On the face of it the package of “incentives” Secretary of State Clinton offered Prime Minister Netanyahu to persuade him to buy and sell to his coalition government a one-time-only freeze of 90 days on settlement construction in the occupied West Bank could be summed up with one “c” word – criminal. Criminal because by excluding occupied Arab East …

You cannot be completely happy with all these wounds—both in your body and in your mind.”  —15 year-old child soldier     -The phenomenon of child soldiers, like genocide, slavery and torture, seems like one of those crimes that no nation could legitimately defend. Yet the Obama administration just decided to leave countless kids stranded on some of the world’s bloodiest battlegrounds. …

You Can't Make Stuff Like This Up! "Step two, "shock and awe" for Iran followed by a full scale invasion that, according to military experts directly responsible for drawing up our war plans, requires the fall of Pakistan, its "Balkanization and the military occupation of Baluchistan as a staging area." AIPAC, the Israel lobby used to, well, we don't exactly …

British former inmates of Guantanamo Bay are to set to receive large payments from the Government to drop claims that British secret agents knew they were being tortured. Ministers are expected to announce today that a settlement has been reached with at least seven men in a combined pay-off likely to run into millions of pounds. One of the former …

George W. Bush better stay at home. The confessed waterboarder is a marked man. If he travels abroad, other countries can—and should—nab him and try him for the crime of torture. In his memoir and in last week’s NBC interview, Bush acknowledged ordering waterboarding. He says the lawyers told him it wasn’t torture. But he got bad legal advice. Attorney …

  This article proposes to explore the concept of animal rights in Islam. Islam as we know is not just a religion but also a way of life that governs all aspects of life based on rights and obligations. Rights in Islam not only covers the Rights of God over Man (Islamic Worship), but also the Rights of man over …