Ever since the Boston marathon bombings, my mind has been swarming with thoughts and emotions. I have been glued to the internet, digesting article after article, and comment after comment. I am sure I am not alone. The American Muslim emotional roller-coaster response to terrorism isn't fresh reading. It starts ... Read More »
In 1996, then-Ambassador of State Madeleine Albright was asked about reports that 500,000 Iraqi children had died as a result of US-imposed sanctions. She replied: "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it." Read More »
The highly publicized and controversial WikiLeaks disclosures of U.S. State Department classified cables has reawakened what the British newspaper, The Guardian, calls “one of the most vexed mysteries of the Bush-era ‘war on terror’.” Read More »
Former Iraqi insurgents have spoken for the first time about the moment that turned them away from al-Qa'ida and swung the conflict in favour of the United States. While the US troop surge has widely been credited as the critical factor in bringing Iraq a measure of peace, senior figures ... Read More »
A large and growing number of Iraqi children are suffering from severe birth defects, as shown in the heartbreaking CNN segment embedded below, and their parents blame alleged U.S. chemical-weapons attacks. Lawyers representing the families have sued the British government for complicity in the alleged war crimes. But Iraq's deputy ... Read More »
What is the validity of the claim that Imam al-Shafi’i changed his juridical school in Egypt in order to accommodate the Egyptian customs and culture? Read More »
A Sign of Empire Pathology: More US military personnel have taken their own lives than have died in action Here is a shocking statistic that you won't hear in most western news media: over the past nine years, more US military personnel have taken their own lives than have died in ... Read More »
WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Read More »
Probably the most controversial claim in my work with John Mearsheimer on the Israel lobby is our argument that it played a key role in the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. Even some readers who were generally sympathetic to our overall position found that claim hard to accept, and some left-wing critics accused us of letting Bush and Cheney off the hook or of ignoring the importance of other interests, especially oil. Read More »
Barack Obama won the votes of many Americans by promising to swiftly end the Iraq War and bring U.S. troops home. He denounced George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq as a “violation of international law.” So will U.S. troops leave Iraq? Will those responsible for this trumped-up war face justice? ... Read More »
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