Posts Tagged ‘war’

The New York Criminal Court Trial of the 9/11 Masterminds and International Law: legal dilemma?

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:40 By GSerrano

Former US president George W. Bush convoluted some definitions. ‘The ambiguity began shortly after 9/11, when then-U.S. President George W. Bush defined two missions: waging a war on terror, and bringing Osama bin Laden and his followers to justice. Both made for good rhetoric. But they also were fundamentally contradictory. A war is not a [...]

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Will Obama Send More Troops For Longer Combat on Afghan Soil?

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 5:13 By Madhuri Katti

Reports and sources are hinting that Obama will concede to demand of Gen. Stanley Mc Chrystal and send nearly 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan and that too with plans of longer stay. White House has denied the reports about any such decision.
With war situation worsening in Afghanistan and number of casualties going higher every passing [...]

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Future Is Grim For Children Living in Conflict Zones

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 20:02 By Madhuri Katti

There are quite a few conflict zones in the world today where everyday civilians are being caught in the crossfire, their villages are devastated due to bombing and homes are reduced to rubble. There is no normalcy and hence no regular source of livelihood and income. People live in rehabilitation and refugee camps. More than [...]

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War, Peace and Nobel Peace Prize

Monday, October 12, 2009 20:23 By Madhuri Katti

There has been much controversy about Barack Obama being awarded Nobel peace Prize for 2009. It is indeed intriguing that President of United States of America who is sending more troops and is engaging in a war in Afghanistan should be declared as an ambassador of global peace.
Interestingly Obama even maintained a tactical silence when [...]

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The end of Britain’s era of war?

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 10:37 By GSerrano

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have presided over more than a decade of almost continuous war. It started with air strikes on Iraq in 1998. Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Iraq proper, and ‘a much bigger Afghan commitment’ followed.
Much of the sentiment regarding the largely Western-waged war on terror has made Britain regard the war in [...]

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The Politics of Food Production: Root Cause of World Hunger

Monday, September 21, 2009 21:26 By GSerrano

The passing away this week of Norman Borlaug, the father of Green Revolution that ‘created high-yielding wheat varieties to stave off famine,’ is a reminder that his well-intended campaign did not end up as he dreamed it would. Today, there is prevailing hunger in the world in spite of the potential to have so much [...]

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Image of Young Dying Marine in Afghanistan Sparks Debate in America

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 22:31 By Madhuri Katti

Lance Corporal Joshua Bernard was a 21 year old Marine who succumbed to injuries in Afghanistan recently. Julie Jacobson of Associated Press had captured a picture of Bernard as he lay in the mud after an ambush. The picture was published recently on front pages and it has sparked a debate in America. It is [...]

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The Taliban are winning the war in Afghanistan because the enemy is tactically weak

Friday, August 14, 2009 18:53 By GSerrano

Body count and casualties among the more ably-equipped foreign troops sent to quell them are proof enough that the Afghan Taliban are not a weak group. In fact, it is said that they are winning the war between them and the coalition forces aimed to decimate them.
In spite of the fresh troop surges and the [...]

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Award-winning Russian Human Rights Activist Shot Dead in North Caucasus

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 23:20 By Madhuri Katti

Fifty year old Natalia Estemirova was a human rights campaigner working with Memorial, the Russian human rights organisation which investigated human rights violations both in Chechnya and Russia. She has documented hundreds of human rights abuse in Chechnya and was a well known regional expert. She was a close friend and colleague of famous human [...]

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Is Withdrawal of Troops from Iraq a Beginning of the End of the War on Terror?

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 0:39 By Madhuri Katti

The battle and battle ground has finally shifted officially but the war seems to be far from over. As American troops began withdrawing from cities of Iraq one cannot stop wondering whether this is indeed the beginning of the end of a war that America had declared against terrorism.
The end however is nowhere in sight [...]

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