Middle East

  I had planned to write about something else this morning, but the simmering confrontation with Iran keeps intruding. For starters, President Obama is standing firmly behind the administration's allegations, but without offering any new evidence to support them. This approach isn't going to wash, however, especially if journalists do their job, start asking a lot of probing questions, and don't allow …

CAIRO, Oct 8, 2011 (IPS) – Egypt, routinely the cradle for new Arab and Islamic ideologies, is now witnessing the birth of yet another line of thought – Islamic Liberalism. The term is touted now as a panacea for the eight-month impasse that has locked Islamists and their secularist rivals in bitter bickering over how this Arab nation should be …

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 14, 2011 (IPS) – When a landmark world conference against racism adopted a historic political declaration in the South African port city of Durban back in 2001, the 62-page document covered virtually every conceivable act of racism, xenophobia and racial intolerance worldwide. The Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) identified discrimination of all political stripes, including …

Britain, the US and France are pushing for harsher sanctions against Syria’s President al-Assad, who is believed to have ordered the torture and death of protesters. But on the streets there seems to be no real evidence of anti-government sentiment. Even the poorest areas of the Syrian city of Homs – which, as a gathering place for people heading into the …

Australian born Jew and Israeli citizen Rupert Murdoch who controls the global media suffers from intense hatred towards Muslims. He used his media empire to demonize Islam and Muslims, cover up all Israeli crimes and atrocities and help create the environment justifying United States and European invasions and destruction of Muslim countries. Never in the more than fourteen century inspiring …