Peace and Justice Post

U.S. won’t leave Iraq’s energy reserves untended after its troops pull out

by Eric Margolis, The Toronto Sun, Aug 8, 2010

In a televised address to the nation on Friday night, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani sought international help in mitigating thea worsening crisis.

• By Naveed Ahmad, Correspondent, Gulf News, Aug  8, 2010

• A woman sits in her makeshift tent made of plastic sheets in Azakhel near Pabbi.
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Times of Malta, August 7, 2010

The hospitals are filling up with gunshot victims but angry protesters say the world is blind to their plight. Andrew Buncombe reports from Srinagar

The Independent/UK, August 7, 2010

AP: Srinagar residents burn an effigy of Omar Abdullah, the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir

John Pilger, johnpilger.com, August 6, 2010

In an article for the Guardian on the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, John Pilger describes the ‘progression of lies’ from the dust of that detonated city, to the wars of today – and the threatened attack on Iran.

When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite. I stared at the shadow for an hour or more, then walked down to the river and met a man called Yukio, whose chest was still etched with the pattern of the shirt he was wearing when the atomic bomb was dropped.

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Robert Naiman, The Huffington Post, August6, 2010

GK NEWS NETWORK

Hyderabad, Aug 6: Hundreds of students from Students Federation of India (SFI) led by Kashmiri students and academics staged a protest against the ongoing killings in the Kashmir Valley here on Thursday evening.
Students carrying placards which read “stop the cycle of oppression in Kashmir, India doing Aushwitz in Kashmir, stop genocide of Kashmiris, revoke Armed Forces Special Powers Act,” took out a mass rally from the department of Social Sciences of Hyderabad Central University (HCU) to the main market.
Volunteers of SFI carried banners and flags which in Telgu language read: “Independence, democracy and justice.”
Later students from Osmania University, English and Foreign Languages University joined the rally.
The rally culminated at the main market and lit candles in memory of Kashmiris who have been killed during the recent unrest across the Valley. They expressed solidarity with the bereaved families by maintaining two minutes’ silence.
Speaking on the occasion a scholar from Manipur said, “There is one thing in common between North-East and Kashmir i.e. residents of both these places are facing torture.”

Donn M. Kurtz II,  Foreign Policy Journal, Aug 6, 2010

Jeremy Hammond, editor of this journal recently argued that the two state solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is dead.  I contend that it was never alive. No Israeli government –regardless of the party or Prime Minister in power — has ever made a serious commitment to the essential reality of a Palestinian state.  At best Israel’s idea of a two state solution would lead to one and a half state outcome.

The conventional understanding of statehood involves four components.  A state is an entity consisting of a recognized population and territory with a government exercising sovereignty over those people and that territory.  In a variety of ways Israeli policy has always contradicted the substance of all four attributes of statehood.

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