Issues & Events
  • U.S. allies in Asia paying the price for Iran sanctions

    U.S. allies in Asia paying the price for Iran sanctions

    Oct 13, 2019 12:14

    The U.S. President Donald Trump has called, many times, for Asian countries to stop buying oil from Iran and has continuously claimed that the U.S. will protect the interests of its allies.

  • US Republicans and right-wing media show signs they’ll break with Trump

    US Republicans and right-wing media show signs they’ll break with Trump

    Oct 13, 2019 12:06

    The US House of Representatives launched its formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump late last month over a whistle-blower's complaint that he had called on Ukraine to investigate government corruption involving the former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic front-runner in the 2020 election, warning that he would not give Ukraine the promised military aid in case he refused.

  • Islam forbids WMDs; science without ethics “self-destructive”

    Islam forbids WMDs; science without ethics “self-destructive”

    Oct 13, 2019 11:59

    The recent speech of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, with its emphasis on the need for the protective cover of religious and ethical values for scientific and technological developments in order to prevent their catastrophic effects on human life and the environment, has had a worldwide impact, especially since he again ruled the manufacture of the atom bomb as “haraam’ or religiously forbidden.

  • The forgotten trauma of a forgotten war

    The forgotten trauma of a forgotten war

    Oct 13, 2019 11:46

    The looming impeachment crisis that may end the political career of U.S. president, Donald Trump, brings the world’s attention to the wars Washington ignites around the world and then conveniently tries to forget them.

  • Will Nigeria’s chief justice succeed in securing Zakzaky’s release?

    Will Nigeria’s chief justice succeed in securing Zakzaky’s release?

    Oct 12, 2019 06:35

    It should be noted that Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, along with his wife, and several followers, continues to be in prison, despite his worsening health conditions, ever since the illegal detention by the army in Zaria on 15th December 2015.

  • We are all climate refugees now

    We are all climate refugees now

    Oct 12, 2019 06:02

    As the world enters the Anthropocene era, science deniers and polluters, especially ignorant politicians – such as Donald Trump the U.S. president –  misguide humanity to ever-greater danger.

  • Dying wildlife on a warming planet

    Dying wildlife on a warming planet

    Oct 12, 2019 06:00

    If fish decline, so does a food source for humans and the water birds that feed on fish, and as insect pollinators decline, so do our crops and the plants around us.

  • Calling Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ a peace plan is propaganda

    Calling Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ a peace plan is propaganda

    Oct 12, 2019 05:56

    When the Wall Street Journal on Aug. 01, 2019, reported on the US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner team’s meetings in the Occupied Palestine and other Arab countries to promote his so-called “peace plan,” it depicted Kushner as a good-faith negotiator and peacemaker trying to “breathe life into West Asia peace efforts.”

  • Trump’s stonewalling of impeachment inquiry Is an impeachable offense (2)

    Trump’s stonewalling of impeachment inquiry Is an impeachable offense (2)

    Oct 12, 2019 05:53

    There is abundant evidence of abuse of power and obstruction of justice by U.S. president, Donald Trump, says Marjorie Cohn in her article for ‘Truthout’, titled: Trump’s Stonewalling of Impeachment Inquiry Is an Impeachable Offense.” She is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and a member of the advisory board of Veterans for Peace. Her most recent book is “Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues”.