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Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror
Written by Mahmood Mamdani
About this book
In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to bear on a question many Americans have been asking since 9/11: how did this happen?
Mamdani dispels the idea of "good" (secular, westernized) and "bad" (premodern, fanatical) Muslims, pointing out that these (…)

Four biologists from Europe and North America met face to face for the first time on the University of California’s Berkeley campus last month.
Although none of them is particularly famous as a scientist — not one Nobel among them — they know each other’s names and work as well as if they had been working together for 10 years in the same laboratory. They share a painful experience.
Between 1999 and 2001, unbeknownst to the others, each made a simple but dramatic discovery that (…)

http://www.theava.com/04/0218-chapela.html
by John Ross
How to destroy Mexican corn, reap maximum profits, and buy a university in one easy lesson...
Seated on the balcony of his appropriately professorial office upon a sun-stroked hillock in the midst of the Life Science complex on the hallowed Berkeley campus of the University of California, the controversial Mexican-born microbiologist Ignacio Chapela, an academic who has dared to lock horns with the potentates of Big Biotech, (…)

AS the occupation of Iraq enters its second year, the demands of the Iraqis grow clearer every day: an immediate end to the Occupation and free elections - free for all Iraqis to participate and free of US interference.
In the present situation, Iraqis are hostage to the Occupying Forces. They are unable to meet and organize freely and they are denied the right to shape their own future. Furthermore, the political transition process proposed by the US administration is designed to install (…)

ANTI-WAR MARCHERS TAKE TO THE STREETS IN EMERGENCY PROTESTS IN MORE THAN 60 CITIES THROUGHOUT THE U.S.
Demonstrators in the U.S. Demand End the Siege of Fallujah, Bring the Troops Home Now
Thanks to everyone who have helped with the rapid response emergency anti-war demonstrations that have taken place in the last 48 hours in more than 60 cities. Additional actions are scheduled for tomorrow (Monday). The demonstrations not only brought tens of thousands of people into the streets (…)

DOVER, Del. - The chemical giant DuPont Co. plans to eliminate 3,500 jobs, or about 6 percent of its global work force, by the end of this year as part of previously announced plans to cut costs.
The Wilmington-based company said Monday it will eliminate about 3,000 positions, roughly two-thirds of them in the United States and Canada, and expects to cut another 500 positions through attrition.
In addition to trimming its own work force, the company will eliminate 450 contractor (…)

LONDON, April 8 (UPI) — A legal judgment against British troops who shot two Kosovo Albanians — one of them armed — during Kosovo liberation celebrations in 1999 has prompted strong reactions from opposition politicians and stirred fears by British military commanders about implications for their operations in Iraq.
Already the Ministry of Defense has declined to provide any details about incidents in Amarah, Iraq, earlier in the week when British troops shot and killed some 15 Iraqis in (…)

’To every man, woman, and child in the Palestinian territories. YOU are my target; you will be made to suffer; and you shall pay for the original crime of being a Palestinian * and for being there.
’Every camp, village, town, and city is hereby declared a prison. Instead of arresting each individual and having to build even more incarceration centers and foot the bill for your detention, I shall simply instruct the army to dig ditches and build barricades around your population (…)

BAGHDAD - April 9, 2003, was the day this city fell to U.S. forces. One year later, it is rising up against them.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld claims that the resistance is just a few "thugs, gangs and terrorists." This is dangerous, wishful thinking. The war against the occupation is now being fought out in the open, by regular people defending their homes - an Iraqi intifada.
"They stole our playground," an 8-year-old boy in Sadr City told me this week, pointing at six tanks (…)