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

Rounding up predators

Originally published by our friends at Indian Country Today, In honor of Women’s History Month and the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8th, ICTMN debuts Navajo writer Valerie Taliman’s new series on the growing human rights crisis in Canada where more than 600 Native women...

March 17th, 2011 | Featured, Women, World | Read More

Women’s Memorial March honors victims, families

Originally published by our friends at Indian Country Today, In honor of Women’s History Month and the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8th, ICTMN debuts Navajo writer Valerie Taliman’s new series on the growing human rights crisis in Canada where more than 600 Native women...

March 9th, 2011 | Featured, Politics, Women, World | 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

Swiss miss Bush – GWB ducks Geneva criminal torture charges

Justice for George W’s torture violations jumped much closer this weekend. Ex-President George W Bush was supposed to fly to Switzerland to speak in Geneva February 15. But his speech was cancelled over the weekend because of concerns about protests and efforts by human rights organizations asking...

February 7th, 2011 | Politics, World | Read More