Friends, Ali Abbas is a Rhodes Scholar pursuing a Doctorate in Economics at Oxford University. In this column for the Lahore newspaper, The Daily Times, Ali ...
Friends, So it was not about oil, eh? First the US cut oil supplies to Syria, and now the British newspaper The Observer reports that plans are underway to...
Friends, Ahmad Faruqui is a Pakistani-born American Fellow of the American Institute of International Studies. He is also a defense analyst and has written...
Friends, Alarming news from Pakistan that has gone largely unreported. The Toronto Globe and Mail correspondent in Islamabad writes that the Pakistan Army has...
Friends, Dr. Farish Noor is the former Secretary-General of JUST--The Malaysian based "International Movement for a Just World. Dr. Noor, a political scientist...
Friends, An interesting write-up on Ibn Tufayl, described by The Guardian as a "12th-century Muslim Robinson Crusoe." The man urged us to 'think' and ...
Friends, This April as I witness the occupation of Iraq and the plunder of its people and heritage, I cannot help but link it to the massacres in April 1948 in...
Friends, Imagine, what would happen if the people of the Muslim world were set free by their tyrannical rulers. Could the US afford to invade these countries? ...
Friends, Uzma Khan is a Pakistani novelist and the author of TRESPASSING to be published in June this year. In this piece for CounterPunch magazine, Uzma lists...
Friends, The flowers that were being showered on 'liberating' US soldiers have apparently dried up; their fragrance never having drifted beyond the sordid ...
Friends, A sad day for all of humanity. Our collective heritage went up in flames yesterday; destroyed forever, as US forces protected the Iraqi Ministry of...
Friends, The Muslim Canadian Congress is proud to host Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Virginia, and author of...
Friends, Interesting news from the Turkish capital, Ankara. At a joint news conference with visiting Israeli Foreign Minister, the Turkish Foreign Minister has...
Friends, It started with the catastrophe of 1948. Some say even earlier with the decay of the Ottoman empire. April 2003 is the latest chapter in our unending...
Friends, I thought this AP story from deep inside the on-line edition of the New York Times validates what many of us are suggesting; the scenes of jubilation ...
Friends, Yesterday, India's Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha made a startling statement. In an speech reported by the Times of India newspaper, Sinha said ...
Friends, Here is an eye-witness account of the situation in Baghdad in today's issue of the Jeddah newspaper, Arab News. Tarek Fatah ========================= ...
Friends, The Muslim Canadian Congress has joined hands with the "Forum for Learning" in inviting Professor Abdulaziz Sachedina, Professor of Islamic Studies, ...
Friends, For a very different interpretation of the "statue toppling" in Baghdad, click on this link: http://rense.com/general37/free.htm Toronto media critic...
Friends, The worst fears of many of us was not that Baghdad would fall, but that scenes of jubilation would greet the invaders. It seems no matter what history...
Friends, With the end game in sight, Al-Jazeera asks the question on everyone's lips: Will the Americans now plant evidence to implicate the Iraqi government...
WMD 'smoking gun' turns out to be pesticide http://english.aljazeera.net/topics/article.asp? cu_no=1&item_no=2094&version=1&template_id=277&parent_id=258 In...
Friends, Britain's Poet Laureate has written an anti-war poem in which he casts doubts over the motives behind a possible war with Iraq. Andrew Motion, who was...
Friends, Asia Times Online is the successor to the Hong Kong-based daily print newspaper that ceased publication in the summer of 1997 as a result of the Asian...
Friends, Here is an article from the Atlantic Monthly written in 1968, long before America's defeat in Vietnam. The writer, a professor at Harvard University ...
Dear friends, Just a reminder that British-Pakistani author and anti-war activist Tariq Ali will be speaking at an anti-war lecture tomorrow - Friday. The...
April 1, 2003 THIS WAR IS NOT WORKING By Peter Arnett The Mirror, London http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12795678&method=full& ...
Friends, After threatening Iran and Syria, the US has imposed 'sancations' on a Pakistani nuclear installation, whcih it says was 'helping mass destruction...
Friends, Here is Robin Cook's piece in the Sunday Mirror today. Cook, Foreign Secretary and Labour House Leader, resigned from Blair's cabinet in protest at...
