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IN THIS THIRD instalment of a series on the nature and incidence of genocides, alleged genocides and massacres carried out by the colonial powers and rulers against the indigenous populations [...]

THIS MONTH ISRAEL will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of its independence. For Palestinians however, six decades of oppression and tyranny are nothing to make merry over. In this issue [...]

ANTHONY MARSHALL and his wife, Charlene, live in a sunny apartment on East 79th Street, lushly decorated with a grand piano and a wall of books. Last fall, long before [...]

ON 28 JUNE, the Kremlin announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered his intelligence services to hunt down and kill the Iraqi jihadists who slaughtered four Russian diplomats kidnapped [...]

The southern province of Kandahar in Afghanistan has a reputation of mystery and legend. The small, dusty and dry city of the same name is often portrayed through images of [...]

FROM HUMBLE BEGINNINGS in Sanaa, Khadija Al Salami achieved diplomatic status as a representative of her country in one of Europe's most vibrant capital cities, but it was not an [...]

International journalist Hadani Ditmars was in Baghdad just as it was about to erupt into a site of violence, kidnappings and suicide bombings. In her best-selling book, Dancing in the [...]

'For sometime now I have thought it possible to believe that America was going insane. In her own way.' --Martin Amis, London Fields RENDITION COMES FROM the verb render which [...]

In December 1991, a few days before Christmas. Shirley Lonethunder vanished. The 25-year-old mother of two was in the process of moving back to Saskatoon. Saskatchewan from the White Bear [...]

A recent obituary in the New York Times told about Frank Smith, 'who as an inmate leader at Attica prison was tortured by officers in the aftermath of the prisoner [...]

When Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica on April 26, 1937, more than 1,650 people were killed and nearly 900 wounded. This slaughter of civilians was broadly [...]

There is not one of you who dare to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street looking for another job.... The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of mammon. --JOHN SWINTON (1880), FORMER NEW YORK TIMES MANAGING EDITOR, When John Swinton made the remark cited above, he was already retired from his positions at both the New York Times and the New York Sun. Privileged with the luxurious [...]

PROFESSOR Henry Reynolds contends that our white forebears murdered over 20,000 of our black forebears. Keith Windschuttle argues that this figure is grossly exaggerated, prompting a call from academics and [...]

Taslima Nasrin is an internationally-known feminist writer from Bangladesh. Living in exile since 1994, she has become one of the Muslim world's most vociferous dissidents. Her ammunition is language, so [...]

From April 8-11, 2003, U.S. armed forces rolled through Baghdad, Iraq, meeting only sporadic resistance. The looting began before the fighting ended. Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's palaces and the [...]

It now appears that the looters who ransacked the Baghdad Museum after the invasion of the city by US troops got away with considerably less than was first thought. Teams [...]

Early one morning last November Ibrahim Shayeb and his family awoke, terrified, to the deafening sound of an explosion at their home in the Ain il-Hilweh refugee camp in south [...]

THE CENTENARY of Federation in 2001 was ostensibly to celebrate one hundred years of independent, democratic Australian government. Given the very few other societies that have recorded such an achievement, [...]

Austria always will have a special place in the life and near extermination of European Jewry. It was here in Vienna that the notion of a Jewish homeland was born [...]

Dan Rather is the sphinx of our time, and his riddle is 'Kenneth, what is the frequency?' Who can forget our collective shock and bewilderment when we opened the New [...]

Members of Parliament may no longer laugh about it, but the federal government's policy response to violence against women loudly and clearly says that they still don't get it. Twenty-five [...]