25 May, 2003
Israeli
Troops Kill Two Palestinians
Two Palestinians, one of them a mentally
handicapped man, were shot dead by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip
The Apartheid Wall
By Ran HaCohen
Keeping silent on this gigantic project and its
genocidal implications, meant to prevent any fair future settlement
(not to mention the Road Map), is a moral crime
Deep-rooted Disease
By Anjali Modi
The giving and taking of dowry, dispite a decades-old
law prohibiting it, is done openly
Gun Gangs
Rule Streets As US Loses Control in Iraq
By Ed Vulliamy
As gun gangs rule the streets aid agencies' struggle
to save Iraq from looters, disease and poverty
24 May, 2003
Bribes'
and 'Threats' Behind U.N. Vote
By Thalif Deen
A coalition of over 150 peace groups and global
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is lashing out at the U.N. Security
Council for adopting a resolution that virtually legitimizes the U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq and endorses the foreign occupation
Caught In
The Crossfire
By John Aglionby
A humanitarian crisis is exploding in the Indonesian
province of Aceh, where 23,000 children have been displaced and nearly
300 schools destroyed because of renewed fighting in the province.
A License to Kill
Civilians
By Shulamit Aloni
Despite international laws against the killing
of civilians, the Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that the use of flechette
shells is permissible within urban areas
The
Argentine Autonomist Movement
And The Elections
By Graciela Monteagudo
The Argentine electoral process reveals a pathetic
and fraudulent system. The newly elected president, Nestor Kirchner,
won thanks to a mere 16% of the electorate
An Income Of One's
Own
By Nicole Bokat
A hard truth to learn - feminist speak doesn't
matter much when you're living hand-to-mouth
Earth's Vital Signs
Show The Pain of Poverty
By J.R. Pegg
An examination of Earth's "vital signs"
reveals alarming trends of poverty, disease and environmental decline
that threaten global stability, according to the Worldwatch Institute's
annual report on trends shaping the world's future.
Dalit
Diaspora Joins The Fight
By Vivek Kumar
The Dalit diaspora has all of a sudden become visible.
Yet another Dalit international conference was successfully concluded
earlier this month in Vancouver, Canada, with the help of the Dalit
diaspora in different parts of the world
23 May, 2003
IOF
Kill Mother of Seven, And a Student
Israeli Occupation Forces shot dead a Palestinian
high school student and a mother of seven children in the village of
Qarawat Bani Zaid, north of Ramallah
Saving Private
Lynch, Forgetting Rachel Corrie
By Naomi Klein
Jessica Lynch and Rachel Corrie could have passed
for sisters. Two all-American blondes, two destinies forever changed
in a Middle East war zone.But who is the hero?
Inverted
Totalitarianism
By Sheldon Wolin
The current American system and its operatives
share with Nazism the aspiration toward unlimited power and aggressive
expansionism, their methods and actions seem upside down
A Zionist Recipe
For India
By Praful Bidwai
India has invited Israeli prime minister Ariel
Sharon to visit the country in the second week of June.The BJP's fascination
with Zionism is rooted in Islamophobia (and anti-Arabism), and hyper-nationalism
Dearailing
The Naga Peace Process
By Bharat Bhushan
The Naga peace process is bound to succeed only
if the territorial integration and preservation of Naga identity are
addressed
Reincarnating
Freud: Rules, Planets, and Hysteria
By Susana McCollom
The media and self-help industry produce and perpetuate
negative female stereotypes. Self-empowerment, through means including
education, sports, and community involvement, is less interesting to
the profit-oriented media.
22 May, 2003
Indonesian
Troops Massacre Civilians
By John Aglionby
Indonesian forces were massacre civilians during
a raid against separatist guerillas in Aceh province
The Children's
Teeth
By Uri Avnery
Let there be no illusions: Sharon's final goal
is turning the whole country, from the Mediterranean to the Jordan river,
into an exclusively Jewish state
Women And Political
Power
By Gail Omvedt
It is time to give women the support they need
for their ongoing aspirations to empowerment, not through a badly- thought-out
Constitutional Amendment, but through direct legal pressure on political
parties
21 May, 2003
The
Big Brother Is Watching
By Duncan Campbell
Pentagon is developing cyber-surveillance systems
which would give the government access to private emails and medical,
education, travel and financial records
Oil
Wars Pentagon's Policy Since 1999
By Ritt Goldstein
A top-level United States policy document has emerged
that explicitly confirms the Defence Department's readiness to fight
an oil war
Seeking UN
Support For Controling Iraq's Oil
By David Usborne
America is pressing for a vote in the United Nations
Security Council this week endorsing shared control of the country and
its oil flows by the United States and Britain
On
The Hunger Trail
By Jean Drèze
A journey through the drought hit Chambal area
of Madhya Pradesh where death and hunger dance in chambers of horror
Politics And
The Rule Of Law
By Ajay K. Mehra
The trishul, talwar and lathi have unfortunately
emerged as bizarre symbols in Indian politics. Whom are these symbolic
weapons, of cultural nationalism , being brandished against?
The Madrassas
In India
By Mushirul Hasan
Though conservative in outlook, the madrassas in
India stand opposite to fundamentalist Islam and contribute to a rather
pluralist attitude among their students
Turning hostile:
The story of Zahira
By Abhishek Kapoor
Is it so easy to forget what happened in Gujarat?
Empowering Women,
The VHP Way
By Hubert Vaz
A visit to all-girls' summer camp at Juhu, Mumbai,
conducted by Viswa Hindu Parishad
20 May, 2003
Doctors
Needed
By Anna Badkhen
Along with all public services, Iraq's once-proud
health system has collapsed in the aftermath of the U.S invasion
Complaint Against
Praveen Togadia
Complaint against Praveen Togadia under Sections
153A, 153B, sections 295A and 298 and 505 of the Indian Penal Code filed
by Teesta Setalvad Co-Editor of Communalism Combat
Why Did You
Shoot My Brother?
By Sophie Hurndall
Speech made by Sophie Hurndall, sister of Tom Hurndall
who was shot by IDF in Gaza and lying in a deep comma at Palestine Rally
- Trafalgar Square on17th May 2003
Eye Witnesses
Two Israelis who witnessed Palestinians being shot
by the IDF could not believe their eyes
19 May, 2003
Another
Day, Another Outrage
By Phil Reeves and Leonard Doyle
The wave of suicide attacks in an arc that stretches
from Morocco and Algeria through Israel Is America winning the
war on terror?
Iraq May Break
With OPEC
By Peter S. Goodman
Philip J. Carroll,the U.S. executive selected by
the Pentagon to advise Iraq's Ministry of Oil suggested\that the country
might best be served by exporting as much oil as it can and disregarding
quotas set by OPEC
Sharon Calls
Off US Visit After Bomb Kills Seven
By Chris McGreal
Suicide bombers put a road block to road map
So
What Was The War For?
By Robert Fisk
More than 50 dead in a week. Thanks for the Iraq
war.
Sociology
Of Communalism
By Asghar Ali Engineer
Communalism is product not of religious hostilities
but of political and economic struggle for share in power and resources
between the educated elite
18 May, 2003
Instant-Mix
Imperial Democracy.
Buy One, Get One Free
By Arundhati Roy
Full text of the Center for Economic and Social
Rights (CESR)-sponsored lecture delivered by Arundhati Roy at the Riverside
Church in Harlem, New York, on May 13
Women And War:
Acclimatised To Violence
By Revathy Gopal
Why women and children become a part of the `collateral
damage' in war games?
Quest For Harmony
By Valson Thampu
Communal harmony is a logical impossibility.What
we ought to seek is not "communal", but "spiritual harmony"
Probe or Persecution?
By Dionne Bunsha
Muslims in Ahmedabad bear the brunt of the investigation
into the assassination of former Gujarat Home Minister Haren Pandya
Surviving The
Streets
By Harsh Mander
For the homeless on the streets of Delhi who battle
against poverty, police highhandedness and perverse intrusions, the
kinships they forge among themselves and the helping hand some organisations
extend offer solace
17 May, 2003
I
Apologize For America
By Tikyra Angelique
An American peace activist apologizes to humanity
for the crimes committed in her name
The Daughter I
Can't Hear From
By Carrie Corrie
Mother of Rachel Corrie talks about the one call
she didn't receive on the Mothers Day
The
Greatest Threat To Peace
By Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
An interview with Noam Chomsky
Kerala Government
Must Crush Fundamentalist Forces
By Indiathinkersnet yahoogroups
People of Kerala must not allow their souls to
be sold to the forces of communal fascism
Singing The
Nation
By Nasreen Rehman
The Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi national
anthems are very much in the tradition of their Western counterparts,
glorifying a make-believe land where the landmass becomes an end in
itself a way of identifying the individual citizen, who is bound
and defined by unreal geography and who sings the praise of an unreal
nation
16 May, 2003
Five
Palestinians Killed
Israeli Occupation Forces killed five Palestinians,
including two boys, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Thursday
Baghdad Pays
The Postwar Price:
242 Die In Three Weeks
By Phil Reeves
Statistics unpublished until today reveal the stark
facts: 242 people have died in Baghdad in just over three weeks, almost
all from bullet wounds
Strange
Weather Lately
By Kurt Vonnegut
Adapted from a Clemens Lecture presented in April
for the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut by the renowned author
Kurt Vonnegurt
Trishuls, Lathis
And Books
By Kancha Ilaiah
How liberating is a spiritual and social tradition
that hands down weapons but not books to its adherents?
Women's Worst
Enemy
By Kumkum Chadha
Do women cooperate with men in perpetuating gender
disparities?
Sermon Of Hate
An English translation of the VHP international
general secretary, Dr. Praveen Togadias entire speech at a meeting
of the Rashtriya Vichar Manch on March 16, 2003 in Mumbai