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Is the Manmohan Singh government doing to the anti-Koodankulam nuclear plant protesters what the Bush administration did to Iraq under Saddam Hussein – to invent an excuse for using military force? Going by the lengths to which Singh’s ministers have gone in claiming that the agitators are acting at the behest of foreign NGOs, the answer is yes. The government’s dirty-tricks departments are hell-bent on “finding” the equivalent of “proof” of the existence of “weapons of mass destruction” – evidence of diversion of funds to support and transport the agitators.

Union Carbide, whose gases killed their families and whose abandoned chemicals contaminated their drinking water, has never been brought to justice. Carbide has now merged into Dow, but Dow disclaims responsibility for Carbide’s undischarged Bhopal liabilities – including criminal charges relating to 25,000 deaths. What have we "activists" been doing? Trying to tell this story to the world, and to ask good-hearted people, who believe in justice and fair play, to help.

From: Pervez Hoodbhoy
– Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 9:30 PM
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This has gone viral over the internet...am flooded by good and bad emails.
Background: Tzortzis (Greek, lives in London) converted to Islam and is now hugely popular among young people brimming with eeman...The man is a real entertainer. I had no idea who he was...some students at LUMS asked me to debate him. I agreed. The Islamic society here flew him in at a few hours notice.
Unfortunately, the debate ended (…)

Police in India’s Tamil Nadu state arrested and deported Rainer Sonntag the 49-year-old computer programmer on 27 February, accusing him of funding the anti-nuke protests in Koodankulam.

This Memorandum is being sent to you on behalf of the Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghathan (BGPMUS – an organization of Bhopal gas-victims for seeking justice) and the Bhopal Gas Peedith Sangharsh Sahayog Samiti (BGPSSS – a coalition of all India and Delhi-based organizations for supporting the struggle of the gas-victims for justice).
It is the considered opinion of BGPMUS and BGPSSS that an unwarranted controversy has been created by the IOC and the LOCOG by inducting the Dow Chemical Company, USA, as a partner of the Olympic Movement despite Dow’s chequered history. For maintaining the spirit of the Olympic Movement and for upholding the sanctity of the Olympic Charter and the Code of Ethics, we urge the IOC and the LOCOG to rescinded that decision