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Human rights: The People vs the UN

Even as the US government is re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council, the UN Committee Against Torture hears a complaint against Bush, notes Eric Walberg The recent death of Iranian…

Iran vs the Empire: Fighting dollarization

The West’s attempts to destroy the Iranian economy through heightened sanctions—including most imports, oil exports and use of banks for trade operations—is having its affect. According to Johns Hopkins University…

Canada-Iran: Canada’s diplomatic disaster

Canada-Iran: Canada’s diplomatic disaster

On 7 September, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced that Canada is suspending all diplomatic relations with Iran, expelling all Iranian diplomats, closing its embassy in Tehran, and authorizing Turkey…

Russia in the Middle East: Return of a superpower?

Russia in the Middle East: Return of a superpower?

The US “withdrawal” from Iraq last year and the planned “withdrawal” from Afghanistan in 2014 cannot help but change the face of Central Asia and the Middle East. But how…

From post-modernism to post-secularism

From post-modernism to post-secularism

After more than a century of secuarlisation, Egypt’s cultural life is set to revolve again around the Quran. “The Quran is our Constitution” exhorted President Mohamed Morsi during the cliff-hanger…

AfPak: Mutiny on the Bounty

AfPak: Mutiny on the Bounty

The Taliban began their spring campaign as a British lord put a price on Bush’s scalp” notes Eric Walberg Kabul was cast into chaos Sunday as the Taliban began their…

Critiquing Israel: colonialism or Jewish culture?

Critiquing Israel: colonialism or Jewish culture?

Fighting the enemy at times means fighting your erstwhile comrades-in-arms ~ Eric Walberg The phenomenal success the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has had since it began in 2005…

BDS update: Israel’s Ides of March

BDS update: Israel’s Ides of March

Palestinian Land Day and Israel Apartheid Week activities around the world gave Israel and its Western backers something to think about in recent weeks. Israeli land confiscations accelerated in the…

Reinventing the Middle East lexicon

Reinventing the Middle East lexicon

When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” “The question is,”…