They Exude Timidity, Naivety and Myopia — What are the lessons every kid on the block learns when there’s a neighborhood bully on the prowl? Keep your distance. Don’t show weakness. If threatened, project strength. Don’t cower but fight back. Face the problem. If you submit once it will be even worse the next time. …

Expanded BRICS Could Topple U.S. Hegemony — The United States gleefully sanctions countries and everything in sight, weaponizing its economic and financial power by using the dollar and political pressure to bend adversaries to its will. The United States uses secondary sanctions or the concept of extraterritoriality — forcing other countries to support its sanctions on its…

Student newspapers can, and some do, serve an important role in our educational system. They can keep university administrators and faculty honest and true to their mission as epicenters of research and knowledge and purveyors of ethics and good citizenship. Recently, we have witnessed two exceptional and tenacious examples of…

The supporters of Israel are topped by the United States as enabler in chief. America’s gifts to Israel are many and include military hardware, intelligence, political support in all forms, pressure on countries to embrace Israel, financial gifts and a compliant media that soft peddles Israeli transgressions. The silencing of…

Trump Has Had It Right All Along — Americans love simple solutions and quick fixes to problems, even problems with many roots. Today, one party and its most ardent followers denounce the “deep state” and the “elites” for running the country under the cover of darkness and destroying its democratic system. The other party decries their opponents for…

America’s Acceptance of MBS’ Transgressions Exposes Our Depraved Society — Mohammed bin Salman, MBS, has dollars a plenty and Americans love dollars so much that many pretend to be, or are, oblivious to his many transgressions. Thus are Americans rapidly falling into the abyss of moral decay and replacing Old Glory with the dollar. Before we had even heard of…

We Need All Hands On Deck to Have a Fighting Chance As an undergraduate, I admired many faculty members at the university where I was a student, even some who never taught me, most notably Professor Noam Chomsky. He was (and is) a most renowned linguist in the United States and he took courageous stands against the Vietnam War and in…

Is Religion the Ultimate Weapon of Autocracy? — There is little doubt that many Muslim majority countries have been and are in crisis — with a landscape today that exudes injustice, oppression, corruption, irrational economic and social policies and hopelessness. …

Why Muslim Countries Falter and How They Could Shine — We are happy to announce that the 2022 Islamicity Indices are now available: http://islamicity-index.org/wp/latest-indices-2022/ Along with the list of updated data sources in an Appendix 2022 and the details underlying the Islamicity Indices 2022 (xlsx): http://islamicity-index.org/wp/links-downloads/ While there are ups and downs in the performance (scores) of individual countries from…