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July 31, 2004

A Tragic State By Azmi Bishara

9/11 Commission: “They don’t Hate our Freedoms after all” By Mike Whitney

Sudan: Where there is Oil, there is “Turm-Oil” By Hashim Syed Mohammad Bin Qasim

Gallows in Iraq! By Mumtaz Hamid Rao

The Case Against George W. Bush By Ron Reagan  

Israel ignores the lessons of history By Steve Niva

Surprise! Democratic National Convention Nominates Kerry/Edwards By Thomas McCullock

July 30, 2004

Sharon Government Strands 2,500 Palestinians at Rafah-Egypt Border Crossing, IPC Interview with Salim Abu Safiya About Their Plight

Shifting the War to Iran By Mike Whitney

The 9/11 Report Bias of the Inept By John Anast

Corporate Executive Salaries Are Grotesque By Sam Hamod

Inheriting the Spin By Jim Kirwan

Muslim force in Iraq: after all, why? By Abid Ullah Jan

President Carter Speaks the Truth in Boston By Charles E Carlson

US Congressional Fever of Israel-Fealty Intensifying By Shirl McArthur

July 29, 2004

Letters to the Editor, July 29, 2004

Odd Timing By the Bush Team By Sam Hamod

The Thin Red Line, Part 3: Living With Fear By Jim Kirwan

Bush's October Surprise: Attacking Iranian Nuclear Facilities Using the Israeli Proxy By Warren Hastings

My weird weekend at the Bohemian Grove By Jane Stillwater

The Wailing Wall of Contention By Manzoor Alam

Time to apply South Africa remedy to Israel By Mazin B. Qumsiyeh

Book Summary: State Terrorism & the United States: From Counterinsurgency to the War on Terrorism By Frederick H. Gareau

July 28, 2004

Farouk Abdel-Muhti: Stateless Palestinian Escapes Iron Machine of Injustice By Genevieve Cora Fraser

A Saudi Proverb By Mike Whitney

Dick Cheney Tries to Use and Abuse U.S. Marines at Camp Pendleton By Sam Hamod

Fascism goes mainstream By Abid Ullah Jan

How Kerry Can Demonstrate Good Leadership By Steve Moyer

The Thin Red Line, Part II: Questions and Answers By Jim Kirwan

All of America's politicians, not just Republicans, are bald-faced liars By Mark Franklin

Britain should stay out of Sudan By Linda S. Heard

Assault on Iraqi Women By Gregory Elich

No Big US Foreign Policy Changes If Kerry Wins By Simon Tisdall

July 27, 2004

The Thin Red Line, Part I By Jim Kirwan

Whether It’s Bush or Kerry, Israel’s Laughing, Linda S. Heard

“Control Room”: inside Al Jazeera TV of Qatar By Mike Whitney

A Unified Palestinian Leadership Is Urgently Needed By Mustafa Al-Barghouthi

Fatah’s Dilemma By Mamdouh Nawfal

Reminiscences of Conventions Past By James J. Zogby 

Should India be with the Colonizers or Liberators: Let its People Decide By Ghulam Muhammed

July 26, 2004

The Zarqawi Apparition By Mike Whitney

Terrorists Attacked America Because They Hated "Freedom"? You Bet They Did By Mark Franklin

Palestinian-American Family Ensnared in Israeli Death Trap By Genevieve Cora Fraser

July 25, 2004

Who or What Is A Zarqawi? By Sam Hamod

From FOX News Analyst to “Torture-Warden”: The Evolution of Jonathan Idema By Mike Whitney

Sharon's Gaza Plan is a Ploy By Mustafa al-Barghouthi

Palestinian Universities Post Urgent Appeal Due to Israeli Racist Imposed Hardships By Genevieve Cora Fraser

The War on Commonsense By Abid Ullah Jan

The Senate, the Iraq War and the 80/20 Rule By Ben Tanosborn

The political implications of the ICJ-advice concerning the building of the Israeli Wall By Astrid Essed

Does Saudi Arabia Really Need US Foreign Aid? Michael Saba

An Arab Letter to the US Electorate Hassan Yassin

Iraqi Kurds Fear Warlords May Sabotage Unity Jonathan Steele

July 24, 2004

Cold-blooded murder and genocide as normal tools of policy find an American public advocate By Gary Zatzman

9/11 Commission Says Neither Hezbollah Nor Iraq Were Involved with 9/11 Attacks By Sam Hamod

Whitewashing 9-11; “When everyone is to blame, No one is to blame” By Mike Whitney

The national security illusion By Mark Yannone

Their Gift to our Future By Jim Kirwan

US Failed to Protect Its People, Julian Borger

Pakistan: Retracing Its Ideological Path, Nasim Zehra

Darfur Crisis, Arab News

July 23, 2004

Letters to the Editor, July 23, 2004

The “Crisis” in the Palestinian Occupied Territories By Mike Whitney

Insight into an American Zionist bigot By Paul J. Balles 

Better policies not endless war By Phil Hong 

Israel Tries Mending Eroded Alliance With Turkey By K. Gajendra Singh 

Australia to exit from Coalition of the unwilling By Ghulam Muhammed 

Freedom By Amir Ali 

Ode to Cynthia, Israel Shamir 

Bush Administration Has Reasons to Fear ‘Flip Flopper’ Kerry, Sidney Blumenthal 

Ivanov Becomes Terminator of Russian Diplomacy, Kim Murphy 

Warnings and Failures, Arab News 

July 22, 2004

The “Aborted” ‘04 Election By Mike Whitney

An Old Vets Opinion: Bush and the Torturing of Iraq’s Children By Jack Dalton

The Good Boy Scout By Uri Avnery

Liberals should lead; conservatives should censor By Steve Moyer

Why Bush attacked Iraq? Ghulam Muhammed

We Are The System By Bernard Fine

Buyers’ Beware By Jim Kirwan

July 21, 2004

Letters to the Editor, July 21, 2004

Anti-Semitism in France? Or just another way of disparaging Muslims? By Mike Whitney

Even CNN and BBC Beating Drums of a New War, on Sudan This Time By Ghulam Muhammed

The World Is Knocking on Israel’s Door By Sam Bahour

ICJ deems wall illegal: Calls upon world to live up to obligations of International Law Palestine Monitor

If the People are Sovereign in Iraq, are they not in Kashmir? By Farida Ghani Burtis

Lies by any other name are just as odious By Linda S. Heard

What Matters To You By Jim Kirwan

Holding the Press to Account for Falsehood, George Monbiot

Scam Industry, Arab News

July 20, 2004

Iraq’s New Terrorist Prime Minister By Mike Whitney

America Is Almost Gone:  We have one party with 2 names By Sam Hamod

Beware the Rise of the Fourth Reich By Indira Rai-Choudhury and Jim Kirwan

My land is, in fact, a Paradise: Johayna Marlow of Pacifica Radio Interviews Jamal Juma' , Shariif Omar, and Anne Gwynne about the ICJ Ruling

Spatial Deception Used to Brainwash Israelis about the Non-existence of Palestine and Palestinians By Genevieve Cora Fraser

Iraq’s Leader Must Be Beyond Reproach Linda S. Heard

America's Liberals and Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" By John Chuckman

An Open Letter of Encouragement to Cynthia McKinney By Mark Franklin

Arab Americans at the 2004 Conventions By James J. Zogby

Highlights: The flow of ideas between Arabs and Americans By David Lawrence Cade

International Terrorism, the new sunrise industry By Ghulam Muhammed

July 19, 2004

Mr. Sharon - French Jews don't need your "help" By Russell Waxman

New book by senior US intelligence official slams Bush administration policy 'Imperial Hubris' joins long list of critiques By Hussein Ibish

Clinton Sees Renewed Efforts for ME Peace, Richard H. Curtiss

Key to Himalayans' Oath By Mumtaz Hamid Rao

The Rule of Law and the Rule of Exceptions, Hassan Tahsin

Marie and the Ghosts, Uri Avnery

Unfolding Chaos, Arab News

July 18, 2004

Zionism, with its Eurocentric foundation and Anglo-American mission, is adrift, not the Palestinians By Gary Zatzman

The Problem with Neutrality Between Palestinians and Israel By Katheleen Christison

Vanishing the Palestinians By Ghada Karmi

Don't blame Arafat: Camp David failed because Israeli hardliners manipulated intelligence By David Hirst

Kerry Meets Core Supporters, Paul Harris

‘Ah Wi Nus’ Amr Mohammed Al-Faisal

Euro Under Test, Arab News

July 17, 2004

A Case for Sanctions By British Labor Party MP Gerald Kaufman

Back to Context By Azmi Bishara

The Israeli Hafrada Wall: Sabeel's Position

Our “moderate” press By Ben Tanosborn

Life on earth: Out of Control Because of Genetic Engineering By Angela Badelt

The Great Pretenders By Phil Hong

Dump Cheney? Cause for Pause, Sarah Whalen

Others Are Us, Tariq A. Al-Maeena

Neighbors Must Engage on Kashmir, Nasim Zehra

July 16, 2004

Letters to the Editor, July 15, 2004

International Court Ruling: A Golden Opportunity for a Policy Change in the US and Israel By Hassan El-Najjar

America's Secret and Permanent Bases in Iraq: Why America Will Never Leave Iraq By Sam Hamod and Doonsebury

A Legal Interpretation of The International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on The Israeli Wall By Salwa de Vree

Iraq: Actions and Motives By Yamin Zakaria

Wither the Empire: The Rise of Global Resistance By Omar Barghouthi

A Legal Interpretation of The International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on The Israeli Wall By Salwa de Vree

Senate Report Helps Crack the Code About Bush and His Apostles, Sidney Blumenthal

UK Went to War on a False Premise, Steve Richards

Duplicity Toward Friends, Arab News

July 15, 2004

Israeli People's Most common Mistakes By Gilad Atzmon

Tear Down That Ugly Scar Through Palestine’s Heart By Linda S. Heard

Two Imperial States Using Twentieth Century Methods to subjugate developing countries and provoke 'terrorism' By Henry D Souza

Let Bush and Kerry Lead With their Children Into Iraq and Afghanistan By Sam Hamod

Castle in the Sky? By Mumtaz By Hamid Rao

It’s Time to Drop This Fallacy in Mideast Mohammad T. Al-Rasheed

The Fine Art of Flouting the UN Fawaz Turki

War Is Proving Political Problem for US, Allies Sonya Ross

Edwards’ Appeal to ‘Elitist Populism’ Is Big Boost to Kerry James P. Pinkerton

Winning the Muslim Vote Won’t Be Easy Ismail Patel

Butler Inquiry Arab News

July 14, 2004

International Court Ruling: A Golden Opportunity for a Policy Change in the US and Israel By Hassan El-Najjar

The Liberation of Palestine from Israeli Occupation – A Universal Cause Not Merely an Academic Exercise By Genevieve Cora Fraser

The Truths That Can’t Be Told By Jim Kirwan

America's Democracy Initiative in the Middle East By K. Gajendra Singh

Finally, no more smoke and mirrors over Iraq By Linda S. Heard

"Islamic terrorism": a sinister construct By Abid Ullah Jan

The Coming Years in Iraqnam By Joseph E Fasciani

July 13, 2004

Letters to the Editor, July 13, 2004

Bravo The Hague By Mumtaz Hamid Rao

A Letter to US Congress Concerning International Court Ruling By  Selma Hermez 

The crisis in America's prisons, James J. Zogby 

The Isolation of Indiana, USA By John Rouse

The case for sanctions against Israel By Gerald Kaufman

Lest We Forget By Bud Fine

July 12, 2004

Azmi Bishara Interviewed by Johayna Marlow and John Young of Pacifica Radio, Edited By Anne Gwynne

'Dispersing Demonstrations-Or Chemical Warfare?' By James Brooks

A New World Disorder By Bill Henderson

Two johns courting the same “old who..” By Ben Tanosborn

President Kerry on Israel By Gadi Dechter

Censorship in the Public’s Eye By Jim Kirwan

The mistaken Islamism By Abid Ullah Jan

United States, Israel Pressure Jordan to Assume Security Role in the West Bank By Lamis Andoni

July 11, 2004

Letters to the Editor, July 11, 2004

Closure Policy, an Israeli Measure with Various Implications, IPC

The Israeli Wall and the Fall of America By Sam Hamod

Is Senator Kerry Out There? By Phil Hong

An Outcry from Bold Jewry: Israel is a Zionist State, Not a Jewish State By Rabbi Joseph Dershowitz

International Court of Justice: Israel, Iran, Iraq and Middle East Peace By Patrick Johnston

The Failure That Cost a War, Arab News 

Honeyed Words and Neat Phrases, With a Neoconservative Twist, Richard H. Curtiss 

The Issue of Qaradawi’s Entry, Sadiya Chowdhury 

Summing Up, M.J. Akbar 

Addis Ababa in Summer, Amr Mohammed Al-Faisal 

July 10, 2004

Palestinians Vindicated, Arab News

How the Iraqis See It By Sam Hamod

Exit Neo-Conservatives, Enter Neo-Liberals By Mark Green with Wendy Campbell

Washington’s Warnings and Our Responsibility, Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid

The Task Ahead for Musharraf and Aziz, Nasim Zehra

July 9, 2004

Amy Goes to Cuba By Mary Straitwell

Bush’s Iraq Adventure: Deliberate deception just like Vietnam By Jack Dalton

A Comparative view of Iraq-Vietnam Wars By Richard Pelto

Kashmir and Palestine: The Flames of Unfinished Partitions By Ali A Mazrui

Israel Unleashed The real reason for the biggest foreign policy blunder in American history By Justin Raimondo

John Edwards — Bulldog Grip on ‘Underdog’ Israeli Nation, Sarah Whalen

Ivory Coast’s Last Chance for Peace, Rory Carroll

Berlusconi Under Siege, Peter Popham

July 8, 2004

Letters to the Editor, July 8, 2004

ZERO Tolerance or Catch 22 of the American society By Jim Kirwan

An Open Letter to IAEA: Stops Acting as a Front for America and Israel By Eric Walberg

Turkey and the  Israeli interference in Northern Iraq By K. Gajendra Singh

Will the US Elections Follow Indian Democracy? By Ghulam Muhammed

Money and Power Are the Real Terrorists By Joe Garcia

The North American Media and the Middle East By Omar Edaibat

Allawi Paves Way for Martial Law in Iraq Robert Fisk

Hypocrisy and Russian Terrorism Fawaz Turki

The Book Invariably Carries the Day Mohammad T. Al-Rasheed

This Is Not a Dream Ticket for the Democrats Mary Dejevsky

In the New World Disorder, Charity Begins at Home Ibtissam Al-Bassam

North Korean Bomb and the Media Hype Jonathan Power

Edwards Factor Arab News

July 7, 2004

The Trial of Saddam Hussain and the Rule of Law By K. Gajendra Singh

Jihad and Jihadism By Abid Ullah Jan

Diego Garcia Paradise Isle or Britain's shame By Linda S. Heard

Is the Intifada over Reading Chaucer in the Holy Land By Israel Shamir

A Deafening Silence of Meaning By John Chuckman

Legality of Iraq occupation 'flawed' By Marie Woolf

Venus and Bush Transits By Henry Souza

US in a Fix Over Court Ruling on Guantanamo Prisoners, Conor Gearty

Keeping Alive NATO’s Myth in Afghanistan, Jackson Diehl

Milosevic’s Trial, Arab News

July 6, 2004

Letters to the Editor, July 6, 2004

Independence in Palestine and Freedom for the World By Jim kirwan

So This Is What They Call the New, ‘Free’ Iraq By Robert Fisk

Justice, Gas and Tears By Uri Avnery

America: The Idea and Form By John Rouse

America’s Growing Culture of Hate By Linda S. Heard

John Negroponte: The most powerful man in Iraq? By Rupert Cornwell

The Dogma of Richard Perle: Zionism and Legal Skepticism ,,, How the Neocons Control the US Foreign Policy By William James Martin

Outstanding Lesson Arab News

July 5, 2004

The Wall, Arab News

Pax Americana and US Mainstream Media Hypocrisy By Zack Krasuk

Wanted: Honest Intellectuals By Abid Ullah Jan

Ordeal for Saddam By Mumtaz Hamid Rao

The Trial of Saddam Hussein is a Show Trial By Carsten Kofoed

Friends of the family: A Background Check of the Saddam Prosecutor Salem Chalabi and his Uncle Ahmed By Brian Whitaker

It’s Politics of Personal Choice in Indonesia, Ellen Nakashima

Greater Hindustan and Its Potentials, Hassan Tahsin

July 4, 2004

Turkey and the  Israeli interference in Northern Iraq By K. Gajendra Singh

Legitimacy and neutrality of the Saddam Trial will be challenged By Rory McCarthy and Jonathan Steele

Palestinians Walled In and Walled Out By Walid El-Batrawi  

Israeli Prisons Are Factories of Pain By Mahmud Sehwail

Why Stephen Harper Lost: Reflections on an Interesting Canadian Election By John Chuckman

The First Ever Quran Software Translation in Indian languages By Rafeeque Mohamed

Soviet-Era Instincts, Arab News

Ramallah On The Go for Its First Ever International Film Festival By Dalia Hatuqa

July 3, 2004

Letters to the Editor, July 3, 2004

American Blindness: Zarqawi, Saddam Hussein, and John Burns By Sam Hamod

Iraq: Automatism of Bombings, Unemployment, Assassinations, and Kidnappings By David Lawrence Cade

Ike and John Foster Dulless Had It Right in 1956 By Ronald Kennedy

Violence in Islam, Part II By M. Amir Ali

Fahrenheit 9/11 Likely to Be Too Hot for George Bush, Michael Saba

The Nexus of the Neocon Network in Washington, Richard H. Curtiss

July 2, 2004

Israeli Hate-Bus Tours American Churches, Unity Coalition for Israel Clones Itself By Charles E. Carlson

Try The Fanatics and The Real War Criminals By Yamin Zakaria

The Coming Preemptive Strike on Iran By Mark Dankof

Secretary Powell's visit to Darfur, USA outrage or Hypocrisy Is Sudan Going to be Next By David Little

The Bush Pearls of Wisdom? By Mumtaz Hamid Rao

Hitting Where It Hurts Most, Sarah Whalen

Show the People Saddam, Robert Fisk

July 1, 2004

Alice in Wonderland Approach to Iraqi Sovereignty, Robert Fisk

Philosophy Is for Understanding, Not Comfort, Mohammed T. Al-Rasheed

Chirac’s Rationale, Arab News

 

 
Earth, a planet hungry for peace

 

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03).

 

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

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