By Adnan Aamir.   National Databases and Registration Authority (NADRA) is the premier body of Pakistan for issuing nationality related credentials to citizens. Established in early 2000s, NADRA has earned praise for developing [...]

  By Dr. Geeta Madhavan.     Ever since the term global village became fashionable and the idea of a shrinking world became universally accepted as a positive move, the concept of sovereignty has been considered as outdated [...]

    By Stephen Lendman.     Washington and Turkey are allied against sovereign Syria and regional Kurds on the pretext of fighting ISIS. They’re imported terrorists from scores of countries serving US imperial interests [...]

  By Richard Larsen.     Much of the nation was watching with great interest as seventeen Republican presidential candidates took the stage this week to articulate their vision of America, and outline their strategies for returning [...]

    By Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi.     The issue of Jerusalem is core to the Arab-Israeli conflict since the Israeli  takeover of East Jerusalem after the 1967 Six Day War between the Arabs and Israel. Since his becoming [...]

    By Azmi Ashour.     The methods the Muslim Brotherhood employs to attract and recruit the young may not always be clear to outsiders. But if we are ever going to understand the violent tendencies of political Islam, [...]

    By Anthony Mele.   In June 2013, I was paying attention to U.S. Foreign Policy outlined by President Obama in Germany.  I made the case for a foreign policy that was in shambles and would lead the region into an expanded [...]

  By Sol. W. Sanders.     You wouldn’t know it from the American media, of course, but Canada too is headed into a national election. And they also just had their first debate. Among the 35 million Canadians, of course, many [...]

  By Richard Larsen.     “The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former [...]

  By Peter Rosenstein.     Hillary Clinton understands different times require different solutions. She has lived her life by a set of principles and convictions formed as a young woman who learned from her mother when [...]

  By  Dr Geeta Madhavan.     Every hanging opens up a huge public debate on abolishing or retaining capital punishment in India.  It throws up a plethora of reasons for the imposition of death penalty as well as for its continued [...]

Syed Qamar Afzal Rizvi.     The current Israeli government’s ulterior move of demolishing the Palestinian village of Susiya located in the occupied territories ;and consequently the historic July 24th display– of the Israeli [...]

      By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur.   Desolating pestilence takes heart from the fact that the majority here refuses to see its real face under different excuses to console themselves for not supporting what is just and right Cecil, [...]

  By Jamil Maidan Flores.       This photograph taken on Sept. 9, 2013, shows an aerial view of one of the many luxurious resorts that dot the many islands that comprise the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. (AFP Photo/ [...]

    By Allen Schmertzler.   I can remember how much the searing voice of Malcolm X scared the pajamas off of an America accustomed to a good night’s sleep, especially white America, and yet today, it seems so [...]

  By Mark Charles Hardie.   Khalid Hussein*, a well-known and mysterious conspiracy theorist in Long Beach, California befriended me when I was 11 years old. He was an intense man committed to racial separation. He believed that [...]

By Robert Slayton.   Back when I was in grad school, a standard intellectual exercise was to debate whether the foremost cleavage in American society was race or class. Of course the two are linked and reality is complex, but [...]

By Julian French.       The People’s Bank of China has already pumped some $7.8bn in the Chinese stock market over the past three weeks in an effort to stop the free-fall in Chinese equities.  However, the market fell yesterday [...]

  By Rich Rubino.   In 2011, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was a champion to conservatives who admired his combative approach to critics and his willingness to stand up to the public sector unions. Moderates saw him as [...]

  By Syed Qamar.   Much is being debated and criticized in the American media about president Obama’s decision of striking the nuclear deal with Iran. The question arises here is that what wrong Obama has committed if he, [...]