-
Egypt: This nation is more than just Islam
feature Egypt is in danger of losing its identity to Islamism.
feature -
Egypt: Same as the old boss?
feature President Mohammed Mursi surprised everyone by firing the top brass in the military and issuing a decree to restore presidential powers.
feature -
Middle East: What comes after Syria’s collapse?
feature The quicker the Assad regime crumbles, the better off the whole region will be.
feature -
North Korea: Kim sets a surprising new tone
feature Under its young new leader, North Korea’s closed society is starting to open up.
feature -
Saudi Arabia: When vice is wearing eye makeup
feature Members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice “have repeatedly shown that they do not respect the people’s right of privacy,” said Khalid Alnowaiser at Arab News.
feature -
Canada: Include us in ‘Buy American’
feature Many U.S. goods are jointly produced with parts from both Canada and Mexico, and acting as a single large market would help all three economies, said Robert Pastor at The Globe and Mail.
feature -
Egypt: Freeing ourselves from U.S. influence
feature Egypt is finally liberating itself from the Mubarak regime’s legacy of subservience to the U.S., said Hassan Badi at Moheet.
feature -
Canada: Obama’s Keystone cop-out
feature Obama played politics and nixed Keystone on environmental grounds, a cynical move designed to win the votes and money of the green movement, said Ezra Levant at the Calgary Sun.
feature -
Pakistan: Is civilian government doomed again?
feature President Asif Ali Zardari, who was elected amid public outrage at the assassination of his wife, Benazir Bhutto, has aroused both the enmity of the courts and the military.
feature -
Egypt: Have Islamists hijacked the revolution?
feature The latest Al-Jazeera poll shows that nearly 50 percent of Egyptians support the Muslim Brotherhood, while another 27 percent support the Saudi-backed Salafists.
feature -
Brazil: The army takes on the drug gangs
feature It’s official: The army and the police have “reconquered” two of Rio de Janeiro’s worst slums, reclaiming them from the drug gangs that have run them for years, said Rodrigo Rötzsch in Brazil’s Folha.
feature -
Egypt: Coptic Christians under attack
feature The Egyptian army killed some two dozen Coptic Christians who were protesting the army’s failure to punish a series of Islamist attacks on their churches.
feature -
Canada: A court that treats us like children
feature If you crumble “at a rude word from some random loser, you have problems no hate-speech judgment can begin to address,” said John Robson at the Ottawa Sun.
feature -
Mexico: Is America going to go fascist?
feature The prevalence of “anti-immigrant demagoguery” increases the likelihood that Mexicans will be discriminated against, exploited, or abused, said an editorial in La Jornada.
feature