While US President Barack Obama and his advisers, along with Congress, are deliberating over their response to the request made by General McChrystal for additional troops to be sent to Afghanistan, things may well be overtaking them on the ground. I...
I honestly don't think I can stomach another indignant person imploring "the West" to "do something about Zimbabwe". This gem is usually delivered on the back of some hack thesis about the hypocritical invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq to free them f...
In what seems as a move away from previous calls by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran made a conditional offer of dialogue to the new American administration in Washington saying it was ready for "talks based on mutual respect and in fair at...
If regard is had to the approach being taken by US President Barack Obama in respect of dictatorships in general and the ongoing crisis in Iran in particular, then the decision to persist with sanctions against Zimbabwe is not only unfair, it's cruel...
With Reuters reporting a growing concern among Americans at US President Barack Obama's government spending, automobile industry bailout and other economic policies, set against the backdrop of former president George Bush taking a swipe at his succe...
Iran is currently witnessing the most violent demonstrations it has seen since the Islamic Revolution itself. Protesters in Tehran and further afield are pouring out onto the streets despite the government declaring protests illegal. Foreign journali...
United States President Barack Obama will either be remembered as one of his country's greatest ever leaders or possibly its most naive. Whichever way history adjudges it one thing is certain, this is not a presidency that will soon be forgotten. His...
The Guardian featured an article on Thursday, July 17 that showed the US plan on setting up "a US interest section -- a halfway house to setting up a full embassy" in Tehran sometime in August 2008. This article followed short on the heels of a US an...
It was only on 19 June 2008 that the government of Jerusalem announced a cease fire with Hamas. Barely hours after this, it declared its intentions to open direct peace talks with Lebanon. What's going on in the Middle East? Has the Zionist regime ha...
In spite of being unsuccessful last week’s attempt by the Guardian columnist George Monbiot to arrest as a war criminal the former US ambassador to the UN, and Under-Secretary Of State for Arms Control, is a salutary reminder of civic duty.
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