“Our Boys shown blindfolded on Iranian TV” / “Forced to make confessions and say sorry.” This was how UK daily The Sun Wednesday reported the

The ostrich from Rafah children's zoo is in a bit of a flux about what to do. Its home's been razed by Israeli troops blundering,

11 May 2004 I was on the tube this morning and it was packed, there was an old man, shaped like a ball, with a

Posted by Salam Pax : : One year ago the Americans came to my country and got rid of Saddam Hussein. Not exactly of course,

'Single Aryan male', I read in the classifieds, 'seeks similar'. Bet any blond who might respond to so ridiculous an ad will be surprised to

I met this Iranian young couple last night, a musician and a girl who ate salad, who want to marry people with UK passports, even

Alive one minute, next she's dead She had a 'brain attack' they said. She was a mother, and now her son Says return the body

The poet Ali Mashangian shares some of his notes on the recent war in Iraq: War brings contradiction. One minute newspapers say: “Bomb, bomb, bomb.”

Response to Maryam Namazie's “False phobia”. In an ideal world there would be no religious symbols in schools and the need for religion itself would

While every other socialist organisation in Britain is focusing on pressurizing Mr Blair to own up to the lies upon which we went to war,

News control The word oil — like the substance itself — has to be refined before it can be sold to consumers. Once the Pentagon,

Three weeks ago I heard that the LA-based dancer and entertainer Mohamad Khordadian had been arrested on arrival at Mehrabad airport. Stuck for a reaction

US probes Blair stance THE FBI has claimed that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has breached US national security by lodging his head too far

News has just arrived of an Afghani cab driver who has been paralysed from the neck down after an attack by a passenger in apparent

My antenna picked up this conversation from the Bush family phone line: — “Hot damn, Dad! They bombed the Trade Center. What do I do?”