Tag Archives: By AMEEN IZZADEEN

  President Barack Obama has been busy for the past few weeks, thinking of whose ass to kick for the unprecedented environmental damage being caused by the uncontrollable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He is under fire for not acting decisively or being soft on the culprits — in this case the all powerful British Petroleum and other …

Monday’s terror attacks in Moscow and Wednesday’s police station blast in Dagestan show that Russia’s problems in the North Caucasus are far from over. It may lead to the third Chechen war. For it was a similar bombing campaign in 1999 that prompted the then Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, to send troops again to Chechnya and launch the second …

The United States appears to be in a hurry to bring about a regime change in Iran but its biggest problem is that it does not know how to go about it. In recent weeks, the US has increased its Iran-bashing tempo and intensified diplomatic efforts aimed at forcing Tehran to give up its uranium enrichment programme. US Secretary of …

Democracy is described as the best of the worst forms of government. Democracy does not mean holding elections alone. It means the existence of strong institutions which, like the pillars that hold up a building, strengthen democracy. Such institutions act as checks against abuse of power by elected leaders in whose hands people place a trust to govern them. In …

The history of any country is replete with lessons that help it to shape a better future. But not Haiti’s. To use a cliché, its history is a history that repeats itself. Military coups are a common occurrence. Poverty is a perpetual enemy which is yet to be defeated. Social ills such as corruption, prostitution, armed gangsterism and narcotics have …