Category: Opinion

Sat 05 October 2019: Fears are growing that the Iranian regime intends to execute at least 30 Ahwazi detainees, possibly en masse, in the near future, taking advantage of the world’s attention being diverted to the standoff between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The planned execution was announced at a press conference on 19 September, by Hassan Shahvarpour, the […]

Fri 04 October 2019: Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent establishment of Western liberal hegemony, American academics, politicians, and policy analysts have debated whether or not the United States should implement democracy in the Muslim world. In this paper, I will argue that it should not. Why? Islam’s tradition of mixing […]

Thu 03 October 2019: As violent protests continued for a second day in Baghdad and other southern Iraqi cities, head of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) Falih al-Fayyadh arrived in Washington to meet with US Defense Secretary Mark Esper Oct. 2. This comes in conjunction with the US Embassy in Baghdad urging all parties to avoid using violence.   The mass […]

Thu 03 October 2019: Imagine this scenario. A couple of newly minted Master of Public Health graduates from an African university, say in Rwanda, land in Washington DC for a 2-week visit. They visit a few hospitals, speak to a few health care workers and policymakers, read a few reports, and write up a nice […]

Wed 02 October 2019 *SOME ANALYSTS THINK THAT HISTORICAL LEGACY CAN STILL BE EXPLOITED. A 2007 REPORT BY THE RAND CORP., A U.S. THINK TANK, ADVISED WESTERN GOVERNMENTS TO “HARNESS” SUFISM, SAYING ITS ADHERENTS WERE “NATURAL ALLIES OF THE WEST.* In recent years, the dominant image of islam in the minds of many Westerners has […]

Fri 27 September 2019: It should come as no surprise to find Israel’s name being mentioned whenever new declassified intelligence records are released. Mossad spies are often found behind sinister plots, including those against countries that have traditionally been seen as Israel’s friend, most recently against its greatest ally, the US. Tel Aviv’s habit of employing […]

Thu 26 September 2019: The 74th session of the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday was moved by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s address. In his 35-minute speech, Erdoğan boldly questioned the function of this giant organization and the very foundation it was built on. “While a lucky minority in the world is discussing digital technology, robots, […]

Wed 18 September 2019: No country’s state financed media is perfect and some are far from perfect. And yet for self-evident geo-strategic reasons, western state financed, as well as private media have for around three years, run a constant campaign of what can only be called abuse against state financed Russian media outlets, the most […]

Tue 17 September 2019: Propaganda distilled through western journalists mars the flow of information out of Syria, and helps the Assad regime escape accountability for its widely documented crimes. In Idlib, Syrian civilians marched to honor the 7th anniversary of the peaceful pro-democracy protests against Syrian regime leader Bashar al Assad. Seven years ago next month, however, […]