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February 28, 2005

The Zionist Empire Is Sacrificing Its American Colony By Hassan El-Najjar 

“until when will we remain refugees…?” Anne Gwynne writes from Nablus, occupied Palestine 

The Falling Dollar and the New World Order By Mike Whitney 

George and Conde in Europe: The “Charm Offensive” Didn't Work By Sam Hamod 

Israel Prime Suspect In Murder of US Ally Hariri Where's the Media Now? By John Anast 

Jews And The Empire By Israel Shamir 

The decline of the American Century By K Gajendra Singh 

Finger After Finger By Uri Avnery 

International Basic Human Rights Is The Kickoff Start For Understanding Human Ideology By Ali Al-Hail 

Blair Maintains His Middle East Optimism By Andrew Grice 

Reforms in Egypt Arab News

February 27, 2005

Europe to Bush: “Hands off Iran”? By Mike Whitney 

It's About Time To Consider Human Conscientization and Cultural Action By Ali Al-Hail 

Bush Fails to Recognize His Foreign Policy Quandary By Sidney Blumenthal 

Hypocrisy Behind Bush’s Hymns to Liberty Democracy By Rupert Cornwell

February 25, 2005

Letters to the Editor, February 25, 2005

Notes from occupied Palestine: Nablus and Bethlehem By Mazin Qumsiya 

Stories from Jerash Camp: 1948 Revisited By Samah Sabawi 

In The Midst Of All This Mess: Is It Still Possible To Promote human Ideology? By Ali Al-Hail 

Implications of Israel Joining NATO By Hassan Tahsin 

No, War in Iraq Has Not Made the World a Safer Place By Philippe Sands 

Terrorism Leaps to Top of British Election Agenda By Katherine Baldwin

February 24, 2005

The Incredibly Shrinking Dollar By Mike Whitney 

A Season of Depressing Political Re-Runs By John Chuckman 

New Cold War and US-Russian Bratislava Summit  By K Gajendra Singh 

A Letter from Somaliland Echoing Reality on the Ground By Koos Jama 

Priorities to tackle Terror By Ali Al-Hail 

Don’t Let Hungary Get Away With It Dr. Mohammed T. Al-Rasheed 

 Lebanese Crisis Has Many Plots and Players By Patrick Seale

February 23, 2005

Letters to the Editor, February 23, 2005

Just Imagine What Global Warming Does To Earth Inhabitants By Ali Al-Hail 

Market Failure: Global Warming and Peak Oil By Bill Henderson 

New Cold War and US-Russian Bratislava Summit  By K Gajendra Singh 

In Defense of the Venezuelan Revolution By Zack Krasuk 

Rafiq Hariri: Visionary for Lebanon By James Zogby 

Bush-Chirac Dinner a Triumph of Tone Over Substance By Hugh Schofield 

Iraq: Neocolonialism Takes Different Guises By Hassan Juma’a Awad

February 22, 2005

Bush's Euro-junket: No time to go wobbly By Mike Whitney 

Hillary Clinton, the Next GW Bush: She Wants to Run Iraq By Sam Hamod 

Whose Responsibility To 'Cool Up' The Increasing Global Warming By Ali Al-Hail 

Year Five: All the Great Lies By Jim Kirwan 

Indian Muslim Personal Law By Ghulam Muhammed

February 21, 2005

Letters to the Editor, February 21, 2005

Beware of the Dog! By Uri Avnery 

Blackmailing George Bush: "Karl, he's got me by the..." By Jane Stillwater 

Kashmir Bus or Buzz? By Mumtaz Hamid Rao 

Our Common Future By Ali Al-Hail 

Gaza Withdrawal Arab News 

Japan Flexes Its Military Muscle With Backing From America By P. Parameswaran 

Why Bush's European Mission Will Be a Failure By William Pfaff

February 20, 2005

Letters to the Editor, February 20, 2005

The Assassination of “Mr. Lebanon” By Habib Siddiqui 

Stealing the Dream By Jim Kirwan 

What would you rather be: Ethnic Minority, Gentile or Dhimmi? By Yamin Zakaria

Despite The Truce Yet Again Live on Television: Murdering More beloved Children By Ali Al-Hail 

Attacking Iran Would Bring Disaster, Not Freedom, Shirin Ebadi 

Compulsions of Peace, M.J. Akbar 

February 19, 2005

Rumsfeld's Terror Campaign By Mike Whitney 

As Israel Hadn't Stopped The Killing, The Road Map Mechanism Urgently Needs To Be Positioned By Ali Al-Hail 

Destruction of Iraqi Museum and Library, a Poem, By Mirza A Beg 

What happens next: Gardening, guns, gangrene and gold By Jane Stillwater

February 18, 2005

Kyoto Won’t Stop Global Warming in the Short Term By Gwynne Dyer 

Lebanon: A Cedar Revolution to Counter Russian Missiles For Damascus By K Gajendra Singh 

UK Can Protect Muslims Without Sacrificing Free Speech By Timothy Garton Ash 

February 17, 2005

Assassinating Al-Hariri Fits Washington’s Plan By Mike Whitney 

Propaganda Perpetuates US Foreign Policy Failures By John Anast 

Terrorism Is Evil, But Why? The Story Of Sabri Says It All By Ali Al-Hail 

Iraq was invaded 'to protect Israel' - US official By Emad Mekay

February 16, 2005

To the Jewish Community of the World By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Is Washington Planning to foment Civil War? By Mike Whitney 

The Assassination of Rafiq Al-Hariri: Is It A Pretext To Attack Syria? By Ali Al-Hail 

The Brambled Bush Begins to Burn By Jim Kirwan 

Who Killed Rafiq Al-Hariri? By Sam Hamod 

Understanding the Bush Speeches By James Zogby 

Hariri murder triggers fears of economic meltdown in Lebanon By Henri Mamarbachi 

Internment of Japanese Americans: The Day of Remembrance By Abdus Sattar Ghazali 

Iraqi Kurds Flex Muscles, Rice Was No Turkish Delight By K Gajendra Singh 

Beijing + 10: Family under assault again! By Sabur Ali Sayyid 

Carl Webb, A US Soldier Opposing Unofficial Draft Policy

February 15, 2005

Devastating Blow, Arab News 

Mideast: Let’s Hope Moderates Win the Argument, Linda Heard

Champion of Palestinian Cause, Neil Berry

February 14, 2005

How Dumping Howard Dean for John Kerry Caused Democrats to Lose Election By Hassan El-Najjar 

German Gifting of Nuclear Submarines to Israel: NPT Delinquency By Warren Hastings 

Terrorism, Aesop, and Aznar By Ben Tanosborn 

Corporate Welfare: How come Lockheed gets food stamps and we don't? By Jane Stillwater 

Peak Oil: Time to Get Serious By Bill Henderson 

QUARTET: How To Keep The Political Process On Track? By Ali Al-Hail 

Why the US is set to continue its occupation of Iraq By Abid Mustafa 

Appeal For Protection of Palestinian Cultural Property By Fabio Maniscalco 

For the sake of the evacuees, President Arroyo must put a stop to the military offensives in Sulu By Amirah Ali Lidasan 

February 13, 2005

How Dumping Howard Dean for John Kerry Caused Democrats to Lose Election By Hassan El-Najjar 

German Gifting of Nuclear Submarines to Israel: NPT Delinquency By Warren Hastings 

Terrorism, Aesop, and Aznar By Ben Tanosborn 

Corporate Welfare: How come Lockheed gets food stamps and we don't? By Jane Stillwater 

QUARTET: How To Keep The Political Process On Track? By Ali Al-Hail 

Peak Oil: Time to Get Serious By Bill Henderson 

Why the US is set to continue its occupation of Iraq By Abid Mustafa 

Appeal For Protection of Palestinian Cultural Property By Fabio Maniscalco 

For the sake of the evacuees, President Arroyo must put a stop to the military offensives in Sulu By Amirah Ali Lidasan

February 12, 2005

Donald Rumsfeld, George Orwell, and the Near Collapse of the Empire By Hassan El-Najjar

Blocking Out the Sun in Al-Ram By Mike Odetalla 

Cher Condi's Euro-Tour By Mike Whitney 

This Misleading Notion Of 'Mutual Ceasefire' Has To Be Ceased By Ali Al-Hail 

Hiroshima, Mon Amour By John Chuckman 

Moro victims and leaders commemorate the 2003 Pikit Bombing 

The right to speak truth to power and to do so in print By Purontoy Kaisahan 

Muslim Gear: to wear or not to wear, you decide By Shujaat Wasty

February 11, 2005

The Dispute About the Persian/Arabian Gulf Name: How Should it Be Resolved? By Hassan El-Najjar and Nader Habibi 

Once Again, America Threatens World Peace: Bush is Leading America Into Disaster By Sam Hamod 

What's Beyond the renewed hope for political change between Palestinians and Israelis By Ali Al-Hail 

US Wades Anew Into Middle East Peace Process By K Gajendra Singh 

Forget the UN, The US occupation regime helped itself to $8.8 billion of mostly Iraqi money in just 14 months By George Monbiot 

Old Jaffa Palestine at Sea in the Belly of Israel, a Poem By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Remembrance of Al-Hussain and the Land of Iraq, a Poem By Kaleem Hussain

February 10, 2005

It's Time To “Give To Cesar What Belongs To Cesar”! As the dollar war rages there is another way By John Anast 

Is the US Army's Manpower Problem So Bad it Must Now Recall the Injured? The Case of Adam Mowery By Jack Dalton 

Let's Put The Past Aside For Experience And Start Again By Ali Al-Hail 

Without the News, Life is Surreal By Jim Kirwan 

Iraq: Back to Stark Reality By Linda Heard 

A Chance for Peace Arab News 

Going Back to McCarthyism? Fawaz Turki 

There Will Be No Middle East Peace Without Justice Robert Fisk 

Washington Finally Putting Its Trust in the People Mohammed T. Al-Rasheed 

Practicing Journalism or Double Standard? Shahid Raza Burney 

February 9, 2005

Letters to the Editor, February 9, 2005

Hogan's Heroes: Have Americans become like Nazis? Nah By Jane Stillwater 

Prayers and Promises: The Proposed Bush Budget Cuts By Jim Kirwan 

Black History Month: Lessons for the American Muslims By Abdus Sattar Ghazali 

Guilty by suspicion:  Stories of Guantanamo Detainees By Linda Heard 

A Letter To A Pastor By Tony Soldo

February 8, 2005

Folksy Tom Friedman and New-Age Imperialism By Mike Whitney 

His Imperial Majesty George W. Bush: An Analytical Response to his State of the Union Address By M. Amir Ali 

The Shape of Reality in Iraq By Thomas A. Boogaart 

The Challenges Facing Post-Election Iraq By James Zogby 

Iraq's Election Will Not Guarantee Democracy By Gene C. Gerard 

Riyadh Moot on Terrorism By Mumtaz Hamid Rao 

Social and Internal Causes of Terrorism? By Ali Al-Hail 

February 7, 2005

Crisis at the UN exposes its motives towards the Muslim world By Abid Mustafa 

Fear and Silence in Australia By John Pilger 

Grandfather Palestine’s Refugee Blessing, a Poem, By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Let's Invest In This Human Arising Coalition By Ali Al-Hail 

Mideast Peace Can’t Be Built on Stolen Land By Ray Hanania 

Success of Bush’s Iraq Policy Hinges on Much More Than Voter Turnout By David Dumke 

Return to Peacemaking Arab News

February 6, 2005

Government without Consent By Mike Whitney 

Our Dinner Today and Israeli Occupation Roadblocks By Mike Odetalla 

"Where Are The Arabs, Where, Where Are The Millions”? By Ali Al-Hail 

Iran and Iraq: Blunders of the Ayatollahs By Yamin Zakaria 

New York Jewish Community Rocked by Mohel Scandal. By John Anast 

Gaul was divided in three parts: Iraq should be too By Jane Stillwater 

A Valentine for Palestine Heartbroken, a Poem, By Genevieve Cora Fraser

February 5, 2005

Letters to the Editor, February 5, 2005

Ghostwriting: How Bush is Unable to Write his Speeches By Azmi Bishara

Beit Hanina: The Birth of another Ghetto By Mike Odetalla 

Dunam after dunam By Uri Avnery 

What About Nouran and her School Peers' Peace And Security? By Ali Al-Hail 

Kashmir Solidarity Day: February 5 By Mumtaz Hamid Rao 

Is Zionism today the real enemy of the Jews? Yes By Avi Shlaim

February 4, 2005

There He Goes Again: On President Bush's State of the Union Address By Sam Hamod 

Boiling Turkey awaits Rice in Ankara By K Gajendra Singh 

The 'Haves' And The 'Have Nots' By Ali Al-Hail 

The fairy tale of the Dutch tolerant society and the humane asylum-policy By Astrid Essed 

Does Feith’s Exit Spell the End of a Pernicious Philosophy? By Sarah Whalen

February 3, 2005

Letters to the Editor, February 3, 2005

Oil: The Force Behind the Iraqi Elections By Mike Whitney 

Peak in Global Oil Production By Douglas Low 

Kashmir: Marking time on human rights violations By Ershad Mahmud

February 2, 2005

Letters to the Editor, February 2, 2005

An Open Letter to President Bush: Set Timetables For Iraq and Palestine By Hassan El-Najjar

Al Jazeera 'for sale' is a sad sign for all By Linda S. Heard

February 1, 2005

The Iraq Electoral Fiasco By Mike Whitney 

Iraq Overseas Voting: A Bad Idea, Poorly Executed By James Zogby 

Iraqis Boycott Election Fraud By 20 Iraqi Exiles 

The Fight For 'Good’ Against 'Evil: 'The Goal Justifies The Means' Yet Again By Ali Al-Hail 

Let us remember Mahatma Gandhi  By Srinidhi Anantharamiah 

Is Iraq worth the American sacrifice? By Ben Tanosborn

 

 
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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