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“The position of the United Nations on this region (Kashmir) is governed by the Charter of the United Nations and applicable Security Council resolutions.”
— Mr. Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the […]

The irony of Narendra Modi’s utterly reckless move on Kashmir is that it has thrust the plight of Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir from oblivion to the full glare of global media.

That the United Nations […]

Back in May, a jury found Patrick Syring, a former State Department official, guilty of 14 counts of making threats against my life and my staff at the Arab American Institute. This week, a federal judge sentenced […]

On a road in Srinagar’s Indian-controlled Kashmir, Fayaz Ahmad Zargar maneuvers through roadblocks and wires laid by the Indian armed forces to restrict civilian movement. Despite the newly implemented siege that […]

Many decades ago, the great media critic George Seldes observed: “The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself.” That remains true today.

Bernie Sanders set off the latest round of outraged denial from […]

It’s safe to say that Canada has always been one of the cooler countries in the world. It’s important to remember that despite Trudeau’s scandal, Canadians remain unshaken in the values of liberal democracy, fair […]

Here’s a thought experiment: Imagine that a letter from the billionaire real-estate broker George M. Marcus was hand-delivered to the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, asking to meet with her. What are the […]

Once again, mass shootings are in the US headlines. And in the aftermath of yet another massacre of innocents, we are in the throes of what has become patterned ritual behavior.

After the initial shock, we […]

Abu Hurayrah (RA) reported that Prophet Muhammad (S) said: “By Him in Whose hand is my soul, a time would come upon the people when the killer would not know why he killed and the victim would not know why he was […]

There is a world of difference between peacemaking and pacification. The former is a participatory process and the latter is an act of imposition.

To facilitate peace, Jared Kushner, President Trump’s advisor […]

All it took was a blink of an eye to realizing that India’s rightwing government outmaneuvered old-style colonialism by repackaging it as “democracy in action”.

Whether described as a double takeover or […]

I’ve just returned from Detroit, Michigan, where I attended the second set of Democratic Party presidential primary debates. For many reasons, the debates were a frustrating experience. In the first place, there […]

“It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but, to be America’s friend is fatal.”
— Henry Kissinger
America and its NATO allies displaced and killed millions for no other reason except a preposterous and […]

The comedian George Carlin liked to marvel at oxymorons like “jumbo shrimp” and “military intelligence.” Now, as the race for the Democratic presidential nomination intensifies, reporters and pundits at corporate […]

Recent events have shone a spotlight not only on how Israel is intensifying its abuse of Palestinians under its rule, but the utterly depraved complicity of western governments in its actions.

The arrival of […]

Since the birth of the Rashtriya Swayamsivak Sangh (RSS) in 1922 and their admiration of Germany’s wartime Nazi leader, Adolph Hitler and the Fascist leader in Italy, Benito Mussolini, India’s majority Hindu […]

When Americans express concern about religious extremism and violence, they almost always are thinking about Islam. The problems posed by the politicization and weaponization of religion, however, are deeper, more […]

A man came to Libnani, a Sufi teacher, and this interchange took place:
Man: “I wish to learn, will you teach me?”
Libnani: “I do not feel that you know how to learn.”
Man: “Can you teach me how to […]

Back in 1995, when John le Carré turned in the manuscript for his novel “Our Game,” one of his editors wondered if the places depicted in it – Chechenya and its capital Grozny – were real or made-up. “By Nove […]

Christians United for Israel (CUFI) is a political advocacy network based on an extreme version of Christian Zionism. This network calls on all Christians to offer total support for the State of Israel. As an […]