By Rori Donaghy Nasser bin Ghaith says he was beaten and starved of sleep at a secret UAE prison after his arrest for criticising leaders of Egypt’s military coup Emirati economist Nasser bin Ghaith claims that prison guards tortured him in the UAE (HRW) A prominent Emirati academic appeared in court for the first…
By Basheer Nafi Almost all the European democracies turned a blind eye to the brutal violence that governs the Egyptian regime’s relationship with its people. In a recent rambling address to the nation, Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi stressed that he resorts to neither lying nor deceit (as if the matter necessitated such an…
By Joe Gill For years we have been told that Western values are those of democracy and human rights. Wrong Recent surveys of public opinion in the US and UK show that alarming numbers of Britons and Americans support terrorism and the mass slaughter of civilians. According to a BBC survey, 28 percent of Britons believe a man responsible…
Russian air strikes have continued despite a withdrawal announcement last month, but civilian casualties caused by its bombs have decreased Russian planes leave Hmeimim military base as part of the partial Russian withdrawal from Syria (AFP/ RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY/VADIM GRISHANKIN) The Kremlin’s six-month campaign in Syria resulted in the deaths of more than 1,100…
Senior Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan waves his hands as he leaves a polling station in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Jan. 25, 2006. (photo by REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa) Dismissed Fatah leader and former member of Fatah’s Central Committee Mohammed Dahlan has been active on the regional and international levels in the past…
Iraqi Sunni Muslim fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units take part in a ceremony marking the Iraqi Police Day at Amiriyat al-Fallujah in Anbar province, Jan. 9, 2016. (photo by REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani) On March 12, US Consul General Steve Walker visited Al-Sadr Teaching Hospital in Basra to pay his respects to wounded members of the Popular Mobilization Units.…
Panama Tax Haven Scandal: The Bigger Picture US and UK – Not Panama – Biggest Tax Havens for Money Laundering Criminals Posted by : George Washington Post date: 04/06/2016 – 17:03 The “Panama Papers” tax haven leak is big … After all, the Prime Minister of Iceland resigned over the leak, and investigations are taking…
By Alan Hart I must begin with a clarification. “The world” of my headline is inhabited only by our so-called leaders and their governments, not the civil societies of nations. And the complicity of our so-called leaders and their governments in Zionism’s crimes is in my view more by default out of fear of…
By Richard Falk [Prefatory Note: The review below was published in the current issue of Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and Islamicate World. I am posting it here because I believe that Jeff Halper’s book deserves the widest possible reading. It explains clearly and convincingly one of the deepest and least…