The continuing conflict on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border is a war in which the United States is paying for both sides
BY J. SRI RAMAN
That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Soviets into the Afghan trap… The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the Soviet Union its Vietnam war." So said Zbigniew Brzezinski in a media interview in 1998.
A decade later we can look (…)
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CIA : The Afghan wars
23 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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INDIA : TERRORISM UNDER FALSE FLAG ?
22 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 5, Issue 33, Dated Aug 23, 2008
"I have evidence of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Vishnu Hindu Parishad (VHP) making bombs"
Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh attacks the Batharya Janata Party (BJP) just like Sushma Swaraj attacked the Congress.
‘Investigate the timings of the blasts’, he tells NEHA DIXIT You have made a statement that serial blasts take place in the country only when the BJP is in trouble. What I have said is that the timing of (…) -
Arundhati slammed for Kashmir’s freedom
22 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Friday, August 22,2008 NEW DELHI: The Indian government on Thursday slammed writer Arundhati Roy for her comments in Srinagar where she reportedly demanded ’azadi’ for Kashmir during a rally at the UN office. "It is preposterous for anyone to say so. It deserves to be rejected with contempt," Minister of State for External Affairs Anand Sharma said.
“We are a constitutional democracy and what is against the constitution has to be strongly condemned. One must remember in our country, (…) -
Why is the US connection to Ahmedabad bomb blasts hidden?
21 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
by moinansari
Source : rupeenews.com
| RUPEE NEWS | August 20th, 2008 | Moin Ansari | معین آنصآرّی |
Why was an American involved in the Ahmadabad bombs in India?
How did he escape? Why has the Indian government not discussed this in public before.
Right after the blasts, India immediately blamed the Pakistani ISI for the blasts.
Now weeks later we find out that an American was a suspect.
US national gives ATS the slip, flees
Mumbai: American national Kenneth Haywood, the (…) -
Terrorism under false flag: American suspect in India blasts escapes
20 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
By Jawed Naqvi
Source: "The Dawn"
NEW DELHI, Aug 19: There was growing anger on Tuesday over the mysterious way in which an American visitor, whose laptop computer has been linked to the recent blasts in Ahmedabad, was allowed to leave the country before he could be questioned. Police have rounded up mainly Muslim suspects.
Newspapers said Kenneth Haywood left with his family from Mumbai airport for home hours after Indian sleuths probing the blasts said they needed to investigate him. (…) -
Did Georgian troops fight with smuggled German guns?
20 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentDid Georgian troops fight with smuggled German guns?
August 18, 2008, 15:12
Elite Georgian soldiers fighting in South Ossetia were illegally armed with German HK G36 assault rifles, according to reports.
The ‘Report Mainz’ programme, made by German public broadcaster ARD, showed images of Georgian soldiers with German-made assault rifles slung over their shoulders.
It’s not clear how the guns ended up in the war zone. All arms export in Germany must meet certain criteria to be (…) -
TOI columnist at pity
19 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
what a games of destiny!i was driving home at about 8 oclock at night.i stop my car at red light. suddenly an old woman hand come from window to ask me food.her hair were all white and dirty.her sarree was torn from different places. she didnt take bath for long time and smelling. being a sympathy for her i gave her my blanket lying in my car and some money for food. she was shobha dey,once columnist of TOI newspaper who always make mockery of poor and poverty. look! where god landed her (…)
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Free Kashmir : Arundhati Roy
19 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
August 19, 2008
VIDEO:
http://broadband.indiatimes.com/videoshow/3381339.cms
“India needs azadi from Kashmir as much as Kashmir needs azadi from India.”
Arundhati Roy is a rare, independent voice in the mainstream shrill. Her statement on Kashmir is a unique sentiment of nailing the problem when all others are busy singing to the tunes of jingoism, communalism, terrorism and of course the Pakistani ‘hand’.
This report says it all:
SRINAGAR: Activist and author Arundhati Roy, who (…) -
Prachanda wins a huge majority at the Constituent Assembly vote
17 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
By Prerana Marasini and agencies
Source: "The Hindu"
KATHMANDU: Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), was elected the first Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal on Friday by a huge majority of 464 votes. In the election at the Constituent Assembly, Mr. Dahal’s only rival, Sher Bahadur Deuba of the Nepali Congress got only 113 votes.
The major two parties, CPN (UML) and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) on Thursday had (…) -
Prachanda, Prime minister of Nepal : The challenges ahead
17 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBy Charles Haviland
BBC News, Kathmandu
Prachanda has a massive task ahead of him.
The elevation of Nepal’s chief Maoist, the leader of the former rebels, Prachanda, to the prime ministership is something he could barely have dreamt of just three years ago.
By the early 1980s, with political parties still banned, “The Fierce One” had abandoned his job as a teacher and was operating underground as an outlaw.
Not until 2006 did he appear in public again, after the end of a (…)