Glenn Greenwald: All that said, it’s important not to treat Trump as some radical aberration. He’s essentially the American id, simply channeling pervasive sentiments unadorned with the typical diplomatic and PR niceties designed to prettify the prevailing mentality. Click here to read more (external link).
Main Stream Weekly: On November 5, 2015, the international medical humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors without Borders, released its Preliminary Internal Review1 regarding the devastating aerial attack by the American forces in the early hours of October 3, 2015, on its hospital, the Kunduz Trauma Centre (KTC), in the Afghan city of
DW: International military interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya have led to some of the worst possible outcomes. Will the United States and Europe repeat their past mistakes in their war on the “Islamic State”? Click here to read more (external link).
Newsweek: Roghul Khairzad is a senator from Afghanistan who continues to defend the rights of women in her country despite devastating attacks on her and her family. Click here to read more (external link).
CounterPunch: The tangled web of political alignments in the Middle East appears to have obscured possible connections between Israel and ISIS, so opposite in religious belief systems yet sharing a basic geopolitical framework of realpolitik in identifying their respective enemies. Click here to read more (external link).
Michael Hughes: The Pentagon on Wednesday attempted to chalk up the bombardment of a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan to a series of human slipups and technical glitches, prompting MSF to scathingly declare that the so-called “human errors” in question amounted to war crimes. Click here to read more.
The first step is to acknowledge that Pakistan will not change its Afghan policy anytime soon. Islamabad is adamant to see its Afghan policy to its end and below five reasons will manifest its enduring success. Click here to read more (external link).
Lamis Andoni: Once again, the West is using heart-wrenching scenes of loss and sorrow to win support for its misguided war on terror. It is all deja vu; a repeat of the post-9/11 scenario that led to the bombing of Afghanistan in 2001 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Both interventions wreaked havoc and
Juan Cole: GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump, having said earlier that he might seek to close down mosques if he were president, on Thursday went further and said he would implement a registration and tracking database for Muslim-Americans. Rabbi Jack Moline of the Interfaith Alliance pointed out that the Nazis made Jews register. When a
I always thought forced ‘marriage’ is an oxymoron, as marriage by definition cannot be forced. According to Islamic teachings, marriage is a contract; two parties enter into an agreement without coercion, and the element of consent is essential to forming a valid contract. However, unlike a business contract that only requires the consent of mind