The matter-of-factness with which the state of Israel claims the right to treat non-Jews as lesser animals is shocking and annuls any move towards peace, writes Joseph Massad* *The writer is associate professor of modern Arab politics and intellectual history at Columbia University. His latest book is The Persistence of the Palestinian Question; Essays on [...]

The Bank is killing thousands of the poorest people in the world by Johann Hari While the world’s press has been fixated on the teeny-weeny scandal over whether the World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz helped to get his girlfriend a $300,000-a-year gig next door, they have been ignoring the rancid stench of a far bigger [...]

by Abid Ullah Jan* *Abid Ullah Jan is the author of the very popular book in Islamic circles The End of Democracy and other important books and Articles. He is a part of the Independent Centre for Strategic Studies and Analysis (ICSSA). Without a vision Pakistan has no way out from the multitude of problems [...]

by Touqir Hussain* *The writer is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, US WHY is it hard to fight extremism in Pakistan? Because we are all guilty at least by association. Extremism essentially reflects our long but unsuccessful struggle to find a national purpose and identity and an open and stable political process that promotes [...]

By Hussein Agha* *Hussein Agha is Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. He is the author, with A.S. Khalidi, of A Framework for a Palestinian National Security Doctrine (May 2007). Overt political debate in the Middle East is hostile to the American occupation of Iraq and dominated by calls for it to end [...]

by Greg Mitchell NEW YORK (Commentary) The most powerful indictment of the news media for falling down in its duties in the run-up to the war in Iraq will appear next Wednesday, a 90-minute PBS broadcast called “Buying the War,” which marks the return of “Bill Moyers Journal.” E&P was sent a preview DVD and [...]

The world would be better off if the US renounced its self-appointed role of global policeman, and examined the corruption of moral values borne of imperial ambition. by Ayman El-Amir For almost 200 years, the US has claimed the moral high ground in world affairs. As it prospered, it looked on a wretched global scene [...]