Bahrain Election – The Two Most Critical Seats
Within the restrictions imposed on us as government civil servants and during the hard days of dictatorship, our generation was able to …
Saudi Border With Yemen Is Still Inviting for Al Qaeda
A Saudi border guard scanned the border with Yemen near the Saudi city of Jizan. The Saudis look for refugees, smugglers and …
NPR’s Overdue Execution
First, the United States government should not be in the news business at all. Arguments and debates about public affairs should be …
Tea-party Tory
The Tory budget cuts defense 8 percent and military personnel by 7,000. Translated here, that would mean a cut of $60 billion …
US Reacts to WikiLeaks Iraq Documents
"Threat" and "danger" were catchwords that rang through all of Washington late on Friday, as WikiLeaks published almost 400,000 classified Pentagon documents …
US Mideast arms deal aims to stop attack on Iran
It might seem unlikely that a raft of sophisticated arms under Saudi control really can stabilise the neighbourhood and change both the …
Food Stamp Nation
If you would chart America’s decline, this program is a good place to begin. As a harbinger of the Great Society to …
Hypocrisy Anyone?
Why we all forget the aforesaid facts when we cry out for equal rights and freedom of speech, thought and action in …
America’s Permanent War Agenda
Like George Bush, Obama plans permanent war and more military spending than all other nations combined at a time America has no …
Glut of fatwas spurs Saudi king to impose curbs
King Abdullah has taken a few incremental steps toward modernization. In a move last year that angered some Wahhabis, for example, he …
IRAN VERSUS SANCTIONS, Part 3 – Time for US to get real
Sanctions are not precise instruments. Invariably, average Iranians will be somewhat affected, be it directly or indirectly. If by this class of …
IRAN VERSUS SANCTIONS, Part 2 – US shuns the obvious
The US has only recently imposed heavy fines on banks that have continued to deal with Iran but want to maintain their …
IRAN VERSUS SANCTIONS, Part 1 – A history of failure
The United States banned the importing of Iranian crude into the United States, but allowed refined products to enter the country. Then …
Afghan war moves deeper into Pakistan
"The interrogators also gleaned information on the role of Sheikh Fateh al-Misri as the mastermind and the commander of the new al-Qaeda …
Why the US doesn’t talk to Iran
When the collapse of the Soviet system and the subsequent discussions of "peace dividends" in the United States threatened the interests of …
Tea party versus ‘War Party’?
If Obama makes good on his pledge of full withdrawal of the 50,000 U.S. troops in Iraq by the end of 2011, …
9/11 conspiracy theories rife in Muslim world
Compassion for the United States swept the globe right after the attacks, but conspiracy theories were circulating even then. It wasn’t al-Qaida, …