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US programme and defenceless states?
Falcon Programme allows the US to strike any country that does not comply with its dictates to exercise its global economic and political domination. The US Congress passed ASPA (American service members protection act) that prohibits US security assistance fund and most of the military cooperation unless a country signs a bilateral immunity agreement with it, or rejects UN backed ICC (International Criminal Court). The US tried to reach such agreement with every nation on the planet. But the South America nations that ratified the ICC agreement have refused to grant the US the ASPA agreement. Except Columbia and Argentina, all South American countries are now on ASPA blacklist.
More striking yet has been the rise of a new kind of "People's Power"- a term used by Mr. Bush, that relates to former Soviet Republics that are crying for democracy and US friendship.
If Afghanistan was the USSR's Vietnam, Iraq may turn out to be America's. The greatest gamble of the Bush administration was certainly its "regime change'. With no end in sight, the draining Iraq War has made
Bush's tunnel vision foreign policy a shamble. The war in Iraq and Abu Ghraib prison abuses have left the Middle East increasingly unstable; oil prices on the rise; dollar undermined; and US military desperately over-stretched.
Mr. M F Karim
Uttara, Dhaka
Promoter of war?
We were reading Slate and Jack Shafer's article on Judith Miller. He says that Miller had a problem of faulty reporting. Judith Miller wrote many articles for the New York Times and many journalists blame her for promoting war. In the recent report by Pete Yost (AP writer), Miller refuses to disclose information to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. Judith Miller presents contradiction. There are organisations in the US that encourage the people for watching out for faulty reporting and hegemonic press for Journalism and Democracy. The other important question that arises is that is there really confidentiality in the US? " Journalists are not entitled to promise complete confidentiality---no one in America is", Fitzgerald wrote. What is confidentiality, privacy and freedom? and does it really
matter in our modern world of science and technology where computers and cell phones (brain damage) are taking over normal human existence? We must continue to question what is human rights and freedom?
Technology, weapons and war? ETV also presented views on privacy in April 2005. We must search for the truth and for respect and privacy rights. Is there such a thing as complete confidentiality? Why isn't there
any complete confidentiality and why do we need privacy rights? Caroline Kennedy also wrote on the rights to privacy.
Suchitra Sufia, M. Shahi
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