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- Friday, May 25, 2012
ZNet Article A time for dialogue with Israel’s official representatives should wait until nonviolent public pressure against the regime mounts and the extreme power imbalance is lessened Commentary This has been the road to oblivion and it’s paved with forgotten bodies -
- Thursday, May 24, 2012
ZNet Article One would think that the presidential election in post-Revolution Egypt resembles what takes place in democratic countries: except that Egypt is not a democracy -
- Monday, May 21, 2012
ZNet Article More than 15 months after Egypt's Tahrir Square uprising, Egyptians say that daily living conditions are worse now than they were in the Mubarak era -
- Sunday, May 20, 2012
ZNet Article Bitter experience has taught Iran that America will not listen unless you bargain from a position of strength -
- Saturday, May 19, 2012
ZNet Article Diplomacy, also commonly thought of as an alternative to war, must be understood within the underlying context of the United States' efforts to reestablish its sphere of influence over Iran ZNet Article The Nakba should become important for all persons of good will, whether Palestinian or not, whether in Israel or outside, as an occasion for displays of solidarity -
- Friday, May 18, 2012
ZNet Article The Palestinian people are the only losers. ZNet Article Israel’s tireless efforts to conceal the historical events leading to its creation -
- Wednesday, May 16, 2012
ZNet Article The nature of extreme self-sacrifice, provided it is autonomous and nonviolent, is an inherently spiritual undertaking even when its external appearance is political ZNet Article Many Palestinians remember and reference al-Nakba, also known as the Catastrophe, on May 15 every year -
- Monday, May 14, 2012
ZNet Article The following statement was issued early Friday morning, May 11, by the leadership of the hunger strikers in prisons, following their negotiations with IPS officials -
- Sunday, May 13, 2012
ZNet Article The phrase "solidarity" is empty if we are not permitted to imagine or care about the lives of people different from ourselves -
- Friday, May 11, 2012
ZNet Article For most of his presentation, Powell wasn't inventing dialogue, but he was presenting as facts numerous claims that his own staff had warned him were weak and indefensible ZNet Article Israel is currently experiencing the kind of turmoil that may or may not affect its political hierarchy following the next general election -
- Thursday, May 10, 2012
ZNet Article Violent clashes between protesters staging a sit-in outside the Defence Ministry Headquarters in Cairo’s Abbasseya district and unknown assailants killed at least 20 people -
- Tuesday, May 08, 2012
ZNet Article Palestinian suspects - including minors - can be legally detained for far longer periods than Israelis, and for lesser offenses ZNet Article Migrant workers from the subcontinent often live eight to a room in slums – even in oil-rich Kuwait ZNet Article What was once pronounced by the undisputed leader of the Israeli right, now sounds more like declarations coming out of the liberal and far left -
- Friday, May 04, 2012
ZNet Article Can anyone doubt that if there were more than 1300 hunger strikers in any country in the world other than Palestine, the media in the West would be obsessed with the story? -
- Thursday, May 03, 2012
ZNet Article An ongoing hunger strike by nearly 2,000 Palestinian inmates stands as a reminder of their humanity, but Israelis are more interested in revenge -
- Wednesday, May 02, 2012
ZNet Article Any power that worships nuclear weapons is a power that can very easily push the button -
- Tuesday, May 01, 2012
ZNet Article Palestinian women gather at a spring that was once theirs, to discuss the future of the spring and their community ZNet Article The disgrace is that 414 American troops died in 2011, largely to save America’s reputation -
- Monday, Apr 30, 2012
ZNet Article Iran has been developing nuclear capacities in order to obtain leverage in diplomatic talks with the United States -
- Sunday, Apr 29, 2012
ZNet Article Surely the doors of Islamic perception may now swing open in the Arab world ZNet Article Roughly a year after being arrested for organizing illegal protests, Bassem Tamimi is released from prison, amid suspicions that he will resume illegal protest activity ZNet Article Israel feels that the Palestinians have been defeated. It’s over -
- Saturday, Apr 28, 2012
ZNet Article Activists showing support for prisoners at a solidarity tent in central Ramallah have found little public support for their cause, ZNet Article A central paradox of the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia has been that youth movements and trade unions were central in overthrowing the dictatorships -- but in the subsequent elections, these forces were pushed to the margins. How can this parad... - 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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- Tuesday, May 08, 2012
ZNet Article Migrant workers from the subcontinent often live eight to a room in slums – even in oil-rich Kuwait -
- Sunday, Apr 29, 2012
ZNet Article Surely the doors of Islamic perception may now swing open in the Arab world -
- Sunday, Apr 22, 2012
ZNet Article I suspect that the Arab Awakening will still be going on after we've all died of old age -
- Wednesday, Mar 07, 2012
ZNet Article The battle for justice in the Middle East is our battle. It is part of the vast, global battle against the 1 percent -
- 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 - 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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