Palestinian
camp in Syria
One
Afghan Woman's 'Liberation'
By Yola Monakhov
The Taliban's fall was supposed to bring freedom
for women. But for many, life is still a misery - and for one, jail
is the safest place to be
Action Alert
Maharashtra Government Destroys
Tribal Homes
Hunger strike of adivasis at Rahata Tahasil office,
Maharashtra
Historical Pedagogy
Of The Sangh Parivar
By Tanika Sarkar
The urgency of building up counters to the Sangh
entails the construction of alternative histories that the Sangh cannot
accommodate, that provide the vital lie to the Sanghs monochromatic
narrative of Hindu community and its others
06 October, 2003
Seven
Awkward Questions To George Bush
By Michael Moore
By Michael Moore fired his opening salvo against
George Bush and his rightwing cronies with his bestseller Stupid White
Men. Now the president is in his sights again. In this second extract
from his new book "Dude, Where's My Country?" he asks his
old enemy seven awkward questions
WMD Report: More
Proof Iraq War Was
Based On Lies
By Bill Vann
The interim report delivered by Washingtons
handpicked chief weapons inspector has confirmed yet again that the
Bush administrations war against Iraq was an unprovoked act of
aggression that was based on lies
The South Indian
Adivasi Experience
By CK Janu
Speech delivered at the fifth World Parks Congress,
Durban
04 October, 2003
Peak
Oil A Reality
By Charles Arthur
World oil and gas supplies are heading for a "production
crunch" sometime between 2010 and 2020 when they cannot meet supply,
because global reserves are 80 per cent smaller than had been thought,
new forecasts suggest
Democracy And Its
Global Roots
By Amartya Sen
Why democratization is not the same as westernization
The Riot Economy:The
Ganj Basoda Case
The riots erupted on the 14th of January, 2003
in Ganj Basoda, a small town of Madhya Pradesh was attributed to the
slaughter of a cow. This article following the incident and its surroundings
inverts this modality to argue that the alleged cow-slaughter,
far from being a reason of the riots could only have been a necessary
appendage of the economy of the riot itself
02 October, 2003
The
Wall Grows
By Justin Huggler
The Israeli Cabinet voted yesterday to go ahead
with a particularly controversial section of its "security fence",
which Palestinians call Israel's Berlin Wall. The Cabinet approved a
new stretch of the fence east of the Jewish settlements of Ariel and
Kedumim deep inside the West Bank
Defending
Palestinian Homes:
Tears Amid The Rubble
By Kathy and Bill Christison
Eye witness account of a house demolition in the
Jerusalem suburb of Shuafat
Noam
Chomsky Interviewed
A Kurdish and an Estonian newspaper Interviews
Chomsky
Oil, War And A
Growing Sense Of Panic In The US
By Robert Fisk
The USA occupied Iraq but it can't make the oil
flow. The cost of making it flow could produce an economic crisis in
the US. And it is this - rather than the daily killing of young American
soldiers - that lies behind the Bush administration's growing panic
01 October, 2003
The
Changing Face of Occupation
By Eman Ahmed Khammas
Baghdad today is another city. Everything has changed
- the most significant change is on Iraqi faces that articulate mounting
bewilderment and shock. Occupation Watch's Eman Ahmed Khammas on the
First Six Months of the Occupation
Veiled And
Worried in Baghdad
By Lauren Sandler
A single word is on the tight, pencil-lined lips
of women here. The word is "himaya," or security. Women fear
the abduction, rape and murder that have become rampant here since Saddam's
regime fell
Rokeya
Sakhawat Hossain
By Dr Barnita Bagchi
The life and work of multifaceted South Asian Bengali
feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain provides inspiration and a rich source
of insight
Fascism - The
Emerging Threat To Indigenous People
By Goldy M. George
Expansion of fascism is disintegrating the Dalit-Adivasi
ideology, theology, and identity and intimidated their very existence.
This ruptures the community, deteriorates the noble notions of sharing,
caring and co-operation