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Opinion: The Challenge for Europeans: Energy and Infrastructure in Africa
By Stephen Katenta Apuli |
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The World Bank estimates to develop transport infrastructure in Africa at the tune of $85 billions. The challenge faced by our European partners is whether or not they bear the will to find this kind of money.
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Opinion: More Than a Bribe: Obama Surrenders Palestinian Rights
By Ramzy Baroud |
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The Middle East policies of US President Barack Obama may well prove the most detrimental in history so far, surpassing even the rightwing policies of President George W. Bush. Even those who warned against the overt optimism which accompanied Obama’s arrival to the White House must now be stunned to see how low the US president will go to appease Israel – all under the dangerous logic of needing to keep the peace process moving forward.
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Opinion: A Follow Up on My Fifth Grade Essay: Education at Gunpoint
By Ramzy Baroud |
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I recall the first sentence of my fifth grade essay on “Education and Youth”. Written with the occasional aid of my father, and dotted with clichés, it might have read something like this...
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Opinion: Iraqi Baghdad Massacre: Iraqi Christians Already at Home
By Ramzy Baroud |
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On Sunday, October 31, when a group of militants seized a church in Baghdad, killing and wounding scores of Iraqi Christians, it signaled yet another episode of unimaginable horror in the country since the US invasion of March 2003. Every group of Iraqis has faced terrible devastation as a result of this war, the magnitude of which is only now beginning to be discovered.
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Opinion: Trouble Brewing in American Politics: Reparations, the Tea Party and the Founding Fathers
By Akbar Muhammad |
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“Trouble Brewing" is the title of an October 30 article by Edward Luce published in the Financial Times Newspaper. Essentially the article is about how some Americans fear that the United States is in mortal danger, and places the blame squarely on the doorstep of President Barack Obama, the nation's first black president.
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Opinion: Peace Held Hostage to Rotating US, Israeli Elections
By Nicola Nasser |
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The statement by former U.S. President George W. Bush in his 497 - page memoir of "Decision Points" that a secret peace deal was worked out between the then-prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, and Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, which "we devised a process to turn… into a public agreement" had not Olmert been ousted by a scandal to be replaced in the following elections by Binyamin Netanyahu, who reneged on his predecessor's commitments, is a piece of history that highlights the fact that peace making in the Arab-Israeli conflict and the peace process have been hostages to the rotating U.S. and Israeli elections since the Madrid peace conference of 1991.
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Opinion: Another Baghdad Massacre: Iraqi Christians Are Already at Home
By Ramzy Baroud |
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On Sunday, October 31, when a group of militants seized a church in Baghdad, killing and wounding scores of Iraqi Christians, it signaled yet another episode of unimaginable horror in the country since the US invasion of March 2003. Every group of Iraqis has faced terrible devastation as a result of this war, the magnitude of which is only now beginning to be discovered.
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Opinion: GPC Clarifies Libya's Business, Trade and Investment Outlook
By Sami Zaptia |
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At a General People's Committee (GPC) meeting with the Libyan business community held on 1 November, the Secretary of the GPC, Dr Baghdadi Mahmoudi, gave a broad overview of Libya's policy on future economic, trade, business and investment issues.
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Opinion: Conned by Democracy: The Middle East’s Stagnant ‘Change’
By Ramzy Baroud |
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Democracy in the Middle East continues to be a hugely popular topic of discussion. Its virtues are tirelessly praised by rulers and oppositions alike, by intellectuals and ordinary people, by political prisoners and their prison guards. Yet, in actuality, it also remains an illusion, if not a front to ensure the demise of any real possibility of public participation in decision-making.
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Opinion: Discriminating the Bomb
By Mohammad Azeemullah |
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Bomb, bomb, bomb! The car bomb, shoe bomb, plane bomb and now printer bomb… the menace of bomb hardly refuses to die. It resurfaces time and again Just the other day the world witnessed a horrific plan of bombs…two packages containing explosives were shipped from Yemen.
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Opinion: Conned by Democracy: The Middle East’s Stagnant ‘Change’
By Ramzy Baroud |
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Democracy in the Middle East continues to be a hugely popular topic of discussion. Its virtues are tirelessly praised by rulers and oppositions alike, by intellectuals and ordinary people, by political prisoners and their prison guards. Yet, in actuality, it also remains an illusion, if not a front to ensure the demise of any real possibility of public participation in decision-making.
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Opinion: Such is the Peace Process: Obama as a Salesman
By Ramzy Baroud |
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It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to claim that the resumption of peace talks between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority have thus far yielded nothing of value, at least not as far as settling the decades-long struggle.
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Opinion: Neutralising False Impressions
By Mohammad Azeemullah |
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Cinematography is an important human innovation in the twentieth century. No other human endeavor has gained as much recognition among public as that of filmmaking in modern time. Its impact is far beyond the vision of eyes and the province of entertainment. It has hijacked the budding spirit of growing generation and dictates to its command and influence. Undoubtedly it has altered the way life is look at.
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Opinion: The Violence Debate: Teaching the Oppressed Howto Fight Oppression
By Ramzy Baroud |
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An American activist once gave me a book she wrote detailing her experiences in Palestine. The largely visual volume documented her journey of the occupied West Bank, rife with barbered wires, checkpoints, soldiers and tanks. It also highlighted how Palestinians resisted the occupation peacefully, in contrast to the prevalent media depictions linking Palestinian resistance to violence.
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Opinion: Libya: ‘Uncharted Market and the Growth Potential is Huge’
By Sami Zaptia |
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Investors with an eye for riskier ventures should ‘capitalise' on early-stage growth in the less-explored emerging markets’ such as Libya in the coming year – advised Singapore’s Asia One Business (www. business.asiaone.com).
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