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Xinjiang to China is, perhaps, what Chechnya is to Russia. In no field is the comparison more striking than the oil and pipeline business. Both Chechnya and Xinjiang have oil. Moreover the two provinces are strategically located for oil pipelines. It is through a network of pipelines that wind across Chechnya that Russia and the countries in Central Asia and …

Violence erupted between the native Muslims and the   Hans Chinese migrant settlers on Sunday July 5 in the Western Xingjian’s predominantly Muslim region of Uighur where the people’s struggle for political and religious freedom has been suppressed for long by the Chinese authorities. Within five days 156 people, mostly Uighur Muslims were killed in the city of Urumqi  where the …

Vice President Joe Biden, apparently speaking on behalf of the Obama administration, has just given Israel the green light to bomb Iran. “Israel can determine for itself — it’s a sovereign nation — what’s in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else,” he told ABC’s “This Week” in an interview broadcast Sunday. “Whether …

“Dawn” — – While we’re still arguing about whether there’s life after death, can we add another question to the cart? Is there life after democracy? What sort of life will it be? By democracy I don’t mean democracy as an ideal or an aspiration. I mean the working model: Western liberal democracy, and its variants, such as they are. …

The saga of the June 12th presidential elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran which started as a roar has for all purposes faded into a whimper and is dying off if not dead. The Western powers mounted an unrelenting massive propaganda blitzkrieg using its media mafia to support the opposition led by Mir Hussein Mousavi and denounced the elections …

It would seem that disagreeing with Izeth Hussain is an offence punishable by deportation. As he pointed out in his charming letter of June 22nd entitled ‘Go home, Kath’, I devoted one paragraph of my last article to his comments on the Human Rights Council vote. My suggestion that he might offer to hold David Miliband’s bag while he gave …