Palestine Holocaust
The post 9/11 years saw a vitriolic anti-Islam campaign. Those maliciously demonizing Islam and its adherents were self-proclaimed champions of human rights and liberty; the leaders of the western world.…
Mir Adnan Aziz
A realtor’s worldview
Law of the Instrument or Maslow’s Hammer is a cognitive bias that dictates a tunnel vision as an overarching solution for everything. Attributed to American psychologist Abraham Maslow it states…
Israel – Murder Inc.
Israel occupies a land that was inhabited by and belonged to the Palestinians. Confining the Palestinians to genocidal and inhuman conditions, Israel has since its inception, invaded almost all its…
The collapse of Zionism
Many may not know that it was ten years before the conception of Israel that Albert Einstein speaking at New York’s Commodore Hotel said that: “A Jewish state with borders…
Quest of immortality
Quest of immortality has been as timeless as it has remained fruitless. First recorded over 4000 years ago on the Babylonian Tablets, it narrates the tale of King Gilgamesh of Uruk. His…
The unchallenged Palestinian genocide
Palestine was never an empty piece of real estate that the zionists had yearned for as their biblical homeland. The 1948 Arab-Israeli War was a result of Israel declaring the…
Saudi – Iran rapprochement: A chance for peace
The disintegration of the Soviet Union left the Middle East bereft of any alternatives to US leadership. Washington, a prisoner of American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny - the mythical doctrine…
Guantanamo, an emblem of inhumanity
Guantanamo, epitomizing torture, indefinite incarceration and gross human right violations, remains a sordid emblem of inhumanity The Presidential Military Order that enabled it was “to detain and try suspects for…
Qatar World Cup: A global binder
Every four years, the football world cup brings the world together. The euphoric bond transcends religious, ideological, political and time barriers. Messi, Mbappe, Neymar and Benzema, artists in motion, mesmerize…
Football, the global binder
Every four years, the football world cup brings the world together. The euphoric bond transcends religious, ideological, political and time barriers. Messi, Mbappe, Neymar, Benzema and Mohammed Salah, artists in…
Washington’s kiss of death
Rudyard Kipling, Bard of Empire, wrote a poem titled “The White Man’s Burden”. Written in February 1899, Kipling urged the US to colonize the Philippines and take up the burden…
Who is the savage?
In 1922, Sir John Maffrey, head of the British Empire’s North West Frontier Province, put this nonchalant query to his superiors about civilian deaths during bombings: “What are the rules…
Better human than homo deus
Many among us, more so in the western world, smug with the scientific breakthroughs of recent years, predict the unbelievable for the human race. Yuval Noah Hariri is a Professor of…
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