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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.

Turkey, the new emerging regional power

Seyfuddin Kara

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

A visionary foreign policy approach Turkey had been a “wing country” of NATO throughout the cold war era, its assigned role being to stop or slow a possible Soviet invasion of Europe.​..

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.

Fifa 2010 threat: does it have to be al-Qaeda only?

Iqbal Jassat

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

Media would correctly argue that its function as a public watchdog is to disseminate news and information...

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.

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