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Protecting a Free Press Requires International Cooperation

Every year since 2004, the United Nations has refused to issue press credentials to journalists from Taiwan, rendering them unable to cover the annual meetings of the World Health Assembly. By Shieh Jhy-wey.


 

Morality and Ethics in Public Life: A Gandhian View

Corruption is rampant in India and now, without doubt, it is a matter of concern for all of us as it puts a question mark on the very existence of a respectable life and on our national character.
By Ravindra Kumar.


 

Turkey's Turmoil: A Blessing in Disguise?

It was a wise move for the A.K.P. to put European Union integration back on the top of Turkey's agenda after the case for its closure was taken up by the Constitutional Court.
By Diba Nigar Goksel.


 

Questioning the Death Penalty

Given that in the Koran God equates the taking of one innocent life with the killing all of humanity, it seems quite irresponsible not to clarify potential grey areas when it comes to taking someone's life. By Ayesha Khan.


 

Food Fights

For the first time since widespread famines devastated whole populations, serious doubts about global food supply have gripped societies throughout the world. By Laura Carlsen.


 

Tony Blair's Palestine

Why should what worked in Northern Ireland—indeed, what was pressed on Britain by the United States—be unthinkable in the Middle East? Are we in the West guilty of double standards yet again? By Chris Patten.


Letter: Carter Deserves Better Than He Receives

Your article about Jimmy Carter was thorough and provocative. It's difficult for me to understand those who revile him for his efforts.


Letter: Greece's Reservations Aren't All That Illogical

There are many reasons why Greece has reservations over FYROM's constitutional name and the use of the name "Macedonia."


Letter: India Must Deal With Poverty Before It's Too Late

I am sure most people who rejoice because of the economic boom and the stock markets' upward trends then confuse the profiting minority with the suffering majority.


Letter: U.S. Has Right to Prevent Illegal Immigration

Chile has no business interfering in the internal affairs of the United States and the posture of its Senate is an affront.


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N.G.O.'s and Concerned Individuals Form Grassroots Campaign to Safeguard Human Rights of Refugees in Ghana

Megan Sullivan with Penelope Chester, The Niapele Project, Paris, France

The World Is Against Us, as Usual

Gavri Bargil, Ynetnews.com (Yediot Ahronot), Tel Aviv, Israel

The Specious 'National Security' Argument

Adam Isacson, Americas Program, Center for International Policy

A Redistribution of Power Essential in Lebanon

Graeme Bannerman, Common Ground News Service

The Moral Majority for Peace

Gershon Baskin, Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem, Israel

Carbon Cuts: Why Rich Countries Must Lead the Way

Renfrey Clarke, Green Left Weekly (radical newspaper), New South Wales, Australia

Plan Colombia: The Real Destabilizing Force in South America

Carlos Martinez, Venezuelaanalysis.com, Caracas, Venezuela

Women Are Agents of Change

Haifa Fahoum Al Kaylani, Common Ground News Service

Should India Also Develop Satellite-Killing Capability?

Sreeram Chaulia, Indo-Asian News Service, New Delhi, India

The People of Pakistan Have Spoken

Rehan Rafay Jamil, Common Ground News Service

Humbling Hamas

Alon Ben-Meir, Middle East Times, Washington, D.C.

Can I Have My Change Back: Arab-Americans and Obama's False Hope

Remi Kanazi, New York, N.Y.

Turkey's New Look Displeases Secularists

Michael Werbowski, Prague, Czech Republic

Post-Election Sierra Leone: Coming In From the Cold

Karamoh Kabba, Freetown, Sierra Leone

To Wear or Not to Wear the Hijab

Hafsa Kanjwal and Khadijeh Zarafshar, Common Ground News Service

Let's See Plan B, Please

Manuela Paraipan, Bucharest, Romania

Mahatma Gandhi and His Quest for Self-Realization

Ravindra Kumar, Delhi, India

U.N. Troops Accused of Human Rights Violations in Haiti

Maria Luisa Mendonça, Americas Program, Center for International Policy

Is Sarko Hypocritical?

Anene Ejikeme

Suharto: As He Lays Dying

Andre Vltchek, Jakarta, Indonesia

Kosovo: Quo Vadis

Michael Werbowski, Prague, Czech Republic

Muslim Charities Guilty Until Proven Innocent?

William Fisher, The Jordan Times, Amman, Jordan

After Bhutto

John Esposito, Social Science Research Council

Russian-Iranian Rapprochement a Necessary Evil?

Michael Werbowski, Prague, Czech Republic

Americans Glimpse the 'Real' Iran

Qamar-ul Huda, Mohammed Abu-Nimer, and Ayse Kadayifci, Common Ground News Service

Muslim Pilgrimage Exemplifies Believers' Equality Before God

Ahmad Al-Akhras, Columbus, Ohio

In the Shadow of Zion

Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Common Ground News Service

No Democracy in the Middle East Without Muslim Citizenry

Asef Bayat, ISIM Review, Leiden, Netherlands

Deuces High: How the U.S. Can Bring an End to Myanmar's Crackdown on Democracy

Josh D. Friedman, San Francisco, Calif.

On Civil Society, Democracy, and Dziekanski

Michael Werbowski, Prague, Czech Republic

Israel: Still a Democracy?

Shulamit Aloni, Ha'aretz (Liberal), Tel Aviv, Israel

Marshall Islands: Kwajalein Missile Range

Andre Vltchek, Worldpress.org correspondent

Letter: Anti-Blogger Law Approved in Italy

Poverty Alleviation in Nepal

Kamala Sarup

Letter: Zimbabwe's Political Newcomer

Southeast Asia: Resisting the Nokia E90

Andre Vltchek, Worldpress.org correspondent

Syria: There is a Role for Damascus

Volker Perthes, Common Ground News

Letter: The Truth About Jakarta

Israel: Measures of Confidence

Mark L. Cohen, Common Ground News

Israel: Moderating Among Moderates

Gail Lichtman

Letter: Clergyman Not Known in Chile by Alias

Letter: War in Iraq: Stay Off the Grass

Dual Nationality: A Blessing or a Curse?

Hanane El Hadi and Menna Taher, Common Ground News

Is This Ben Gurion or Hell?

Remi Kanazi

Beware the Growling Bear and other Predators

Raimondo Salomone

My Israeli and Lebanese Friends

Kamala Sarup

Letters: Disagreement With the Commentary on Colombia

Uribe's Colombia and U.S. Money

José María Rodríguez González

Letter: The Iran Crisis

Letter: The Offensive Exploitation of the Masai

Letter: An Alternative to Radical Islam

The Failure of the Israeli Left and the Two-State Solution

Remi Kanazi

How Far is Too Far?

Manuela Paraipan, Bucharest, Romania

The Wasatia Movement - An Alternative to Radical Islam

Mohammed Dajani

Selling a Convenient Untruth

Sammy Eppel, Caracas, Venezuela

Migrants and H.I.V./AIDS in Asia

Vivian Chong Wei Wan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

How to End 'Islamophobia'

Tawfik Hamid

The Challenge of American and Arab Fundamentalism

Ghassan Rubeiz, Common Ground News Service

Letter: Kosovo and the Ahtisaari Plan

Engendering Peace and Democracy

Kamala Sarup

The Expansionist Role of Iran

Naheed S. Ali

When Politics Ails Health

Ben Shao

Bill Maher’s 'Towel Headed Hos'

Remi Kanazi

'La Republique' is a Woman, But Can a Woman Win the Presidency?

Anene Ejikeme

Letter: The V.T. Tragedy and the Mental Health System

Letter: The Truth About Colombia

In the Footsteps of Muhammad

Amien Wangsitalaja, The Common Ground News Service

Why Banning Incandescent Lightbulbs Isn’t a Bright Idea

Peter Glover

The Politics of Pragmatism

Remi Kanazi

A Cigarette for Your Life Story

Daniel Lehman, NYU Livewire

Letter: Help for the Hmong

Letter: Coups in Fiji

What Iraq Needs

Youssef Benali, Caroline Fawzy and Austin Richardson, The Common Ground News Service

Waging the War of Peace

Ted Khan R. Juanite, Mindanao, Philippines

Can a Poor Country Become Rich?

Kamala Sarup, Kathmandu, Nepal

Letter: Attack on Zimbabwe Opposition Leader

Letter: Sierra Leone's Government

Letter: Global Warming

Diamonds: Symbols Of Love or Symbols Of War?

Miriam Mannak, Cape Town, South Africa

No Mercy

All Roads Lead to Checkpoints

Remi Kanazi

Exchange Siachen Confrontation for Peace

Q. Isa Daudpota and Arshad H. Abbasi, Islamabad, Pakistan

Myanmar Wants Pipeline Through NE India

Letter: About Yemen

Colombia's Rejection of a Humanitarian Exchange

José María Rodríguez González

The Obscenity of Vancouver’s Olympic Games: Here Comes Frankenstein

Am Johal, Vancouver, Canada

Crime, South Africa and the 2010 World Cup

Miriam Mannak, Cape Town, South Africa

The Beginning of the End For Britain's 'Merchant Class'?

Bright Simons, Essex, U.K.

Letter: Iran and the Concession in the Persian Gulf

Letter: Senator Barack Obama

Letter: The Current State of Affairs in Poland

Letter: Mugabe 2010 Presidential Honeymoon May Backfire

Letter: Disasters in Indonesia

Muslims 'Get' Globalization, but Does It Get Them?

Mehmood Kazmi, The Common Ground News Service

Not Looking for Peace

Manuela Paraipan, Bucharest, Romania

Islamist NGOs an Integral Part of Muslim Societies

Azza Karam, The Common Ground News Service

The Aesthetics of Execution

Am Johal

Why Isn’t My Generation Protesting the War?

Jennifer Kramer, NYU Livewire

Blood Diamond Malaise

Roland Bankole Marke

More Than a Question of Semantics in Iraq

Bill Glucroft, Common Ground News Service

Chile: The Death of an Assassin

Tito Tricot

One Day of Peace in Sri Lanka

Jason Thomas, Melbourne, Australia

Terrorists Are Criminals, Not Muslim Activists

Shaykh Ali Gomaa, Common Ground News

Letter: Jaamat-e-Islami—Pakistani Womens' Friend of Foe?

Letter: Censorship in India

Jewish-Muslim Dialogue Can Deliver

Leila Hanafi, The Common Ground News Service

Sowing the Seeds for the Next War

Manuela Paraipan, Bucharest, Romania

Pakistan’s President Musharraf Walking a Tightrope

Rehan Rafay Jamil, The Common Ground News Service

Arab Feminists Speak Out on Women's Rights

Letters: The New Pacific Wall

Experiencing Insecurity

Manuela Paraipan, Bucharest, Romania

'And Did You Visit Any Terrorist Camps?'

Komail Aijazuddin, NYU Livewire

Is This the End of 'The European Idea'?

NewNations.com

Letter: Sudanese Orphans

Letters: Guatemalan Adoptions

Letter: Iranian Political Prisoners

Letter: U.S.-Muslim World Relations

Letter: Turkey's Admission to the European Union

Letter: Iran Sanctions

Letter: World War II

Al Qaeda, Muslims are Infidels in Bush's 'Freedom Agenda'

Mohamed Al-Azaki, Sana'a, Yemen

Letter: Wind Energy

Suffering from Stockholm Syndrome in Lebanon

Manuela Paraipan, Bucharest, Romania

Letter: Problems with AirAsia

Letters: Gun Control in South Africa

Letter: Kenyan Orphans

Letter: Bird Flu Pandemic

Letter: Drought

Letter: Cuba in Transition

The Weak Link is the Lebanese Government

Manuela Paraipan, Bucharest, Romania

Assessment of the Situation in Lebanon Following UN Resolution 1701

The Lebanese Communist Party, August 12, 2006, Translated by Eric Mueller

Letter: Venezuelan Prisons

Can a Biased Media Prevent the Next World War?

Abukar Arman, Hilliard, OH

Letter: Anti-Americanism in the Muslim World

Letter: Hezbollah 'Kidnapping'

Looking in the Past

Manuela Paraipan, Timisoara, Romania

The Lemon Tree & Munich

Semih Minareci

Letter: H.I.V./AIDS

Letter: Population

Beautiful Madness

Am Johal, Haifa, Israel

Letter: Rudeness Study is Biased

Letter: Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Letters: Rape in the Congo

Letter: On Zimbabwe Deportations

Leadership Brings Responsibility

Manuela Paraipan, Timisoara, Romania

Letters: The Price of Free Speech

Political Governance Through Secularism, Sacrifices and Sycophancy in India

Prem Lal Joshi, Manama, Bahrain

The Existing Question

Remi Kanazi, New York City, NY

Diversity as an Instrument of Conflict

Manuela Paraipan, Timisoara, Romania

Why Amnesty Now?

Semih Minareci, Cordova, TN

Letter: African Leaders Were Not Alone in Committing Criminal Acts

America: Quo Vadis?

Michael Werbowski, Prague, Czech Republic

Call a Spade a Spade

Remi Kanazi, New York City, NY

Four Reasons to Think Before Acting on Iran

Mounir Ibrahim, Washington, DC

Overextended Empire: Can the U.S. Recover From the Era of 'Pax Republicana'?

Am Johal, Vancouver, Canada

"I love my country, but I hate the government."

Kanak Mani Dixit, Kathmandu, Nepal

Rachel’s Words Live On

Remi Kanazi, New York, NY

What is Wrong with the USA Today?

Theodore Anderson, Mount Vernon, WA

US Media Bias: Covering Israel/Palestine

Remi Kanazi, New York, NY

The Lobby Made Me Do It

Erik Schechter, Tel Aviv, Israel

Letter: A Catholic Priest Advocates for Illegal Immigrants

A Message of Hope from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Larry Rich, Israel

Letter: Racial Discrimination in Malaysia

Letters: Yemen and India

Letters: Nicola Calipari, Mexican President Fox, and John Negroponte

Letters: On Gitmo, Chavez, and War

Letters: On Africa and Chomsky

 
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