Switzerland on Sunday voted by 58 percent in favor of banning minarets. This campaign poster was banned for being racist, but apparently the goal of […]

Solar Power Costs 50% Lower than Last Year : CleanTechnica Thin-film solar is leading the way down to greater affordability. Higher finance costs have hurt […]

Afghan border police say they killed 27 Taliban fighters in Khost Province. If the Afghan security forces were that good, however, then they wouldn’t have […]

By far the most important news coming out of Pakistan has nothing to do with al-Qaeda or the Taliban. It is a tale of the […]

Irony of the decade: How the War on Terror spawned a whole troupe of Middle Eastern-American standup comedians. Q TV’s interview with comedian and actor […]

The board of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday condemned Iran for secretly building a new nuclear enrichment facility at Fordo near […]

Text of the International Atomic Energy Agency resolution on Iran from the IAEA website. Derestricted 27 November 2009 (This document has been derestricted at the […]

IRAN: Authorities confiscate lawyer Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize | Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times I was privileged to be at a conference […]

Proposed talks between the US and the Taliban, to be brokered by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, have broken down because the Taliban are unwilling to […]