Mishu in police custody
File photo of Moshrefa Mishu, president of Garment Workers Unity Forum. Moshrefa Mishu, president, Garments Sromik Oikko Forum, who was leading the fast-unto-death hunger strike of Tuba Group workers...
View ArticleBehind the Gaza ceasefire Israel and Hamas talk potential peace
By James m. Dorsey Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Synopsis Israel and Hamas have significantly moderated their attitudes towards one another despite official denials. Indirect talks in...
View ArticleSTRANGER THAN FICTION: America’s ramped up nuclear capability: Prelude to...
by TAJ HASHMI* While people across the world for the last three years have been watching the unbelievable resurgence in state- and non-state-actor-sponsored violence and terror across the Arab World –...
View ArticleHow many more Avijit’s must we mourn?
Mourning Avijit Roy Avijit Roy, wife Rafida Ahmed Banya and daughter Trisha in holiday in New Orleans It was a few yards away from where Dr. Milon had been killed. Then it had been suspected the police...
View ArticleTolerating Death in a Culture of Intolerance
Another blogger. Ananta Bijoy Das, murdered today. Police too busy beating up students to notice: ———————————————————————————————————- Tolerating Death in a Culture of Intolerance | Economic and...
View ArticleWhy the rise of fascism is again the issue
By John Pilger johnpilger.com 26 February 2015 The recent 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz was a reminder of the great crime of fascism, whose Nazi iconography is embedded in our...
View ArticleCitizen, Defend Thyself
Originally published in Deutsche Welle “The government can’t protect people in their bedrooms” the prime minister angrily retorted when questioned about the brutal murder of a young couple, both...
View ArticleKalpana’s Warriors
Remarkable: Noam Chomsky Absolutely stunning: Jess Worth. New Internationalist Magazine (Oxford) They told me you were quiet. But I felt the rage in your silence. That when you spoke, they rose above...
View ArticleMoving opening ceremony of “Kalpana’s Warriors”
Remarkable: Noam Chomsky Absolutely stunning: Jess Worth. New Internationalist Magazine (Oxford) We had a fabulous opening with moving recitation of Kabita Chakma’s poem “I will defy” by Aungmakhai...
View ArticleThe Ruin of Indonesian Society
Indonesia: 50 Years After the Coup and the CIA Sponsored Terrorist Massacre. The Ruin of Indonesian Society By Andre Vltchek Global Research, October 13, 2015 andrevltchek.weebly.com Region: Asia...
View Article5-year-old Palestinian schools Israeli soldiers on War Crimes
1-minute video: 5-year-old Palestinian schools Israeli soldiers on War Crimes Posted on November 4, 2015 by Carl Herman 5-year-old Janna Ayyad shames Israeli soldiers with Sami Yusuf’s poetry: All...
View ArticleKalpana’s Warriors opens in Delhi
Kalpana Chakma, a young leader of the Bangladeshi Hill Women’s Federation, was abducted from her home by military personnel and civilian law enforcers at gunpoint on 12 June 1996. She remains...
View ArticleQuelling anti-Rampal protests (with South Korean assistance)
rahnuma ahmed It was a peaceful procession. We had gathered under the aegis of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports, outside the National Press Club in Dhaka,...
View ArticleDEATH OF ROMEL CHAKMA: NHRC seeks Army’s explanation
DEATH OF ROMEL CHAKMA NHRC seeks Army’s explanation Muktadir Rashid | Published: 00:23, Jun 24,2017 | Updated: 00:38, Jun 24,2017 The National Human Rights Commission has written to the defence...
View ArticleROMEL CHAKMA. PART-I: Is custodial killing heroic?
by rahnuma ahmed Romel Chakma, 20 year-old HSC examinee and student leader of Pahari Chatra Parishad, was picked up by army personnel on April 5, 2017. Allegedly tortured, he died in hospital two...
View ArticleROMEL CHAKMA II: Is custodial killing heroic?
by rahnuma ahmed Official versions conflict about why Romel Chakma?a 20-year old HSC examinee and student leader of the Pahari Chatra Parishad?was picked up by the army, whether he was transferred from...
View ArticleHead Held High
I don’t remember ever entering the house by the front door. Ferdousi Priyabhashini’s house shared a wall with another favourite of mine, the much loved poet Sufia Kamal. Sufia Khala’s daughter Tulu...
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