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  • Author: Andrew, Houston
     A non-Muslim and family friend reacts to the plight and case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.This document began life in October 2008 as an e-mail to the author’s family and friends to explain why he cared so much about what happened to this “terribly danger
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  • Author: Sayed Dhansay
    A few weeks ago I departed from South Africa for the Gaza Strip in order to take up a short-term voluntary post with a humanitarian organization there. As the Rafah border crossing with Egypt is effectively the only passage in and out of the besieged ter
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  • Author: Uri Avnery
     First, an honest disclosure: I loved the Shepherd hotel very much. In the first years after the Six-Day War, I was a frequent guest there. My work in the Knesset demanded that I stay in Jerusalem at least two nights every week, and after the war I swi
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  • Author: Alexander Cockburn
     Some time in early or mid-1949 a CIA officer named Bill (his surname is blacked out in the file, which was surfaced by John Kelly in the early 1990s) asked an outside contractor for input on how to kill people. Requirements included the appearance of a
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  • Author: Franklin Lamb - Beirut
    Mckinney stood up for the principals on which her country was founded 233 years ago.Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney returned hom
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  • Author: Uri Avnery
     Not every day, and not even every decade, does the Supreme Court rebuke the Military Advocate General. The last time this happened was 20 years ago, when the
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  • Author: Jonathan Cook - Nazareth
    Nefesh B'Nefesh announced a programme to offer financial incentives to new immigrants. Israel's housing minister called f
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  • Author: Hasan Afif El-Hasan
    The endgame for the Palestinians must be the establishment of a truly sovereign state. President Obama said his administration was
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  • Author: Salon.com
     After numerous delays sought by the Obama administration, it is expected that a 2004 CIA Inspector General's Report- aggressively questioning both the efficacy and legality of Bush's interrogation tactics -- will be released tomorrow. A heavily redacte
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  • Author: Ira Chernus
    (On June 30) Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.
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  • Author: Esam Al-Amin
    Only weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks, Charles Krauthammer, the Washington Post columnist and mouthpiece of the neoconservatives, revealed the target list of the Bush administration as it set out on its post-9/11 war footing. The list included
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  • Author: Vijay Prashad
    For Leften Stavrianos, 1913-2004.  No longer can it be said that Iran’s society is authoritarian. The robust display on the streets and within the Parliament, and indeed, within the circle of the éminence grises, particularly the turbaned mullahs of
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