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US-Israel manipulate UN tribunal against Hizbullah

Yusuf Dhia-Allah

Muharram 26, 14322011-01-01

The Zionist State of Israel and its financial underwriter, the US, are getting desperate. They can no longer get away with their propaganda branding Hizbullah and Hamas as terrorist organizations. People worldwide are beginning to understand the true nature of Zionism.

Corrupt, greedy elite pushing Pakistan into oblivion

Waseem Shehzad

Muharram 26, 14322011-01-01

We hardly needed WikiLeaks disclosures to tell us that Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is a crook. Or, that opposition leader Nawaz Sharif has no spine, not to mention grey matter under his now-restored hair, thanks to thousands of pounds spent on hair transplant surgery in London.

Wikileaks exposes US empire’s Iran preoccupation

Zainab Said Kabir

Muharram 26, 14322011-01-01

Wikileaks has proved to be the kingmaker of all news, defying the short lifespan of most news cycles to reign for a solid week-and-a-half over world headlines. Reactions over the release of secret US State Department cables ranged from shock, titillation, amusement, or apoplectic fury.

Afghans consign another superpower to the dustbin of history

Zia Sarhadi

Muharram 26, 14322011-01-01

A non-descript country like Afghanistan has become the epicenter of global change sending not one but two superpowers into the dustbin of history.

Galloway on “Free Palestine, Free Afghanistan and Free Speech” Canadian tour

Tahir Mahmoud

Dhu al-Qa'dah 24, 14312010-11-01

George Galloway, the former British Member of Parliament, is a sharp debater and gifted orator with a ready wit. He was in Canada on a 9-city speaking tour from November 16–27. He addressed standing room audiences in cities from coast to coast to coast including Yellowknife in Canada’s frozen north.

Saudi king’s trip to US for medical treatment heightens kingdom succession gossip

Waseem Shehzad

Dhu al-Qa'dah 24, 14312010-11-01

His majesty, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, aka Khadim al-Haramayn (Servant of the Two Holy Places but his sycophants insist on calling him “Custodian”) is not well. In fact, so unwell that he had to be taken in wheelchair to a fully equipped luxury-fitted 747 Jumbo Jet before being flown to the US on November 22.

Life in Gaza: eyewitness account through a humanitarian mission

Marjan Asi

Rabi' al-Awwal 15, 14312010-11-01

“…We were made aware of the orphans, the slums they live in; you witness the Israeli settlements that withdrew from [Gaza]; you witness the old Israeli checkpoints. “It’s an atrocity what is being perpetrated as punishment on the people in Gaza. It’s a crime… I think it is an abomination that this continues to go on.

Israeli connection to Chechnya resurfaces again

Maksud Djavadov

Dhu al-Qa'dah 24, 14312010-11-01

The October 18 confession by leader of the pro-independence forces in the North Caucasus of direct Zionist influence on their struggle might be the beginning of the movement’s self cleansing process. A video announcement by Doku Umarov, leader of the Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus (IEC), posted on October 18, criticized four senior field commanders for their withdrawal of allegiance to him in August 2010.

Canadian media complicit in Israeli propaganda

Yusuf Dhia-Allah

Dhu al-Qa'dah 24, 14312010-11-01

Some Canadian media outlets have become conduits for Israeli propaganda. The latest in this series were “leaked” United Nations documents about the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s 2005 assassination in Beirut.

Will Muslim victims of the Gujarat massacre ever see justice?

Ahmet Aslan

Dhu al-Qa'dah 24, 14312010-11-01

“The mob then took him out on the road and killed him. Before that they removed his clothes and cut-off his hands and legs,” said Zakia Jafri before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on October 23, 2010. She was describing the brutal killing of her husband, former Congress Party MP, Ehsan Jafri.

The unreported massacre and rape of Muslims in Guinea

Fahad Ansari

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

There is no clearer example of this than the deafening silence and paralysis inflicting the Muslims of the world when it comes to defending oppressed Muslims of Africa, and in particular Sub-Saharan Africa, or “Black Africa”.

Egregious assault on human rights in the US

Ahmet Aslan

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

A Palestinian-American, Ghassan Elashi was one of the founders and then chairman of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF)

Return of Musharraf, and Pakistan’s balkanization

Zainab Cheema

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

A fresh development in this schizophrenic saga is the return of Pakistani strongman Pervez Musharraf to the political arena

Pakistan burning at both ends

Waseem Shehzad

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

At the other end of the country, violence has periodically erupted between different ethnic and political groups in Karachi

US clutching at straws in Afghanistan

Zia Sarhadi

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

Nine years and tens of thousands of deaths later, it is the Americans that are begging the Taliban for talks

France targets activists calling for boycott of Israeli goods

Waseem Shehzad

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

True to their aggressive nature, the Zionists resumed illegal construction on Palestinian lands as soon as their own declared deadline of September 26 expired. Israeli Prime Minister Ben-jamin Netanyahu had the temerity to say that

Aafia Siddiqui’s sentence exposes gross US injustice

Tahir Mahmoud

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the frail neuroscientist kidnapped in Pakistan and tortured and brutalized for many years in Kabul’s notorious Bagram prison, was sentenced to 86 years by a US court in New York on September 23.

Ambitious Bandar overplayed his hand in the Kingdom

Yusuf Dhia-Allah

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

This theatrical palace drama started when Bandar accompanied by a number of hangers-on went to Syria last year. He traveled under an assumed name using a false passport and carrying millions of dollars in cash, arrived in Damascus

Islamic stirrings in Tajikistan and Azerbaijan

Maksud Djavadov

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

No matter what the exact outcome of recent events in Tajikistan and Azerbaijan, one thing is clear: Islamic revival in the former Soviet Union is gaining momentum.

Divisions in the North Caucasus spell trouble

Maksud Djavadov

Shawwal 22, 14312010-10-01

Publicly acknowledged divisions by pro-independence forces in the North Caucasus may completely bury the last remaining traces of the movement once known as the Chechen resistance.

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