Posts Tagged ‘Anti-Muslim Bigotry’
Christian-Racists Openly Planning Anti-Muslim Pogrom in UK this Summer
Guardian | By Matthew Taylor, Guy Grandjean, Teresa Smith and Jason Parkinson | 28 May 2010 The English Defence League uncovered Formed less than a year ago, the English Defence League has become the most significant far-right street movement since the National Front. The Guardian spent four months undercover with the movement, and found them [...]
U.S. considering invasion of Pakistan
Washington Post | By Greg Miller | 29 May 2010 Options studied for a possible Pakistan strike The U.S. military is reviewing options for a unilateral strike in Pakistan in the event that a successful attack on American soil is traced to the country's tribal areas, according to senior military officials. Ties between the alleged Times Square [...]
U.S. Places India on Religious Freedom ‘Watch List’
Deccan Chronicle | 29 April 2010 India again on US watch list April 29: India is among the countries which have been put on the ‘Watch List’ of a bipartisan US panel on global religious freedom, which termed its progress in protecting the rights of minorities as mixed. Putting India on the ‘watch list’ for the second year in [...]
Gun-Site Video of Americans Killing Reuters Journalist, Among Others
Wikileaks | 5 April 2010 Collateral Murder Overview 5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of [...]
Thailand Crisis Worsens
Xinhua | 3 March 2010 Rally to continue until PM dissolves House: red shirts BANGKOK, April 3 (Xinhua) -- The "red shirts" announced Saturday evening they will continue their mass protest at the center of Bangkok until the prime minister dissolves the lower House of parliament. The announcement at 6:00 p.m. after the "red-shirts" [...]
Tariq Ali on Yemen
London Review of Books | By Tariq Ali | Vol. 32 No. 6 · 25 March 2010 (pages 31-33) Unhappy Yemen I left for Yemen as Obama was insisting that ‘large chunks’ of the country were ‘not fully under government control’, after Senator Joseph Lieberman had cheerfully announced that it was a suitable target for war and occupation. The sad [...]
Massacre of Muslims and Democracy in Thailand
London Review of Books | Vol. 32 No. 6 · 25 March 2010 (pages 42-44) | By Joshua Kurlantzick Red v. Yellow Tearing Apart the Land: Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand by Duncan McCargo Cornell, 227 pp, £12.95, ISBN 0 8014 7499 X In recent decades, Thailand has been running one of the world’s most successful national [...]
From Malcolm X to Barack Obama
The Progressive | By Salim Muwakkil | 24 Februsry 2010 45 years after assassination, Malcolm X still a relevant figure Forty-five years after his murder in February 1965, Malcolm X’s legacy remains surprisingly vibrant. But that legacy also complicates the relationship blacks have with America’s first black president. There’s no doubt [...]
Bush Lawyer Said President Can “Massacre” Civilians
Newsweek | By Michael Isikoff | 19 February 2010 Report: Bush Lawyer Said President Could Order Civilians to Be 'Massacred' The chief author of the Bush administration's "torture memo" told Justice Department investigators that the president's war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional power to order a village to be [...]
Ethnic cleansing in Afghanistan
Press TV | By Yvonne Ridley | 15 February 2010 As I write this, two NATO rockets have just slaughtered around a dozen innocent Afghan civilians during the latest military assault in the war torn country. Ordinary Afghan men, women and children are paying the blood price for a war launched by politicians from the West. Soldiers, including [...]
