International Features

‘Derision of West misguided’, By SIRAJ WAHAB

ARAB NEWS US more in alignment with Islamic values than many Muslim states: Al-Qarni ALKHOBAR: A popular Saudi author and religious scholar has raised some questions about governmental and societal practices across the Arab world and asserts that the United States is more in alignment with many Islamic values than many countries represented as Muslim states. Aaidh ibn Abdullah Al-Qarni, …

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Russian spy saga may add heat to the Cold War, By Ameen Izzadeen

The US intelligence agencies have come of age, it seems. After years of humiliation, shame and failures, they have struck gold. They have arrested ten people for allegedly spying for Russia. Another person was arrested in Cyprus and released on bail. However, he has gone missing since Tuesday. Is someone trying to resurrect the Cold War or trying to instill …

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McChrystal and Rolling Stone: Is Obama building on sand?, By Ameen Izzadeen

By removing General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama may have tried to show that he is not a softie. The sacking of the general followed his inflammatory remarks to the Rolling Stone magazine. In the article headlined 'Runaway General', McChrystal and his aides ridiculed Vice President Joe Biden, called Obama's …

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US Fear Factory Kills Free Speech, By Yvonne Ridley

AMERICA is still embarrassed by the infamous McCarthy Hearings which ruined the lives of thousands of innocents during the Fifties. Anyone then, suspected of being linked to communism was arrested, interrogated and either imprisoned or forced to give names of others suspected of communist tendencies. And so the fear and intimidation spread like a great plague across the USA. Names were …

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