The ‘threats’ that Hussein posed to the United States are nowhere to be seen. By Robert Scheer, Los Angeles Times, link [http://www.latimes.com/la-war-oescheer22apr22,0,1263293.column] Now that the war has been won, is it permissible to suggest that our emperor has no clothes? I’m not

US accused of plans to loot Iraqi antiques By Liam McDougall, Arts Correspondent Sunday Herald – 06 April 2003 FEARS that Iraq’s heritage will face widespread looting at the end of the Gulf war have been heightened after a group of wealthy art dealers secured a high-level meeting with the

by Robert Scheer (courtesty The Nation) How telling that U.S. forces so carefully protected Iraq’s oil fields while ignoring the looting of Baghdad’s internationally renowned museum. The complete, and by all accounts preventable, destruction of one of the world’s most significant collections of antiquities is a

By RAY CONLOGUE – with a report from Mark MacKinnon in Baghdad – courtesy Globe and Mail, Saturday, April 19, 2003 – Page R1 For Iraq, and the world in general, it is now time to gather the stones together. The sacking of Iraq’s National Museum last weekend means that as many

(Here’s some information worth knowing that you’ll never get on CNN.) Do you know enough to justify going to war with Iraq? Take the War on Iraq IQ Test: 1. Q: What percentage of the world’s population does the U.S. have? A: 6% 2. Q: What

In the modern world, Iraq is seen by most Britons and Americans as a mortal enemy, and Saddam Hussein the evil dictator who has to be removed. Few people are only aware of Iraq, however, because of the last Gulf War 1n 1991, and because of the recent threat Iraq

This was released BEFORE this war on Iraq. It should have been a clue for Bush and his administration to not attack Iraq. The Iraqis are 60-65% Shi’ite Muslims who view this war during their time of Asura or mourning for the death of their martyred Prophet Husain as

The assault on Iraq about to get underway is not a war. It will be a racist massacre. The Bush administration’s military campaign to “shock and awe” Iraq will be a senseless mass slaughter of defenseless women, children and men justified by the claim that the military is merely

Original link [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2859431.stm] Here is the speech of Robin Cook, former British Foreign Secretary, who resigned from Tony Blair’s cabinet yesterday in protest against the illegal invasion of Iraq by Britan and the US. At the conclusion of his

Carter Says Bush Has Not Proven Case for Iraq War The Bush administration has not convinced Americans or Europeans that a military attack on Iraq is necessary, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter said on Friday. “Our government has not made a case for a pre-emptive military strike against Iraq,

Blix Says He Saw Nothing to Prompt a War Days after delivering a report on Iraq’s cooperation with international inspectors, Hans Blix on Wednesday challenged several of the Bush administration’s assertions about Iraqi cheating and the notion that time was running out for disarming Iraq through peaceful means.

A Lecture given by T. J. Winter; Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge Your excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, may I express my warm gratitude to you all for paying me the compliment of attending today? It is particularly gratifying to me to attend an event in Pakistan, the only Muslim

A great pillar of Islamic scholarship in the Western world has fallen. Dr Annemarie Schimmel, described by some as the scholar- hermit has died. In an age when some vested political interests may like to see the world thrown ultimately in a mighty global conflict physically as well in the

Robert Fisk – The Independent The Israeli writer Uri Avnery once delivered a wickedly sharp open letter to Menachem Begin, the Israeli prime minister who sent his army to defeat in Lebanon. Enraged by Begin’s constant evocation of the Second World War – likening Yasser Arafat in Beirut to Hitler

Tuesday, December 10, 2002 at 09:21 JST TOKYO – A group of citizens in Japan said Monday they will launch a mock tribunal to try U.S. President George W Bush on war crime charges over military attacks on Afghanistan last year in retaliation for last year’s Sept 11

It was definitely amusing to hear a forgotten voice again – the voice of Salman Rushdie. His article has made a moderate like me express pity – not outrage – at his very simplified view of the world – made ever more simple on his reliance on the biased Western media. I challenge Mr.

We’ve all learned in the last 50 years, that everything pales, democracy pales, the prospect of nuclear war pales, everything pales when measured against the balance of what Washington thinks is its interests. September 11th came and General Musharraf did what any smart military or political leader would have

Kasi’s body reaches home Hundreds of people wearing black armbands shouted anti-American slogans when the coffin of Aimal Khan Kasi, who was executed in US on November 14 for killing two CIA agents, reached Quetta International Airport on Monday afternoon. At about 3:30 pm, the PIA authorities handed

With US forces poised to invade Iraq, most of us are hoping against hope that they will face stiff resistance and pay for the crime of invading a sovereign nation despite the fact that it is led by a dictator like Saddam Hussain. In 1990 we had hoped and prayed

Offering one interpretation, Anatol Lieven, senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, observes that the Bush administration’s efforts conform to “the classic modern strategy of an endangered right-wing oligarchy, which is to divert mass discontent into nationalism” through fear of external enemies. The administration’

Mozilla is a very good open-source browser and provides the engine for such popular browsers such as Netscape, Konqueror and Galeon. This is a pre-release (testing) version of the Urdu language pack. It will present MOST commands, shortcuts, error messages and help in Urdu! It has been tested on Windows

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The Wolf Who Cried Wolf: Charging Anti-Semitism and Extending the Iron Wall, by M. Junaid Alam CounterPunch http://www.counterpunch.org/jalam1026.html Junaid Alam is a student at Northeastern University. In this article written for CounterPunch magazine, Alam exposes the tactics of the pro-Israeli lobby who he says are

I have been silent for a few months, tired of returning to the same old issues in my articles and despairing of ever finding any echoes of hope. It is very debilitating mentally when you see that everything we say or do in the Arab and Muslim world comes to