Fri 11 December 2020: The day the British entered Jerusalem in 1917, Palestine’s fate was sealed. “…The Ottoman Government, in order to safeguard the religious places from ruin and destruction, has withdrawn its forces from the city and has commissioned officials to take care of the religious places like the Holy Sepulcher and the […]
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Mon 07 December 2020: Noam Chomsky is right when he says that, in the US, sports creates the necessary “fantasy world” required to shield people from understanding, organizing, and attempting to “influence the real world”. Referring to sports commentary and phone-in shows, Chomsky, in an interview with AlterNet, marveled at the intellectual and analytical skills of people […]
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Sun 29 November 2020: In November 2011, the Overseas Friends of the BJP (OFBJP) — the international wing of India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party — organized training camps in the US to teach its American supporters how to campaign for the party’s election in India. Conducted by the political advisor to the man […]
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Sat 28 November 2020: Data is today’s currency. It is the twenty-first century’s oil. Data drives everything as almost every part of our lives has become incorporated into the digital economy. We now have access to practically everything at our fingertips. On our phones, we all have dozens of apps from widely popular social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, […]
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Fri 20 November 2020: It is unusual for Iran to have a sudden change of heart in its foreign policy. Indeed, it can be said to be one of the firmest and most blatant when it comes to its projection of regional influence, and its rhetoric is just as bold. This has changed with the […]
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Fri 13 October 2020: After a hijab and face veil ban, Austria’s right wing government is set to introduce draconian measures against expressions of “political Islam.” Austria’s right-wing Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has announced a raft of new measures which would make “political Islam” a criminal offence. Kurz used Twitter to announce the new policy stating “In the […]
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Sat 07 October 2020: Could it be a wake-up call for Pakistan that battle-hardened militants trained by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Quds force might be returning to Pakistan as Iran’s pawns? Iran, in an effort to develop strict security policies as the events that broke out in Tunisia at the end of 2010 spread across […]
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Sun 01 November 2020: It is not easy to hold emotions, after visiting the Holocaust Museum in the heart of West Jerusalem. In dim lights, getting transported into history, with slow gloomy music playing in the background, videos and pictures of trains whistling the past carrying Jews to concentration camps, shrieks of people being lashed […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: It’s not a problem to be a superpower, but it’s a huge problem to be an evil, oppressive and obnoxious superpower. Islam was a superpower for many centuries, by and large a humane superpower (of course not a perfect one, but one not known for evil and oppression), until it was […]
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Sun 11 October 2020: Following public protests last October, the people of Iraq unified in an almost unprecedented manner. Baghdad witnessed the largest demonstrations condemning the country’s political system, ruling forces and parties, which prompted the authorities to resort to killing, intimidation and arrests to stop crowds of protesters surrounding the Green Zone. It also […]
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