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Special Reports

America: no stranger to genocidal war crimes

Afeef Khan

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

“To fight and kill is worth three months without sex. Maybe it sounds idiotic but it is better than sex… When you are on the field it is you or the enemy. And when you see the ‘red mist’ [blood spurt from the sniper victim]… it is indescribable.

Special Reports

Understanding emerging political divisions between Europe and the US

Zainab Cheema

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

In President Mahmoud Ahmedinijad’s recent visit to the United Nations in late September, he easily became the most-watched head of state. In his various speeches, he took the UN and US to task for presiding over the wars on Afghanistan

News & Analysis

US announcement of direct talks already a success for Israel and bodes ill for Palestinians

Iqbal Siddiqui

Ramadan 14, 14362010-09-01

The announcement by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on August 20 that the US is to host direct talks between Palestinian president Mahmood Abbas and Israeli prime minister Benyamin Netanyahu has singularly failed to raise hopes of progress toward any level of justice for the suffering people of Palestine.

Main Stories

Neocons beat drums of war against Islamic Iran

Zafar Bangash

Rajab 18, 14312010-07-01

The drums of war are once again getting louder in Washington. Led by the Zionist cabal and its neocon allies, American warmongers are itching for another war, this time against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Not satisfied with the blood-letting in Afghanistan and Iraq.

News & Analysis

Kabul Conference confirms US defeat in Afghanistan

Zia Sarhadi

Rajab 18, 14312010-07-01

This was evident during the one-day conference when officials from 70 countries converged on Kabul to talk about Afghanistan’s future amid growing concern for intensified violence and the growing strength of the resistance.

Special Reports

US intrusion in Iran-China relations

Tahir Mahmoud

Rajab 18, 14312010-07-01

The answer to the above is not as complicated as many think. The key factor is to be able to see beyond the modern myth which projects China as the next superpower of the world

Background

The Taliban Movement

Fahad Ansari

Dhu al-Qa'dah 24, 14312010-06-01

One of the common misconceptions about the Taliban is that they were only formed as a movement in 1994...

Special Reports

American Zionism and the crisis of identity

Zainab Cheema

Jumada' al-Akhirah 18, 14312010-06-01

There is a complex balance of factors on each side of this geostrategic equation. The pressures building up in the Muslim world against US foreign policy are self-evident​..

News & Analysis

Seeking a solution to the Karabakh conflict in the Sirah

Maksud Djavadov

Jumada' al-Akhirah 18, 14312010-06-01

A solution based on the principles of the Prophet’s (r) Sunnah and Sirah would allow Armenians in Karabakh to acquire true independence. The “independence” they have today has turned Karabakh Armenians into a political instrument of Russia and the US...

Main Stories

Banking on a jirga and a prayer in Afghanistan

Zia Sarhadi

Jumada' al-Akhirah 18, 14312010-06-01

The Americans are caught, literally, between and a rock and a hard place in Afghanistan. The mountainous country has one of the toughest people on earth that have never allowed foreigners to dominate them.

Main Stories

NGOs: the West’s soft instrument for hegemonic policies

Tahir Mahmoud

Jumada' al-Ula' 16, 14312010-05-01

The so-called NGOs that are financed by the US government are an important part of US policy to advance its hegemonic goals. It is likely that during the presidency of Barack Obama the NGO sector may be used even more frequently as a tool of US foreign policy.

Background

The Imam’s life and legacy

Editor

Jumada' al-Ula' 16, 14312010-05-01

June 3rd marks the 21st anniversary of Imam Khomeini’s passing into heavenly company. Amid his many achievements was the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, establishing the first Islamic state in modern times...

Main Stories

America’s democracy and politicians for sale

Tahir Mahmoud

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 14312010-04-01

“America has the best democracy money can buy,” is not merely a catchy slogan; it accurately captures the essence and nature of US democracy...

Main Stories

Democracy between myth and reality

Zafar Bangash

Rabi' al-Thani 16, 14312010-04-01

Delivering democracy has become the all-purpose justification for every crime perpetrated by Western governments against other people...

News & Analysis

Contours of the US-Taliban peace deal

Zia Sarhadi

Rabi' al-Awwal 15, 14312010-03-01

Regardless of US spin, the endgame in Afghanistan has begun. Aware that they cannot defeat the Taliban militarily, the Americans have changed tune...

Special Reports

Like Pakistan, the US too now a failed State

Tahir Mustafa

Muharram 15, 14312010-01-01

Politically the US has become too weak to be able to advance its interests through diplomacy so it relies on terrorism and military aggression...

Editorials

Intensification of war on Muslims in the US

Editor

Dhu al-Hijjah 14, 14302009-12-01

The US has intensified its war on Muslim citizens. This was clearly expected because its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are not going well. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, one could understand that US policy would be driven by fear...

Opinion

The US cannot do a damn thing

Our Own Correspondent

Dhu al-Hijjah 14, 14302009-12-01

Let us get something straight after knocking out all the middlemen: Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is US president Barack Obama’s boss. A person incapable of seeing this basic point will never be able to understand the off-again, on-again...

Opinion

Death of the unipolar world

Zafar Bangash

Dhu al-Hijjah 14, 14302009-12-01

This, however, is a superficial look at global reality. After all, the Soviet Union was also a superpower armed with nuclear weapons and had the largest air force in the world when it invaded Afghanistan on December 27, 1979...

Editorials

Torture as US state policy

Editor

Ramadan 11, 14302009-09-01

Since the election of Barack Obama as President, US rhetoric about war on terror has been toned down but the policies instituted by his discredited predecessor continue...

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