Explaining Turkey’s ISIS U-turn
Adel Bari Atwan explains how Turkey, which just a few years ago was experiencing unprecedented internal stability and had good relations with all its...
The shame of Gulf States who refuse sanctuary to Syrian refugees
Rivers of crocodile tears are flowing in the Arabic media as its writers waste ink feigning grief over the tragedy of the Syrian refugees...
Nice attack: The West cannot abnegate its own responsibility
Abdel Bari Atwan is one of the Arab World's most prominent journalists. He is also the editor of the Arabic language website raialyoum
Veteran Arab...
Chemical weapons, political egos and saving lives
I am a peace activist but at the moment one wrestling with her conscience because, in truth, if someone gave me a gun and...
Bangladesh’s war crimes tribunal made Molla a martyr
Bangladeshi political commentator Dr Muhammad Ahmedullah writes that the "clear perversion" of the judiciary in the case of Abdul Quader Molla means that an...
US intervention is not humanitarian and will not protect the people of Iraq
Here we go again, the US is using a humanitarian catastrophe to implement imperialist objectives and pour petrol on fire, writes Iraqi academic Sami...
Have the neo-cons benefitted from Moazzam Begg’s arrest?
Blogger Abdullah Noorrudeen questions whether the neocons within the British government have covertly benefitted from the arrest and subsequent release of Moazzam Begg.
Human rights...
Witch-hunt of Malia Bouattia “lazy churnalism” towards Muslims
NUS Black Students Officer, Malia Bouattia, spoke up against a motion at an NUS meeting last month that condemned ISIS, making the point that it was worded in...
Three years on: The lessons of Libya
Three years ago the world witnessed the final defeat of the Libyan Jamahiriya – the name by which the Libyan state was known until...
How the Govt makes you into a terrorist without arresting you
In this article, Asim Qureshi, Research Director at CAGE explains how a routine stop under Schedule 7, and its specially engineered questions, can lead...
