An obituary of The New York Times: Working with the government to suppress stories, covering up election fraud in the ruling party and ruthlessly campaigning against the main US opposition leader, The New York Times has sentenced itself to wither away into irrelevance. Remembered only
Letter from Berlin – by Shiraz Paracha: Friends, I have come to Berlin after 12 years. My friend Nadia says Berlin is a very un-German city. Nadia is French but for the last 14 years she is in Berlin where she is the owner and
Donald Trump has done the unthinkable – Ali J. Zaidi: Donald Trump has done the unthinkable against the Republican Establishment, the Democratic Party machine, the Money Power, lobbyist, cartels and a media united in their hatred of him. This is an earthquake that will shake the whole world.
Houthi missile attack – Dawn Editorial: The Saudi-Houthi conflict took a dangerous turn as reports emerged on Friday that the Yemeni rebel group had fired a missile deep inside the kingdom. Accounts of the missile’s intended target vary: the Saudis insist the attack was
A roar at a Funeral, and Yemen’s war Is altered: SANA, Yemen — Large speakers played verses from the Quran as hundreds of mourners filed through the fanciest reception hall in Sana, the capital, to pay their respects to a prominent family after the death of its patriarch.
It’s time to release the real history of the 1953 Iran coup: Sixty-three years ago, the CIA and British intelligence fomented a coup d’état that toppled the prime minister of Iran, restored a cooperative shah and strengthened a regional buffer against possible Soviet aggression. It also unwittingly set Iran on a
Aleppo : Who destroyed this city? Russia or Imperialist block: When liberal section of Western Press deals with Syria, It Quits at once its liberal stance, distorts facts and ground realities and insists us to accept religious fanatics ( Salafi-Deobandi Takfirist Terrorist groups)as moderate liberal, progressive forces in
Saudi skeptics gain strength in Congress: Lawmakers in both parties are growing more skeptical of the U.S. alliance with Saudi Arabia. This week, 27 senators — three Republicans and 24 Democrats — voted against a $1.15 billion arms sale to the country. That wasn’t
ناھض حتر : تکفیری ثقافت کا ایک اور شکار: بائیں بازو کے عرب دانشور ، صحافی ناھض حتر کے ایک مذہبی جنونی کے ہاتھوں اردن کے دارالخلافہ عمان میں سپریم کورٹ کی عمارت کے سامنے سیڑھیوں پہ مارے جانے پہ میڈیا اسی طرح سے تقسیم ہے ،جیسے یہ
Nahed Hattar: Socrates of Arab killed: Socrates of Arab world, Nahed Hattar was killed. His crime of was to mock concepts of religion, God, Heaven and Jihad of ISIS. A gunman has shot dead prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar outside a court where he
Saudis must face consequences for promoting extremism: Last December, Farah Pandith of the Council on Foreign Relations, who was the first State Department special representative to Muslim communities, called for Saudi Arabia to face consequences if it did not stop promoting extremism. She wrote in
Israel and the western alliance with Al-Qaeda in Syria: Earlier this year, former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy granted a telling interview to Al-Jazeera’s Mehdi Hassan. In it, he confirmed much of what I have been reporting in this column for years: Israel has been in a tactical alliance
German police raid mosque and apartments in crackdown on Salafists: Editor’s note: LUBP has been consistently advocating similar action against the radical Deobandis in Pakistan. The radical Deobandis hold very similar and dangerous views as the radical Salafis elsewhere in the world. The Salafi/Wahhabi and Deobandi connection which