October 12, 2013 by Brendan Stone
[Max Forte: Welcome to Brendan Stone who, along with Donnchadh Mac an Ghoill, joins ZA as a writer.] In view of Quebec’s Charter debate, the resurgence of discussions of the burqa and the niqab, and the continuing stories in the Western press of women’s oppression in Afghanistan, readers may be interested in this update of a paper written in […]
September 29, 2013 by Maximilian Forte
The following is my transcription of the spoken statement delivered at the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly by Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Mugabe. The statement below begins at the 8:43 mark of: 26 Sep 2013 – Address by His Excellency Robert Mugabe, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe at the general debate of the […]
September 10, 2013 by Maximilian Forte
September 9, 2013, 11:43pm–The morning on this side of the Atlantic started with John Kerry’s hoarse voice on the radio, addressing journalists in London and bellowing that the U.S. was not talking about going to war when it talked about military aggression against a state that never attacked the U.S. Acts of war, apparently, are […]
September 5, 2013 by M. Jamil Hanifi
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The postings on the website 8Sobh (8Morning) dated 6 Sonbola 1392 (August 7, 2013) include an article in Farsi titled “Fasl-e natamom dar tarikh-e Afghanistan” (an incomplete chapter in the history of Afghanistan) by Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (aka “Ashraf” and “Ashraf Ghani”– His website http://ashrafghani.com/profile-dari/ is under the name “Ashraf Ghani”. There is absolutely nothing original in this article and other […]
August 15, 2013 by Donnchadh Mac an Ghoill
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Contributed by Donnchadh Mac an Ghoill The first thing that strikes one about this 171 page report is its title: Learning from Iraq. What is being learned and for what purpose? Surely the U.S. has no intention of doing all this again to another country? We soon learn that is precisely the intention. The report […]
October 28, 2013 by Maximilian Forte
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