SPECIAL REPORTS (2001)

[Issue number in brackets]


(101) Repression of pro-Palestinian activities in Jordan reflects fear of Arab regimes
(102) Newly-opened Pakistani archives cast further light on the real reasons for the loss of East Pakistan
(103) Deaths of allied troops force West to admit the nature of deplete uranium weapons
(103) Bridging the global IT gap not a priority for addressing real poverty in the world
(104) ALGERIA: Benjedid speaks out, exposing another dimension of Algeria’s nightmare
(104) New world economic order under fire again at Davos 2001
(105) SYRIA: Reforms re-defining political environment despite limitations
(106) UCPMB-Macedonia: the latest powder-keg in the Balkans
(106) Dubious price-cutting must not let drug companies off the hook
(107) IRAQ: Factionalism and ineffectiveness - the crisis of the Iraqi opposition
(108) Pakistani secularists determined to abandon the Kashmiri struggle
(108) US intelligence and propaganda bodies re-targeted at Muslims
(108) US propaganda undermined by its own failures and belligerence
(109) CENTRAL ASIA: Bush administration’s interest in Azeri-Armenian conflict bodes ill for Baku
(109) BALKANS: Elusive truth of genocide in Srebrenica
(109) PAKISTAN: Government still trying to exploit expatriate resources
(111) Bush launches a new Asia strategy against power of China
(111) The global protests against anti-globalization, and the media’s coverage of them
(112) Information Revolution widening the gap between ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ in America
(114) Politicking over the definition of racism dominates preparation for UN conference in South Africa...
(114) ... While US and Israel threaten boycott if zionism is included
(115) US forging ahead with National Missile Defence plans despite international condemnation
(116) Worldwide demonstrations highlight the plight of Iraqis in Saudi Arabia’s Rafha refugee camp
(117) Ariel Sharon’s history of crimes against humanity remembered on anniversary of massacres at Sabra and Shatilla
(118) LEBANON: New law denying property rights to Palestinian refugees highlights their plight
(118) The UN conference: a participant’s perspective
(120) Futures of Afghanistan and Pakistan at the whim of a self-serving and unreliable 'friend'
(121) US’s crude propaganda failing to convince the world
(121) Nobel peace prize for UN and Kofi Annan a reward for service to the West’s world order
(122) Central Asian oil and gas: the real reason for the US’s war on Afghanistan
(122) Anthrax in the US: many unanswered questions, but lessons nonetheless
(123) As Palestinians die under Israeli bullets, some remember Ariel Sharon’s bloody record
(123) The western media’s contribution to the war effort
(123) The criminalising of US Muslims
(124) Nine years after the martyrdom of the Babri mosque, Indian Muslims remember
(124) The House of Saud’s crisis of legitimacy

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