Abdul Khaliq Farahi was Afghanistan’s Consul General to Pakistan in 2008, when he was kidnapped in Peshawar. He had already been chosen for promotion to ambassador, and was just weeks away from…
Category: World
The west’s latest bogeyman
The murder of Boris Nemtsov was Vladimir Putin’s fault. There is absolutely no doubt about that, at least not in the minds of the editors of the mainstream media. The first reports…
Syriza – the radical left?
The victory of Syriza in the Greek elections on 25 January show the willingness of the working class to stand up to vicious attacks by the ruling class on their living standards…
The Peshawar school massacre
When I read accounts of mass killings, like the attack on the military school in Peshwar on 16 December, I experience horror and disgust. The accounts remind me of watching documentaries about…
Blind Justice?
If justice is blind, that may explain why the International Criminal Court (ICC) has failed to notice the skin colour of the only two people it has convicted in its 12 years…
They are NOT radicals
One of the most common words used in reporting on events in the Middle East is “radicalisation”. And in the UK the current media furore centres on a debate about what to…