World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/13-4

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Young Afghans Work for Peace, Starting With Their Own Hearts

Mike Ferner, Truthout: "Hakim relocated to Bamiyan, Afghanistan, to begin his new work. At first the native Singaporean, a 1993 medical school graduate, served people as a doctor, but he quickly saw that role as 'insufficient' when an Afghan youth told him that, 'Without peace, it is impossible to live.' Searching for a way to realize his dream for peace, the 41-year-old began a three-month peace workshop at Bamiyan University. The course began with about 40 college students, who quickly concluded with their peers and others in their community that, 'Peace is not possible.' Even so, 16 students agreed to stay together for one semester and continue the project."

http://www.truth-out.org/young-afghans-work-for-peace-starting-with-their-own-hearts66652

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Afghan reality

CounterPunch
by Vijay Prashad

01/13/11

Slowly, but surely, the leakage of the U. S. State Department cables continues. Media interest in the United States has died down. One reason for this is that the prosecution of Wikileaks leader Julian Assange became the story, and that spiked interest in the cables themselves. The New York Times has since reported on Assange, in the manner of a celebrity scandal, and failed to take any further interest in the cables. Crises in the cables are now academic; the scandals are on the front page. It tells us something about the state of journalism that this is so: few journalists at the major newspapers continue to scour the cables...

http://counterpunch.org/prashad01122011.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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