Archive for the ‘Middle East’ Category

Uri Avnery on Israel and Palestine

Uri Avnery is an Israeli peace activist, journalist and writer. He is famous for crossing the lines during the Battle of Beirut to meet Yassir Arafat on July, 3, 1982. This was the first time the Palestinian leader ever met with an Israeli. Avnery is also the founder of the Gush Shalom (Peace Bloc)...

May 2nd, 2011 | Government Protest, Middle East, Politics | Read More

Bringing the revolutions home

US activists and progressives have been inspired by the revolts and revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East. The recent movements in Wisconsin and elsewhere in the Midwest were echoes of our own neglected legacies of grassroots struggle. But if our movements remain limited to the Democratic...

April 25th, 2011 | Featured, Government Protest, Middle East | Read More

One man hurdle on the road to democracy

Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali fled Tunis rather swiftly. Hosni Mubarak tried in vain all his tricks including inciting violence with the help of some of his supporters and surrendered. The beleaguered Muammar Qaddafi is trying to halt the democracy train with the active support of his clan and groups...

March 8th, 2011 | Featured, Middle East, World | Read More

An open letter to the people of Middle East and North Africa

Dear Sisters and Brothers of the Middle East and North Africa: I am a student of violent and nonviolent revolutions and have been witnessing your “Jasmine Revolutions” with great excitement as well as deep concern. Like millions of people around the world, I am so full of admiration...

March 7th, 2011 | Featured, Middle East, Politics | Read More

The battle of Egypt and the Western hypocrisy

The media coverage of the popular uprising in Egypt has exposed the Western apparatus of social control, and the backwardness of foreign policy. Most “experts” of foreign policy intentionally avoid engaging with the real issues and are in denial on at least three fundamental fronts: (a) the social...

February 16th, 2011 | Featured, Middle East, Politics, US, World | Read More

The immolation of the Middle East

The Youth in the Middle East are hungry for food, jobs, and social justice. On December 17, Tunisian police confiscated the produce stand that Mohamed Bouazizi used to make his very small living because he did not have the necessary permit to sell fruits and vegetables. This young, college educated...

January 18th, 2011 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

Cover-ups, coups, and drones

A Holiday Sampler of What Wikileaks Reveals about the US Human rights advocates have significant new sources of information to hold the United States accountable. The transparency, which Wikileaks has brought about, unveils many cover-ups of injustices in US relations with Honduras, Spain, Thailand,...

December 21st, 2010 | Middle East, Politics, World | Read More

Jeffrey Blankfort: Chomsky misfires on US-Israel relations

Jeffrey Blankfort Jeffrey Blankfort is an American journalist and recognized expert on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Kathleen Wells: Hi. I’m Kathleen Wells, political correspondent for Race-Talk, and today I’m speaking with Jeffrey Blankfort. Jeffrey Blankfort has been engaged in political...

November 4th, 2010 | Featured, Middle East, US, World | Read More