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August 31, 2004

Letters to the Editor, August 31, 2004

What If the Pentagon Spy Was a Muslim Spy By Ishtiyaque Ahmad

The Najaf Aftermath By Mike Whitney

US Support for Settlements Undermines Road Map By Essa bin Mohammed Al-Zedjali

Armageddon, in a box By Jim Kirwan

New York Lays Out the ‘Go Home’ Mat for Republicans By Linda S. Heard

The August Surprise By James J. Zogby

India-US Strategic Alliance By Ghulam Muhammed

Americans need to connect the dots By John Janney

Chechnya Remains the Darkest Corner of Europe Due to Russian Policies By Thomas de Waal

How the US media learned to love Rumsfeld By Norman Solomon

Shaukat Aziz: The Great Expectations? By Mumtaz Hamid Rao

August 30, 2004

Palestinian Prisoners Brave On, A Poem By Genevieve Cora Fraser

Israeli Mole in the Pentagon By Mike Whitney

Report from New York City: Is this going to be another Summer of Love? By Jane Stillwater

Israeli Operations Out of Feith's Office: The Plot Thick By Mark Dankof

Breaking Our Word, Again: Let's Tell the American People and the World the Truth By Sam Hamod

Secular India Protests Over Hijab Legislation to France, on Behalf of Sikhs but not for Muslims By Ghulam Muhammed

Whit Site Down For Now Due to a Malicious Attack By Charles E. Carlson

An Officer in Court By Uri Avnery

Zionist Penetration in Africa, Hassan Tahsin

Palestinian Prisoners, Arab News

August 29, 2004

Don't Believe American Media Lies About the Al Sistani-Al Sadr Relationship By Sam Hamod

Gandhi in Palestine: Grandson of All Battles  By Ashish Kumar Sen

A Personal Bias By Ewa Jasciewicz

Palestinians Want an End to Their Solitary Confinement, Karma Nabulsi

Avoiding 'another dark stain in international history' Musa Keilani

How Hollywood Fuels Hatred Among Nations and Communities, Alaeddin Hamed Shuror

Mideast peace process, US election, Iraq make headlines in Arabic press, Thamer Abu Baker

Showing consideration, Walid M. Sadi

Well Done, Athens! Arab News

August 28, 2004

Al Sistani and Al Sadr Bring Peace to Najaf By Sam Hamod

Where are the oppressed Shi'is, WMDs and Democracy? By Yamin Zakaria

Fear and loathing in New York: My report from the RNC By Jane Stillwater

Putin's Visit to Ankara: Russian-Turkish Relations in Perspective By K. Gajendra Singh

Israel and Golan Heights: It’s Water, Not ‘Security’ P.V. Vivekanand

Did George W. Study Maslow at Yale? Michael Saba

Americans Have One Last Chance to Show Their Opposition to Bush’s Iraq War Naomi Klein

Closing the Doors on Saudi Women Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid

Pakistan and India Need to Spell Out Rules of Engagement Nasim Zehra

August 27, 2004

Having Duped Britons Into War, Blair Must Be Held to Account, Must Be Impeached By Adam Price

American foreign policy needs radical revision By Patrick Seale

Neocon Hubris and Ideology Made Iraq a Trap for US By Sidney Blumenthal

Portrait of a Miserably Undecided US Voter By Richard H. Curtiss

Russian Air Crashes Arab News

What does America want? By Hichem Karoui

August 26, 2004

Prosecuting the Media By Mike Whitney

More Lies About Najaf and Al Sadr By Sam Hamod

Abu Ghraib Abuse Arab News

Iraq and Vietnam: Debating the Morality of Going to War By Jonathan Power

To regain world support By Musa Keilani

August 25, 2004

Letters to the Editor, August 25, 2004

Free Iraq, Free Palestine, Free NYC, Free Speech,  a Poem, By Genevieve Cora Fraser

Arab demographic bomb worries Israel By Linda S Heard

"Why is death like a wedding?" Or like sex? By Jane Stillwater

Najaf mirrors the five major modern Arab crises, Rami G. Khouri

Time to Move Together, Arab News

August 24, 2004

Caving in to Sharon By Mike Whitney

Noam Chomsky and 'Left' Apologetics for Injustice in Palestine By Noah Cohen

A Book Worth Reading By James J. Zogby

Abu Ghraib: Ordinary Folk or Human Aberrations? By Linda S. Heard

Pakistan's Inevitable Demise By Abid Ullah Jan

Terminate the Final Crusade By Charles E. Carlson

The Iraq War and Unmourned Victims By Muhammad Fahd Al-Harithy

Valley of Peace, Impossible War By David Lawrence Cade

August 23, 2004

Global Warming and the Scourge of Unregulated Capital by Mike Whitney

Confessions of a “Tourroist” in USA By Hashim Syed Mohammad Bin Qasim

Violation of the Law of Noninterference, Hassan Tahsin

War and Media: Differences in Perception, Muhammad Fahd Al-Harithy

Milking Bush, Arab News

August 22, 2004

Exhuming Mengele; Medics assist in Abu Ghraib abuse By Mike Whitney

A Very One-Sided War, Uri Avnery

Boycotting the Israeli Academy, Lisa Taraki

Non-violence In The Palestinian Arsenal, Charles Demers

To regain world support, Musa Keilani

Wars Sans Blood: TV Initiates Change, Muhammad Fahd Al-Harithy

Slavery Still a Brutal Reality for Millions of Human Beings, Farida Burtis

Vote Vs. Bucks, Arab News

Catching the moment, Jordan Times

August 21, 2004

Same Old Same  By Azmi Bishara

“Old Glory”: The Enduring Icon of Imperial Neglect By Mike Whitney

Mike Whitney's article on Guantanamo Trials By Jennifer Van Bergen

Each Passing Day in Iraq By David Lawrence Cade

Politics made easy: Would you bet your life on dinosaurs or mammals? By Jane Stillwater

Alternatives: The United States Confronts the World By Immanuel Wallerstein (Book News)

Interesting Numerical Findings From the Holy Qur'an By Tariq Al Swaidan

A Secret Agenda: Hijacking the Eternal Moment, Muhammad Fahd Al-Harithy

The Tail Wagging the Dog, Michael Saba

August 20, 2004

Letters to the Editor, August 20, 2004

Al Sadr Agrees to Pull Out If There Is A Genuine, Honest Truce By Sam Hamod

Bush Invaded Iraq to Secure Israel, Says Sen. Hollings By Mark Weber

Would a civil disobedience approach work in Palestine? Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh

The Moscow option, Jordan Times

August 19, 2004

“The Rebel Cleric” and the Siege of Najaf By Mike Whitney

The Election Pendulum Swings Both Ways By Thomas McCullock

Fahrenheit 9/11, Too Hot to Trot Here, Fawaz Turki

Quid pro quo of Pakistan-US relations, Husain Haqqani

August 18, 2004

Private Armies and Winning Elections By Mike Whitney

Now Iraqis Know What It’s like to Live Under "Democracy" By Linda S. Heard

Kerry May Not Make a Foreign Policy Breakthrough, Yet ... By Manzoor Alam

An Open Letter to Imperialist John O’shea By Ghulam Muhammed

Israel Is Given a Free Hand Ahead of US Elections, Uri Avnery

August 17, 2004

Will American politicians one day stand up to Israel? By John Anast

Bravo Venezuela! Bravo Chavez! Bravo Democracy! By Sam Hamod

The UN: “Chatterbox” or “Relevant” By Mike Whitney

Don't Blame Arab Media By James J. Zogby

Israel Escalates Military Offensive against Palestine as Iraqi Resistance Builds By Genevieve Cora Fraser

Seymour Hersh and the Missing Zionist-Israeli Connection By James Petras

The Washington Post and Michael Peroutka By Mark Dankof

Take A Stand... In Front of A Church That Will Not Take A Stand By Charles. E. Carlson

August 16, 2004

Letters to the Editor, August 16, 2004

Extraordinary Level of Daily Hardship for Palestinians By Richard H. Curtiss

“The Rebel Cleric” and Iraqi Liberation By Mike Whitney

Israeli Espionage: When a Honey Trap Goes Bad A Governor Resigns By John Anast

All the Truth By Bill Henderson

Breakup Of The North Pole By Dirk Dunning

Nader or a Third Party Is the Only Choice By Tony Soldo

The Najaf Consultation By David Lawrence Cade

Flawed Pre-War Intelligence as a Scapegoat for Politicians By Faisal Sanai

Iraq: Will a President Kerry Choose the De Gaulle Option? By William Pfaff

August 15, 2004

Israeli Espionage: When a Honey Trap Goes Bad A Governor Resigns By John Anast

The Preemptive Invasion of Iraq Was Staged in the Service of Israel By Paul Balles

Guantanamo “Mock Trials”: Rumsfeld's and Scalia’s spectacular assault on the rule of law  By Mike Whitney

The Sorrows Of Florida, Najaf and Iraq By Sam Hamod

Najaf: A Replay of the Tragic Kerbala Events? By  By Hashim Syed Mohammad Bin Qasim

Why I am a Conservative (and proud of it too) By Jane Stillwater

World Premier of “Women in Struggle” highlights the Palestinian Women Prisoner Movement By Genevieve Cora Fraser

Iraq: Atrocities, Death, and Deceit By Zack Krasuk

Anti-Semitism, Dispensationalism, War, Empire, and the State of Israel By Mark Dankof

American Israel: What Difference? By Khaled M. Batarfi

An Open Letter to Peace-Loving Americans By Ibtissam Al-Bassam

August 14, 2004

Mr. Allawi is a traitor to Islam, to Iraq and to the Arab World; He Must Be Tried For War Crimes By Sam Hamod

Mea Culpas at the Washington Post By Mike Whitney

Unmasking the Outlaws By Jim Kirwan

Abu Holi Checkpoint: Torture of Palestinians in the Heart of A Romantic Landscape By Sami Abu Salem

A Film About Brainwashing That Brainwashes, Michael Saba

Pakistan: Struggle Against ‘Honor Killings’ Gathers Momentum, Nasim Zehra

August 13, 2004

Letters to the Editor, August 13, 2004

Prelude to a Massacre: Waiting in Najaf By Mike Whitney

Israel Wipes a Palestinian Farming Community off the Face of the Map (In Self-Defense, Of Course) By Genevieve Cora Fraser

A Price For Treachery By Yamin Zakaria

America's Outdated Domination Theology By Abid Ullah Jan

One Veteran's Outrage at John O'Neill's Smear Campaign on John Kerry By Jack Dalton

Presbyterian Church and Racist Israeli Policies By Mazin Qumsiyeh

Muslims’ turn in the 2004 US presidential election By Ben Tanosborn

The Folly of the Corporations By Jim Kirwan

Foreign Troops Should Quit Iraq, Tariq Ali

Fixing Bremer’s Blunder, and Letting Loose the Words, Sarah Whalen

Tax Local Text Messages, But Not Oil, Rasheed Abou-Alsamh

August 12, 2004

Palestine Discovers Israel in Need of Heart Replacement Surgery By Genevieve Cora Fraser

The Shame of Palestine, Iraq, and Grenada : America and the Abuse of Power By Sam Hamod

De-Development, Israeli-Style, Sam Bahour

How Reverends Enable Church Bombers in Iraq By Charles E. Carlson

CIA puppet installed to pacify Iraqi resistance — but will it work? By Linda Averill

Venezuela Floridated By Greg Palast

Iraq, Still Clinging to Life By David Lawrence Cade

My Day of Terror Alert, Fawaz Turki

Misconceptions Dominate the Oil Debate, Bassam Fattouh

Reservations For Indian Muslims By Ghulam Muhammed

August 11, 2004

American Double Standards on Atomic Weapons and Religion By Sam Hamod

Bush accused of politicising terror By  Linda S. Heard

Iraq: Unconscious at the Scene By David Lawrence Cade

Albany Muslim Community Calls For Objectivity By Faisal Ahmad

A Member of the US Power Elite Explains the US Invasion of Iraq to his Son By Janice Walding

Darfur's ugly resonance in the Arab world, Rami G. Khouri

Coalition Weakness Has Exacerbated Iraq Situation, Jennie Matthew

Pakistan: A Faithful Sepoy? By Eric S. Margolis

Unexpected Support, Arab News

August 10, 2004

Letters to the Editor, August 10, 2004

American Attacks on Najaf: It’s On Our Heads By Sam Hamod

It's Still the US Mideast Policy, Stupid By James J. Zogby

Lies of the Israeli Peace Movement By Richard Hugus

Pakistani Troops to Iraq? By Mumtaz Hamid Rao

Deviate From the US Line and End Up Like a Kleenex, Linda S. Heard

What the US Congressional Committee Did Not Say, Mohammad Salahuddin

New order of things, Jordan Times

Costs of N-Energy, Arab News

August 9, 2004

2 Racist Tracts :Anti-Islamic Book Fuels Racism in Italy, Manchurian Candidates Does the Same in America By Sam Hamod

Some Order in the Mess:  Questions and Answers about Sharon's Disengagement Plan By Uri Avnery

Interesting Numerical Findings From the Holy Qur'an By Tariq Al Swaidan

The Politics Of Spin: The Media  and Bombing Churches and Mosques By Yamin Zakaria

The real war rages on By Abid Ullah Jan

There is Another Way: We could try facing the truth for a change By Jim Kirwan

Human Rights Report and the Reality By Wahib Abdul Fatah Soufi

Zionist Interference in European Politics, Hassan Tahsin

Dangerous Strategy, Arab News

PNA reform, end of occupation imperative, Jordan Times

August 8, 2004

'The only course of action' Musa Keilani

US' position vis-a-vis Arabs, Palestinian chaos, Darfur in the Arabic press headlines, Thamer Abu Baker

Arab-American Voice Needed, Khaled M. Batarfi

UK Must Not Let Them Rot in Guantanamo, Corin Redgrave

Shibu Soren and Bananas in a Republic, M.J. Akbar

Why West Indians, Asians and Africans in UK Are Turning on Each Other,  Darcus Howe

Al-Sadr Factor, Arab News

August 7, 2004

Letters to the Editor, August 7, 2004

Bush and American Military Are Making Matters Worse in Najaf By Sam Hamod

National Intelligence Director: A New Threat to the Republic By Mike Whitney

Hitler is Alive in Israel By Michael Santomauro

Response by True Torah Jews to LA Times Article About Presbyterians' Boycott By Rabbi Joseph Dershowitz

August 6, 2004

Letters to the Editor, August 5, 2004

Ashcroft, Bush, Ridge and the Law of Averages By Sam Hamod

Jose Padilla: “Arbitrary Imprisonment”, the Heart of Tyranny By Mike Whitney

Is Sudan next? Off Track By A. A. Mohammad

August 5, 2004

The Great Terror Hoax By Mike Whitney

Gaza's Siege – “The Killing Fields”: Interview with Dr Mona El-Farra and Dr Jess Ghannam, Transcribed and Edited By Anne Gwynne

Would John Kerry as President of the United States Change the Course of History in the Middle East and throughout the World? By Genevieve Cora Fraser

Hitler is Alive in Israel By Michael Santomauro

Jabalia: Beauty and Horror in the Sky By Sami Abu Salem

Americans Must Stand Tall To Bring Back Their Democracy!! By Deepak Sarkar

Tom DeLay Has Got To Go! An Old Vets Opinion By Jack Dalton

August 4, 2004

Letters to the Editor, August 4, 2004

Ashley, I and the Missing Republican National Convention By Jane Stillwater

Bush's Own Gettysburg Demise is Coming: The State of Pennsylvania on November 2nd by Mark Dankof

European Jews Stand Fast, We Support You By Russell Waxman

Living in the House of Lies By Jim Kirwan

Where Democratic Values Should Begin at Home By Linda S. Heard

Pakistan Army has a long history of 'helping' their brother Muslims in their hour of need in far off places By Yaseen Ahmed

The Oligarchs: How the Virgin became a Whore By Uri Avnery

August 3, 2004

Letters to the Editor, August 3, 2004

9/11 Commission recommendations: “An American KGB” By Mike Whitney

Pull Out US troops in Mindanao By Amirah Ali Lidasan

Choosing Iraq over America? By Jane Stillwater

Anarchy and Occupation, the Epilogue To Genocide By Edward W Miller

The "war of ideas": America's Waterloo By Abid Ullah Jan

Kerry's Convention By James J. Zogby

Oil will be the driving factor for military intervention in Sudan By John Laughland

A New Book: “Silent Victims: The Plight of Arab & Muslim Americans in Post 9/11 America”, by Aladdin Elaasar

August 2, 2004

Iraqi Muslims Did Not Blow Up the Christian Churches By Sam Hamod

Prejudice: Basis of the Hebrew State By Hassan Tahsin

John Kerry: A Big Step Toward the White House By David Dumke

Can't Bush and Blair See Iraq Is About to Explode? By Robert Fisk

Back on Course Arab News

August 1, 2004

Letters to the Editor, August 1, 2004

Wind Of Sorrow, A Promise to Palestine By Nahel A. Rimawi

Evidence Still Matters By Abid Ullah Jan

Hope Is on the Way: The Disturbing Words of John Edwards By John Chuckman

Israeli Incitement against PNA: Musical Chairs and Reform Illusion, News Analysis By the International Press Center

The Middle East-101 By Tariq A. Al-Maeena

Turkey and Iran Coming Closer By K Gajendra Singh

Ask the Hamiyan-E-Vajpayee By Mohammed Zeyaul Haque

Baghdad is a city that reeks with the stench of the dead By Robert Fisk

Doctors and Torture in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay By Robert Jay Lifton

The New 'Zionist World Order' First Summit Held in Jerusalem: Names, Topics, Plans

 

 
Earth, a planet hungry for peace

 Apartheid Wall

   
The Israeli Land-Grab Apartheid Wall built inside the Palestinian territories, here separating Abu Dis from occupied East Jerusalem. (IPC, 7/4/04).

 

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, like a Python. (Alquds,10/25/03).

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