Is Pakistan an independent or a US proxy state?
Since its creation Pakistan has remained in the hands of foreign powers with laws and policies that they have defined for it, writes Pakistani...
Munir Farooqi: Four years on and the struggle for justice continues
Activist, Sairah Yassir, reflects on the detainment of Munir Farooqi after she attended a demonstration last Sunday outside HMP Wakefield, to demand accountability for...
Maajid Nawaz is not fit to be an MP or a showcase “feminist”
Activist Amar Alam explains how the Daily Mail's expose on Maajid Nawaz harassing a naked dancer at an East London strip club during the...
Yemen conflict set to escalate as Aden falls to the Houthis
As the military intervention in Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition enters its second week, Abdel Bari Atwan says the conflict there could be heading...
Only a political solution for Yemen can stop regional war
Yemen must now be classified as a failed state: it has no government, no army, no president and no civic institutions. It is descending...
Saudi stirs a hornet’s nest with Yemen attack
Abdel Bari Atwan says Saudi Arabia has embarked on a dangerous adventure in Yemen and should have left this hornets’ nest undisturbed.
The new King...
Should Amnesty rename itself “Surrender”?
Activist and political blogger, Muhammad ibn Adam, highlights the hypocrisy of Amnesty International planning to share a platform with the neoconservative Islamophobic organisation, The Henry Jackson Society.
Amnesty’s...
So why is it that I’m not supposed to draw the Prophet again?
Amidst all the furore over the Charlie Hebdo killings and their aftermath, blogger, Muslim convert and PHD student João Silva Jordão takes a step...
Netanyahu’s victory is self-destructive for Israel
Israel’s elections have produced one winner and many losers which may, ultimately, include the people of Israel themselves, writes Abdel Bari Atwan.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s...
Afzal Amin responds to Mail on Sunday expose on “fake” EDL demo
Afzal Amin, the hopeful Tory Election candidate from Dudley who was suspended on Friday night for plotting with the English Defence League (EDL) to...
