IRAM RAMZAN
In the run up to the invasion of Iraq, The Sun ran the headline: ‘Brits 45 mins from doom”. Other newspapers echoed the sentiments. Saddam Hussein, it was claimed, did have weapons of mass destruction and was prepared to use them.
WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN IRAQ?
ABDULLA HAWEZ
The recent tension in Baghdad between Nouri Al-Maliki’s Shiite Iraqi prime minister with both Iraqi president’s deputy Tariq Al-Hashimi, and his deputy for service affairs, Salih Mutlaq, which both are Sunnis is highly connected with the regional tension between Iran and Turkey on Syria, also the timing is connected
OBAMA FOREIGN POLICY IN A BRIEF : THE PRESIDENT AS TURKEY
BARRY RUBIN
On October 5, 1938, Winston Churchill said in the House of Commons, regarding the Munich agreement in which Britain and France forced Czechoslovakia to cede the strategic Sudetenland to Germany, leading a few months later to that country’s extinction and a year later to World War Two.
EXPATRIES IN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA : A TALE OF MODERN DAY SLAVERY
BEVIN KURIAN
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia attracts a vast number of migrant workers who comes in search of higher income and a better lifestyle but unfortunately, a majority of them gets trapped under the evils of domestic abuse, torture, unfair trials, and forced confessions of alleged crimes and trafficking.
EGYPT’S SHAM ELECTION
DANIEL PIPES
This stunning result prompts two questions: Is this a legitimate or rigged outcome? Are Islamists about to dominate Egypt?
THERE IS NO POWER LIKE HARD POWER
YORIKIRII
When Duke Ellington, the elder statesman of Jazz, left New York on September 6, 1963, he began one of the most eventful journeys of his long career.
ASSAD YOUR TIME IS UP – CALL IT A DAY!
KIMBERLY JONES
Apparently Assad isn’t smart enough to learn from the Dictator experience in North Africa. Just in case you are taking a look at this blog post, here is a newsflash for you Bashir :
RAZAN GHAZZAWI ARRESTED IN SYRIA
DEREK BARRY
Prominent blogger Razan Ghazzawi is the latest victim of an increasingly desperate Syrian regime, arrested on her way to a media conference in Jordan on Sunday.
DOWNLOAD THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ON SYRIA
DIMPOOL NEWS
The United Nations Human Rights Council condemned the continued abuses by the Syrian authorities.
THE CASE AGAINST IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM – PART II (The Origins of the Anti-West Dogma)
BEVIN KURIAN
At the height of its glory, the Sassanid Empire of Persia stretched from the borders of Turkey in the west to the eastern periphery of Pakistan, encompassing the Caucasus, modern day Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.
THE CASE AGAINST IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM – PART I (Overview)
BEVIN KURIAN
Over the past decade, the United Nations, the United States, the European Union, Israel, and other leading nations fiercely expressed their deep concerns against the current Iranian nuclear program.