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Asian Tribune is published by World Institute For Asian Studies|Powered by WIAS Vol. 9 No. 329               

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Letter from America: The Apartheid Week

Sun, 2010-03-14 02:30 — editor
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

The coming Tuesday, 16 March, would be the 7th year since Rachel Corrie, an American peace activist, was killed by an Israeli Army bulldozer while trying to stop the demolition of a Palestinian building in the Rafah refugee camp. A court case brought by her family has begun in Israel.

Letter from America: the Robbers in Disasters

Sun, 2010-03-07 03:35 — editor
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

Natural disasters are always difficult times for the victims to go through. For most people, they are traumatic experiences. In an earthquake of the large seismic magnitude that recently hit Haiti (January 12) and Chile (February 27) there is very little people could prepare against.

Letter from America: Political Assassination

Sun, 2010-02-21 02:47 — editor
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

Political assassination of rulers is neither justifiable nor desirable. Islam is against assassination of any individual, even an autocratic ruler. And yet, the Muslim history was not spared of this curse.

Letter from America: The Israeli Factor

Sun, 2010-02-14 03:49 — editor
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

Last week, seemingly frustrated with the stalemate around Iran’s proposal for a simultaneous swap of its stockpile for imported enriched fuel rods, President Ahmadinejad announced that his government would produce its own higher-enriched uranium (20 percent), required for its medical use.

Letter from America: Western Mendacity with Iran’s Nuclear Program

Sun, 2010-02-07 04:47 — editor
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

The relationship between the governments of Iran and the USA has been tense and nasty since the fall of the Shah. During the long Iran-Iraq War, the USA and her allies even supported the Iraqi regime when it invaded Iran.

Letter from America: Howard Zinn – American People’s Historian

Sun, 2010-01-31 00:48 — editor
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

Dr. Howard Zinn, historian, teacher and political activist, died of a heart attack on Wednesday at the age of 87. He was an early opponent of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

Two Lankan Tamils jailed in US for trying to get arms for LTTE

Sun, 2010-01-24 03:45 — editor
From S Murari, Colombo

Two New York based Sri Lankan Tamils have been sentenced to prison terms by the eastern district court of New York for "conspiring to provide material support to the LTTE", a designated foreign terrorist organization in the US, the US embassy in Colombo has said in a press release.

Letter from America: the Massachusetts Vote

Sun, 2010-01-24 01:44 — editor
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui

In politics things are never as good as they seem and they are never as bad as they seem. Who would have thought that just a year after President Obama’s swearing in the National Mall, Washington D.C., a Republican who is an anti-thesis of almost everything that the late Senator Ted Kennedy stood for will win the vacated senatorial seat in the state of Massachusetts?

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