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Western governments have strange ways of dealing with others. They start with the claim that they represent the will of the international community.

The great hopes aroused by the ouster of two long-ruling dictators in Tunisia and Egypt appear to have dimmed.

I am a second-generation Palestinian living in exile because I am not allowed to return to Jerusalem where I was born.

It is now clear that the US-NATO combine has lost in Afghanistan. They cannot make any more excuses.

I agree with Br. Shahid Saleem’s letter when he says there is no free speech in the US.

The US is in terminal decline. Its economy is shattered and there is little prospect of recovery, at least in the near future.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister D.M. Dayaratne’s order to demolish the 65-year-old masjid in Dambulla and build one elsewhere strikes at the very root of religious freedom.

In a crowded field of 13 candidates, Dr. Muhammad al-Mursi of the Ikhwan-backed Hizb al-Hurriyah wa-al-‘Adalah (the Freedom and Justice Party), won the first spot in presidential elections on May 23 and 24.

The unprecedented hunger strike by nearly 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails not only galvanized the entire Palestinian population but also exposed yet again Zionism’s true nature as an ideology of indescribable cruelty, illegal arrests, and indefinite detention and torture.

Buddhists are supposed to be non-violent and peaceful people. Many no doubt are. Their monks dress in simple clothes and lead a frugal existence spending most of their time in chants and meditation.