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President Obama urgently needs to respond to recent developments in Pakistan relating to the missing children of jailed Pakistani national, Dr. Aafia Siddiqi, specifically, we need to know what US records reveal about the whereabouts of Dr. Aafia Siddiqi and her children between 2003 and 2008?

A week ago unidentified men on Sunday brought a 12-year-old girl to the home Dr. Fauzia Siddiqi in Karachi claiming that she is Maryam Khan the daughter of Dr. Aafia Siddiqi.

Aafia Siddiqui’s lawyers maintain that she was abducted by the Pakistani and US agents along with her three children in 2003 and rendered to Afghanistan where she was detained by American forces for over five years. Siddiqui claims she was abused, raped and tortured throughout her detention.

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on yesterday that a DNA test has now positively proved that Maryam Khan Dr. Fauzia Siddiqi in Karachi is the biological daughter of Aafia Siddiqui’s former husband, Dr Amjad Khan. Read the rest of this entry »

Friday 2nd April 2010 -Dozens of people suffered from tear gas suffocation due to the ‘Israeli Occupation Army’s violent suppression of Friday’s demonstration. Approximately three weeks ago the Israeli Occupation Army ordered Bil’in to be a closed military zone on Fridays, for Israeli’s, internationals and Palestinians.

The Popular Committee, the villagers and its international and Israeli supporters challenge this decision by fiercely exercising its right to demonstrate in spite of the Israeli Occupation Army’s regulations. Read the rest of this entry »

By David Rovics

Here in the USA, millions of people are continuously losing their jobs and not finding new ones, millions more are losing their homes, still more millions are in prison for nothing more than self-medicating with drugs that arbitrarily happen to be illegal and will be discriminated against as felons for years to come. Tens of thousands are being shot to death every year, there are massacres happening somewhere in the country every other week or so, our Democrat-controlled government has just passed a health care “reform” that is being praised by the corporations who bought the government in the first place, we continue to spend as much on the military as the entire rest of the world combined, and our military is actively employed killing people in at least four different countries while threatening to expand that number. The oil industry is making good on their investments in the Congress and expanding off-shore drilling for the first time in twenty years, while the nuclear industry is getting a great bang for their Democratic buck and now has the chance to build new nuclear reactors for the first time in the US in three decades.

Those of us who have woken up from our Obama-induced trance state or never got hypnotized in the first place (because we’re too busy being bombed by drones, for example) are feeling frustrated. Some of us, certainly, are venting that frustration in various constructive ways, but by and large that old “silent majority” is being pretty silent. As I travel around the country doing concerts people earnestly, often a bit desperately, wonder aloud to me, what’s it going to take to get people really riled up and ready to do something about this situation? How much greater must the divide between the rich and poor grow? How many more ecological disasters? How much more climate change? How many more dead Muslims? Etc. People start feeling bad about their fellow Americans – are they just sheep after all? Read the rest of this entry »