Rami Khouri, writing in the Jordan Times, raises questions about the International Criminal Court decision to charge Sudan President Omar Hassan Bashir with the crime of genocide. He suggests the indictment will result in Arabs wondering “if this is a new form of racism and colonialism that applies different standards of accountability for different countries.” […]

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David Remes, an American lawyer who represents 15 Yemeni detainees who are being held in Guantanamo Prison, attempted to convey to a group of journalists the torture and degradation his clients daily experience as prisoners in the American prison. Remes even went so far as to pull down his pansts to show those assembled […]

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Attacks on aid workers in Somalia and disruptions to food shipments are threatening the lives of millions of people. This unfortunate nation has known nothing but discord, violence, brutality, invasion, warring cliques and nations without any semblance of a government that can unite people in the nation. PeterGoossens, of the World Food Progamme(WFP) warns: “Somalia […]

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The violence of fighting in Iraq is only exceeded by the virulent angry in-fighting within the Bush administration. In the latest episode of who has the ear of the president, Secretary of State Condoeezza Rice clearly demonstrated she now sits on the right hand side at the throne of King George II. She was […]

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The volatile situation on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border continues to elicit conflicting views as to what exactly it taking place in the region. United States sources insist the recent attack which led to the death of about a dozen Pakistan soldiers was due to Pakistan failure to control militants in the region. Pakistan sources insist the […]

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George Bush insists the United States does not use torture, and if the president, who is noted as a defender of human rights, says no torture exists one can be certain it does. Two Algerians recently released from the resort town in Guantanamo told reporters from El Khabar, they had no complaints about treatment in […]

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NATO led forces in Afghanistan launched an attack on militant positions inside Pakistan after receiving hostile fire from those locations. Coalition troops used helicopters and artillery to fire into Pakistan after coming under rocket attack from the Pakistani side of the border. An International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) “received multiple rocket attacks from […]

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American conservatives constantly denounce any effort to create a government sponsored health system and invariably claim socialized medicine systems lag behind the United States in medical care. The first ever global study of cancer, which was conducted by cancer epidemiologist Professor Michel Coleman of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine, examined cancer data […]

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During the past seven years the Bush administration has been engaged in a nonstop campaign to deride, threaten, and denounce the government of Iran even to the extent of warning about possible military attacks. Suddenly, President Bush has switched his view point and decided that Barack Obama’s plan to engage in discussions with Iran is […]

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The Chinese government reacted angrily to recent remarks by President Bush regarding the lack of religious freedom in their nation. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Liu Jianchao bluntly told the American president, “China is a country under the rule of law , and the Chinese government protects its citizens’ freedom of religious belief according to law, […]

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