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- Saturday, May 18, 2013
ZNet Article We, the undersigned, ask the World Health Organization and the Iraqi Ministry of Health to release this important report on the magnitude and trend of congenital birth defects -
- Friday, May 17, 2013
ZNet Article Understanding the relevance of political preconditions is crucial to rational behavior in seeking solutions to long festering problems ZNet Article The Bedouin say the project is part of plan to evict thousands of Bedouin from their tents ZNet Article "The same social networks that activists used in unison to bring down Mubarak are now being used to score short-term political goals, manipulate public opinion, and even incite violence" -
- Thursday, May 16, 2013
ZNet Article It is an event “of cosmic proportions”, said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description of Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference -
- Saturday, May 11, 2013
ZNet Article “THE TWO-STATE solution is dead!” This mantra has been repeated so often lately, by so many authoritative commentators, that it must be true ZNet Article Israel again rebuffs peace with the Arab world -
- Tuesday, May 07, 2013
ZNet Article The allegations of chemical weapons being used in Syria have given rise to a whole escalating campaign for direct US military intervention ZNet Article Iraqi leaders fear that the country is sliding rapidly into a new civil war which “will be worse than Syria” -
- Wednesday, May 01, 2013
ZNet Article Once seen as a moderate party, the AKP government in Turkey is using anti-terrorism legislation to unleash a wave of repression against the left and the Kurdish movement -
- Tuesday, Apr 30, 2013
ZNet Article If terrorists in Canada got direction and guidance from Al-Qa’ida operatives, it is highly improbable that those operatives were working under the protection or with the cooperation of Iran -
- Sunday, Apr 28, 2013
ZNet Article In Syria, the United States has worked against peace and for violence -
- Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013
ZNet Article One would think only a madman can ignore millions and millions of people -
- Thursday, Apr 18, 2013
ZNet Article At least seven people have been killed in sectarian clashes in Egypt -
- Wednesday, Apr 17, 2013
ZNet Article Having experienced the shock and grief of the Boston bombings, cannot we in the US empathize more with Iraqi victims and Syrian victims? ZNet Article It doesn't take much to develop PTSD symptoms -
- Saturday, Apr 13, 2013
ZNet Article US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks show that the US went into damage-limitation mode following publication of the NIE’s key findings on December 2, 2007 -
- Friday, Apr 12, 2013
ZNet Article The use of threats and isolation against Iran and North Korea is a bizarre, perilous way to conduct foreign relations -
- Thursday, Apr 11, 2013
ZNet Article Interview on Palestinian Resistance, "Peace Talks" and U.S. Role in Region (Pt. 2) ZNet Article North Americans have no historical memory of the causal events that led to the current events of today does not mean that they didn’t happen. The people of Iran remember them ZNet Article Obama was no different than his predecessors. He never had been -
- Monday, Apr 08, 2013
ZNet Article This Palestine, existing in dreamless sleep for many Palestinians, will never return -
- Sunday, Apr 07, 2013
ZNet Article Private or publicly listed firms received at least $138 billion of U.S. taxpayer money for government contracts -
- Saturday, Apr 06, 2013
ZNet Article ‘Confused’ may be an appropriate term to describe Turkey’s current foreign policy in the Middle East and Israel in particular ZNet Article The campaign of lies and exaggerations about Iran has been moving forward with full speed for over three decades -
- Friday, Apr 05, 2013
ZNet Article The big multinational petroleum giants now run the nation’s fields -
- Thursday, Apr 04, 2013
ZNet Article Detainees captured by SAS and SBS squads subjected to human-rights abuses at detention centre, say British witnesses -
- Wednesday, Apr 03, 2013
ZNet Article There have been crueler military actions, more wicked army operations, but there was never anything quite like the IDF’S Operation Cast Lead. -
- Tuesday, Apr 02, 2013
ZNet Article Born-again Christians often don't realise their 'God-given' right to invade Iraq destroyed one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East ZNet Article Nothing happened in the elections. The platforms of Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid), Avigdor Lieberman (Yisrael Beitenu), Naftali Bennett (HaBayit HaYehudi) and Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) are pretty much the same - 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

Mideast Video
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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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