Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

On March 1, 1971 Pakistani military dictator Yahya Khan postponed the National Assembly session that was to be held after the December 1970 elections. In doing so he had crossed the Rubicon. In the first 25 days of March 1971, while Yahya Khan negotiated with the Awami League (which won an absolute majority in the [...]

[Cross posted at Daily Kos, Never In Our Names, Taylor Marsh, and Diatribune]
Cyclone Sidr battered Bangladesh last Thursday taking an yet unknown number of lives in its path. The latest official reports put the death toll over 2000.  No one really knows how high the death toll will climb since rescuers have not yet reached all of [...]

Someone please explain to me why we bombed into the Stone Age the most secular Arab country in the Middle East while kissing and holding hands with the most backward ruling elite in perhaps the entire world.
Please justify this Mr. Bush:

A court in Saudi Arabia increased the punishment for a gang-rape victim after her lawyer won an [...]

I was born in a country called Bangladesh - a country half a world away. I live today in the United States. I have never felt as disconnected from the land of my birth as I do today.
It is a cold sunny afternoon in the suburbs of Washington DC. The daily din of commerce is all around [...]

The following are newspaper reports on the Bangladesh Genocide from the Bangladesh Observer newspaper. The news reports chronicle the evidence of the genocide as they begin to emerge following the liberation of Bangladesh on December 16, 1971.
[Note: This page will be updated as I am able to scan and upload the remaining articles. I will remove this note [...]

About two weeks ago I wrote about allegations against a Bangladeshi military government Advisor’s husband and company. At the time I wrote about the odd silence of the Bangladeshi media in (not) reporting on the story.
Today, all that changed.
The New Age reports:

A landlady named Farhana Islam on Wednesday lodged a criminal case against Nazim Kamran Chowdhury, husband [...]

Tropical Cyclone Sidr, a powerful Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, is expected to make landfall late Thursday (Friday morning Bangladesh time) somewhere between Kolkata and the western coastline of Bangladesh. Millions of people along the coastline of Bangladesh and India are in the path of this massive storm.  The storm [...]

"Give me a place to stand and a lever long enough and I will move the world" - Archimedes, 220 BC

On November 10, 1987 a young Bangladeshi man named Nur Hossain was shot and killed by the forces of Bangladesh’s part-time poet and full time dictator General Hossain Mohammad Ershad. On that day Nur Hossain [...]

[Image inspired by and post via ShadaKalo]
Bangladesh’s military ruler, General Moeen U Ahmed, has dropped out of sight since returning to Bangladesh on October 28th. However, today the Harvard Crimson once again reported on him. This time the Crimson wrote about Senator Kennedy’s letter to the Bangladeshi military government protesting the detention of leading academics:

Sen. [...]

So let me tell you a story.
Back in 2002 you signed a lease to rent out your building to a number of businesses all owned by the same family. You sign a 5 year lease with the tenants. The 5 year lease expired on September 30, 2007. You have given notice to your tenants that you [...]