International Features

Iraq after six years of US led invasion: Iraq, a land where many great ancient civilisations such as Mesopotamian, Sumer, Akkad, Babylonian and Assyria flourished between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers for more than 7,000 years, has been ruthlessly raped and ravaged by the European colonial powers followed by the United States to loot its oil wealth for more …

Washington, DC – An argument could be made that the Middle East, as the birthplace of the Abrahamic religions, is a centre of dialogue between Muslims and Christians. Where their holiest places of worship and pilgrimage exist, Muslims and Christians have provided models of historical co-existence and cooperation. But when there is tension, either for religious reasons or when sacred …

If I write a column arguing that Bernard Madoff, a Jew by birth, cheated mostly Christian investors of billions of dollars, you will rightly call me crazy. If I argue that some Jewish religious organizations that received money from Madoff were thriving on the loot, you will rightly call me insane. If I whisper that Madoff was a supporter of …

Interview: Richard Falk, U.N. Special Rapporteur “on the situation of human rights” in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. Richard Falk. He has described the Israeli strikes on Gaza as “war crimes”. RICHARD FALK, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was in New Delhi in February. He is on …

Bush out, Obama in and Iraq forgotten. On March 20, the sixth anniversary of the US occupation of Iraq, which was once a sovereign nation, came and went but there was little media hype. Probably, Iraq is no longer an issue for the Americans, since President Barack Obama who won the race for the White House on his anti-war credentials, …

In the  aftermath of the 22 day long Israeli carnage  which killed  over 1330 Palestinians including 411 children ,injured more than 5,450 people , left over 70,000 homeless and virtually  turned Gaza into a wasteland ,all what the war battered and impoverished  Palestinians wanted was  food, medicine , water and  the like  to keep their body and soul together in …