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News & Comment Electricity Crisis: Blame game

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News ISLAMABAD: With temperature still below 40 degree Celsius, ghosts of loadshedding have already started haunting the length and breadth of the country. The most worried at the moment is obviously Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif since his party had won elections on the promise of dealing with the power crisis on a war footing. With demonstrations being held over loadshedding in the interior of Sindh, where the mercury in some…
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News & Comment Turkey Celebrates ‘Children's Day' While Conveniently Ignoring the Rising Numbers of Poor, Working and Murdered Children in the Country

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News: Two out of three children, statistically 63.5%, between the ages 0-15, suffer severe material deprivation in Turkey. This data is the result of a research prepared by Bahçeşehir University's Center for Economic and Social Research (Betam). The percentage of children in Turkey who can not meet their protein needs is 64.7%, while 39.9% are unable to warm themselves adequately, and 40% can not meet their clothing needs. In addition,…
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News & Comment Women under Capitalism Regard Sexual Abuse as Normal  

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News: According to a new US study, many girls who are sexually assaulted do not report acts of sexual violence, because they regard them as "normal". Interviews with 100 youths between the ages of 3 and 17, conducted by Marquette University's Children's Advocacy Center, revealed that girls do not see themselves as victims as they regarded sexual violence against them as normal. This is why also 60 per cent of…
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The Failure of the Muslim Armies to Overthrow the Current Regimes

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The Muslim countries are at the forefront of the world in terms of military expenditure, spending tens of billions of dollars annually upon their armies. In spite of classifying the Muslim countries as Third World countries on the grounds of poverty, military spending is many times more than current economic capabilities. The questions that come to mind are: What is the need for the Muslim countries for such high spending…
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News and Comment Racist and Anti-female Attitudes are the Hallmarks of Russia's Proposed Sex-Discrimination Bill

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News On 14th April 2014, the Moscow Times reported that Russia's city parliament deputy Oleg Nilov has drafted Russia's first Anti-sexual harassment Bill aimed at protecting women from unwanted attention or physical abuse from men. In his own words, he stated, "The changes will protect the honor and dignity of "the more beautiful, but weaker sex." These new measure are particularly aimed at "The millions of migrant workers who speak…
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News and Comment New Battle Arena in Palestine: Palestinian Authority's Attacks on Mosques

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News In the past few weeks, there has been a significant rise in the brazen attacks on the mosques' worshippers in the Palestinian territories with the use of force by the Palestinian Authority Security Agencies, most notably the Grand Beera Mosque in Ramallah. This includes arrests, physical assault, and forcefully banning regular study circles or short talks after prayers. Worshippers of all ages fell victim to this type of abuse.…
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News & Comment The Capitalist Nationalism of Turkey Humiliated Uighur Refugees for 18 Days

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News: 35 Uighur Muslims who were kept waiting for 18 days in transit at Istanbul Ataturk Airport since fleeing to Turkey from China on March 25 were finally given permission to enter the country on 12th of April. The group, which included pregnant women and children, had arrived in Turkey in an attempt to escape persecution in their homeland of East Turkestan (Xinjiang), China. One child had been rushed to…
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News and Comment Democracy benefits from Witchcraft and will never contain it

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News The Citizen Newspaper dated 13 April 2014 reported the spate of women killings for the past four months associated with witchcraft in Butiama District, Mara Region, North of Tanzania. Interviews conducted by this paper have established that small-time gold miners are said to be behind the spate of killings. The killings have been reported at several villages where gold mining is the main activity. Many people have pointed an…
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