Review of Blood from Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror, by Douglas Farah.

Why does Iran consider Afghanistan so important? What are Iran's strategic aims in Afghanistan?

Rather than stemming from irrationality, fear, or hatred, racism developed in Europe, prior to slavery, as part of a rational and scientific project to understand the world.

If the Bush administration wantsa "forward strategy of freedom" for the Muslim world, it cannot turn a blind eye to Libyan president Gaddafi's internal repression and international adventurism.