Pakistan

"One cannot speak of socio-economic development, of democracy and freedom, without applying the law equally to all citizens and ensuring the separation between the private and public spheres. But can this be done without checks and balances, a free press, and an independent judiciary -- without democracy?"

"Peace in Palestine through territorial partition is a doomed fantasy and the time has come to discard it. While it may once have worked on paper, in practice the Israeli state has succeeded, through the relentless colonization of the Occupied Territories and lately its grotesque separation barrier, in its long-standing goal of rendering any workable partition impossible."

"Instead of asking for exposing the real culprits behind events such as 9/11, the neo-cons of Christianity and the neo-mods of Islam are coming up with more creative ways to consolidating tyranny in the Western world."

"By referring to Israel’s strike on Syria as an act of “self-defence”, surely George Bush has introduced a new meaning to the term “self-defence”.

"Sharon and his men carried out their mission with aplomb. The UN observers who arrived at the scene only two hours after Unit 101 had finished its murderous attack described "bullet-riddled bodies near the doorways and multiple bullet hits on the doors of the demolished houses" which "indicated that the inhabitants had been forced to remain inside until their homes were blown up over them."

A reader asks: "When are you going to admit you were wrong?" We've received a number of such inquiries (not all quite so polite) about our position on the war in Iraq, particularly from readers who were disappointed in our prewar stance.

Washington Post Editorial (Iraq in Review 10/12/2003)

"But any Arab or Moslem—or anyone else with a newspaper, radio or TV—could see the one-sided American policy favoring Israel and the conquest of a sovereign Islamic nation that posed no imminent threat to the invading country."

"While the Israel-India-Russia deal is called a three-country arrangement, the basic state-of-the-art Raytheon technology is US. Russia’s involvement is an Indian psy-war initiative directed to make Pakistan feel the geo-political heat of the 4-country association."