August 2007


Without irony, the Bush administration and the media charge that Iran is “meddling” in Iraq, otherwise presumably free from foreign interference. It is instructive that Washington’s propaganda framework is reflexively accepted in US and other Western commentary and reporting, apart from the marginal fringe of what is called ‘the loony left.”

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Alan Weisman theorizes what would happen to the planet if humans suddenly disappeared. Roll over each block to see more details.

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According to the Treasury Department, from 1776-2000, the first 224 years of U.S. history, 42 U.S. presidents borrowed a combined $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions, but in the past four years alone, the Bush administration borrowed $1.05 trillion.

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Is the concept of indian secularism tainted by subtle supression of  non hindu religion

An interesting article on Indian muslims 60 years after independence

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A Palestinian man looks on as an Israeli soldier welds shut his shop in the West Bank city of Hebron. The shops were closed because they are adjacent to the homes of Jewish settlers.  – bbc.co.uk