By Mohamed Elmenshawy / altmuslim.com Despite launching an English-language service in November 2006, Al Jazeera English was not picked up in the US due to perceptions of bias. But now, cable TV operators are allowing access to up to 2.3 million Americans, marking a new cultural shift. [Read More...]

Categories: Media  Islam in the West  Freedom of Expression  The US  

Added: July 03, 2009

By Jay Janson / Opednews After Obama apologized for the strike which the Afghan government claimed killed well over a hundred ordinary country folk, came the report that the families of those killed, and subsequent Afghani dead falling in harms way of the US military, continuing as before, can apply to receive up to $2,000 compensation. This is the price the great United States of America puts on an Afghan or Pakistan human being, while awarding $100,000 to families of Americans who die while fighting and killing wharever. [Read More...]

Categories: Afghanistan  Barbarity  Death  Humanitarian Crisis  President Barak Obama  

Added: July 02, 2009

By Raza Rumi Flight of the Falcon is not just a dry historical account. It is an eminently readable autobiography as well. Sometimes, the episodes appear stranger than fiction, especially when Haider's air chief framed him in a conspiracy to overthrow the government of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and charged him with treason and with inciting mutiny. We also learn how the Shahinshah of Iran, Raza Pahlavi, told Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to punish Haider for denigrating him. [Read More...]

Categories: Book Review  Pakistan Army  History  Dictatorship  Kashmir  War  

Added: July 02, 2009

By Haroon Siddiqui / TheStar.com America plunged Iraq into chaos, shattered the infrastructure and destroyed the society, reducing human beings to their basest instincts. They turned on each other and found safety only in family, tribe, clan and sect [Read More...]

Categories: Iraq  The US  Destruction  War Atrocities  Imperialism  

Added: July 02, 2009

By Ghali Hassan / Countercurrents.org Like in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. is sowing the seeds of violence in Pakistan by pitting one Pakistani community against the other. The arming and financing of militias like Tahrik-e- Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Jundullah or "Soldier of God" by the U.S. is designed to destabilise Pakistan and the eventual break up of the nation in a Yugoslavia-like destruction. [Read More...]

Categories: Muslim World  The US  Propaganda  War on Terror  Extremism  

Added: July 01, 2009

By James Cogan / WSWS.org It is fitting that today's deadline for the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq's cities coincides with a meeting in Baghdad to auction off some of the country's largest oil fields to companies such as ExxonMobil, Chevron and British Petroleum. It is a reminder of the real motives for the 2003 invasion and in whose interests over one million Iraqis and 4,634 American and other Western troops have been killed. [Read More...]

Categories: Iraq  Oil  Occupation  The US  War on Terror  

Added: July 01, 2009

By BOB HERBERT / NY Times

No one seems to know how old Mohammed Jawad was when he was seized by Afghan forces in Kabul six and a half years ago and turned over to American custody. Some reports say he was 14. Some say 16. The Afghan government believes he was 12. What is not in dispute is that he was no older than an adolescent, and that since his capture he has been tortured and otherwise put through hell. The evidence against him has been discredited. He has tried to commit suicide. But the U.S. won't let him go.

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Categories: Torture  Political Prisoners  Injustice  Human Rights  Afghanistan  

Added: June 30, 2009

By Dr Mohamed Elmasry / The Canadian Charger

Why the fuss, given that the U.S. did not comment on the results of the recent Lebanese parliamentary elections, in which over a billion dollars was spent to pay for charter flights and free trips for Lebanese in Canada and other countries to go home and vote? Besides, irregularities and election security in every election are common. We all remember, as should President Barak Obama, the electoral fraud of the 2000 U.S. presidential election. George W. Bush stole the highest position in the nation.

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Categories: Barack Obama  Iran  Elections  Media  Propaganda  Politics  

Added: June 30, 2009

By JOANNA KAKISSIS / NY Times Many Greeks long associated Islam with the Ottoman Turks, against whom Greece fought a war of independence from 1821 to 1829. Afterward, most of Greece's Ottoman history was left to languish. Of the few landmark buildings that have survived, the most impressive is in the eastern Macedonian seaport of Kavala. Built in 1817, the Imaret of Mohamed Ali Pasha is a seminary complex that once held madrassas, a mosque, libraries, hammams and administrative offices. [Read More...]

Categories: Turkey  Muslim Civilization  Islam in the West  History  Greece  

Added: June 30, 2009

By The Press TV Thousands of Pakistanis march in the southern port city of Karachi to denounce the 'unwelcome' influence of the US in the nuclear-armed country. [Read More...]

Categories: Pakistan  Protests  The US  War Atrocities  

Added: June 30, 2009