Issues & Events

Hillary Clinton: A hawk in the wings

Nov 01, 2016 06:56

After a mere eight years in which diplomacy, at least at the surface, narrowly edged out militarism, the foreign policy elite rallying around the US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has forgotten the lessons of the George W. Bush era. When Barack Obama was running for office in 2008, he was determined to redirect U.S. military efforts away from the “bad war” in Iraq and toward the “good war” in Afghanistan.
Libya is a complete Western disaster

Oct 31, 2016 13:07

Three years ago, NATO declared that the mission in Libya had been “one of the most successful in NATO history.”
Murderous mass persecution of Nigerian Shi’a Muslims

Oct 31, 2016 13:05

The Nigerian government’s persecution of its Shi’a Muslim citizens, on the orders of Saudi Arabia, has raised concerns among the various strata of this polyglot West African country which is made up of a number of Christian sects, and different denominations of Islam, in addition to the animist minority.
We don't know much about Clinton's proposed "intelligence surge"

Oct 30, 2016 12:30

Little is publicly known about Clinton's oft-repeated call for an "intelligence surge" to defeat Daesh and prevent terrorism on US soil.
John Kirby, US State Department blatantly supports terrorists

Oct 30, 2016 06:34

Here are the excerpts from an article authored by Henry Kamens, a columnist and expert on Central Asia and Caucasus.
Fighting vs. Funding Terrorism: America’s Ironic “Two-Faced” War on Terror

Oct 28, 2016 12:46

Rarely ever does hypocrisy align so succinctly as it does within the pages of American policy and media coverage. US policy think tank, the Brookings Institution, recently provided an extreme example of this in a paper titled, “A convenient terrorism threat,” penned by Daniel Byman.
Yemen False Flag? In an effort to “Save Saudi Arabia” from Ansarullah, has the U.S. created another Gulf Of Tonkin?

Oct 27, 2016 11:32

No longer content to lead from behind with the occasional drone bomb, the United States has now resorted to launching missiles from battleships off the Yemeni coast into the embattled nation.
Martyrdom anniversary of Imam Zain al-Abedin (AS)

Oct 27, 2016 11:26

Sure, we are in the month of Muharram and in the state of mourning for the heartrending tragedy of Ashura and its equally tragic aftermath, when the noble ladies and children of the household of the Prophet of Islam, were taken as captives to Kufa, and thence marched through circuitous routes to Damascus in Syria.
Leader hails Iran’s brave, educated and revolutionary youths

Oct 27, 2016 11:21

Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, recently granted an audience to over a thousand young Iranian elites and top scientific youths, praising them as precious gifts of God. He emphasized that he will not lose even a single moment in defending the country’s scientific community and elites.
Nobody likes America these days in particular

Oct 26, 2016 07:17

There can be no denial that over the last couple of years, anti-American sentiment across the globe has been on the rise.