To understand the failure of the president’s trip to the Middle East, which is foreordained and doesn’t have to be completed in order to fail, take note of two words

11 January marked the sixth year anniversary of the establishment of the Guantanamo detention camp. Mere months after the start of the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan, a large

11 January marked the sixth year anniversary of the establishment of the Guantanamo detention camp. Mere months after the start of the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan, a large

The future of Pakistan is now blurrier than ever. With the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, stability and peace of the country are at stake. Pakistan’s military ruler Pervez Musharaf condemned

Georgia Popplewell from Global Voices interviews Egyptian blogger Wa7da Masrrya in a seven minutes podcast profile. You can find an interview in French as well. She´s been on my blogroll

Did you miss this? It should have been the lead story in every newspaper and radio and TV program in America. In the Washington Post it was on page 14.

US in Iraq: Are We Humane?

Dr. Basim Na’im, the PA health minister, said on Wednesday that scores of Palestinian citizens wounded in the IOF attacks on Gaza Strip were dying in local hospitals because of

Promoting what he calls his "freedom agenda" at the end of a six-nation, eight-day tour of the Middle East, President Bush gently prodded Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday to

President Bush on Wednesday ended a Middle East tour that political activists saw as lacking the strong calls for democratization made earlier in his administration, disappointing those once encouraged by