The Obama Administration's determination to proceed with the strikes is a big mistake, morally and strategically.read more

It was thirty-two long years after Gandhi returned to India from South Africa that India attained independence. And It took Martin Luther King almost a decade to get segregation consigned to history’s dustbin.read more

If a cricket match can make things better even by just a bit, let us have more batsmen facing down bowlers.read more

Ten years after President Bush withdrew the United States from the Kyoto climate change agreement, the United States is still dragging its feet on global warming.read more

A movie like “Miral” should be welcomed, instead of being condemned.read more

Salman Ahmad spreads a message of love and coexistence.read more

A mix of security considerations, Iranophobia, and oil compelled the Obama folks to abandon even any pretensions of being on the side of democracy and self-determination.read more

It’s too bad that it takes a disaster of this magnitude to teach us the risks associated with nuclear energy. Those risks are way too high. We have no future with nuclear power.read more

As if his ridiculous, fact-free playing to the Birthers’ gallery wasn’t enough, Huckabee went on to descend deeper into the muck.read more

The Middle East—and the world—will never be the same again.read more

Gene Sharp is perhaps the most influential proponent of nonviolent action alive, as can be seen by his intellectual contribution to the Egyptian movement.read more

He could have done us all a favor by continuing to sulk in the shadows.read more

Free-market economics (endorsed by the United States) has benefited only a few in the region.read more

On Middle East democracy, free trade, and Afghanistan-Pakistan, Obama resorted to spin.read more

The United States backed the Tunisian dictator during his twenty-three-year-long dictatorship, changing its tune only at the last minute when things were beyond repair for the tyrant.read more