A new phase in the Ukrainian crisis
BY MUHITTIN ATAMAN FEB 23, 2022 – 12:05 AM GMT+3 Illustration edited by Büşra Öztürk. The moves being made amid the tensions in Ukraine are deepening the global rivalry in […]
Vast Leak Exposes How Credit Suisse Served Strongmen and Spies
Leaked data on more than 18,000 accounts shows that the Swiss bank missed or ignored red flags. By Jesse Drucker and Ben Hubbard Feb. 20, 2022 The client rosters of Swiss banks are […]
The wee hours in which Malcolm X and Cassius Clay anticipated present-day racism in the USA
MOVIES Actress Regina King, the queen of television, makes her debut as a film director with ‘One night in Miami’. “America will not be great again while it keeps murdering […]
The mission to civilise (colonial) international law
OPINIONOPINION, Opinions A legal architecture built to buttress the colonial world order, international law continues to be weaponised against the dispossessed to this day. Azeezah Kanji Legal academic and writer […]
Masjid Noor is Inaugurated in Belize City
A new mosque was inaugurated in Belize City today; two years after construction began on a property acquired by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Belize on the George Price Highway. The event […]
Measuring poverty properly
Feb 19,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Nurul Izzah Anwar KUALA LUMPUR — The 2019 Oscar-winning film Parasite attracted a global audience for its arresting portrayal of South Korea’s stark income inequality. The movie’s rendering of a low-income household’s acute sense of alienation resonated widely, no doubt because similar sentiments are […]
An important dimension of brain drain
Feb 19,2022 – JORDAN TIMES ‘ Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh Brain drain in our society, like in many the world over, is a prominent problem which we are not addressing effectively, […]
Nanoplastics travel long distances to the Alps
Plastic pollution is almost everywhere: in water, soil, fish stomachs, human waste – even at the top of mountains or in both polar regions. New research suggests that the spread […]
Opinion: Would Turkey’s president have leverage over ‘Senator Doctor Oz’?
By Josh RoginColumnist February 16, 2022 at 6:00 a.m. EST CORRECTION An earlier version of this article referred to Mehmet Oz’s birth country as Turkey. He was born in Ohio. Also, […]
Islamic Philosophy of Resistance in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter
By Basiyr Rodney SOURCE: THE REVIEW OF RELIGIONS Alarm about the killing of Black Americans over the last century has boiled over with the police killing of George Floyd on […]
African American Islamic Summit: “A Covenant of Hearts”
On Black History Mont Muslim News Staff 17 February, 2022 Marking the Black History Month in this February, Black Muslim communities struggle to identify ways to make a major impact on […]
Why are certain school books being banned in US?
Anthony ZurcherNorth America reporter@awzurcheron Twitter Published 7 February 2022 A growing number of US parents are alleging that school books are obscene or otherwise harmful to children. It’s creating an […]
What more can the U.S. do to provoke Russia?
BY MELIH ALTINOK FEB 17, 2022 – daily Sabah A view of Ukraine’s national flag waves as the Motherland Monument is seen on the right, in capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. […]
Why should Afghans compensate 9/11 victims 20 years on?
MOHAMED CHEBARO February 16, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/rfmsb The 9/11 attacks did indeed change our world. America’s war on terror to oust Al-Qaeda and, on its way, the brutal Taliban […]
Sanctions are devastating weapons of mass destruction
Feb 16,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen Sanctions are a far more devastating weapon of mass destruction than chemical, biological and, even, nuclear weapons. Since World War II the […]
Dark days ahead for Afghanistan: Six months after the Taliban takeover
Giorgio Cafiero 14 February, 2022 Analysis: Uncertainty reigns in Afghanistan six months after the Taliban seized power, with the country facing crippling humanitarian, economic, and political crises. On 11 February, […]
Dire need to salvage peace in Afghanistan
CHARLES A. KUPCHAN & DOUGLAS LUTE February 14, 2022 Short Url https://arab.news/cephu The US may have lost the war in Afghanistan, but it can still salvage the peace. To prevent […]
Events that shape our lives
Feb 14,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / James J. Zogby In his ground-breaking 2008 book, “The Way We’ll Be”, my brother John used decades of polling to observe and define the […]
Southeast Asia’s new-old cold war
Feb 13,2022 – JORDAN TIMES ‘ Thitinan Pongsudhirak BANGKOK — Few parts of the world paid as high a cost during the Cold War as Southeast Asia. The superpower conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union divided the region into pro- and anti-communist camps, spawning five wars in […]
Biden’s Bank Heist
Biden’s bank heist Asad Rahim Khan Published February 13, 2022 IF there was ever a scale for imperial thievery, the past few centuries run the range: there was Clive and Rhodes […]