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[ALOCHONA] American who sparked diplomatic crisis over Lahore shooting was CIA spy



American who sparked diplomatic crisis over Lahore shooting was CIA spy
 
 Raymond Davis, American man charged over Lahore shootings
• Raymond Davis employed by CIA 'beyond shadow of doubt'
• Former soldier charged with murder over deaths of two men
• Davis accused of shooting one man twice in the back as he fled
 
• Special report: A CIA spy and a diplomatic whirlwind
 

The American who shot dead two men in Lahore, triggering a diplomatic crisis between Pakistan and the US, is a CIA agent who was on assignment at the time.

Raymond Davis has been the subject of widespread speculation since he opened fire with a semi-automatic Glock pistol on the two men who had pulled up in front of his car at a red light on 25 January.

Pakistani authorities charged him with murder, but the Obama administration has insisted he is an "administrative and technical official" attached to its Lahore consulate and has diplomatic immunity.

Based on interviews in the US and Pakistan, the Guardian can confirm that the 36-year-old former special forces soldier is employed by the CIA. "It's beyond a shadow of a doubt," said a senior Pakistani intelligence official. The revelation may complicate American efforts to free Davis, who insists he was acting in self-defence against a pair of suspected robbers, who were both carrying guns.

Pakistani prosecutors accuse the spy of excessive force, saying he fired 10 shots and got out of his car to shoot one man twice in the back as he fled. The man's body was found 30 feet from his motorbike.

"It went way beyond what we define as self-defence. It was not commensurate with the threat," a senior police official involved in the case told the Guardian.

The Pakistani government is aware of Davis's CIA status yet has kept quiet in the face of immense American pressure to free him under the Vienna convention. Last week President Barack Obama described Davis as "our diplomat" and dispatched his chief diplomatic troubleshooter, Senator John Kerry, to Islamabad. Kerry returned home empty-handed.

Many Pakistanis are outraged at the idea of an armed American rampaging through their second-largest city. Analysts have warned of Egyptian-style protests if Davis is released. The government, fearful of a backlash, says it needs until 14 March to decide whether Davis enjoys immunity.

A third man was crushed by an American vehicle as it rushed to Davis's aid. Pakistani officials believe its occupants were CIA because they came from the house where Davis lived and were armed.

The US refused Pakistani demands to interrogate the two men and on Sunday a senior Pakistani intelligence official said they had left the country. "They have flown the coop, they are already in America," he said.

ABC News reported that the men had the same diplomatic visas as Davis. It is not unusual for US intelligence officers, like their counterparts round the world, to carry diplomatic passports.

The US has accused Pakistan of illegally detaining him and riding roughshod over international treaties. Angry politicians have proposed slashing Islamabad's $1.5bn (£900m) annual aid.

But Washington's case is hobbled by its resounding silence on Davis's role. He served in the US special forces for 10 years before leaving in 2003 to become a security contractor. A senior Pakistani official said he believed Davis had worked with Xe, the firm formerly known as Blackwater.

Pakistani suspicions about Davis's role were stoked by the equipment police confiscated from his car: an unlicensed pistol, a long-range radio, a GPS device, an infrared torch and a camera with pictures of buildings around Lahore.

"This is not the work of a diplomat. He was doing espionage and surveillance activities," said the Punjab law minister, Rana Sanaullah, adding he had "confirmation" that Davis was a CIA employee.

A number of US media outlets learned about Davis's CIA role but have kept it under wraps at the request of the Obama administration. A Colorado television station, 9NEWS, made a connection after speaking to Davis's wife. She referred its inquiries to a number in Washington which turned out to be the CIA. The station removed the CIA reference from its website at the request of the US government.

Some reports, quoting Pakistani intelligence officials, have suggested that the men Davis killed, Faizan Haider, 21, and Muhammad Faheem, 19, were agents of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency (ISI) and had orders to shadow Davis because he crossed a "red line".

A senior police official confirmed US claims that the men were petty thieves – investigators found stolen mobiles, foreign currency and weapons on them – but did not rule out an intelligence link.

A senior ISI official denied the dead men worked for the spy agency but admitted the CIA relationship had been damaged. "We are a sovereign country and if they want to work with us, they need to develop a trusting relationship on the basis of equality. Being arrogant and demanding is not the way to do it," he said.

Tensions between the spy agencies have been growing. The CIA Islamabad station chief was forced to leave in December after being named in a civil lawsuit. The ISI was angered when its chief, General Shuja Pasha, was named in a New York lawsuit related to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Although the two spy services co-operate in the CIA's drone campaign along the Afghan border, there has not been a drone strike since 23 January – the longest lull since June 2009. Experts are unsure whether both events are linked.

Davis awaits his fate in Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore. Pakistani officials say they have taken exceptional measures to ensure his safety, including ringing the prison with paramilitary Punjab Rangers. The law minister, Sanaullah, said Davis was in a "high security zone" and was receiving food from visitors from the US consulate.

Sanaullah said 140 foreigners were in the facility, many on drug charges. Press reports have speculated that the authorities worry the US could try to spring Davis in a "Hollywood-style sting". "All measures for his security have been taken," said the ISI official. "He's as safe as can be."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/20/us-raymond-davis-lahore-cia



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[ALOCHONA] Deadly game with nation’s fate:Virtual Corridor To India



Deadly game with nation's fate : Virtual Corridor To India

 

Asian Highway routes in Bangladesh. The AL-led regime has agreed in principle to approve the three different routes, only to turn the entire country into a virtual corridor of India.It's like watching a movie already seen twice. Or, it could be the recurrence of a hellish nightmare? The reasons that had compelled the last BNP-led Government not to approve the proposed Asian Highway in December 2005 remain alive, but the AL-led regime has agreed in principle to approve the three different routes, only to turn the entire country into a virtual corridor of India.

The Communication Ministry on May 21 made the decision following a meeting in which roads and railway secretary ASM Ali Kabir and senior officials from the foreign, defence, home and finance ministries, ERD, roads and highways and railway departments were present. Following the meeting, Communication Minister Abul Hossain, as well as a spokesperson of the ministry, confirmed that the Government had approved the scheme in principle. It's a deadly game with nation's fate.

Whither Asian Highway from Japan to Turkey?
The decision is dangerous both on counts of its historicity and the cost and benefit calculations. Since the proposal for the Asian Highway was mooted first in 1959, some 15 countries, including Pakistan, became founding members by signing the agreement. Bangladesh too is considered a founding member by virtue of its integration with Pakistan until 1971. Then, following decades of vacillation and bargaining, the United Nations Economic and Social Council for Asia Pacific (UNESCAP) managed to draft an Intergovernmental Agreement for the 1,41,000 kilometers-long roadways that would crisscross many Asian countries from Japan to Turkey, to reach the shores of the Atlantic Ocean and the continent of Europe.

Connectivity with India
As the move intensified with the tempest of globalization whipping the world in the last decade, a total of 27 nations ratified their participation (32 had signed so far) by 2004 while the deadline for Bangladesh expired in December 2005 following the BNP-led alliance Government's negation to accept the proposed route on ground that it would compromise country's national security by turning Bangladesh a virtual transit and corridor of India.

The economic and infrastructural viabilities too did not favour a positive decision from Dhaka. For, of the three routes proposed by the UNSECAP for Bangladesh – AH1, AH2 and AH 41 – two of them serve solely Indian interests at the cost of harming economic and geopolitical interests of Bangladesh.

Being surrounded by India from all sides excepting the Sea to the south and the limited outlet with the Myanmar, the BNP-led alliance regime decided instead to pursue aggressively to linking Bangladesh with Myanmar in order to reach the Far Eastern countries as part of a comprehensive Look East policy.

Sources say that decision was based on three major factors: First, various bilateral deals have already made connectivity with India easier over the preceding decades, without yielding better economic opportunities for Bangladesh. Secondly: Dhaka's main concern was how to connect landlocked Nepal, Bhutan and the Indian North East with Chittagong and Mongla ports to integrate those economies with the regional mainstream. Third: Bangladesh could reach the Asian mainland only via Myanmar, not via India.

Economics and geopolitics
Added to those concerns were the perspectives of sovereignty, economics and geopolitics. As the three proposed routes are slated only to facilitate transportations of Indian goods from the Indian mainland to the Indian North East via Bangladesh – and impose unbearable pressure on the two ports of the country —- Chittagong and Mongla —- which can barely cope with our own needs at the present – the BNP-led regime insisted on choosing the third route (AH-41). The other two routes (AH-1 and AH-2) being both economically and geopolitically non-viable, and, having serious implications for the nation's sovereignty, the deadline in December 2005 was quietly allowed to pass by.

How can such a decision be faulted —- and reversed without considering its implications—- when the 495 kilometers long AH -1 will connect Tamabil, Sylhet, Kachpur, Dhaka, Jessore with Benapole; only to render Bangladesh into an Indian corridor by facilitating connectivity between the Indian states of Tripura and Manipur on one side, with Assam and the West Bengal on the other, by using the territory of another sovereign nation? The same is true of the 805 kilometers long AH- 2 which will connect Banglabandha of Panchagarh, Hati-Kamrul of Sirajganj, Dhaka, Kachpur and reach Tamabil again, only to re-enter India across the Sylhet frontier.

Although the third route, 752-kilometer AH- 41, too will serve to carry goods for India from the Mongla port by connecting Bagerhat via Jessore (and thence to Benapole), it seemed comparatively harmless as it will traverse past Dhaka before proceeding toward Teknaf and Cox's Bazar to eventually connect Myanmar.

An Indian Highway
That is how the connectivity scheme the Government decided to approve will allow construction of an Indian Highway, not an Asian one, given that none of those routes will connect Bangladesh with other Asian nations who are part of the scheme. Barring Myanmar, with which Bangladesh has already arranged bilateral land connectivity, the two other points of connectivity with India neither allow Bangladesh to reach the Tokyo to Ankara Highway (as the Asian Highway is meant to be) nor the other nations who are part of it (Japan, South Korea, (India excepted), Indonesia, Pakistan, Nepal, the Philippines, China, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Bhutan, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Laos and Malaysia).
Besides, there are allegations of Indian influence- peddling in choosing and doggedly pursuing the implementation of the proposed routes. Sources say the AH-1 route will enter Bangladesh from India via the western Benapole frontier and will exit again to India through northeastern Tamabil of Sylhet. That seems to be an Indian Highway stretching from West Bengal to Tripura and Assam.

Likewise, the AH-2 will enter Bangladesh from northwestern Banglabandha frontier and will reach again Tamabil. The two routes entering from and exiting to India are meant to facilitate the huge volume of traffic to and from Indian North Eastern states. Only the third route being an internal (or sub-regional) link to connect southeastern Mongla port with Teknaf near the Myanmar frontier, the previous government wanted the third one to be the main route to bolster our 'Look East Policy' that aimed at fostering economic cooperation with Myanmar, China, Cambodia and Vietnam.

Nepal, Bhutan left adrift
Who's behind this highway game and why did it resurrect once again? Sources say India having enormous influence over the UN and its affiliated bodies, Delhi choose to intensify the 'politics of highway' since 2004 after Bangladesh commissioned a land port at Banglabandha ( in Panchagargh district) to facilitate exports to Nepal, Bhutan and the Indian North East. The port was expected to increase trading with these nations via the 61 km corridor (between Bangladesh and Nepal) and the 68 km corridor (between Bangladesh and Bhutan).
India having enormous influence over the UN and its affiliated bodies, choose to impose upon Bangladesh, via the UNESCAP, the proposed routes for Asian Highway.

Following this move from Dhaka, India choose to impose upon Bangladesh, via the UNESCAP, the proposed routes for Asian Highway; two of which (AH-1 and AH-2) were designed to enter Bangladesh only to re-enter India. Only the third route (then known as AH-3) was left to connect Myanmar to allow Bangladesh's exit to the Far East.
Analysts say it was an Indian ploy to obtain corridor through other means. And, coming as it did following Dhaka's negation to export gas to India, Delhi's stance could be summarized as very stubborn: 'my way or highway.'
However, the lack of Delhi's empathy was too visible to ignore. After all, Dhaka's decision to commission the Banglabandha port came amidst repeated Nepalese insistence to open the land port due to a Nepal-India bilateral agreement preventing Nepalese trucks from directly entering Bangladesh and vice a versa. Those inconveniences were compounded further by the necessity to off load everything from trucks inside India for custom and security inspections.

Not only that. Despite repeated requests to facilitate Nepal-Bangladesh, Bangladesh-Bhutan and Bangladesh — Indian North East connectivity via those corridors, India persistently pursued the UNESCAP to impose on Bangladesh the two routes to serve its own geopolitical and economic interests at the cost of disadvantaging Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.
Reliable sources claim that the previous BNP-led regime's negation to comply with the Indian demand for gas, transit, corridor, and, finally, the Asian Highway have had much to do with what followed in Bangladesh since October 2007.

Policy of subservience
That being the backdrop and the reality, the AL-led Government's decision to approve the routes is tantamount to 'selling out' our vital national interests, as it testifies to the Government's lack of independence and the magnitude of helplessness borne out of being beholden by something unknown to the public. Fact is: India wants to use Bangladesh territory to connect its mainland with its North East, and, to use Bangladesh's ports for the economic wellbeing of the landlocked North Eastern states. Above everything, India wants to overcome its military handicap in the insurgency-infested North East by using this connectivity.

Hence, for Bangladesh, the decision making mechanism in allowing such a scheme shall be the one used in recent past by both nations. For example, after the devastation of hurricane Sidr, Indian High Commissioner said in response to Bangladesh's demand for rice: "We can not sell rice to Bangladesh keeping our people starved. "Well said. Likewise, amidst unprecedented pressure – even by using senior US diplomats – to obtain gas from Bangladesh in 2003, Dhaka made a realistic assessment of its gas reserve and spare-able capacity and said no to India. That decision too was wise. Six years on, Bangladesh doesn't have enough gas to keep its own industries and electricity generation facilities functional.

Structural inhibitions
Being aware that India's main intent is to serve the entire land-locked North Eastern region comprising seven large states (known as seven sisters) by using the proposed Highway, Bangladesh must calculate the premium involved with respect to traffic-related-logistics and infrastructural repairs, which, cumulatively, will outweigh any expected material gain it may hope for from the venture. Added to the danger to be posed by inadequate capacity of our ports, the future of this project could be suicidal.
Country's main port in Chittagong is overburdened and ageing. It also handles almost eighty-five percent of the country's sea-borne trade. Established in the 15th century, this moth-eaten establishment gained its full potential only after the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. Of its 15 operational jetties, only 13 are equipped with shore cranes, each having a lifting capacity of only about 1.5 tons. Since 1991, its only floating crane (used for lifting heavier cargos) remained out of order, until recently.


Besides, the river-moorings have no shore cranes and ships berthed at the moorings still use their own derricks or cranes for unloading or loading cargoes. Despite the construction of – or conversion into – few container berths in recent years, the capacity of the port is as yet not sufficient enough to meet our national needs, let alone serve foreign nations. The sinking of a small ship on the entry to the jetty had left the port crippled for weeks over a month ago, further testifying its limitations.

Mongla is incapable
On the other hand, Mongla is not a full-fledged sea port as yet. Even last week the main dock of the port got submerged by the tidal waves caused by the latest hurricane in the Bay. The port is virtually an anchorage to allow ships load and unload their cargoes into barges and coastal ships moored in the middle of the Pussur River. And, the draft of the river being shallow, navigation of large ship remains unsafe as yet, although few new berths built over the years allow light draft vessels to berth at the jetties.

Coupled with the chronic instability caused by an unruly bunch of highly politicized labour force, Mongla port can hardly be trusted to serve foreign interests involving international commitments of a powerful, bellicose neighbour and the consequences of potentially reneging on any binding commitment could prove unmanageable. Besides, the limitations for further modification of the port are compounded by surrounding private properties and stationing of naval ships and naval activities all around.

Based on such realities, any decision by the Government to allow the proposed highways to enter from and exit to India via Bangladesh can lead to devastating consequences, involving serious national security implications. Such a decision may also impact adversely the existing relationships between the two close neighbours to the extent of provoking hostile moves by either side. Whether the Government agrees or not, this is certainly not the highway to heaven. Rather the very opposite of it.


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[ALOCHONA] Google's Revolution Factory



Google's Revolution Factory - Alliance of Youth Movements: Color Revolution 2.0




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[ALOCHONA] Did US-backed NGOs Help to Topple Mubarak

"Color Coded" Egypt; Did US-backed NGOs Help to Topple Mubarak
Interviewed by Mike Whitney

by K. R. Bolton

Mike Whitney----Do we know whether foreign agents or US-backed NGOs
participated in the demonstrations in Tahrir Square? Could they have
played a part in toppling Mubarak?

K R Bolton--The revolts in Tunisia, Egypt and as they are spreading
further afield have all the hallmarks of the NED/Soros "color
revolutions" that were fomented in the former Soviet bloc states and
in Myanmar and elsewhere. They all follow the same pattern and many
years of planning, training and funding have gone into the
ridiculously called "spontaneous" (sic) revolts.

The organizations that have spent years and much money creating
revolutionary organizations in Tunisia, Egypt and elsewhere include
the National Endowment for Democracy, USAID, International Republican
Institute, Freedom House, Open Society Institute, and an array of
fronts stemming therefrom, including: National Democratic Institute
for International Affairs, Center for International Private
Enterprise, and the American Center for International Labor
Solidarity.

These organizations have for years been backing Egyptian "activists."
Freedom House for e.g. trained 16 young Egyptian "activists" in 2009
in a two month scholarship.

A few days ago the New York Times reported the association between the
April 6 Youth movement, and Optor, the Serbian youth movement that was
pivotal in overthrowing Milosevic for the benefit of globalism and the
free market. Now April 6 is addressing youths form Libya, Iran,
Morocco and Algeria. ("A Tunisian-Egyptian Link that Shook Arab
History," New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/world/middleeast/14egypt-tunisia-protests..html).

MW---Whether US-backed activists were involved in the demonstrations
or not, don't you think that the vast labor unrest across the country
suggests that "homegrown" organizations are the real force that is
driving the revolution?

K R Bolton--There do not seem to be any 'homegrown' organisations that
have played a leading role in the revolts. The labor unions for
example were organized, trained and funded by NED. The American Center
for International Labor Solidarity works in conjunction with the
Center for International Private Enterprise, and is funded by the U.S.
Agency for International Development, National Endowment for
Democracy, U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Labor,
AFL-CIO, private foundations, and national and international labor
organizations. What kind of labor organisation collaborates with those
who promote globalisation and the free market?

One of the organizations especially created to sponsor pro-globalist
unions is the NED-based Solidarity Center that has been involved with
recreating the labor movement in Egypt. NED's 2009 report for grants
includes $318,75 to the American Center for International Labor
Solidarity for their program in Egypt; in addition to an array of
other organizations in Egypt, and especially those directed at
training "youth activists" in social media networking and other
features of "spontaneous revolt."

MW---Do you anticipate a clash between the US-backed military junta
and the growing mass of people who seem to have lost their fear of
government repression?

K R Bolton--The mass movement is doing precisely what it was created
to do by the US based globalist organizations. They are reminiscent of
Oswald Spengler's comment of certain 'socialist' organizations a
century ago; that they do not function other than where and how money
dictates. These are "revolutions form above," using the masses as
cannon fodder by interests whom they think they are opposing. The
strategy was tried out within the New Left forty to fifty years ago,
when Foundations and the CIA backed certain "radicals" such as Gloria
Steinem, National Students Association etc., and the "psychedelic
revolution."

The revolt is by the secularized youth who look on Western democracy
as an ideal, which is a facade for plutocracy. A truly revolutionary
force such as, perhaps, the Muslim Brotherhood would be fighting for
an Islamic, traditionalist renaissance, and would eschew
Westernization.

MW----Why would the International Republican Institute (IRI) the
National Endowment for Democracy (NED), or George Soro's Open Society
Institute train activists to topple a pro-American regimen like
Mubarak's?

K R Bolton-- There are long term, dialectical strategies involved that
might require even removing seemingly pro-US regimes, that are simply
now anomalies in the process of globalization.

However, there are indications that Mubarak was an impediment to US
policy. The US and the Mubarak regime were at loggerheads over Sudan
for example, Mubarak favoring a confederation, whereas the US sought
dismemberment of the South from the north. Egypt's influence was
gaining in the Sudan, with investments and advisers. On Nov. 3, 2009
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul-Gheit stated that within the
previous five years Egypt had invested more than $87 million into
projects in southern Sudan, including hospitals, schools and power
stations, "in hope of convincing the people of southern Sudan to
choose unity over secession."

Towards the end of the Bush regime the U.S. Defense Department
established the Africa Command (AFRICOM), a primary concern of this
new US regional command being the establishment of a massive military
base in southern Sudan.

There is a very interesting article on this in The Washington Report
on Middle Eastern Affairs:
http://www.washington-report.org/component/content/article/363/10285-sudan-set-to-split-despite-egyptian-moves-.html

MW----How do Mohamed ElBaradei and Ayman Nour fit into to all of this?

K R Bolton-- Mohamed ElBaradei appears to be fulfilling the role of
numerous other leaders-in-waiting who have assumed the mantle of
leadership in the aftermath of "color revolutions." ElBaradei is on
the Executive Committee of the International Crisis Group, yet another
globalist think tank promoting the "new world order" behind the facade
of "peace and justice," or of the "open society." ICG was founded in
1994 by Mark Brown, former Vice President of the World Bank. Soros is
a committee member, along with such luminaries of peace and goodwill
as Samuel Berger, former US National Security Adviser; Wesley Clark,
former NATO Commander, Europe; and sundry eminences from business,
academe, politics and diplomacy of the type that generally comprise
such organizations.

"Senior advisers" of the ICG include the omnipresent Zbigniew
Brzezinski, former US National Security Adviser, and founding director
of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission, an individual up to his
neck in seemingly every globalist cause and think tank going, and a de
facto foreign policy adviser for Pres. Obama; and Lord Robertson of
Port Ellen, former Secretary General of NATO. Financial backers of the
ICG include the Ford Foundation and Open Society Institute.

Ayman Nour is getting the Zionists jittery, but his comments on the
Camp David accord might be intended to placate Muslim factions. He has
long been championed by US administrations, and would as a "liberal"
by easy to tame.

MW---In your article "What's Behind the Tumult in Egypt", you cite a
Wikileaks memo from the US Embassy in Cairo which appears to prove
that the US was providing support for groups of youth activists who
were demonstrating in Cairo. Do you feel like this type of subversion
is justifiable if it is for a noble cause, like democracy?

K R Bolton-- It depends on one's perspective. The Soviets thought that
their subversion was for a "noble cause." The USA disagreed. Pol Pot
considered he was fighting for a "noble cause," (the USA agreed)…

NED, Open Society, IRI, Freedom House, etc. are proud of their roles
and are relatively open about them, because it is assumed that
everyone will be duped into believing in the nobility of
internationalizing the "American Dream," or what has been called the
"new world order." However, many people, especially those in the
ex-Soviet bloc and in the Islamic states, value tradition, culture and
spirit, more so than the "freedom" to produce and consume, and to
become cogs in a world market with a global mono-culture.

The recently deceased columnist Joe Sobran wrote of these matters
cogently a few years ago:

Anti-Americanism is no longer a mere fad of Marxist university
students; it's a profound reaction of traditional societies against a
corrupt and corrupting modernization that is being imposed on them, by
both violence and seduction. The very word values implies a whole
modern culture of moral whim, in which good and evil are matters of
personal preference. Confronted with today's America, then, the
Christian Arab finds himself in unexpected sympathy with his Muslim
enemy.

America's foreign policy elite considers the USA to have a messianic
world mission to remake the Earth in its image, an early example being
Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. Whether this is undertaken behind
the façade of idealism, of "democracy,' "human rights" etc., or by
outright military invasion, makes no difference, and of course there
have been enough wars undertaken in the name of these slogans, one
being the war against Serbia, for example, the actual purpose more
likely being to globalize the minerals of Kosovo which can best be
done under a democratic, free market, debt-ridden regime, than under a
centralized state.

American globalization is worse than military dictatorship, because it
rots the soul.

Maj. Ralph Peters writing in Parameters, the organ of the US Army War
College, has stated that the de facto role of the American army is to
keep the world "open to our cultural assault." He talks of information
as being the "most destabilising factor of our time." He calls this
the "American century" where the USA will become "culturally more
lethal…." He talks of the "clash of civilisations". Entertainment,
media and internet are the basis for destroying traditional religions,
which he derides as "fundamentalism" which will be unable to "control
its children." "Our victims volunteer" he states. The Muslims in the
USA are what he calls the "rejectionist segment of our own
population." They are "enraged because their cultures are under
assault." He calls their "cherished values dysfunctional".

"Hollywood goes where Harvard never penetrated, and the foreigner,
unable to touch the reality of America, is touched by America's
irresponsible fantasies itself…" "Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg and
Madonna" are replacing "traditional intellectual elites." "Our
cultural empire has addicted – men and women everywhere - clamouring
for more. And they pay for the privilege of their disillusionment."
"If religion is the opium of the people, video is their crack
cocaine…" "There will be no peace…" "Our military power is culturally
based…" "Our American culture is infectious, a plague of pleasure… But
Hollywood is preparing the battlefield and burgers precede the
bullets. … What could be more threatening to traditional cultures?"

This is America's spiritual and cultural mission as related by an
influential strategist and commentator, formerly with the Office of
the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence; Foreign Area Officer for
Eurasia.

Maj. Peters description of those who have come under the curse of
secular American global culture, whom he states will serve to bring
down traditional societies, sounds rather like the secularised,
youthful "activists" who are spearheading the revolts in Tunisia,
Egypt, Yemen and elsewhere.

MW---Here's a quote from Leon Trotsky: "There is no doubt that the
fate of every revolution at a certain point is decided by a break in
the disposition of the army." There seems to be a real affection
between the Egyptian people and the army. Does that mean that a
confrontation can be avoided or do you think bloodshed is unavoidable?

K R Bolton-- There could be a unitary movement based around a popular
military regime of the Nasser variety. However, I believe that the
globalists have unleashed their chaos upon another vast region that
will be in a state of disruption for many years to come, like the
result of their having "liberated" (sic) Iraq.

MW---In your article titled "The Globalist Web of Subversion" (Foreign
Policy Journal) you speak of a "World Capitalist Revolution". Can you
explain what you mean?

K R Bolton-- The free market doctrine is the rationale of
globalisation. It is fundamentally revolutionary insofar as it
destroys traditional values. Free Trade is subversive, which is why
Karl Marx, as he stated in The Communist Manifesto and elsewhere,
supported Free Trade. Capitalism desires increasing concentration and
an internationalised economy. It once worked through nation-sates and
then through empires, but both became too restrictive and had to be
surpassed by a "new world order," which requires the destruction of
national, ethnic, cultural and all other bonds that hinder the
international free flow of labor, capital and technology.

A good book on this process was written a few years back, called
Global Reach: The Power of the Multinational Corporations, by Richard
Barnet and Ronald Muller. Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book Between Two
Ages wrote of the dialectical nature of capitalism and its drive
towards a world order, approvingly. And, of course, Marx wrote of the
dialectical nature of capitalism in The Communist Manifesto. However,
Marx thought that capitalism, with its destruction of national
boundaries, and its internationalising tendencies in the modes of
production, would be part of the process towards world socialism and
ultimately communism. He was wrong in that crucial respect; social
revolutions have been part of a dialectical process towards an
international capitalist order. The "color revolutions" are a most
essential part of this process.

MW---Here's a quote from your article in Foreign Policy Journal: "The
tumult in North Africa could conceivably backfire on the globalists
terribly and create a quagmire of the Iraq variety." It looks to me
like US meddling may have opened Pandora's Box. Do you agree?

K R Bolton--Yes, "Pandora's box" is a good term. It is the "new world
disorder." It might be wondered whether these global wirepullers are
extraordinarily stupid. But I think the answer lies in some kind of
sociopathology. The psychotic is ultimately self-destructive; although
these people would probably see things dialectically, believing that
it is part of "controlled crisis." Their mentality hovers somewhere
around the Jim Jones type, with the world being their Jonestown.

With the latest disturbances being in Iran, I hypothesize that the
problems generated in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, etc. might have been part
of a regional process directed primarily at Iran, and next Syria, two
states market in particular for destruction by the Project for the New
American Century.

K R Bolton is a "contributing writer" for The Foreign Policy Journal,
a Member of the Emerald Literati Network and other scholarly
societies, and has also been widely published on a variety of subjects
by: The International Journal of Russian Studies; Geopolitika, Moscow
State University; Journal of Social Economics; Journal of Social,
Political and Economic Studies; Retort International Arts and Literary
Review; Istanbul Literary Review; The Initiate: Journal of Traditional
Studies; Esoteric Quarterly; Antrocom Journal of Anthropology; Farsee
News Service; Phayul.com; Radio Free Asia Vietnamese Service; Novosti
Foreign Service; etc. Translations in: Russian, Vietnamese, Latvian,
Czech, Italian, French, Farsee.

Bolton's recent articles on NGO involvement in Egypt include "The
Globalist Web of Subversion" and "What's Behind the Tumult in Egypt?".
Both articles can be found at Foreign Policy Journal


K. R. Bolton is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global
Research Articles by K. R. Bolton

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23282


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[ALOCHONA] Jalil for JS body to probe DGFI’s activities

Jalil for JS body to probe DGFI's activities

Jalil on Sunday demanded forming a parliamentary probe body to
investigate the activities of Directorate General of Forces
Intelligence (DGFI) for repressing the politicians after the 1/11
turnover in 2007.(UNB)

"I mean, a parliamentary committee should be formed to investigate the
DGFI's activities of after 1/11 period to advance the country's
democracy," he said at a meet the press program at the Dhaka Reporters
Unity (DRU) in the afternoon.

Abdul Jalil also suggested minimizing the power of the intelligence
agency for the greater welfare of the nation. About country's law and
order, he said that crime exists in the country as it did in the past,
but no effective step has been taken to avert crimes.

The AL leader stressed the need for reshuffling the police force and
extending their facilities, including salary and allowance to create a
skilled and modern police force aiming at maintaining stable law and
order in the country.

Referring to the ongoing political scenario of the country, Abdul
Jalil said the political leadership does not belong to the politicians
now; it goes to the clutch of businessmen.

About the ongoing price-hike of essentials, he said the prices of
essentials could not be controlled through putting pressure (threat)
on the businessmen and traders.

He urged the authorities concerned to negotiate with the businessmen
to keep prices of essential commodities stable. Jalil, also a member
of the party's advisory committee, said that although the incumbent
government has brought about remarkable success in the country's
education, agriculture and other sectors, it has been unable to
address the country's power and gas crisis.

http://www.thebangladeshtoday.com/back%20page.htm


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RE: [ALOCHONA] Prayer practice of majority Bangladeshis



who planned, created and erected this type of insulting poster?


for how long criminals will hide behind " razakar trial"....smoke-screen?










To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: faruquealamgir@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:55:09 +0600
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Prayer practice of majority Bangladeshis



Are we all Bangladeshis non Muslim ?????????????????????????????????????????  As per population only 7.5% Hindus and 2.5% of other religion and rest 90% Muslims. Do the majority Bangladeshis prays to Almighty like the one in bill board ?????? Certainly not ??????? 

The women in the bill board must be praying for HIDU  STAAAAAAAN team as she depicts the payer style of HINDUISM not Islam.


On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Isha Khan <bd_mailer@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

Prayer practice of majority Bangladeshis
 
 
 







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RE: [ALOCHONA] The Meaning of Mujib-Bad



why don't you throw some light on the ' situation in Bangladesh from Jan 1972 to Aug 1975'....and why

mujib regime was removed?

where are those people who greeted army officers with sweets on the street of dhaka on 15 aug, 1975?







To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: shossain456@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:33:36 -0800
Subject: [ALOCHONA] The Meaning of Mujib-Bad



Shiekh Mujib's era was the darkest time in the history of Bangladesh.
Political murders; disappearace of political opponents; introduction of Cross Fire -first casualty Comrade Siraj Sikder; loot, bank robery, rape, famine, etc. All these were the integral parts of Mujib-Bad. Now look at how he had molested the four fundamental pillars of our Constitution.
 
Gonotontra (Democracy): burried it under the sand and created one party BKSAL system declaring himself President.
Samajtontro (Socialism)-nationalized all profit making industries and created a era Luttaraz for his own people.
Dharmanirophekkata (Secularism): Introduced Enemy Property Law to facilitate grabbings of properties of Hindus by Awami Men.
Bengali Jatiyatabad (Bengali Nationalism)- Declared everyone living in  Bangladesh as Bengali including the tribals of Hill Tracts. Removed the special previledge they used enjoy under the Consitution of Pakistan from the new Bangladesh Consititution. Thus sown the seeds of insurgency in Chittagong Hill Tracts which is still ongoing.
 
I suugest that although there was no such thing as "Mujib-Bad" but the molested version of four fundamental pillars of our Consititution may be defined as "Mujib-Bad".
 
SH





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[ALOCHONA] FW: What a shame! Religious identity PANIC!



                  It is this evil thing called "religious identity" -- not Religion itself -- that is the founding stone of COMMUNALISM.
  The British colonial Administration started counting the people of this land by their religous identities.  Our society, politics or economy before the advent of the British did not function around religious identities of the populace.  God knows that there are many other ways of classifying people.  Language and culture are better and bigger identifiers, religion being a contributor to overall culture.
 
                  Ekushey amader porichoy. Let us celebrate Amor Ekushey!
 
                          Farida Majid 


From: hye.dhaka@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:55:44 -0500
Subject: Re: [Alapon] What a shame!

 
My dear fellow Bangladeshi bros and sis:

By seeing the subject line and several emails from different corners, I witnessed people emphasized on secular character of Bangladesh but we have also another virtue of all Bangladeshis that is tolerance. When someone make some unintentional mistake, we all should not jump on that person to personally humiliate or criticize that person and use all our writing weapons to make that person prove wrong.
Unfortunately I do not know any member of this group including Mr. Hanip, so don't take me wrong that I am supporting someone or against someone. You can see how many emails came on this issue, we all know how secular Bangladesh is, no need to prove it, Bangladesh is the one of the rare religious tolerance country which provide government holiday in four religions' festival to respect their religion. You don't see hardly in any other country including India, USA or any European countries. Religious coexistence in Bangladesh is exemplary.  BTW, I am also proud being Bangladeshi, for very recent announcement for six month paid maternity leave for female workers in Bangladesh. You will hardly find  such decision in any other countries. 

Well I am sorry to say, some of the emails came to attack someone personally, that was unfortunate. We, who live abroad should show some more respect to others and would not use our knowledge and skills and time to demean others. If someone make mistake, let's point out, forget and forgive and move on. 

Let's pray for Bangladesh cricket team, let's discuss about their performance and achievement. So far they have done a great job against India ....let's hope for the best.

Regards
Syed Hye


Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 19, 2011, at 1:34 AM, Shamim Chowdhury <veirsmill@yahoo.com> wrote:

 


Mr. Hanip, your first name Abu sounds Arabic though your last name Hanip seems came from no where. However you may have become Hanip in America from Hanif a Muslim Arabic name which means True believer. Your religious identity is in REAL crisis here more then the billboard you talking about.

 

Grameen phone has made these billboards not just with pictures from worshippers of one religion but all. Nevertheless, picking up this as an issue simply reflects your filthy jealous mindset which could be anything but a true believer.

 

Please broaden your heart and consider not hearting your fellow citizen. Be a part of humankind not just Muslim ummah. As a Muslim I feel ashamed that you are the same part of Ummah that I belong to. Message like yours are embarrassment for the entire Muslim ummah and portrays us as unconsidered part of humanity who hates everyone but themselves.

 

Shamim Chowdhury

Maryland, U.S.A.

 

--- On Fri, 2/18/11, Kawshiq Chowdhury <vizionphotoworks@gmail.com> wrote:


\To: "alapon@yahoogroups.com" <alapon@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "alapon@yahoogroups.com" <alapon@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Friday, February 18, 2011, 4:41 PM

 
Broaden your mind oh my fellow Bangladeshis
and stop translating everything into an issue in 
the name of religion. Treat others as you would 
like to be treated. Just having a big title and 
earming a great living does not make you a 
person in this world, be a better HUMAN being 
first, cause humanity is the key to any and every 
Religion out there, or atleast should be the teaching.

Thanks, 

Sent from my iPhone

On Feb 18, 2011, at 4:13 PM, ANWAR IQBAL <Anwariqbal@yahoo.com> wrote:

 
Mr. Hanip;
You identified yourself as a CEO of a tech company. Why do you sound like a village Mullah? In Bangladesh, almost two crore people belong to a different faith than you own. Do you not want to recognize them as Bangladeshi?
This is one of your fellow citizen who happens to be of christian faith. Muslims and Hindu prayer scenes have also been depicted at other locations in this Grameen Phone Billboard Campaign.
 

From: Abm Hanip <abmhanip@yahoo.com>
Sent: Fri, February 18, 2011 3:09:09 PM
Subject: [Alapon] What a shame!

 
 
 
Is this our Bangladeshi religious identity?
 
 
 
 
 
 
What a shame!
 
 
 
 
Abu Hanip
Founder & CEO
PeopleNTech
703-586-7848
 
 








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[ALOCHONA] Re: [KHABOR] Muhammad Yunus: Bangladesh urges him to retire



I support Mr. Gonsalves proposition that our adored,respected Dr. Yunus do have inalienable right and  should continue to nourish his child" Grameen Bank" till the last day of his active life.


The detractors and zealous people who could neither achieve for the people n the nation but are always in the forefront to defame n dislodge the good works of people like Dr, Yunus. 

GOOD WORK AND TRUTH IS SO HARSH FOR THEM SINCE THEY ARE USED TO LIES AND NOTHING BUT LIES  N FEELS PRIDE IN CHAMPIONING INTEREST OF MASTERS BEYOND THE BORDER.

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 8:15 PM, ROBERT GONSALVES <rgonsalves29@verizon.net> wrote:
 

It is unjust for any to ask Dr. Yunus to retire. Physically he is still a giant intelligent and superior to any of his cadre. HE SHOULD STAY AND FUNCTION FOR HUMAN ENEFIT UNTIL HE BREATHED HIS LAST>


From: Isha Khan <bd_mailer@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wed, February 16, 2011 7:22:13 AM
Subject: [KHABOR] Muhammad Yunus: Bangladesh urges him to retire

 

Muhammad Yunus: Bangladesh urges him to retire

By Anbarasan Ethirajan BBC News, Dhaka
Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus Prof Yunus and the Awami League-led government have increasingly been at loggerheads

The Bangladeshi government has called on Nobel peace laureate and micro credit pioneer Muhammad Yunus to retire.

Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith told the BBC that Professor Yunus has reached the normal retirement age for executives at private banks.
The latest comments reflect an increasing divide between the Awami League-led government and Prof Yunus.
He set up the Grameen Bank about three decades ago to provide microcredit - small loans to the poor.
Mr Muhith said that the government began talking to Prof Yunus around a year ago about who would succeed him and redefining the bank's role.
'Give it to others'
The finance minister pointed out that according to Bangladeshi rules, the retirement age for executives at private banks had been set at 65 and that Prof Yunus was five years beyond that.
"He should give it to others to continue because you never continue all the time in any institution," Mr Muhith told the BBC.
But the minister conceded that retirement rules in Bangladesh had not been imposed for many years.
The Grameen Bank came under the spotlight late last year when a Norwegian television documentary alleged that aid money was wrongly transferred to another part of the bank in the mid-1990s.
The bank denied all the charges. Later, the Norwegian government, one of its main donors, gave an all-clear to the bank.
But the Bangladeshi government set up a review committee in January to look into the bank's affairs.
"I suggested to Professor Yunus after instituting the inquiry... that it might be a good thing for him to withdraw himself temporarily during the period of the review," Mr Muhith said.
"Professor Yunus told me that no, if he withdraws now, the whole of Grameen will collapse."
Support for bank
Prof Yunus has declined to comment on the finance minister's remarks to the BBC.
Mr Muhith also denied that the latest move was politically motivated.
"There is no question of rivalry between the leader of the most popular party (Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina) in the country and him. This is utter nonsense," Mr Muhith said.
The finance minister's comments came days after supporters of Prof Yunus - including former Irish president Mary Robinson and former World Bank president James Wolfensohn - launched Friends of Grameen to "save the bank from a government takeover".
The bank's borrowers and savers own 75% of the company, while the government has a 25% stake.
Analysts say Sheikh Hasina fell out with Prof Yunus in 2007 when he tried to set up his own political party.
 





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