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March 31, 2005

US Schiavo Case and the Value of Muslim Lives By Gideon Polya 

Bush's Claim of Arab Democracy Revisited By Fawaz Turki 

Sharon's vision: Laying claim to the West Bank, Mecca and Cincinnati By Jane Stillwater 

Truculent Abdiqasim and his Warlords in Somalia By Ahmed Hersi 

March 30, 2005

Letters to the Editor, March 30, 2005

Arab and Muslim professors at US universities remain target By Abdus Sattar Ghazali 

Bush's Claim of Arab Democracy Revisited By Fawaz Turki 

Bush's Middle East Policy Mischief By Ramzy Baroud 

Dr. Mustafa Al-Barghouthi on the Wall, Israeli Violations, and Ethnic Cleansing

March 29, 2005

Silence, a Poem By Mirza A Beg 

Kyrgyzstan: The Great Game Moves Into the Heart of Central Asia By K Gajendra Singh 

Kyrgyzstan Unlikely to Be the Pattern in Central Asia By Gwynne Dyer

Governing By Love Is The Shield Against Foreign Hands By Ali Al-Hail 

US Mideast Policies Prove a Boon to Religious Parties By Linda Heard 

We Can Do It and We Will By Khaled Almaeena

Is the US Contributing to Democracy? By James Zogby 

Somali Federalism: Ethiopian Colonialism By Hussein Osman

March 28, 2005

Rice's Embarrassment Reflects Confusion Among the Empire's Zionist Leadership By Hassan El-Najjar 

Thinking of Spring in Palestine! A Poem By Mike Odetalla 

Jerusalem Waiting for Salvation, a Poem By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

To Sit in the Dark By Gilad Atzmon 

Denial of Visa to Shri Modi: A Response to Dr. Akshay Desai's letter to Mr. Karl Rove  By Raju Rajagopal 

Obstacle to Peace, Arab News 

US' double deficit not sustainable, Fahed Fanek

The Fighter-Jets Sale to Pakistan: Between 1990 and 2005, What's Changed? By Ali Al-Hail 

March 27, 2005

Letters to the Editor, March 27, 2005

Khalil Tufakji Interviewed on Expansion of Israeli Illegal Settlements

Paved with Bad Intentions By Uri Avnery 

Israel's 'Record Is Not Reassuring' By Ramzy Baroud 

References on the Non-Semitic Khazarian Ashkinazis, Ancestors of 50% of Jews By Hilmi Salem 

The Lean and Hungry Lions Of our Discontent By Jim Kirwan 

The Peoples' Power: This Time In Kyrgyzstan By Ali Al-Hail 

Arab League Or Muslim League By Minhaj Qidwai 

March 26, 2005

America's New Circus Diplomacy and the Muslim World By Ben Tanosborn 

The Suffering Palestinian Women Undergo Every Day By Nurit Peled-Elhanan 

Wolfowitz for World Bank? Ask the Mexicans By Sarah Whalen 

Khaled Mesha'al: The Third PLO By Amira Howeidy 

Beyond All Limits By Mustafa Al-Barghouthi

Why Is North Korea so Assured About Its WMD? By Ali Al-Hail 

Balochistani Pakistan: Past Lessons and the Current Conundrum By Hashim Bin Qasim 

Chechnya: EU Engages in Diplomacy of Silence By Jonathan Steele

March 25, 2005

America's New Circus Diplomacy: Preamble By Ben Tanosborn 

Muslim Women Leading the Friday Prayer By Mirza A. Beg 

Why Should Terrie Schiavo Not To Let Go By Ali Al-Hail 

Dr. Akshay Desai's Letter Criticized for Sectarian Content, in an Open Letter By Indian American Organizations

March 24, 2005

Letters to the Editor, March 24, 2005

Did Iraqi Police Truly Kill 85 Resistance Fighters in a Camp? By Hassan El-Najjar 

Railroading Moussaoui By Mike Whitney 

Bush’s Quag-Pyre: Iraq Through the Tangle of Vietnam By Thomas A. Boogaart II 

Pioneer Muslim Women and the Amina Wadud’s Initiative? By Ali Al-Hail 

Paving the way for Muslim holocaust By Abid Ullah Jan 

Illegal settlements, friendly rapists and honest crooks By Rami G. Khouri 

Moro Group Demands Independent Probe for Overkill in Bagong Diwa Crisis By Cosain Naga 

Somali Federalism By Ali M Ali 

Day to Remember Mumtaz By Hamid Rao

March 23, 2005

Letters to the Editor, March 23, 2005

No Palestinian Will Accept a State Without Jerusalem By Linda Heard 

Congress' Bad Behavior By James Zogby 

US-Turkish Relations Go Wobbly Now Over Syria By K Gajendra Singh 

We're on Bush's hit list now: "But how will that help America?" It won't By Jane Stillwater

Does Israel practice true democracy? By Ghulam Muhammed 

UN Security Council Resolutions: A Question Of Credibility By Ali Al-Hail

Illegal settlements, friendly rapists and honest crooks BY Rami G. Khouri 

Two CIA Intellectuals, Scheuer and Fuller, Debunk Neocons By Tahir Ali 

Space, Time and Us, A Sufi View Poem, BY Mirza A. Beg 

The Gate Keepers of the Rotten Status Quo in Somalia By Said Saryan 

Ayan Hirsi Ali, The Stray Bullet By Yasmeen Maxamuud

March 22, 2005

Arab Jews in Palestine Before There Was a State Called Israel By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

The Wolfowitz Appointment: A Red Flag for the Coming Wars By Mike Whitney 

Bush's nomination of Hughes and Wolfowitz main issues in US press By William Fisher 

Condoleezza Rice and the US-Pakistani Relations By Mumtaz Hamid Rao 

The American Policy On Taiwan: Neither Is The Wolf To Be Killed Nor Are The Sheep To Be Swallowed By Ali Al-Hail 

Islam: A problem or a solution? By Habib Siddiqui

March 21, 2005

Arab Jews in Palestine Before There Was a State Called Israel By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

The Wolfowitz Appointment: A Red Flag for the Coming Wars By Mike Whitney 

Bush's nomination of Hughes and Wolfowitz main issues in US press By William Fisher 

Condoleezza Rice and the US-Pakistani Relations By Mumtaz Hamid Rao 

The American Policy On Taiwan: Neither Is The Wolf To Be Killed Nor Are The Sheep To Be Swallowed By Ali Al-Hail 

Islam: A problem or a solution? By Habib Siddiqui

March 20, 2005

2 Years of Death and Destruction By George W Bush and Friends By Sam Hamod 

Ariel Sharon: Check Mate By Ali Al-Hail 

Bush Nominees to Spread the Neo-Con Gospel By Dr. Minhaj Qidwai 

Denmark out of Iraq By Carsten Kofoed 

Nightmare Vision of North America By John Chuckman 

The Neo Con Crusades By Emmanuel Goldstein 

On the US Revocation of Modi's Visit Visa By Ghulam Muhammed 

Revocation of US Visa to Modi Indication World has not Forgotten Gujarat Genocide By Shri Syed Shahabuddin 

Guilt by Any Other Name By M.J. Akbar 

The secret of BMD By Gwynne Dyer 

US Problem in Mideast: Image or Policies? By David Dumke

March 19, 2005

A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Iraq Edition By Ramzy Baroud 

From rebels to leaders: The Fitna of Women Leading Men in Prayers By Abid Ullah Jan 

Rand Report on Islam revisited By Abdus Sattar Ghazali 

No End in Sight to Berlusconi’s Woes as Local Polls Loom By Denis Barnett 

Muslims in India's Murshidabad district starving to death By Zafarul-Islam Khan 

Ethiopia as an enemy is engraved in the collective memory of Somali people By Bashir Goth

March 18, 2005

Democracy Rises in Lebanon By Hassan El-Khalil 

Gentiletude and Dhimmitude By Yamin Zakaria 

Siege of Manila Prison, an Overkill By Ahmad Azam Abdul Rahman

Falsifying History Not Going to Help Israeli Cause By Hassan Tahsin 

Iraq: Deadlock by Design By Gwynne Dyer 

The War Injured Return Home to Tell a Different Story By Norman Solomon

March 17, 2005

Statement By The Global Palestine Right of Return Coalition Regarding Ziyad al-Assali's Statements on the Right of Return 

How Sgrena forced Italy's Withdrawal from Iraq By Mike Whitney 

Beltway wakes up to Peak Oil and Global Warming By Bill Henderson 

If the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is to be resolved By Michael Jansen 

Americans Sentenced to Lives of Terror By Mark Yannone 

Stabilizing Oil Market Arab News

March 16, 2005

Peace, Peace, They Say, When There Is No Peace By Samia Khoury 

The US divide and rule policy comes to the fore By Linda S. Heard 

VENEZUELA: Bush's next oil war? By Stuart Munckton

Lebanon's meaning in the wider Arab context By Rami G. Khouri 

Making Sense - US Policy toward Hezbollah By Maggie Mitchell Salem 

Render and Torture — Overseas By Fawaz Turki 

Somaliland Women: Oppressed breadwinners and silent peacemakers BY Bashir Goth 

Democracy in inaction at the World Bank By Joseph E. Stiglitz 

The real route to democracy at the IMF By Kenneth Rogoff 

March 15, 2005

John Bolton and the Road to Tehran By Mike Whitney 

An Effort to Rebuild US-Arab Relations By James J. Zogby 

Britain Spreads 'Freedom' Abroad While Curtailing It at Home By Linda Heard 

Bush Exports democracy abroad, cultivates totalitarianism at home By Abid Mustafa 

March 14, 2005

One Rule for Lebanon and Quite Another for Palestine By Ali Kazak 

Understanding Hezbullah of Lebanon for What it Really Is By Sam Hamod 

Muffling the Voices of Reason in US Media By Ben Tanosborn 

Olive trees, Oum Kalthoum, and Jasmine Blossoms By Mike Odetalla 

Thailand facing a Muslim Insurgency: To be or not to be? By Bhaskar Dasgupta 

The Danger of an Israeli Attack on Iran By Jonathan Power

March 13, 2005

Letters to the Editor, March 13, 2005

They shoot reporters, don't they? By Tariq A. Al-Maeena 

Russia compounds Chechen problem with Maskhadov's assassination By Ahmad Azam Abdul 

George W. Bush: “The Most Disastrous President We ever Had,”  Says Gloria Steinem By Ali Al-Hail 

Passive genocide by Coalition in Iraq By Gideon Polya 

It's the Occupation, Stupid! Part XXXVIII By Ghassan Khatib 

'Where is Damascus going?' By Musa Keilani 

As Syria Pulls Out, Lebanese Fear Power Vacuum By Robert Fisk 

Reflections on UK Terror Law By M.J. Akbar 

Change of Tone, Arab News

March 12, 2005

We Are Arabs and Democrats By Azmi Bishara

A Midnight Rant about Israel and Palestine By Genevieve Cora Fraser

Reining in Syria on Behalf of Israel By Ramzy Baroud

Saddam's Capture: just another Bush Lie By Mike Whitney 

Bush's Guru Natan Sharansky By Uri Avnery 

When My American Friend Began To Cry By Ali Al-Hail 

Report Highlights Costs of Occupation for Israeli Society By Rick Kelly

March 11, 2005

The Mother of All British Scandals By Hassan El-Najjar

Thoughts on stasis and individual responsibilities By Mazin Qumsiyeh

Hunter S. Thompson: "Suicided" is now a verb By Jane Stillwater 

Israeli Withdrawal Must Precede Syrian Pullout By Essa bin Mohammed Al-Zedjali 

It is not democracy that's on the march in the Middle East By Seumas Milne 

'Kifaya' By George S. Hishmeh 

War Crimes: Blair Should Be Sharon’s Cellmate By Daphna Baram

March 10, 2005

It's the Occupation, Stupid! Part XXXVIII By Ghassan Khatib

Paving the Way for another Pearl Harbor By Mike Whitney 

Protecting American women: "Of course they will be much safer in a burka and veil!" By Jane Stillwater 

“Sacrifices,” the Cost of War and “War-Resistance” in the Ranks By Jack Dalton 

A Timeline of the Zionist Program By Joachim Martillo 

America's War in Iraq: A Journey Backwards to Disaster and Forwards into Ruin By Paul Estoc 

New COINTELPRO campaign directed at Arabs, Muslims and South East Asians By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

Lebanon, Bolivia and Bush’s Idea of Freedom By Johann Hari 

After Maskhadov Arab News

March 9, 2005

Letters to the Editor, March 9, 2005

Vision of  Amani Al-Hissi: A Palestinian Girl Made Blind By Israeli Soldiers By Sami Abu Salem 

My truth (La mia verità) By Giuliana Sgrena 

Palestine’s Endless Holocaust 1948-2005 and Counting By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Challenging the language of Violence By Mike Whitney 

The Majority of Lebanese Want The Syrians to Stay in Lebanon By Sam Hamod 

Report on Robert Spencer and the Boston Anti-Islamic Controversy By Joachim Martillo 

The Creature Walks Among Us By John Chuckman 

US Free Trade Agreements Split Arab Opinion By Linda Heard 

Sport in the Gaza Middle Area: Challenges and solutions By Haider Al-Mossudder

March 8, 2005

No Trust Left, In America or In the World, for the Bush Administration By Sam Hamod 

How to Talk About Zionism, A New Improved Guide By Joachim Martillo 

Lebanon, As Complex As Ever By James Zogby 

Why are journalists in the line of US fire? By Linda S. Heard 

A Conference Needed To Define Resistance and Terrorism By Ali Al-Hail 

An Encounter with Mel Gibson's Stalker and the Passion of Palestine By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Communists Retain Power in Moldova: No Franchised Revolution, Yet By K Gajendra Singh

Religion, Culture and Change By Mirza A. Beg

March 7, 2005

Letters to the Editor, March 7, 2005

Palestinians Should Demand Free Elections and Democracy As They Are Already A Majority By John Anast 

The Next Crusades By Uri Avnery 

Jose Padilla and the 10 Commandments By Mike Whitney

Taxation without Representation is Tyranny By Jim Kirwan

March 6, 2005

33 Things You Should Know and Ask About the Middle East, America and Israel By Sam Hamod 

Taysir Alouni Doesn't Deserve This Treatment By Ramzy Baroud 

Alan Greenspan’s Call for a Consumption Tax Interpreted By Warren Hastings

A Curriculum Of Global Humanity By Ali AlHail 

It is Syria's Turn After Iraq By Musa Keilani 

How Tony Blair Took the British to War on a Lie By Geoffrey Wheatcroft

March 5, 2005

Letters to the Editor, March 5, 2005

This Is About Israel, Not Anti-Semitism By Ken Livingstone 

To Ken Livingstone, With Gratitude, Love and Admiration By Mohamed Khodr 

High Treason at the Federal Reserve By Mike Whitney 

Going Nuclear: Iran's Tug of War with America By Habib Siddiqui 

Words of Wisdom for President George W. Bush By Sam Hamod 

Nuclear Row: Key Lies in Iran-US Re-Engagement By Nasim Zehra

March 4, 2005

How US Media feeds the Violence in Palestine By Mike Whitney 

Alan Greenspan: Too Late with Too Little By Sam Hamod 

Bratislava Summit: Western Media Perspective By K Gajendra Singh 

Israeli Nuclear Terrorism By Steve Jones 

Only US and Coalition Weapons of Mass Destruction Have Been Found in Iraq By William Hardiker 

Shabina Begum Unveiling Secularism By Abid Mustafa 

What Was Missing In Blair’s Address During London Meeting? By Ali Al-Hail

March 3, 2005

Crushing the UN for a Stronger America By Mike Whitney 

How To Stop Evil From Generating More Adrenalin By Ali Al-Hail 

My jury duty questionnaire: "Do you agree that a corporation is a person?" By Jane Stillwater 

Notes From Palestine, 5 By Mazin Qumsiyeh 

Palestinian American Calls for US Investigation into Israeli Killings of his Family Members By Genevieve Cora Fraser

When in Doubt, Blame Syria By Linda Heard 

Who Will Tell the People By Jim Kirwan

March 2, 2005

Egypt Gets New Agenda for Democracy By Linda S. Heard 

Notes from Occupied Palestine, 4 By Mazin Qumsiyeh 

WE Are All Humans, Our Connotations Differ, So What? By Ali Al-Hail 

Palestinian Martyrs Memorial, a Poem, By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

A strategy for removing CO2 from the environment By Brad Arnold 

Choosing the Right path to Democratization By Ben Tanosborn 

Funding Israel’s Occupation and Expansion By Karma Nabulsi 

March 1, 2005

Israel's Third Wall By James Brooks 

Why the Queen Should Chop Off Tony Blair's Head for Treason By Warren Hastings 

Enabling Students To Become Globally Conscientized And Culturally Aware BY Ali Al-Hail 

Hopeful, But Not Optimistic By James J. Zogby 

Why the West has lost the ideological war against Muslims? By Abid Mustafa 

Joint Palestinian-Israeli condemnation of treatment of Palestinian child held in Israel 

Indian Muslim Council-USA Calls for Action on the third Anniversary of Gujarat Pogroms 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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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