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THE HIMALAYAN DISASTER: TRANSNATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT MECHANISM A MUST

We talked with Palash Biswas, an editor for Indian Express in Kolkata today also. He urged that there must a transnational disaster management mechanism to avert such scale disaster in the Himalayas. http://youtu.be/7IzWUpRECJM

THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS TALKS AGAINST CASTEIST HEGEMONY IN SOUTH ASIA

THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS TALKS AGAINST CASTEIST HEGEMONY IN SOUTH ASIA

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Thursday, July 7, 2011

Fwd: [bangla-vision] News - Palestine & "war on terror"



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From: LGR <taliba.quran@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:00 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] News - Palestine & "war on terror"
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What is the 'right' type of resistance?

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 05:51 PM PDT

Media coverage of the Palestinian resistance movement is shaped to fit the Western narrative of nonviolence.  Ibrahim Shikaki Even when Palestinians resist nonviolently, the Israeli response is always violent [GALLO/GETTY]

Over the past few months, several international media outlets have published articles fixating on the so-called "new" Palestinian nonviolent movement. Two fallacies have accompanied

'Some Will Call Me a Torturer': CIA Man Reveals Secret Jail

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 05:02 PM PDT

By Spencer Ackerman

Admitting that "some will call me a torturer" is a surefire way to cut yourself off from anyone's sympathy. But Glenn Carle, a former CIA operative, isn't sure whether he's the hero or the villain of his own story.

Distilled, that story, told in Carle's new memoir The Interrogator, is this:

Everyone P-P-Panic! The Joker er…al-Qaida is Sewing Bombs Into People!

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:43 PM PDT

By Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman

DC and media types are often accused of stoking fear about terror plans that sound more like movie plots, from anthrax-filled cropdusters to one-man cyber armies. This time, they've just decided to bite from Hollywood directly, and spread the word about a nefarious terrorist scheme already seen in

We Just Stopped Congress From Giving the Power of War to Presidents

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 03:31 PM PDT

By David Swanson

"What's the point?"  "We never win!"  "Why bother trying?"   This time we won.

This is the point.  Congressman Buck McKeon and Senator John McCain proposed to give Obama and all future presidents dramatically expanded powers to launch wars.  They wanted to do so as part of the same "Defense

Warsame: An Emerging New Model for Terrorism Cases?

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 12:00 PM PDT

by Rick Pildes

As Bobby notes, the recently announced criminal prosecution of Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, captured overseas almost three months ago by U.S. military forces, could be an important test of an emerging hybrid model for handling alleged terrorism cases that offers an alternative to the stark war v. crime dichotomy. Consistent with the

Torture "Does Not Work, And Is Wrong": Former CIA Interrogator Glenn Carle Speaks Out

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 08:03 PM PDT

By Andy Worthington

In the US media, there's a little bit of a buzz right now about the use of torture by the Bush administration, and much of it is the right sort of buzz — openly involving reminders that torture is a crime, and that, in addition, using torture is worthless if the

Somali man brought to US to face civilian terror trial

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:59 PM PDT

By MATT APUZZO

A Somali soldier passes through a destroyed house during clashes between Somali government soldiers backed by African Union Peacekeepers and Islamic insurgents in north of Mogadishu's Bondhere district Tuesday June, 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

A Somali citizen captured in April was interrogated aboard a U.S. warship for two months

ASSAD NATION

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 07:38 PM PDT

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Thom Hartmann: The 10 DAY manhunt for a known terrorist ignored by MSM

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 06:28 PM PDT

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