Category: Opinion

Sat 01 June 2019 Unable to sustain its Syrian campaign, Iran is rapidly losing ground to Russia. The Syrian regime is suffering from the worst economic crisis since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in 2011. The acute shortages of fuel, gas and electricity have frustrated even the staunchest loyalists who now publicly express their dissatisfaction against […]

Fri 31 May 2019: “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” Malcolm X Having attended the Amec Parliamentary Portfolio Seminar for 2 days in […]

Sun 26 May 2019: Iraq’s Sunnis have been abandoned by their government and are at the mercy of killers and war criminals who rival ISIS in their brutality.  Humanitarians have always faced a hard task in Iraq. Not only are there literally millions of people in need of aid, with the United Nations saying there […]

Sat 25 May 2019: Arabs have active imaginations when it comes to using conspiracy interpretations for what’s going on. Based on this imagination, many political and sociological phenomena are dealt with as being fake. Conflict between America and Iran is fake, conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is fake, the establishment of Daesh and all it […]

Fri 24 May 2019 The Chinese smartphone maker might be forced to develop the Android rival the EU is hoping for. By imposing restrictions on Huawei Technologies Co., the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump may force the Chinese company to do something that no one in tech has dared to do for a long […]

Thu 23 May 2019: If the Indian prime minister is returned to office, his sectarian politics will make bigotry the defining ideal of the republic ndian elections are a marvel to behold. The rules stipulate that no citizen should have to travel more than 2km to vote. So the state goes to the voters. Carrying […]

Tue 21 May 2019: Iran often uses bombastic and inflammatory rhetoric to shore up its supporters both in Iran and in the wider Arab world. It should come as no surprise to most but Iran has made yet another threat to annihilate Israel, this time promising to destroy the Jewish state within 25 years. In […]

Mon 20 May 2019: Let us recall that Iran, which had no problem with using force against innocent civilians in Syria, did not respond to an Israeli attack against the IRGC in Damascus. The U.S. and Iran remain unlikely to use military force against each other. What we are witnessing is an act of psychological […]

European countries let Muslims down not only by adopting anti-Muslim attitudes but by also reflecting these sentiments with discriminatory laws There is only one week left until the European Parliament elections. As politicians ramped up their election campaigns and Europeans turned their attention to the upcoming polls, there was yet another significant development behind the […]

Sat 18 May 2019: When Iranian- and Hizbullah-backed forces joined hands with the Syrian regime to crush the Syrian opposition, their stated goal was to “liberate the Golan” and “pave the way to Jerusalem.” Today, over seven years later, it is clear beyond any doubt that these promises were nothing but empty slogans, used to […]