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Once again language is distorted in order to hide US state wrongdoing :...
Thank God for Noam Chomsky. Not for his lifetime of eviscerating assaults on our political hypocrisy, but for his linguistics. Long before I knew him, undergraduate Fisk laboured at his university...
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Challenging American Exceptionalism: by MARJORIE COHN
President Barack Obama stood behind the podium and apologized for inadvertently killing two Western hostages – including one American – during a drone strike in Pakistan. Obama said, “one of the things...
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Snowden documents reveal NSA’s ‘Google for Voice’
New analysis of documents leaked by former NSA spy Edward Snowden sheds light on sophisticated software used by the agency to turn phone call speech into words. The documents show that “the National...
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US labels Al Jazeera bureau chief as Al Qaeda member
Washington, May 08: The US government has labelled Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Pakistan’s capital as a member of Al Qaeda and put him on a watch list of suspected terrorists, an online magazine...
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NSA reform is unavoidable. But it can be undermined if we aren’t careful:...
Bolstered by a historic court of appeals opinion from last week that ruled much of NSA’s mass surveillance on Americans illegal, Congress is scrambling to pass a reform bill for the NSA before 1 June,...
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Poland paying $250,000 to victims of CIA rendition and torture
Poland is paying a quarter of a million dollars to two suspects tortured by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents in a secret detention facility in the European country. The penalty was imposed on...
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CIA put positive spin on torture for the movie Zero Dark Thirty
A PBS documentary shows that CIA backed the film to help rewrite the narrative on torture The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) leaked propaganda material to the team of Zero Dark Thirty to build...
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Controversial US mass-surveillance powers expire
The legal authority for US spy agencies’ collection of Americans’ phone records and other data has expired after the US Senate failed to pass legislation extending the powers. The Senate voted on...
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Obama signs bill reshaping NSA phone records program
President Barack Obama has signed legislation reviving and reshaping surveillance laws that expired temporarily Sunday night. The White House says Obama signed the bill late Tuesday evening, hours...
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CIA torture more ‘brutal and sadistic’ than Senate report disclosed
By Peter Foster, Washington The CIA’s use of torture was far more “brutal and sadistic” than was disclosed in last year’s controversial US Senate report into the agency’s interrogation techniques,...
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US transfers seven Guantanamo detainees to Oman
The US Department of Defence has announced the transfer of seven detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison to Oman. According to a Pentagon statement on Friday (local time) the detainees are Idris Ahmad...
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The Lost Female Scholars of Islam
Dr Akram Nadwi is soon to publish his 40-volume collection on Muslim women scholars. In 2007, Mehrunisha Suleman and Afaaf Rajbee analysed the lost legacy of women scholars and its impact on today’s...
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CBSE bans scarf, full-sleeve kurta for AIPMT
By Mumtaz Alam, IndiaTomorrow.net, New Delhi, 10 July 2015: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has issued a controversial dress code for the 25thJuly AIPMT (All India...
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Why it matters that the UK spied on Amnesty
Joshua Franco At Amnesty International we were appalled at last week’s news that the UK government has been spying on our communications. This week, we are demanding answers. On Friday, we wrote to...
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Classified Evidence: US Soldiers Raped Boys In Front Of Their Mothers
Now, over a decade later the evidence of these events are beginning to surface, but the Department of Defense is still doing their best to keep it under the radar. By John Vibes According to a number...
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Supreme Court Upholds Ban on ‘Hijab’ or Long Sleeves in AIPMT
Refuses to entertain plea of an Islamic organisation that Muslim girl applicants be allowed to wear ‘hijab’ (scarf), a customary religious dress, in All India Pre-Medical Entrance Test on Saturday; SC...
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Three-year-old child from London placed in government anti-extremism programme
A three-year-old child from London is one of hundreds of young people in the capital who have been tipped as potential future radicals and extremists. As reported by the Evening Standard, 1,069 people...
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Wear it with pride: Hijab now a choice
Once more the hijab made news. The Supreme Court came up with a dresscode for a repeat All-India Pre Medical Test (AIPMT) last month to put a leash on cheaters but managed to stir the hornet’s nest...
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US will not release hunger-striking Guantanamo detainee
Lawyers from the US justice department have blocked a legal request, made on health grounds, to release a Guantanamo Bay detainee who weighs just 34kg after an eight-year hunger strike. Yemeni...
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Dissent is not disloyalty: By Nissim Mannathukkaren
Source: The Hindu by: Nissim Mannathukkaren The right of dissent — or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong — is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That’s the right that went...
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