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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.

What is Israel up to in the Caucasus?

Maksud Djavadov

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

Since Russia considers the Caucasus as its soft underbelly from where it might begin to unravel, any Zionist influence on events in the Caucasus will increase Israel’s bargaining power whenever it wants Russia to implement pro-Zionist policies. As cooperation between Iran and Russia increases, it seems Israel will also attempt to increase its influence even beyond Georgia in order to have greater leverage against Russia.​..

The tragi-comedy of the Arab-Israeli

Zainab Cheema

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

Notwithstanding the Christian Arabians, the presence of Islam is what rendered the Arab-Israeli a truly horrifying nightmare to the Zionist mind...

Zionist Israel: a colonial settler-squatter entity

Zafar Bangash

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

It is important to clarify at the outset what Zionism, or to call it by its correct name, political Zionism is not...

Dilemma of democracy facing Muslims in Britain

Fahad Ansari

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

For years British Muslims have been pressured by the government, media, think tanks, and even some Muslim community leaders to renounce violence as a means of bringing about change for their communities, both in the UK and abroad...

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...

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...

Canadian government deprives own citizen, Omar Khadr, of basic rights

Tahir Mahmoud

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

Nicholson, however, refused to ask Washington to return Khadr to his country of birth, Canada, despite the Supreme Court ruling that Ottawa had violated his Charter rights...

Selling the daughter of the Ummah to predators

Fahad Ansari

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

“We have captured 689 and handed over 369 to the United States. We have earned bounties totalling millions of dollars. Those who habitually accuse us of ‘not doing enough’ in the war on terror should simply ask the CIA how much prize money it has paid to the government of Pakistan.”

Turkey begins to assert its Islamic identity

Cemal Ahmedoglu

Muharram 15, 14312010-01-01

The Domestic Trigger Since the imposition of Kemalist secularism as official dogma, the military has been the key instrument to prevent Islamic revival in Turkish society...

Analysis of Iran’s political dynamics over 31 years

Zafar Bangash

Muharram 15, 14312010-01-01

But it would appear that both the criminal elements in Iran and their Western backers have overplayed their hand...

Obama’s surge becomes scourge for Afghanistan and Pakistan

Zia Sarhadi

Dhu al-Hijjah 14, 14302009-12-01

Dissenting voices against the surge and futility of war were heard from the antiwar movement but these are largely confined to the internet...

9/11: mysterious collapse of third building

Waseem Shehzad

Ramadan 11, 14302009-09-01

Eight years after the spectacular attacks of September 11, widespread skepticism continues to exit regarding the official version put out by the US government. And this is not confined to Muslims alone who never bought into the US allegation that Muslim hijackers, working for Osama bin Laden had carried out these attack. Western academics in the US, Canada and Europe, many of them leading scientists have expressed grave doubts about what the US has claimed about the perpetrators...

Elections: an unfamiliar exercise in Afghanistan

Zia Sarhadi

Sha'ban 10, 14302009-08-01

When Americans are not winning hearts and minds by dropping 1,000-pound bombs on wedding parties or mud-hut dwelling women and children as they did in Farah province on May 4 killing 147 civilians, 93 of them children, they are busy delivering democracy through cruise missiles...

“Green revolution” fizzles out in Iran

Yusuf Abdullah

Rajab 08, 14302009-07-01

Despite US President Barack Obama’s claims of non-involvement in Iran’s affairs, few people believe that the US was an innocent bystander in the recent riots in Tehran.The US not only has a long history of interfering in Iran’s internal affairs, these intensified during former President George Bush’s era.

New alignments in Lebanese politics

Yusuf Dhia-Allah

Rajab 08, 14302009-07-01

The larger story from Lebanon’s June 7 parliamentary elections was neither the “defeat” of Hizbullah, as the Western media claimed, nor the resounding victory for the US-Saudi backed and financed March 14 movement. Its real significance lay in the fact that it may usher changes in Lebanon’s political landscape in ways that would have been unthinkable barely five years ago.

The media war on Iran

Tahir Mahmoud

Jumada' al-Akhirah 08, 14302009-06-01

By Tahir Mahmoud On July 20, 1988 when Iran accepted a ceasefire in the Iraqi-imposed war that was backed and financed by the US and Arab regimes, most people assumed that the war had ended. The shooting may have stopped but the war against

Analysing Iran’s Elections

Zafar Bangash

Jumada' al-Akhirah 08, 14302009-06-01

Iran’s June 12 presidential elections in which the incumbent, President Mah-moud Ahmedinejad, retained his post by a wide margin over his nearest rival Mir Hussain Mousavi has provided the Muslim-hating West another opportunity to spout its anti-Islamic venom. Through its media mouthpieces, they had already declared Mousavi the winner even before the people of Iran had had an opportunity to cast their vote. When the result turned out against their wishes, it was immediately denounced as “rigged”. It seems even Mousavi had fallen for this propaganda because he, too, prior to polls closing, told a Tehran press conference that he had “won”.

Pakistan army creates killing fields in Swat Valley

Waseem Shehzad

Jumada' al-Akhirah 08, 14302009-06-01

By Waseem Shehzad Amid all the confusion surrounding the Pakistan army’s month-long campaign against the Taliban or whoever they are fighting in Swat and Malakand, the only certainty is that it has created nearly 2.5 million refugees, dubbed

Western racists walk out of anti-racism conference

Our Own Correspondent

Jumada' al-Ula' 06, 14302009-05-01

By staging a walk out while President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad of Iran was addressing the UN anti-racism conference in Geneva on April 20, the European countries have exposed their own racism without affecting the ultimate outcome of the meeting. Representatives from a tiny minority of European countries that have a chequered history regarding human rights are all former colonialists who have perpetrated horrible crimes during the colonial era.

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