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Many thanks to Br. James Ainsworth for letting me know about this article. Johann Hari of The Huffington Post writes in a piece called "You Are Being Lied to About Pirates": "Who imagined that in 2009, the world's governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? "As you read this, the British Royal Navy - backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China - is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder pantomime villains. "They will soon be fighting Somalian ships and even chasing the pirates onto land, into one of the most broken countries on earth. But behind the arrr-me-hearties oddness of this tale, there is an untold scandal. The people our governments are labeling as 'one of the great menace of our times' have an extraordinary story to tell -- and some justice on their side.... "In 1991, the government of Somalia - in the Horn of Africa - collapsed. Its nine million p...

FM88.5 Edmonton cjsr.com worldwide 6 pm Mountain Time According to David Barsamian of Alternative Radio, the Rolling Stones wrote the song “Street Fighting Man” to honour the internationally renowned radical activist, author and atheist Tariq Ali. Born in Lahore , Pakistan , Ali lived in exile since the 1960s to opposition to Pakistan ’s then-military dictatorship. A longtime editor at the New Left Review, Tariq Ali has authored and edited numerous books on history and politics including the classic The New Revolutionaries and the recent The Clash of Fundamentalisms which investigates US power and its role in the creation of global terrorism . A novelist, Ali has published four books of his “Islamic Quintet" which portray Islamic civilisation counter to Western orthodoxy, and the first two volumes in his "Fall of Communism" trilogy. Tariq Ali has also written stage- and screenplays, and he is currently writing an opera about the late Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini. His m...