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Recent events in South Africa have had a profoundly positive impact on Palestine.

It may not be music for this country’s pro-Israel lobby but certainly welcomed by the broad spectrum of solidarity movements […]

How has the recent Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgment impacted Palestinian solidarity?

Whilst the legal fraternity studies its ramifications, rights groups have welcomed the long overdue ground-breaking […]

Chief Justice (CJ) of our country, Pakistan, honorable Mian Saqib Nisar has raised this question “Is the country capable of supporting seven children per family. The rate at which the population is growing in the […]

US supporters of Israel are in a bind: public opinion is changing; there are more actors publicly challenging Israel; and the crude, heavy-handed tactics they have successfully used in the past to silence […]

Czech president Milos Zeman offered Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultra-nationalist government a fillip during his visit to Israel last week. He inaugurated a cultural and trade centre, Czech House, just outside […]

Twenty-five years ago — when I wrote a book titled “False Hope: The Politics of Illusion in the Clinton Era” — I didn’t expect that the Democratic Party would still be mired in Clintonism two and a half decades […]

The ancestry of Chinese Muslims goes back to the time of the 3rd Caliph in Islam, Usman Ibn Affan in 651 when he sent companions of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), including Saad Ibn Abi Waqqas, to China. Since then and […]

On the eve of Chanukah, December 2nd, the New York Times chose to publish an article entitled “The Hypocrisy of Hanukkah” by Michael David Lukas. It is worth exploring not only because of the way it reveals the […]

While U.N. figures suggest that it would take 1% of U.S. military spending to provide the world with clean drinking water, the United States could end the worst cholera epidemic in recorded history (in Yemen) f […]

Political, legal, economic, moral, environmental and religious justifications and arguments have been provided for canceling all debt by the internationally renowned economists like Toussaint and Millet in their […]

Former U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush died late Friday on November 30, 2018, in his home in Houston. He was 94. He was suffering from a form of Parkinson’s disease. His wife of more than 70 years, […]

I was having lunch this week with an Arab friend and before long, as expected, the conversation turned to Donald Trump, the impact he is having on our political life and the world’s perception of America and the […]

It is welcome that finally there has been a little pushback, including from leading journalists, to the Guardian’s long-running vilification of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks.

Reporter Luke Harding’s […]

When Democrats take control of the House in early January, they’ll have two kinds of leadership — one from the top of the party’s power pyramid, the other from its base. With formal control, Nancy Pelosi and […]

The civil war in Yemen is essentially a sectarian and tribal conflict but Riyadh has made its neighbors’ troubles worse by meddling in their affairs over past decades. With arms and political support received from […]

The tyranny of human rights violations – planned and alleged goes unabated across the globe. Late American historian Howard Zinn must have sensed the human cries against Nature and called “Tyranny is tyranny.” […]

No matter how often officials of China deny or refute reports of state-sponsored targeting of Uyghur (also spelled as Uighur) Muslims, the evidence for it is overwhelming.

The latest damning research […]

Elections are held in many parts of our globe for a plethora of reasons – from electing the head of an organization (including but not limited to social, cultural, financial, business) to the head of a state. N […]