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[1] From: rkurian1@vsnl.com Date: Wed Oct 5, 2005 Subject: Asia's Poor Build US Bases in Iraq Blood, Sweat & Tears Asia??™s Poor Build U.S. Bases in Iraq By David Phinney 10/03/05 "CorpWatch" -- -- Jing Soliman left his family in the Philippines for what sounded like a sure thing--a job as a warehouse worker at Camp Anaconda in Iraq. His new employer, Prime Projects International (PPI) of Dubai, is a major, but low-profile, subcontractor to Halliburton's multi-billion-dollar deal with the Pentagon to provide support services to U.S. forces. Read the full message at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mahajanapada/message/8139 ------------------------------ [2] From: yogi sikand <ysikand@yahoo.com> Date: Wed Oct 5, 2005 Subject: Book Review: Zoya Hasan & Ritu Menon on Indian Muslim Girls' Education Zoya Hasan, & Ritu Menon, Educating Muslim Girls: A Comparison of Five Cities, New Delhi: Kali Unlimited, 2005, pp.186, ISBN: 81-88965-16-2. Muslim girls are among the least educated sections of Indian society. Yet, very little literature is available on the education of Muslim girls, indicating a certain indifference on the part of community leaders, the agencies of the state and non-governmental organizations to their concerns, which makes this study a welcome addition to the limited corpus of writings on the subject Read the full text at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mahajanapada/message/8135 ------------------------ [3] From: yogi sikand <ysikand@yahoo.com> Date: Wed Oct 5, 2005 Subject: A Deobandi Mullah??™s Diatribe Against ???Modern??™ Education For Girls A Deobandi Mullah??™s Diatribe Against ???Modern??™ Education For Girls Yoginder Sikand In addition to widespread poverty and indifference on the part of the state, one of the major factors for the dismal level of education of Muslim girls in India is the influence of large sections of the traditionalist ???ulama or Muslim clerics. As many ???ulama see it, ???modern??™ education is calculated to distort and finally destroy Muslim identity and faith, leading to indifference, if not hostility, to religion. For some ???ulama this opposition to secular education also stems from a fear that it might result in a challenge to their own claims to authority as ???spokesmen??™ of Islam and the Muslim community and might also undermine the structures of patriarchy that they continue to defend. Read the full text at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mahajanapada/message/8137 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mahajanapada/message/8138 ------------------------- [4] From: rkurian1@vsnl.com Date: Wed Oct 5, 2005 Subject: The US Congressional Hearings on India's Nuclear Deal with the US.. Date:01/10/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/10/01/stories/2005100104491100.htm Opinion - News Analysis India, Iran and the Congressional hearings on the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal In the wake of its vote against Iran in the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Indian Government said "nothing could be further from the truth" than the suggestion that there was any "linkage" between its decision and the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal. The two issues got explicitly linked for the first time at the House International Relations Committee hearings, on the July 18 agreement, in early September. Though some remarks of Congressmen like Tom Lantos were reported at the time, the full transcript of the September 8 hearings has only recently become available.The Hindu reproduces excerpts: ------------------------ [5] From: rkurian1@vsnl.com Date: Wed Oct 5, 2005 Subject: Venezuela Moves Reserves to Europe.. http://www.fromthewilderness.com/cgi-bin/MasterPFP.cgi?doc=http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100505_world_stories.shtml Chavez: Venezuela Moves Reserves to Europe September 30, 2005 01:50 PM ET http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/ D8CUNLQO0.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down&chan=db CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela has moved its central bank foreign reserves out of U.S. banks, liquidated its investments in U.S. Treasury securities and placed the funds in Europe, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday. ------------------------------ [6] From: rkurian1@vsnl.com Date: Wed Oct 5, 2005 Subject: The New Silk Route... America, Be Wary of the New Silk Road By William O. Beeman, Asian Week Aug 26, 2005 http://news.asianweek.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=6bcb0e3 bcaac76765718033de6590b97&this_category_id=172 |
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