Deck: Below are excerpts from a February 10 article in The Nation, by Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. The Islamic Post Teaser: According to CENTCOM, the soldiers [Americans, who were killed…
Teaser: “What the science community needs is a few huge donors to throw millions of dollars behind PR campaigns to counter the propaganda out there,” one author of the disputed three part UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) report…
Chisun Lee | ProPublica Teaser: The five-page letter that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder issued in February defending the decision to treat the Christmas Day bomber suspect as a criminal suspect, rather than as a wartime captive, offered new insight…
The Islamic Post Teaser: DUBAI–Israeli media ridiculed the state’s intelligence service Mossad and its president who was believed to have ordered the recent assassination of a top Hamas military commander in Dubai. In late February, the newspapers published a series…
The Islamic Post Teaser: The infamous and lengthy Omar Khadr saga continues as Canadian Supreme Court officials recently denied his defense team’s request for his repatriation–even after lower courts determined that his rights were grossly in violation of section 7…
The Islamic Post Teaser: Recently I was surprised to discover that many participants at a conference in Washington DC could not locate the Caribbean on a map. Some said it was close to Africa while others simply believed that the…
The Islamic Post Teaser: The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a British research institute focusing on international security, revealed that Russia in 2009 became the main exporter of weapons to Latin America thanks to the purchases made by Venezuela,…
The Islamic Post Teaser: Ma’an News reports 18 rights groups have sent a letter, collectively, to the UN General Assembly expressing “concerns about the effectiveness of the endeavors undertaken,” in order to ensure the allegations brought up in the Goldstone…
The Islamic Post Teaser: Brazil, the largest nation in South America, faces equally momentous challenges as it prepares for general elections this fall, continues to manage mounting environmental problems within its extensive and troubled rain forests, and struggles to develop…
The Islamic Post Teaser: On February 13 during a video conference with the 7th US Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar, US President Obama annouced his choice for Deputy Associate Council. On February 13 during a video conference with the…
The Islamic Post Teaser: The waves of right-wing extremism wracking the United States peaked on February 18 when Joe Stack flew a plane into a government building housing Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ) offices. However,…
The Islamic Post Teaser: To the President of the United States, Syed Barack Hussein Obama: I, El Sheikh Syed Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani, El Hashmi El Hassani wal Hussaini and my Qadri followers hereby come forward to proffer our assistance …
The Islamic Post Teaser: The recent 28 -year anniversary of the undeclared war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands, or as they are known in Spanish – Islas Malvinas – arrived and passed with no apparent resolution over…
Deck: Authorities Claim Songs Glorify Drug Culture, Incite Violence The Islamic Post Teaser: Lawmakers in Mexico are contemplating the enactment of laws which would make writing or performing songs or films that glorify criminals or criminal activity illegal. Along with…
The Islamic Post Teaser: In a small predominately Muslim village located 18 miles (30 km) from the city of Jos, Nigeria, lies the Kuru Karama village, at the point where Nigeria’s Muslim north and predominantly Christian south meet. According to…
The Islamic Post Teaser: Could Venezuela surpass Saudi Arabia as the top oil-producer in the world? Geologists at the earth science think-tank, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), have made just such an assessment. Scientists there claim that the Orinoco belt…
The Jerusalem Post reports that “while Israeli soldiers can’t fight in the war in Afghanistan, Israeli drones can.” At the end of January, NATO members: Australia, Germany, Spain, France and Canada began “operating unmanned aerial vehicles [UAVs] produced in the…
As the debate rages in the West over the clothing Muslim women should or should not wear, two articles representing opposite sides of the discussion were published in late January. The London Times’ Dominic Lawson wrote a timely piece in…
The Islamic Post Teaser: The defacto regime led by Roberto Michelleti rejected numerous attempts by the international community to restore ‘democracy’ to the politically embroiled nation, by permitting deposed president Maneul Zalaya to finish out his term of office, which…
The Islamic Post Teaser: Four years ago, Cuba and Jamaica embarked on a mission to provide desperately needed routine and critical eye care for people of Jamaica, and the Caricom region in general. The Jamaica/Cuba Eye Care Project has, since…
Deck: Truth Comes into Focus Years after Israeli Minister Announces Defaming Critics of Zionism as “Trick” Teaser: Former CIA Bin Laden Unit Chief (1996-99) Michael Scheuer recently discussed various security related issues as a guest on C-Span’s Washington Journal. The…
The Islamic Post Teaser: A recent Bloomberg report states the Gambian government has explicitly denied agreeing to accept a Jamaican-born cleric whom the Kenyan government attempted to deport, saying that any aircraft that brought him to the country would be…
The Islamic Post “Before anything else, the U.K. must answer to the international community about the kind of management it has employed in Afghanistan that has raised illicit drug production from a few hundred tons to around 9,000,” said Iran’s…
The Islamic Post Teaser: This is an urgent appeal for the sake of the American people and the future of this great nation to take a very careful look at the dangerous situation brewing in the Asian Region due to…
In a recent meeting with respected Qadri Sheikhs and Sunni Ulema, El Sheikh Syed Mubarik Ali Shah Gilani Qadri, Vice Chancellor of the International Qur’anic Open University and Ghaddee Nasheen (spiritual head) of the Holy Shrine of Hazrat Mian Mir…
Lahore High Court Chief Justice, Khawaja Muhammad Sharif, demanded full disclosure from Pakistan’s Interior Ministry on the activities of Blackwater in the country, according to the Pakistan Daily Times and other sources. Barrister Zafarullah, Mr. Sharif’s attorney told the Times…
Mubarak, who’s country has often played the middle man in the Middle East crisis, acknowledged discussing an effort to bring together rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah.
The Islamic Post Teaser: Representative Kucinich plans to submit two resolutions as soon as congress comes back in January to attempt to use the War Powers Act to withdraw all US troops and military contractors from Iraq and Afghanistan. “We’re…
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Aminatou Haidar has ended the month-long hunger strike initiated in protest to her forced exile from her home in Western Sahara. Ms. Haidar was flown by chartered jet from Lanzarote Airport in the Spanish Canary Islands…
As inhabitants of the Caribbean looked on at the economic crisis in the US and the rest of the developed world, some economists predicted that we were insulated from similar financial problems. The ordinary man on the street, however, felt…