Issues & Events
  • Republicans release final bill to slash taxes for US corporations and the rich

    Republicans release final bill to slash taxes for US corporations and the rich

    Dec 19, 2017 15:59

    Scrambling to push through a final tax overhaul bill in time for passage, Republican House and Senate conferees released a plan that will drastically cut taxes for corporations and the wealthy.

  • Saudi heir apparent: Middle East’s loser of year

    Saudi heir apparent: Middle East’s loser of year

    Dec 19, 2017 07:26

    As the year 2017 is coming to its end, there are many claimants to be the man or the person of the year – either in positive or negative terms.

  • Israel’s brutal system of occupation

    Israel’s brutal system of occupation

    Dec 19, 2017 07:22

    By now, western audiences are familiar with shocking photos of horrific ‘routine’ torture which has taken place at various U.S. military bases and detention centers in places Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.

  • Syria and Yemen: A tale of two conflicts

    Syria and Yemen: A tale of two conflicts

    Dec 18, 2017 13:43

    Syria and Yemen present the horrible spectacle of countries destroyed and people killed in tens of thousands by US-supported Saudi Arabia, in the first named country indirectly through terrorists and in the second country through direct state terrorism by Riyadh, while the world watches in ominous silence without any concern for the human catastrophe, but time-to-time opportunistic propaganda in favour of the West and its protégés.

  • Trump says recognizing Bait al-Moqaddas will bring peace – it will do quite the opposite

    Trump says recognizing Bait al-Moqaddas will bring peace – it will do quite the opposite

    Dec 18, 2017 13:41

    Trump has turned away from any notion of fairness in the so-called peace negotiations and run with the Zionists' ball. Robert Fisk, the multi-award winning Middle East correspondent of The Independent, based in Beirut, has more on the issue and in his own tongue.

  • Donald Trump: A president swallowed by history

    Donald Trump: A president swallowed by history

    Dec 18, 2017 06:34

    Whatever the quixotic chief executive of the US does it boomerangs upon him and makes a mockery of the man who neither knows diplomacy nor has any sense of decency, all of which is indicative of his devilish and dotard nature. The following is an interesting analysis titled “Donald Trump: A president swallowed by history”, written by Stanley L Cohen, an attorney and human rights activist.

  • Would the OIC Communique Change Ground Realities?

    Would the OIC Communique Change Ground Realities?

    Dec 18, 2017 06:28

    On Wednesday, December 13, the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held an extraordinary summit in Istanbul at the request of current chairman Turkey.

  • Rise and decline of the welfare state in the US

    Rise and decline of the welfare state in the US

    Dec 16, 2017 06:55

    Class Struggle and Imperial Wars have been the motor force of US History, says Prof. James Petras in his investigative feature for Global Research titled: “Rise and decline of the welfare state in the US.”

  • Tehran’s goodwill offer places Riyadh on horns of dilemma

    Tehran’s goodwill offer places Riyadh on horns of dilemma

    Dec 16, 2017 06:19

    The Islamic Republic of Iran, as per its constitution, has always endeavoured to foster solidarity among Muslim states, but unfortunately certain countries in the neighbourhood, because of their subservience to the enemies of Islam, especially the US, have adopted hostile policies and tried to destabilize the region by wrongly putting the blame on Iran.