The debate over al-Jazeera's free speech rights versus the dangers of hate speech can occur only because it ignores the fact that Canada is an involuntary combatant in the war on terror.

When in doubt, pander: That is Paul Martin's motto as prime minister, and it goes double during election campaigns.

President Bush and his team of self-declared democratic revolutionaries have done a lot of talking about supporting the Iranian people, but they haven't delivered on their promises.

Iranian leader Ali Khamenei proclaimed that the United States is entering an Iraqi quagmire. It couldn't happen to a more worthy bunch.

Iran has long been the Middle East's prime candidate for democratic revolution. Given a free choice, Iranians would almost certainly throw the mullahs into history's dust bin.

Iran's arrest of journalist Roxana Saberi recalls Iraq's treatment of Farzad Bazoft.

Michael Rubin criticizes an analysis of former Iranian president Muhammad Khatami and gives limited praise to a book examining Sino-Iranian relations.

We should not abandon Iraq because of the actions of a few individuals, and nor should we abandon the oppressed throughout the Middle East.