Issues & Events
  • The wheels are coming off

    The wheels are coming off

    Jul 23, 2019 05:43

    Donald Trump’s US policy is a failure on all fronts, especially in West Asia, where he has made a laughing stock of himself.

  • In defense of Ilhan Omar

    In defense of Ilhan Omar

    Jul 23, 2019 05:36

    Xenophobia is nothing new from US President Donald Trump or his base. It’s what he built his campaign on. But Just calling Trump "racist" doesn’t work, the Democrats should have learned this from the 2016 election. What needs to be addressed is the falsehood of Trump’s claims against the Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar.

  • Saudis tightening grip on eastern Yemen through new oil routes

    Saudis tightening grip on eastern Yemen through new oil routes

    Jul 22, 2019 10:27

    Saudi Arabia which has invaded and occupied parts of Yemen, is trying to consolidate its military hold on the al-Mahrah province in the east, hoping to use the area for an oil pipeline that would bypass the Strait of Hormuz.

  • India’s ‘free-riding’ strategy dooms SAARC

    India’s ‘free-riding’ strategy dooms SAARC

    Jul 22, 2019 10:25

    The nationalist politics that assured Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a second term in office – and particularly his determination to isolate Pakistan – has doomed the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in favor of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC).

  • How Trump’s arch-hawk lured Britain into a dangerous trap against Iran

    How Trump’s arch-hawk lured Britain into a dangerous trap against Iran

    Jul 22, 2019 10:22

    London is being misled by Washington and if it does not realize its mistake to extricate itself from American machinations, Britain will become the main loser in West Asia, especially against the Islamic Republic.

  • Book of Palestine: National liberation vs. endless negotiations

    Book of Palestine: National liberation vs. endless negotiations

    Jul 22, 2019 08:55

    Talks have no meaning if they do not bear fruits, and that has been the fate of the chronic question of the struggle for freedom against the usurpation of their homeland by the illegal Zionist settlers of Europe who call their spurious entity Israel.

  • Over 100,000 in Puerto Rico demand resignation of governor as protests continue

    Over 100,000 in Puerto Rico demand resignation of governor as protests continue

    Jul 22, 2019 08:45

    The sixth day of mass protests in Puerto Rico involved more than 100,000 people on Thursday.

  • Who killed Oscar and Valeria: The inconvenient history of the US refugee crisis

    Who killed Oscar and Valeria: The inconvenient history of the US refugee crisis

    Jul 22, 2019 08:12

    Donald Trump’s anti-immigration cruel policies that snatch away children from the arms of their parents and put them in prisons with inhospitable conditions, including abuse by the jailors, are taking a steady toll of innocent life.

  • Preposterous liar again caught on the wrong foot

    Preposterous liar again caught on the wrong foot

    Jul 21, 2019 16:41

    The US president is an untrustworthy, unreliable and unprincipled person, notorious for his untruths, who resorts to every conceivable distortion of facts and realities, but who always gets unmasked when his falsities end in failure, as was evident in the recent non-event in the Persian Gulf when his dream of downing an Iranian drone boomeranged badly upon him.