Filed under: Indian Subcontinent | Tags: Azad, Colonialism, Kashmir, Militarism, Nation-State, Occupation, State Terror
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( Dated Piece: 4 February 2009 )
Source: National Radio Project
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Listen to this Interview @ http://www.radioproject.org/archive/2009/0509.html
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Arundhati Roy is the celebrated author of “The God of Small Things” and winner of the prestigious Booker Prize. “The New York Times” calls her, “India’s most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence.” She is the winner of the Lannan Award for Cultural Freedom. Her latest books are “The Checkbook & the Cruise Missile,” with David Barsamian, and “An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire.”
David Barsamian: You’ve been spending at lot of time in Kashmir and you were just there again. There has been a series of elections over the last couple of months, and these elections have been heralded, at least by the mainstream press here in India, as a great referendum for freedom and democracy and a rebuke for the separatists. What is your understanding of what exactly happened in terms of the elections?
Arundhati Roy: Really, the difficulty about it, the thing I worry most about, is losing the language with which to describe what’s happening there. Because it’s almost as though you need a deep knowledge of what’s going on there to be able to understand what happened. In August, even then I was there, and all over the world it has been reported, there was an incredible spontaneous uprising, and there were hundreds of thousands of people on Continue reading
Filed under: Africa | Tags: African Union, Al Shabab, Capitalism, Captialist Powers, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Forces, Ethiopian Occupation, Ethiopian Regime, Ethiopian Troops, Foreign Capital, Horn of Africa, Islamic Courts Union, Middle East, Mogadishu, Occupation, Piracy, Pirates, President Abdullahi Yusuf, Puntland, Self-Determination, Shipping Lanes, Somalia, Somaliland, Transitional Federal Government, Troop Pull-Out, Washington, Western-Backed Occupation
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21 January 2009
Source: Party for Socialism and Liberation
Struggle for Self-Determination Not Over
The last Ethiopian troops in Somalia left Jan. 15, ending a two-year occupation. The hatred of the occupation was on full display when the pullout began just two days earlier, as hundreds of Somalis lined the route of the retreating military forces and cheered their departure.
Ethiopian troops invaded and occupied Somalia in 2007 at the behest of Washington. U.S. officials were alarmed that the government they backed, known as the Transitional Federal Government, was at risk of collapsing.
The TFG is a collection of various warlords who had been ripping Somalia apart since 1991, following the collapse of the Continue reading
Filed under: Africa | Tags: Africa, Al-Shahab, China, Ehiopian Government, Illegal Fishing, India, Invasion, Islamic Courts, Islamic Courts Union, Mogadishu, NATO, Occupation, Piracy, Puntland, Russia, Somali Pirates, Somalia, Somaliland, United States, Washington
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( Dated Piece – 26 December 2008 )
Source: Party For Socialism and Liberation
Piracy smokescreen used to step up military action
At the behest of the United States, the U.N. Security Council unanimously voted Dec. 16 to authorize nations to pursue Somali pirates onto land, an action which had previously been prohibited. The resolution comes at a critical juncture for Somalia, and in the shadow of Washington’s politico-military strategy in the African continent.
The pirates were originally groups of fisherman who, due to the stateless nature of Somalia, turned to piracy to combat illegal fishing vessels from around the world. They soon found their new trade much more lucrative.
The resolution also called for a regional office to coordinate the actions of a number of nations that currently have naval forces deployed in Continue reading
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: Civilizing Mission, Colonialism, Iraq, Muqtada Al-Sadr, Nuri Al-Maliki, Occupation, Puppet Government, Troop Withdrawal, US Ambassador Ryan Crocker, US Troops
Thousands of headlines exuded from media outlets, largely giving the false impression that the Iraqi government and parliament have a real say over the future of US troops in their country, once again playing into the ruse fashioned by Washington that Iraq is a democratic country, operating independently from the dictates of Continue reading
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