World of terror, Sidr and US "Help"

World of terror, Sidr and US ‘help’

Whenever the US says peace we need to read it as war, whenever it says democracy we need to think of repression. History shows us again and again that whenever the US extended ‘help’, it ended with new chains, occupation and human suffering, writes
Anu Muhammad
‘We levelled it. There was nobody left, just dirt and dust.’ A US general in an occupied land after destruction of three villages in 2002 THE world has entered into a permanent system of war, militarisation, destruction and dehumanisation. After the Second World War, for whatever reasons, the United States has emerged as the centre of this global system. The survival of the US as a superpower, expansion of its hegemony and the function of global capitalism now mostly depend upon war machine and militarism. That gives birth to a new phase of imperialism and becomes a threat to not only people and nations in the periphery but also the whole human civilisation.................

Ageing war criminals and their old crimes

Ageing war criminals and their old crimes
Syed Badrul Ahsan
General Harunur Rashid has been doing an admirable job of keeping us all posted on the need to resist the anti-liberation elements which have, of late, been rearing their heads. His careful and determined handling of conditions, especially through his efforts to organise the surviving sector commanders of the War of Liberation, is proof, if proof at all were needed, that the spirit which informed our view of the war and underlined our participation in that war is yet alive, and that it only needs men of courage and patriotism to rekindle it in order for the dark forces endangering our liberty to be sent packing..........

Midnight Coups

‘Midnight coups’ and their ill-fated history
Just as predictions of the impending disintegration of the BNP and the Awami League proved to be wrong two-and-a-half decades ago when the country was put through a similar political purge by a military government as the one that is being carried out today, the predictions of doom for the parties will prove just as wrong this time around, writes Shameran Abed..........