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Over the past 20 years the outbreak of “civil-society” groups has changed the political culture in ways that serve Western colonial interests.

The overuse of financial sanctions has spurred Russia, China, and now the EU to work on alternative institutions that would place their companies outside the...

The Bahraini government is “deeply repressive”, not just from the Amnesty point of view, but it has been described so by most of international human rights...

Conflict over Kashmir started after the partition of India in 1947 when Maharaja Hari Singh, the governor of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir,...

Many observers notice a correlation between President Trump’s defamation of immigrants and minorities and the spike of intolerance and prejudice towards the...

With a deranged president in the White House, one had hoped that the British government could assert a degree of independence. The evidence suggests otherwise.

"This proposed legislation would be contrary to the values of diversity, acceptance, tolerance and respect for individual rights and religious freedoms,"

The use of powerful sanctions in the misguided attempt to provoke regime change in Venezuela and Iran is not only likely to fail in its own right—in the long...

Tourism companies all also list numerous hotels, B&Bs, attractions or tours in Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). They are...

The Netherlands is reasonably expected to be a tolerant society. However, a recent study by the European Agency for Fundamental Rights has found that the...

Saudi Arabia is not a democracy and its regime is not publicly accountable for its policies, domestically or internationally.

The sanctions are primarily focused on financial measures but when you make it difficult to finance trade, it means that the overall sanctions have an effect...

“These shocking new numbers suggest that US authorities have either misinformed the public about how many families they had forcibly separated, or they...

Many observers believe the US sanctions run contrary to the principles of human rights as they make the life difficult for ordinary citizens and complicate...

Islamophobia, for example, in the United States cannot be separated, of course, from its political agenda in the Arab and Muslim world but it also comes from...

A pervasive perception in US policy circles and among US allies is that Iran seeks hegemony in the Middle East. Israel and other regional states often claim...

Prof. William O. Beeman, head of the anthropology department at the State University of Minnesota, believes that Donld Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon...