Jack Hunter: Pro-Life Means Anti-Drone

If life is sacred, how can we justify the random killing of innocent children?

By Jack Hunter, The American Conservative,  October 26, 2012

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My pro-life position is simple: Life is sacred. Life is so sacred that for it to be taken there must be an extremely good reason—and there are few good reasons. Convenience is certainly not a good reason. This innate sanctity of human life is something virtually all civilized people recognize despite one’s politics. Even those who identify as pro-choice are only comfortable with abortion to the degree that they can downplay or dismiss the humanity of the subject at hand.

Barack Obama has never claimed to be pro-life. As the Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney writes: “President Obama has killed hundreds of civilians, including women and children, in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia through a drone war aimed at exterminating the suspected terrorists on his unprecedented and ever-expanding ‘kill list.’”

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Hawking and Mlodinow: Why God Did Not Create the Universe

There is a sound scientific explanation for the making of our world—no gods required

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By STEPHEN HAWKING And LEONARD MLODINOW,

The Wall Street Journal, September 3, 2010

According to Viking mythology, eclipses occur when two wolves, Skoll and Hati, catch the sun or moon. At the onset of an eclipse people would make lots of noise, hoping to scare the wolves away. After some time, people must have noticed that the eclipses ended regardless of whether they ran around banging on pots.

Ignorance of nature’s ways led people in ancient times to postulate many myths in an effort to make sense of their world. But eventually, people turned to philosophy, that is, to the use of reason—with a good dose of intuition—to decipher their universe. Today we use reason, mathematics and experimental test—in other words, modern science.

Albert Einstein said, “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.” He meant that, unlike our homes on a bad day, the universe is not just a conglomeration of objects each going its own way. Everything in the universe follows laws, without exception.

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Stephen Lendman: Israel Wages War on Human Rights

by Stephen Lendman, Veternas Today, October 24, 2012

Daily incidents reveal Israeli state terrorism writ large. Praying to the wrong God is called terrorism. So is wanting out from under Israel’s repressive boot.

Occupation harshness knows no limits. Torture is official policy. So are virtually all other crimes against humanity. Palestinian civilians suffer most. Children are treated like adults. Going to and from school is hazardous.

Dedicated human rights advocates are targeted. Ayman Ameed Ahmad Nasser is one of many. He’s a researcher and member of Addameer’s Prisoner Support Association.

Established in 1992, Addameer provides legal services for Israeli political prisoners. It supports them nationally and internationally. It works to end torture and other abuses. It conducts solidarity human rights campaigns.

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Eid Greetings To All

 Nasir Khan, October 25, 2012

  Eid Mubarik to all around the world! 

Let's hope that this holy occasion in memory of the sacrifice of Abraham [Hazrat Ibrahim in Islam], the patriarch of three monotheistic religions - Judaism, Christianity, Islam -  will bring a message of hope, good-will and peace to a deeply divided world, torn by wars and imperial depredations.

US does not want real democracy in Middle East: Chomsky

Visiting AUC for first time in 19 years, Noam Chomsky speaks of potential Israel-Iran conflict and America’s fear of democracy in Middle East

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Randa Ali, ahramonline,  Wednesday 24 Oct 2012

 

Noam Chomsky at the American University in Cairo, 23 October 2012 (Photo: Randa Ali)

Hundreds filled the Ewart Memorial Hall at the American University in Cairo (AUC) on Tuesday to attend a lecture by prominent American political analyst and linguist Noam Chomsky on his first visit to the university in 19 years. “I can’t help but picture the world we live in, the one we’re leaving to our grandchildren, and it is not a pretty picture,” said Chomsky, 83, who arrived from Gaza on Monday.

During the lecture, called “Emerging World Order and the Arab Spring,” he spoke of the increasing threat of nuclear war and environmental disasters.

Chomsky argued that the only way out of the nuclear crisis was to embrace the initiative for a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East, adding that Egypt had played a leading role in advocating the initiative since 1995.

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Unresolved Kashmir issue and Indo-Pak border tensions: Urdu Weekly Rehbar

Editor’s remarks: The unresolved Kashmir issue continues to be the main cause of border tensions between India and Pakistan. There is no other way to solve this conflict that started in 1947 than to allow the right to self-determination to the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Contrary to the Indian government claims, Kashmir is not an integral part of India. Kashmir is a country under Indian military occupation. A handful of puppet Kashmiri opportunists who rule the state support the Indian rule but the vast majority of the people of Kashmir demands freedom. As long as the occupation will last, the heroic people of Kashmir will continue to resist the occupiers and they will continue to demand freedom (Azadi).

Nasir Khan, Editor

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Urdu Weekly Rehbar, Srinagar, October 21, 2012

Israeli terror against the aid ship to Gaza

Nasir Khan,  October 23, 2012

Many in Norway and the rest of the world are shocked over the way the Zionists have behaved towards the aid activists to Gaza. But this sort of behaviour towards the aid volunteers including Aksel Hagen shows the total indifference of the apartheid state of Israel towards the rest of the world. It has turned Gaza into the largest concentration camp in the world in total violation of all norms of international behaviour and international law merely because it controls American Government and its foreign policy.

At the same time, all peace-loving activists and sympathisers to the dispossessed and captive Palestinians solute the activists on Estelle for their courage to show solidarity with the captive population of Gaza. The illegal blockade of Gaza is also a major offence against all those people who stand for justice for the Palestinians, respect for international law, the Geneva Conventions, and the UN Charter.