George W Bush's term will come to an end soon. Catastrophic as it has been, the world is lucky it wasn't worse, writes Mohamed Hakki*
I wonder how president Jimmy Carter is feeling these days. When he uttered the word "malaise" to describe the (...)
Time is running out for both sides to reach an equitable solution to the troubles in Palestine, reflects Mohamed Hakki
Abba Eban is widely credited to have coined the expression that the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. (...)
Wolfowitz at the World Bank is a travesty, writes Mohamed Hakki*
As the saying goes, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach." The Bush administration is "teaching" the rest of the world about democracy and freedom while rejecting democratically (...)
Before a real clash of civilisations becomes reality, Mohamed Hakki* pleads for reason -- and some comprehensive rethinking -- in Washington
Dear President Bush,
It is with my deepest regret that I write this letter to you. People throughout the (...)
Zarqawi may be dead, but public information in America is in worse shape, writes Mohamed Hakki*
If you want to understand anything serious about what goes on in America, especially in its war in Iraq, you're better off not watching American TV. To (...)
With more evidence emerging of US war crimes in Iraq, even hawkish critics are asking whose agenda America is following abroad, writes Mohamed Hakki*
If you listen to the Bush version of reality, columnist Bob Herbert wrote in The Washington Post (...)
Political forces are preparing the ground for executive orders to wage war, writes Mohamed Hakki*
Now that US armed forces have near completed the destruction of Iraq for the sake of Israel, they are readying the last phase of the Israeli plan by (...)
A heavy-duty report on the impact of the Israeli lobby on US foreign policy leaves Washington exposed and the lobbyists reeling, writes Mohamed Hakki*
There is an old saying about arrogance that goes, "beware of the irony of fate". At the moment (...)
The cronyism of Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank is ruining the institution and driving the best of its staff out, writes Mohamed Hakki*
In an article on the eclipsing fortunes of the neocons vis-à-vis Bush foreign policy, the Wall Street Journal (...)
Amid scandals of government spying on US citizens, Bush faces the challenge to open 2006 on a cleaner wicket, writes Mohamed Hakki
The firestorm that was started by President Bush on 17 December when he admitted that he ordered the surveillance of (...)
The machinations of Washington's neo-conservatives have cost America dear yet the instigators of the disastrous war against Iraq have yet to admit to a single mistake, writes Mohamed Hakki*
There was a time when no one knew who the neo-conservatives (...)
Going down in the ratings, Bush has to scramble to save even a thread of modesty as the emperor is revealed naked, writes Mohamed Hakki
The swift withdrawal of President George Bush's Supreme Court nominee allowed him to change course amid (...)
With every week, the American administration goes further into the twilight zone, writes Mohamed Hakki
In France they say the more things change, the more they stay the same. In Bush's America they are more likely to say the more things change, the (...)
Something has changed in America and it doesn't augur well for Bush and his buddies, writes Mohamed Hakki
It could be a coincidence that in the week that world leaders gathered in New York to attend the United Nations' annual General Assembly (...)
The appointment of Paul Wolfowitz to head the World Bank is among the most ominous signs yet of the ambitions of Washington's elite, writes Mohamed Hakki*
Every self-respecting economic publication in Europe expressed dismay, even disgust, at the (...)
The US has little basis upon which to lecture the rest of the world on near enough anything, writes Mohamed Hakki
The most dangerous and unfortunate effect on the Arab world of the Iraq war is that the Arab people are losing sight of the distinction (...)
Tenet's resignation shows up small gaps in the neo-conservative intelligence and propaganda-based system, but the fundamental problems remain unchallenged, writes Mohamed Hakki
Last Thursday, Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet (...)
Iraq's moment of truth is at hand, writes Mohamed Hakki from Washington
What can the United States do now that it has failed completely and miserably in Iraq? Can we say defeated? I am not a military expert but most of the military opinions that one (...)
The images of American soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners is making political waves, and is forcing a re-think of the US Middle East policy, writes Mohamed Hakki from Washington
On Saturday 8 May, The Financial Times captured the crisis America is (...)
America squandered prestige, fortune and lives in Iraq, not through bad luck, but arrogance and ignorance, writes Mohamed Hakki
In a little less than 10 days, President George W Bush will deliver his annual State of the Union address to a joint (...)
The credibility of Bush's concern for the democratic rights of the peoples of the Middle East must be tested against his record in office and the rhetoric of his buddies. It doesn't look good, writes Mohamed Hakki
There is an old Syrian joke about a (...)
Mohamed Hakki laments, and finds reasons for, the lack of American interest as Israeli violence in the occupied territories intensifies
During the presidential contest between Bill Clinton and George Bush Sr, a phrase was coined that became the (...)
Do Israeli considerations colour America's vision of Iraq? wonders Mohamed Hakki from Washington
If one wanted to produce a television programme for the series: "This Was the Year That Was", which stories and which images would be used? Up until (...)
Are the new enemies of the US of its own making, asks Mohamed Hakki
In a brilliant article entitled "The conceited empire", French historian Emmanuel Todd commented that the US was steadily losing allies. One gets the impression that an office, (...)
The appointment of Daniel Pipes to a Washington-based think tank begs a great many questions, writes Mohamed Hakki
In the greater scheme of things the appointment of a professor at an institute in Washington DC, even an institute that is federally (...)