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Video Interview on efforts to combat terrorism, war with Iraq, and Bush administration economic and foreign policy ZNet Article Whether women can collectively assert their power more often in the future remains to be seen ZNet Article The paper has made faulty allegations about Iran's nuclear program without running proper corrections -
- Friday, Feb 10, 2012
Commentary Without media questioning, the national security elite monopolize the terrorism theme ZNet Article Rather than viewing ‘zero problems’ as a failure, it should be a time to reaffirm the creativity of Turkish foreign policy in the course of the last decade -
- Thursday, Feb 09, 2012
ZNet Article Tender for a luxury development in Lifta, a Palestinian village on the western outskirts of Jerusalem, destroyed in 1948, was withdrawn by court order Video Interview on the University of Arizona divesting itself of investments in Motorola and Caterpillar corporations ZNet Article Liberals and leftists in Iran have in vain tried to raise their voices so that they can be heard by those who claim to strive for ‘another and better world’ -
- Tuesday, Feb 07, 2012
ZNet Article Alarmist reporting on 'terrorist' threat -
- Monday, Feb 06, 2012
ZNet Article This extreme example of police misconduct only compounds broader concerns of brutality and injustice -
- Sunday, Feb 05, 2012
ZNet Article If Obama can abandon Palestinian freedom and statehood for his own re-election, he can certainly support Israeli aggression in the hope that this will get him back in the White House ZNet Article Is USrael actually fearful of an attack from a nuclear-armed Iran? -
- Saturday, Feb 04, 2012
ZNet Article Obama still appears reluctant to break publicly and explicitly with Israel over its threat of military aggression against Iran Video Gigi Ibrahim talks about the revolution deepening in the workplace and how the newly elected Muslim Brotherhood government has become the focus of discontent
ZNet Article It has leaked that Gen. Martin Dempsey warned the Israelis that if they launched a strike on Iran that spiraled into a war, they would be on their own -
- Wednesday, Feb 01, 2012
ZNet Article Why closure of the strait of hormuz could ignite a war and a global depression
ZNet Article Israeli and US hawks are more interested in regime change than the country's nuclear programme ZNet Article A revolution reflects the character of its people ZNet Article Political rights are under siege by right-wing legislators, militant settlers, and a growing religious divide in the Israeli army ZNet Article The deaths caused by the U.S. in Iraq are "untold" by the media ZMag Article A look at the mainstrem media's spin on Iraq, Russian elections, etc -
- Tuesday, Jan 31, 2012
Commentary Because rules of engagement are set at the top of the command chain, criminal liability extends beyond the perpetrator under the doctrine of command responsibility ZNet Article We wonder if the Guardian would have described the Iranian assassination of scientists on US or Israeli streets as ‘goading’. ZNet Article The reckless escalation of aggression against Iran, both physical and rhetorical, continues apace ZNet Article A confluence of developments provoked a number of influential members of the foreign policy establishment to warn against any further escalation either by the U.S. or Israel -
- Monday, Jan 30, 2012
ZNet Article Do the women of MachsomWatch who help Palestinian workers appeal their travel ban beautify the occupation? That's what they ask in a new report ZNet Article The kind of pressure the U.S. and its allies have been exerting creates the basis for madness -- or for terrible miscalculation followed by inevitable tragedy -
- Sunday, Jan 29, 2012
ZNet Article "To blindly pressure and impose sanctions on Iran are not constructive approaches" -
- Saturday, Jan 28, 2012
ZNet Article The task of revolutionaries in this new wave will be to link the uprisings and sit-ins in the squares with the strikes and protests of workers and the poor ZNet Article The feeling at Tahrir was one of determination, a recognition that the struggle for revolutionary change will take longer - All ZNet Mideast

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- Friday, Jun 26, 2009
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- Wednesday, Dec 03, 2008
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- Tuesday, Jun 24, 2008
Audio During this conversation, Achcar and Warschawski discussed the current situation in Lebanon, Iran’s involvement in Iraq and its relations with Syria and the Hezbollah, US foreign policy in the region in the context of the upcoming presidential ele... - All Featured Audio

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- Saturday, Jan 21, 2012
ZNet Article The United States has shown no willingness despite the passage of more than 30 years to accept the outcome of Iran’s popular revolution of 1978-79 -
- Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011
ZNet Article There is nothing terrible about being in a minority, but there is nothing more appalling than to remain a mere spectator of history -
- Friday, Nov 25, 2011
ZNet Article US & Arab Protests Rooted in Latin American Revolutions -
- Tuesday, Nov 22, 2011
ZNet Article Interim government quits and elections in jeopardy after three days of violence that have left at least 33 people dead ZNet Article The situation is as horrible as the time of the revolution against Mubarak -
- Monday, Nov 21, 2011
ZNet Article An international appeal for solidarity has gone out today as tens of thousands of Egyptians face brutal repression in the streets of Cairo -
- Sunday, Nov 20, 2011
ZNet Article Cairo clashes between protesters and police spread to other cities, leaving at least two people dead and hundreds hurt -
- Wednesday, Nov 16, 2011
ZNet Article 'We have the right to reach Jerusalem. Why doesn't a settler need an entry permit? We do not obey apartheid rules. We're Palestinian, and this is Palestine' ZNet Article Why I wanted to Challenge the Israeli Naval Blockade of Gaza -
- Tuesday, Nov 15, 2011
ZNet Article The once pathetic group has now got the clout to stand up to Damascus - All Featured ZNet Mideast

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- Sunday, Nov 01, 2009
ZMag Article An interview with Lebanese journalist Rami Khouri -
- Wednesday, Jul 01, 2009
ZMag Article Analyzing the May 2009 Obama-Netanyahu-Abbas meetings -
- Friday, May 01, 2009
ZMag Article The causes and effects of the illegal Israeli attack on Gaza in January -
- Sunday, Mar 01, 2009
ZMag Article The new Administration continues efforts to undermine a peaceful settlement -
- Tuesday, Jul 01, 2008
ZMag Article Juan Cole, a widely respected expert on the Middle East, teaches history at the University of Michigan. He is a guest on major news programs. He is the author of many books including Sacred Space and Holy War. His latest is "Napoleon’s Egypt." I t... -
- Thursday, May 01, 2008
ZMag Article Having brought up Iran [in Part I], we might as well turn briefly to the third member of the famous Axis of Evil, North Korea. The official story right now is that after having been forced to accept an agreement on dismantling its nuclear weapons ... -
- Wednesday, Apr 02, 2008
ZMag Article Iraq remains a significant concern for the population, but that is a matter of little moment in a modern democracy. -
- Saturday, Mar 01, 2008
ZMag Article ZMO ONLINE-ONLY ARTICLE: A primary stated justification for continuing the U.S.-led military occupation of Iraq is that a withdrawal of Western forces would result in a “bloodbath”.... [T]hese images make two basic assumptions: that the U.S. prese... -
- Tuesday, Jan 01, 2008
ZMag Article The White House got it right when they initially gave their immoral incursion the acronym OIL (for Operation Iraqi Liberation). “Oil” is the main reason that a rapid and thorough U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and true Iraqi freedom and independence ar... ZMag Article The Annapolis Conference of November 27, 2007, has been featured as a “peace conference” called to help bring about a peaceful resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. But this is a deception and fraud. - All Featured ZMag Mideast

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- Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Blog Post After posting this optimistic report, we received disturbing news of a brutal government crackdown against the democratic movement in Morocco, with violent police attacks on demonstrators in fourteen cities during the monthly national mobilisati... -
- Sunday, Jan 31, 2010
Blog Post As it has in the past, the United States appears to be focusing on a military solution to complex social, political and economic problems. The result may be to exacerbate the very problem of extremism the Obama administration hopes to suppress. -
- Monday, Sep 21, 2009
Blog Post A call for the AJC to practice conflict transformation, rather than simply add to the mass of one-sided propaganda so common in the midst of conflict. -
- Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009
Blog Post Norman Finkelstein and others are organising a global march on Gaza, based on Gandhi's principle of 'satyagraha' (non-violent resistance), to break the illegal siege, and they could use your help. -
- Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Blog Post Al-Ghajar village is literally a border town. It sits smack dab in the middle of Syria, Israel and Lebanon. Not a good place to be, under any stretch of the imagination... -
- Tuesday, Jul 22, 2008
Blog Post My impression is about the same as others who have met him... -
- Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Blog Post The AP recently reported of the worst violence in Lebeanon since their civil war. But is this really the case? - All Mideast Blogs

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- Thursday, Jul 28, 2011
Video Tariq Ali presents a talk to the British Socialist Workers Party's Marxism 2011, held in London, June 30-July 4 -
- Monday, May 23, 2011
Video Robert Fisk reacts to US President Barack Obama's May 19 speech (4 minutes) -
- Thursday, May 12, 2011
Video Talk on The Perils Of Islamophobia (10 minutes) -
- Wednesday, May 04, 2011
Video Robert Fisk, British author and journalist for the Independent, speaks on al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's death -
- Wednesday, Nov 04, 2009
Video The Imperial College Political Philosophy Society, in association with Palestine societies at UCL, SOAS, Goldsmiths, LSE, Imperial and Kings, proudly present one of the greatest political philosophers of all time: MIT Professor Emeritus Noam Chomsky -
- Sunday, Jan 25, 2009
Video Part five of recent address on the Israeli atrocities in Gaza. Video Part six of a recent address on the Israeli atrocities in Gaza. - All Mideast Video

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