Source: The Arab News By Javier Solana, who is a Spanish physicist and Socialist politician. He was Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and Secretary-General of the Western European […]
Algeria. Long before the identity of the murder suspects was revealed by the French police – even before I heard the names of Cherif and Said Kouachi – I muttered the word “Algeria” to myself. As soon as I heard the names and saw the faces, I said the word […]
AL-MADINAH: NADIM AL-HAMID The holy month of Ramadan is not only a month of fasting and feasting but also one of miracles. “If it wasn’t for my neighbors and friends, […]
It is easy to be cynical about candidates winning 80 per cent of the vote but for some Middle East regimes the appearance of democracy is enough to secure the covert backing of Western powers Why do dictators love elections? It’s an old question in the Middle East, but it […]
The ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won a fourth term in a ballot decried as fraudulent by his critics In Algeria, politics is theatre, blood is real. You may joke about […]
The decision by 77-year-old Abdelaziz Bouteflika to run again as President of Algeria has attracted the excoriating scorn of journalist Kamel Daoud ROBERT FISK Friday 14 March 2014 40 PRINT A A A “Shame upon you, Bouteflika! You have no shame for our martyrs, for your age, for your own sickness, for […]
Major General Jamaa Jamaa was not a popular man in Beirut. One of Syria’s most senior intelligence officers in Lebanon until the withdrawal of Bashar al-Assad’s troops in 2005, he was headquartered in the run-down Beau Rivage Hotel in west Beirut and also in the Bekaa town of Anjaar, where […]
Roman ruins are rarely boisterous places, full of noise, laughter and life. But Edward Lewis stumbled across one that is – a place to have a daily wash, and to […]
by Micah Roshan Reddy, Egypt Independent. Mungo Park, the famous 18th century Scottish explorer, had few good things to say about the Muslims he encountered on his journeys through the Sahara. He spoke of the Moors as “a people who study mischief as a science and exult in the miseries […]
Robert Fisk on what he really means in the ‘war on terror’ “Had he his hurts before?” Siward asks of his slain son in Macbeth. He wants to know if […]
by PEPE ESCOBAR COUNTERPUNCH.ORG And the winner of the Oscar for Best Sequel of 2013 goes to… The Global War on Terror (GWOT), a Pentagon production. Abandon all hope those who thought the whole thing was over with the cinematographic snuffing out of “Geronimo”, aka Osama bin Laden, further reduced […]
We are outraged not by the massacre of the innocents, but because the hostages killed were largely white, blue-eyed chaps rather than darker, brown-eyed chaps by Robert Fisk, The Independent, […]
Fate of hostages unclear after reports that at least 30 were killed in military operation that ended a 36-hour standoff. SOURCE: ALJAZEERA At least 30 hostages and 11 members of […]
Jan 16, 2013 – 10:58 By Lamine Chikhi ALGIERS (Reuters) – Islamist militants attacked a gas field in Algeria on Wednesday, claiming to have kidnapped up to 41 foreigners including seven Americans in a dawn raid in retaliation for France’s intervention in Mali, according to regional media reports. The raiders […]
Russian TV: A big religious feeling deserves a big house of worship. Algeria is set to get its own mega-mosque with the tallest minaret in the world. Almost as tall […]
by Samuel Jaberg, swissinfo.ch Fifty years ago French and Algerian representatives signed a series of peace accords in the French town of Evian, ending Algeria’s brutal eight-year war of independence. By offering its good offices under a policy of active neutrality, which helped resolve the conflict, historian Marc Perrenoud tells […]
ALGIERS — Algeria’s leaders are out of touch with their people who are growing increasingly angry about unemployment, red tape and poor housing, said a senior official carrying out a presidential review of the country’s economic and social woes. “Demands for radical changes are huge. People want to see a […]
ISTANBUL: Turkey has accused France of committing genocide during its colonial occupation of Algeria. The comments Friday by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan are the latest response to French legislators […]