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January 31, 2005

Letters to the Editor, January 31, 2005

The Iraq “Election” Under Occupation Will Go Badly For Bush and Allawi By Sam Hamod

Now, The Ball Is In The Israeli Courtyard…And…! By Ali Al-Hail

Buddhist, Muslim, Christian and Jew: Good job, God! By Jane Stillwater 

Religious Freedom Day: A Rebuttal to Muhammed Sahli By Khaled Saeed 

School Uniforms and Mature Themes By Asma Sandouka 

The International Nepal Solidarity Network By Usha Titikshu 

January 30, 2005

Letters to the Editor, January 30, 2005

Cheney's Epitaph: Ruminations from the VP at Auschwitz By Mike Whitney 

The Stalemate By Uri Avnery 

The Islam Memo Figures of US Casualties and the Corporate Media By Barbara Ellis 

Russian Bear Makes Israel Jittery By K. Gajendra Singh 

Iraqi Elections: To Vote or Not To Vote By Yamin Zakaria 

The Mask is Slipping & the Nightmare Grows By Jim Kirwan 

The Iraqi Election “Bait and Switch” By Carl Conetta 

Religious Freedom Day: A Response to Khalid Saeed By Muhammad Sahli 

Mr. Burns: Well Done, But You May Consider To Go Beyond Words By Ali Al-Hail 

Freedom Fries on the March By Chad McDaniel 

January 29, 2005

America and Europe as Far Apart as Ever Adrian Hamilton 

Straw Fears UK Being Sucked Into Another US War Simon Tisdall 

Hamas Victory Arab News

How Pakistan Views Iraqi Elections Nasim Zehra 

January 28, 2005

The Widening Chasm Among Conservatives By Mike Whitney 

Iraq Invasion Was a Crime of Gigantic Proportions By Scott Ritter 

Eid Al-Adha in Nablus: A Night of Terror and Destruction By Anne Gwynne

On The Eve Of The Holocaust Anniversary By Ali Al-Hail 

Jewish Entry into an Arabic Holy Land, a Poem, By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Bush Rhetoric and Rice Fantasy Miss Iraq’s Facts By Sidney Blumenthal 

America’s Unique Version of Democracy for Iraq By Mark Steel 

Dealing With Poverty Arab News 

January 27, 2005

Another Fixed Election? Probably In Iraq By Sam Hamod 

Bush's Pledge for Liberty: Global Crusade or High Sounding Rhetoric? By Habib Siddiqui 

Eid Happiness Stolen at Israeli Checkpoint of Abu Houli By Ahmed Daba 

The ‘Axe Of The Evil Empire’ Vs. The ‘Axis of Evil’: Who Will Over Come Whom? By Ali Al-Hail 

The Open Society And Its Enemies: The Story Of Auschwitz By Gilad Atzmon 

Gonzales not right fit for GIs By 12 US Retired Generals 

Iran: Next Victim of 'Freedom'? By Linda Heard 

Religious Freedom Day: An American Muslim Perspective By Khalid Saeed 

January 26, 2005

Letters to the Editor, January 26, 2005

Palestine ghost haunts UN Commemoration of Camp Liberation By Mazin Qumsiyeh 

An Open Letter to President Hosni Mubarak: Step Down and Call Multi-Candidate Presidential Election By Khaled Diab 

Bush Is Bankrupting America By Sam Hamod 

Don't be fooled by occupation in democracy's clothing By Linda S. Heard 

In the spirit of humanism one has to be always hopeful and open By Ali Al-Hail 

Tsunami, Nature and Perception of God By Mirza A. Beg 

January 25, 2005

Boarding-up the 'Window of Opportunity' By Mike Whitney 

Political Influence on the Free Press By James Zogby 

Instead Of Cultural Imperialism Let's Promote Cultural Humanism By Ali Al-Hail 

A World without Rules can have no Rulers, not even Dictators By Jim Kirwan 

GWB 2nd Inaugural Address: Message between the Lines By Tahir Ali 

Freedom on Steroids By John Chuckman 

Where Do All These Bush Wars End? By Mary Majayda 

Government for Iraq By Dave Wissel 

Humanities Response to the Tsunami By Mirza A. Beg 

Abbas Between Israel's Hammer and the Resistance Anvil By Ahmed Daba

January 24, 2005

Al-Jazeerah Enters its 4th Year: Challenges, Hope and Peace, I By Hassan Ali El-Najjar 

Iran's Nuclear Surprise By Warren Hastings 

Let's Have The Courage And Construct Together Our Common Future By Ali Al-Hail 

The "Wizard" is not really a "Wizard" By Mike Odetalla 

Worth a thousand words By Abid Ullah Jan

CIA's 20:20 vision for the future Caliphate is short sighted By Abid Mustafa

January 23, 2005

King George By Uri Avnery 

A Story Of A Palestinian Child Massacred For Playing With His Eid's Toy By Ali Al-Hail 

The New Boss at Homeland Security By Mike Whitney 

Suad Amiry's Book on Life in Palestine under Occupation Exposes Israeli Crazy-Makers By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

The Tyranny of Bush By Yamin Zakaria 

Hajj: A Message of Peace By Tariq A. Al-Maeena 

A Day of Reckoning for Iraq… and the US By Ben Tanosborn 

BBC Documentary and A Presidential Interpreter Expose Roots of "War on Terror" By Fred Burks

January 22, 2005

Letters to the Editor, January 22, 2005

KGB Chieftain finds Home at US Homeland Security By Mike Whitney 

The Yet New Pride of Great Britain By Ali Al-Hail 

To War or Not to War, That is the Question By Jack Dalton 

Bush and his Mien Kampf By Ghulam Muhammed 

How Can the Occupation End? By Carsten Kofoed

An Open Letter to President Bush: Israel still stealing land By Selma Hermez

January 21, 2005

Iraq: One, Two, or Three States, or Simply Wars? By Tom R. Burns and Masoud Kamali 

Despite Peace Haters, Let Peace Lovers Promote Peace By Ali Al-Hail 

Transforming Islam into acceptable forms for the west is the main neoconservative project By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

January 20, 2005

Only Ending The Occupation Would Promote Peace And Better Lives For All By Ali Al-Hail 

Pipes, Polls, and Paranoia By Habib Siddiqui 

From Innocent-III to Bush-II By Abid Ullah Jan 

Who Envies Abu-Mazen? By Uri Avnery

January 19, 2005

Departing UN Commissioner for Palestine Decries Conditions in Gaza as Horrendous By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Senator Boxer Shows Conde Rice to Be a Liar By Sam Hamod 

Fear Factor: Why Americans are cowards & Iraqis are not By Jane Stillwater 

Lockdown is Descending By Jim Kirwan 

Middle East peace needs no middlemen By Linda S. Heard 

A Causative Relationship Between An Occupation And A Resistance To It By Ali Al-Hail

January 18, 2005

The Problem Was, Is And Will always be in the Occupation By Ali Al-Hail 

Israel Kills Innocents in House of Peace, a Poem, By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

A Man of Integrity: Sgt. Kevin Benderman—“No To War” By Jack Dalton 

One Man Has Stopped Killing: Hope for More to Do the Same By Monica Benderman 

Abu-Ghraib Trial: A Means to Legitimize the Real War Crimes By Yamin Zakaria 

The Bush Plan for Iran By Ghulam Muhammed 

Anti-Zionism is unrelated to Anti-Semitism By Russell Waxman 

Auschwitz Remembered By Warren Hastings 

Cultural and Commercial Influences on the Free Press By James J. Zogby 

Signs, Signals, and Symbols By Kaleem Hussain

January 17, 2005

Letters to the Editor, January 17, 2005

Mahmoud Abbas: You Won A Mandate For Peace Not For Selling Out By Ali Al-Hail 

Insurgents Don't Fight Invaders… Repulsers Do By Ben Tanosborn

‘Hotel Journalism’ Dictates Coverage of Iraq By Robert Fisk 

Human Rights: New Flood Tide By Jonathan Power 

Caught in the Middle By Arab News

January 16, 2005

Cutting Stone, a Poem,  By Sam Hamod 

Bush's Grand Plan: Incite Civil War By Mike Whitney 

Who's Hindering Mahmoud Abbas? Is It The Resistance Or Israel? By Ali Al-Hail 

Al-Manar TV News: No Terrorism Here By Alan Balboni 

Terrorism: How Can We End it? By Ismail Al-Khatib 

Will the EU ever permit Turkey to join its ranks? By Abid Mustafa 

Who Envies Abu-Mazen? By Uri Avnery 

Russian –Syrian Missiles Deal: Russia Bares Its Teeth to Israel By K.Gajendra Singh

Assistance to the UN From the Rising Superpower By Ibtissam Al-Bassam 

‘Why Am I in Power?’ By M.J. Akbar

January 15, 2005

Letters to the Editor, January 15, 2005

Quest or Conquest: Is There a Choice? Jim Kirwan 

Elections in Palestine and Ukraine: Conjuring tricks By Azmi Bishara 

The Arab League: Does a dead wound hurt? Just Wonder By Ali Al-Hail 

Beware of the real lies By Abid Ullah Jan 

Iraq: Face the Truth, Hold Elections, Then Get Out By Robin Cook 

The Soul of Hajj By Habib Siddiqui 

For a Democracy With Proper Checks and Balances By Nasim Zehra 

The night before Iraqi elections, a poem By Abla Mutaa 

Arabic Awakening, a Poem By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

January 14, 2005

George Bush the Actor: Understanding the disconnect between what we see and what we get By Jane Stillwater 

President Mahmoud Abbas: This Is Merely The Tip Of The Israeli Iceberg By Ali Al-Hail 

Without serious steps to end the occupation no 'window of opportunity' By Adam Keller 

Will President Abbas have any impact on the peace process? By Abid Mustafa 

Is Peace Possible After Abbas Took Office? By Ahmed Dabba 

Assisting Tsunami Victims, an Islamic Duty By Hamdan Yousuf 

January 13, 2005

Pink Slips at CBS By Mike Whitney 

Isn't It Interesting, How Key World Leaders reacted to Mahmoud Abbas Peace gesture? By Ali Al-Hail 

American Muslim community inspired by Martin Luther King's struggle By Abdus Sattar Ghazali 

Muslim Holiday Honors Abraham By Nihad Awad 

What about the other earthquake and tsunami? By Shujaat Wasty

January 12, 2005

President Mahmoud Abbas: Despite The Rhetoric, Where To Go From Here? By Ali Al-Hail 

Democracy cannot work with occupation By Linda S. Heard 

Iraq and Tsunami: Living In Harms Way By Bill Henderson 

Not just Abbas’ problem, but the world's By Ben Tanosborn 

Disasters Are Not a Grim Fate, Fawaz Turki

January 11, 2005

So, What's New? Arafat Was Once Also Described As Moderate By Ali Al-Hail 

The Reality of the Two America By James J. Zogby 

Investigate alleged violations of law in Fallujah attack By Jim McDermott and Richard Rapport 

Who kidnapped Khaled El-Masri? By Linda S. Heard 

The Turkish Experiment with Westernization, II By Habib Siddiqui

January 10, 2005

Letters to the Editor, January 10, 2005

The Bush Administration: Wiring Money Or Wiring Bribery? By Ali Al-Hail 

Vladimir Putin and the Global Realignment  By Mike Whitney 

Why I Refused a 2nd Deployment to Iraq By Sgt. Kevin Benderman 

Tsunami victims: Why the west has no compassion and respect for human life By Abid Mustafa 

Tsunami Highlights Gap Between EU’s Financial Might and Ability to Act Fast Philippe Ries 

The Triumph of Reality Amr Al-Faisal 

Profound Change in Attitudes Toward Latin America’s Development Jonathan Power 

Sudan: Peace Deal Signed but Hard Work Ahead Victoria Engstrand-Neacsu 

Palestinian Presidential Election: What Has Not Been Said By Mazin Qumsiyeh 

Making Wars, but Helpless in the Face of Calamities Essa bin Mohammed Al-Zedjali

January 9, 2005

Letters to the Editor, January 9, 2005

The Myth of American Generosity By Mike Whitney 

EU's pivotal role in Middle East peace By Victor Kattan 

Would Mahmoud Abbas Face The Same 'Irrelevant' Position Late Arafat Faced? By Ali Al-Hail 

Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Divine 'Shock and Awe'? By Yamin Zakaria 

A Revolutionary New Year's Greetings for 2005 from the Freedom Socialist Party By Henry Noble

Nothing Can Justify Further Western Interference in Beleaguered Iraq, William Pfaff 

Wallowing in Conscience-Management, M.J. Akbar 

Lost Opportunity, Arab News 

January 8, 2005

Letters to the Editor, January 8, 2005

Is there a solution to racism? By Habib Siddiqui 

The Invasion Of American Culture Through The Mass Media, Is It Simply, A 'Moral Panic' Or It Might Be A Serious Concern? By Ali Al-Hail 

Kashmiri Women: The Weapon of War By Abdul Latif Bhat 

When the earth goes out of balance By ND Batra 

Yet Another Year Ends Without Settlement of Disputes, Nasim Zehra 

Tsunami: For Whom the Bell Tolls, Joyce Marcel 

Gonzales and Rule of Law, Arab News

January 7, 2005

Moral Vision, the Tsunami and Iraq By Sam Hamod 

Of power and adulation: Add non-environmental global warming, if you must By Ben Tanosborn 

Despite The Catastrophe, Is There a Room To Assume Conspiracy Theories? By Ali Al-Hail 

Imagine if Bush, instead of Eisenhower, had supervised D-Day By Jane Stillwater 

Aid Package a Watershed for Canberra-Jakarta Relations, Neil Sands 

Sudan Peace to Spur Oil Growth, But West Still Wary, Edmund Blair

Divisions Keep Opponents of Musharraf Weak, Tahir Ikram

January 6, 2005

Hasbara: How Israelis Deceive US Public to Continue Funding Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing of the Native Palestinians By Mazen Qumsiyeh 

“White Man's Burden” and the Iraq War By Mike Whitney 

What about the Children of Iraq? By Jack Dalton 

A Response  to Dominic Martin's comments on 'Anatomy of Racism' By Habib Siddiqui 

Ukraine: Another Key Stage in East-West Strategic Battle By K. Gajendra Singh 

Nature and Human Made Tsunamis By Ali Al-Hail

January 5, 2005

Letters to the Editor, January 5, 2005

Palestinian Presidential Candidates Abbas and Barghouthi: Two Worlds Apart By Haithem El-Zabri 

Disquieting trends are a wake-up call By Linda S. Heard 

Saudi Cliche-Ridden Media By Qenan Al-Ghamdi 

How Iraq War Went Wrong By Fawaz Turki 

Aid Budget Dwarfed by Billions Spent on Slaughter By George Monbiot 

January 4, 2005

Guantanamo: Injustice as a State Policy By Mike Whitney 

Beware of Neo-Muslims and Rand Robots By Tahir Ali 

2004 Election Sees Second American-Muslim Bloc Vote: Global Perspective By Lisette Poole and Tahir Ali 

What Must Be Done By James J. Zogby 

Before the Next Catastrophe By Uri Avnery 

Waves of Emotion Follow Tsunami By Linda Heard 

The Myths of Al Qaeda By Jim Kirwan 

George Bush and the return of Little Black Sambo By Jane Stillwater 

Anatomy of Racism By Habib Siddiqui

January 3, 2005

Jerusalem Blessing in a Palestinian New Year By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

A Connecticut Yankee at the Crawford ranch: Carpetbagging as an art form By Jane Stillwater 

"Coercive Utopias" By Tahir Ali 

Life in the New World Order By Jim Kirwan 

Tsunami: Where US Media Failed, Michael Saba 

Are World Leaders Playing Politics With Aid Funds? John Davison 

A Blind Eye on Happenings in Guatemala? Jonathan Power 

January 2, 2005

On the Beach By Bill Henderson 

With up to 140,000 dead in Asia, why keep killing people in Iraq? By Jane Stillwater 

Palestinian State as Israeli Demand By Azmi Bishara 

Restoring Rule of Law in  US Middle East Policy: America's 2005 Priorities, IRmep 

We Must Resist US Attempts to Undermine the UN, Clare Short 

The Future Is Bright, M.J. Akbar 

Sudan Peace Deal, Arab News 

January 1, 2005

2004: Another hard year for the American Muslims By Abdus Sattar Ghazali 

Iraq vs. Tsunami: The Duplicity of the US Corporate Media By Mike Whitney 

Sharing Our Common Future By Ali Al-Hail 

India's Coming of Age, Post-Tsunami By Ghulam Muhammed 

The Military's Dirty Little Secret By James Carrick 

The Zionist State Needs Immigrants to Survive By Russell Waxman 

Ukraine: Role of Foreign Governments in Elections By Jonathan Steele 

Does Tourism Risk Reinforcing the Imperial Sensibility? Jeremy Seabrook 

Human Failure to Minimize Suffering Is Not Inevitable By Polly Toynbee

 

 

 
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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