AMY GOODMAN: Al Jazeera English, by the way, is now reporting up to two million people in and around Tahrir Square. And, of course, there are protests all over Egypt.Speaking of Al Jazeera English, we turn now
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Hosni Mubarak’s decision to replace his cabinet and appoint a vice-president (Omar Suleiman, 74, head of army intelligence), something he had refused to do since he became president in 1981, had no effect
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It is time for the United States to drop the case against WikiLeaks. Pressing forward with efforts to prosecute an Internet publisher at home while standing up for an open Internet in Egypt and the world at lar
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The core issue in Egypt can be boiled down to this: are we witnessing Tehran 1979 or Berlin 1989? Is this a broad uprising against dictatorship whose goal of democratic freedom will be usurped by organized Isla
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An anti-government protester sits inside a burnt out car near Tahrir Square, the center of anti-government demonstrations, in Cairo, Egypt. A sense of normalcy began to return to the capital of some 18 million
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Social democracy is in crisis the world over. From Sweden to Germany, from Britain to the Netherlands and from Australia to Canada and New Zealand - just at the moment that the neo-liberal hegemony falters, soc
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At the Munich Security Conference, David Cameron announced the end of multi-culturalism and the need to confront those who oppose British values – democracy, integration and equality of the sexes. Yet the
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's observation that enforcement of environmental regulatory standards should not lead to a throwback to the days of the licence-permit raj strikes a jarring note in an era of enligh
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"What has changed the placid Egyptian population into a boiling mass of revolt?" Goes the not-so-subtle sub-text of much corporate media coverage. First the supposed quietism of the Egyptian people is
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The best political speech I ever heard was delivered by the late Paul Foot, scion of one of England's great radical and socialist families, at the Oxford Union in the late 1960s. The motion before the house was
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I dream a world without fear, hatred, tears, soldiers and borders. I dream a world full people, full with love seeking for justice and peace. In future I don’t want to see any military debacle as the Paki
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To be strong when fragments of pain surround me, like wild fire raging me to pieces & ashes, when loneliness consumes me whole, breaking me apart in silence. When love fails me, again and again decieve me,
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During his campaign in 2008, Barack Obama seemed to be doing more than getting himself elected president. He seemed to be launching a revival of liberal idealism, shifting the United States’s political la
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In pursuance of the Naga Club memorandum on 10th Jan. 1929, the whole Naga Hills were left as Excluded Area by the House of Common, known as British India Act 1935.The British India Government and Queen of Engl
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While the modern Church persists in copying the rudiments of the world, God is raising His people up His true standard of righteousness wherein His people can be made to walk in the freedom and true holiness of
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These days, Jhum cultivation also known as ‘slash and burn method of cultivation’, ‘shifting cultivation’ etc has been under continuous scanner for its productivity and ecological viabil
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Arundhati Roy will turn 50 this year. I hope to be excused of sexism (would one write this of a man?) when I say that she looks no more than 35 at most. Her vitality has always been striking. I remember her fro
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A 1998 paper linking a measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine with a ‘new syndrome’ of autism and bowel disease was retracted by The Lancet in February 2010. The retraction came after the U.K. Genera
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Lend a voice to the untold story of abandon and discrimination of HIV positive children among us while focus should also be given on a range of social, political and economic issues including the struggles of m
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Intellectual progenitor of the Indian nuclear weapons programme and by far the most influential strategic thinker of his own and subsequent generations, K. Subrahmanyam's enduring contribution was the coherent
