By Johann Hari /The Independent Chomsky is trying to rescue crimes from the memory-hole. He explains that Ronald Reagan - the great hero of the US right - was a great champion of jihadism. It was Reagan who encouraged Pakistan simultaneously to become fundamentalist, and acquire nuclear weapons.

Categories: Book Review  Noam Chomsky  Politics  History  Exploitation  

Added: July 20, 2010

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By Dr. Habib Siddiqui Another group of people that rush into the territories that are hit by natural disasters are the missionaries - the soul-snatchers. Jumo Kenyatta, the founder of Kenya, had a famous saying, "When the missionaries came to Africa we had land; they had the Bible. They asked us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them they had our land; we had the Bible."

Categories: Earthquake  Exploitation  Natural Disasters  

Added: March 06, 2010

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By Grégoire Lalieu & Michel Colon /Investig'Action Somalia had every reason to succeed: an advantageous geographical situation, oil, ores and only one religion and one language for the whole territory; a rare phenomenon in Africa. Somalia could have been a great power in the region. But the reality is completely different: famine, wars, lootings, piracy, bomb attacks. How did this country sink?

Categories: Interview  Somalia  The CIA  Exploitation  Extremism  Islamic Movements  

Added: February 12, 2010

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By Rafia Zakaria / altmuslim.com The inauguration of the tower and the acquittal of the sheikh is a lurid juxtaposition of the hypocrisy, gluttony and crude injustice that lies beneath a glitzy façade. None of the innovation or glamour is indigenous; the architecture is American, the designers European and the slave labour South Asians.

Categories: Dubai  Arabian Peninsula  Brutality  Exploitation  Injustice  Expatriates  

Added: January 16, 2010

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By Ziauddin Sardar / Adbuster Evil terrorists perform horrendous acts of carnage by insulating their conscious awareness from the emotional consequences of what they do. We insulate our conscious from the repugnant consequences of what we continue to do every day of our mundane lives and the truly hideous world we have created and maintain. For sure, terrorists need to change. But we need to change even more.

Categories: Terrorism  Consumerism  Double Standards  Exploitation  Humanitarian Crisis  The West  The Third World  

Added: December 01, 2009

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By Johann Hari / The Independent Dubai is finally financially bankrupt - but it has been morally bankrupt all along. The idea that Dubai is an oasis of freedom on the Arabian peninsular is one of the great lies of our time. Yes, it has Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts and the Gucci styles, but beneath these accoutrements, there is a dictatorship built by slaves.

Categories: Dubai  United Arab Emirates  Slavery  Exploitation  Corruption  

Added: November 30, 2009

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By Abdal Hakim Murad / The Gaurdian

Now is the time to think seriously about finding an economic system to replace the one whose dangers have just been revealed. Upon the conquest of Mecca, a verse of the Qur'an was revealed commanding people to give up what remained of their interest-based transactions, upon which a new system based on the value of gold and silver was initiated.

Categories: Debt Economy  Gold  Islam  Usury  British Muslims  Exploitation  

Added: October 13, 2009

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By Robert D. Kaplan / NY Times While some of America's NATO allies want to do as little as possible in the effort to stabilize Afghanistan, China has its eyes on some of world's last untapped deposits of copper, iron, gold, uranium and precious gems, and is willing to take big risks in one of the most violent countries to secure them.

Categories: Afghanistan  China  Nato  Exploitation  War  

Added: October 08, 2009

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By George Monbiot /Monbiot.com

People who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor

Categories: Exploitation  Poverty  The West  Ecology  Population  

Added: October 01, 2009

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By Dr. Graeme MacQueen / The Canadian Charger September 11, 2009 will not be a simple anniversary of an extraordinary day but the mythic return of a day that is now in the calendar of American civil religion.

Categories: Conspiracies  Destruction  Exploitation  Muslims  Extremism  The US  Terrorism  

Added: September 11, 2009

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