Category: Topical and Current Affairs

He couldn’t have done it without us 7 Sep 2021   I decided to go and meet the Taliban in the spring of 1999, two years

By Clément Girardot via religionunplugged.com 27 Aug 2021 PANKISI, Georgia— Off the beaten path and between the thickly forested Caucacus mountains bordering Russia and the

By Geeta Pandey via BBC News, Delhi 2  Sept 2021 Unprovoked attacks on Muslims by Hindu mobs have become routine in India, but they seem

Marco Carnelos via middleeasteye.net “Washington’s focus on Afghanistan … has had very little to do with establishing a better and more equitable society for the

By Simon Jenkins via theguardian.com The former PM has some nerve to say the west should stay on in Afghanistan to protect the ‘gains’ of

A look at the striking similarities between the first Anglo-Afghan War and the 2001 US invasion of Afghanistan and how both turned out to be

Henry Olsen via washingtonpost.com 20 Aug 2021 Critics of President Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan often paint a rosy picture of the country, arguing

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi One of the most evil henchmen of the ‘War on Terror’, and someone directly responsible for the deaths and torture of millions

Shaykh Yasir Qadhi On Afghanistan   The recent events in Afghanistan in which tens of thousands of innocent civilians have been forced to flee for

18 Aug 2021   Afghan media reported on 18 August that exiled President Ashraf Ghani has “settled” in the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi, after fleeing

By Kim Berry Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2003) By omitting the history and context of both the Taliban and the

15 August 2021   Two iconic images clicked 45 years apart. The US Embassy staff fleeing from Saigon and Kabul  “Never trust a friend who

“The very presence of Americans in Afghanistan trod on what it meant to be Afghan. Any Afghan government, however good, however democratic, was going to

Today marks the 110th year anniversary of the Order in Council signed by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier prohibiting for a period of one year the

via brinkwire.com AUGUST 6, 2021 Moderate alcohol use has been associated to a number of malignancies, including colon cancer. There is solid evidence that alcohol

Do not mourn the defense secretary. Mourn his victims. There were nearly too many to tally, but his Pentagon refused to count anyway. Jul. 01,

Temperatures that are hotter than the human body can handle.  Ben Farmer of the Daily Telegraphs visited Jacobabad – is a city in Sindh, Pakistan,

15 June 2021 ‘Death to Arabs’ chanted by  right-wing Jewish groups at Flag March   CNN Report :   Thousands of Israeli far-right nationalists marched

In an open letter, 223 members of staff at the British university say the Israeli institution has helped develop Israel’s policy of disproportionate violence against

June 15, 2021 (background to interview comments) Eva McKend of Spectrum News, DC Congressional Correspondent interviews Congressman John Yarmuth (who is Jewish) On Ilhan Omar, 

Ilhan Omar was attacked for saying war crimes allegations should be investigated June 11, 2021, 10:30 AM BST By Hayes Brown via MSNBC.com   Rep.

Sajjad Karim urges Boris Johnson not to pursue an ‘English nationalist agenda’ Thu 3 Jun 2021 10.28 BST  via theguardian.com Sajjad Karim: ‘It’s time for

“It is time for the world to recognize that what we saw in South Africa decades ago is happening in Palestine… time for the world

“It is clearer than ever that the occupation is not temporary, and there is not the political will in the Israeli government to bring about

“Nothing could have adequately prepared me for what I encountered on the ground: Israeli apartheid.” By Professor Emily Jane O’Dell via trtworld.com 8 June 2021

May 24, 2021  via middleeastmonitor.com A third of the members of the British cabinet, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, have been funded by Israel or

Lest America be fooled by post-Independence rhetoric, the Herut party Begin led was ‘closely akin to the Nazi and Fascist parties,’ they wrote. On December

Israel claimed its 1967 land conquests weren’t planned. Declassified documents reveal otherwise. The documents describe detailed preparations that were made in years before 1967, with