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May 31, 2005

The second Schindler's List: Saving 1,200 Iraqis from certain death By Jane Stillwater 

The Bush Administration: Abuser of Human Rights? By Phil Hong 

The Israel Apartheid Wall: For How Long It can Be Tolerated? By Ali Al-Hail 

Realists vs. Nihilists By Abid Ullah Jan 

Artificial Food Makes Artificial People By Angela Badelt 

French No Vote: Not the End of European Dream By Linda S. Heard

May 30, 2005

Letters to the Editor, May 30, 2005

Why the War Lords Will Lose the “War of Ideas” By Abid Ullah Jan 

No More "Dipping" Please By Mary Majayda

Holy Qur'an-Mishandling Admitted By Minhaj Qidwai

The Birth of Modern Israel: A Scrap of Paper that Changed History, The Independent

May 29, 2005

Christianity, War, and Oil: They Were Never Intended to be Blended By Mary Majayda 

Latest UN Data Reveal UK-US War on Muslim Women and Children By Gideon Polya 

The Coming Exodus and the End of Nation States By Abid Ullah Jan 

There is No Qur'an Controversy By Sam Hamod 

Yamin Zakaria's Second Response to “The Sun” Newspaper Editor Tom Newton Dunn

May 28, 2005

Letters to the Editor, May 28, 2005

Transforming the Military to Protect the Plutocrats By Mike Whitney 

A Vietnam-War-Style Anti-War Movement Needed to Awaken Americans By Bill Henderson 

Muslim Lives are Desecrated, Not Just Their Book By Ramzy Baroud 

Yamin Zakaria's Response to “The Sun” Newspaper Editor, Tom Newton 

AIPAC's Agenda Is Not America's, An Ad By CNIF 

Baku-Cyhan Pipeline: Another West-East Fault Line By K Gajendra Singh 

Why Should Iran Disarm? By Sajjad Khan

May 27, 2005

Leg-irons for the Press Corps By Mike Whitney

How Khilafah Has Become Inevitable? By Abid Ullah Jan 

It's Israel's Racist Apartheid Wall, Stupid By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

AIPAC's And Sharon: How Close Are We Now From The Roadmap? By Ali Al-Hail 

May 26, 2005

Leave My Child Alone! Stop Recruiting in Our Schools! By Jack Dalton

May 25, 2005

Letters to the Editor, May 25, 2005

Laura's Trip: Another Publicity Stunt? By Mike Whitney 

The American Right Must Get Off The Pot on Israel, War, and Draft By Mark Dankof 

The Great Power Grab and All for the “Good” of the American People By Jack Dalton 

Using the Sword to Westernise Muslims By Abid Mustafa

From Timothy McVeigh To Michelle Yost: Palestine, Iraq And The Democracy Of The Fittest BY Ali Al-Hail 

Chapra lectures on "Economic Globalization and Islam" 

May 24, 2005

As AIPAC Meets By James J. Zogby 

Alberta's new oil reserves are HUGE: Does this mean Bush will invade Canada next? By Jane Stillwater 

Enough is Enough By Mary Ethridge

Palestinian Electoral Politics Are Confusing, and Oddly Democratic By Nathan Brown

Is the West Humiliating Saddam Hussain or the Entire Arab-Muslim Nation? By Yamin Zakaria 

An Open Letter to Mr. G. Dudman, managing Editor of the Sun of London By Astrid Essed 

Cowboys and Iraqis Today, Cowboys and Indians Yesterday By Mike J Durocher 

An Attempt To Understand Human Nature By Ali Al-Hail

May 23, 2005

Letters to the Editor, May 23, 2005

Release Jose Padilla By Mike Whitney 

Permanent Ruse for an Indefinite War By Abid Ullah Jan 

Will the world ever learn the truth about Fallujah? By Ben Tanosborn 

Newsweek's Retraction of the Holy Qur'an Story By Minhaj Qidwai 

An Open Letter to Bob Woodward. Breaking Through The News Blackout in the US By Grace Reid 

Litmus Testing of the Indian-Pakistani “Irreversible Peace” By Tahir Ali 

Human Rights: Dare we hope? By Mazin Qumsiyeh 

Why Is Our Common Future So Important? By Ali Al-Hail

Muslim lives are desecrated, not just their book By Ramzy Baroud 

Where Is the Uproar That Should Stop Torture?  By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown 

A Smith on the Loose Arab News 

Where did the IMF programs fail By Fahed Fanek 

Improving Arab-American Relations By Hady Amr

May 22, 2005

Letters to the Editor, May 22, 2005

We Shall Rise Again, a Poem, By Sam Hamod 

Zionist Media Entrapment of Bush By Ghulam Muhammed 

Threatening to Punish Gaza Is Completely buoyant  By Ali Al-Hail 

Can Humanity be Saved from American Fundamentalism? By Yamin Zakaria 

Deliberate Deception—Bush & Iraq: How Much More Evidence is Needed? By Jack Dalton 

Their God Is Not On Our Side By Frank Scott 

George Galloway: A Breath of Fresh Air Sweeps Into Hell, But There's Still No Way Out  By John Chuckman 

George Galloway: In the belly of the beast By Scott Ritter 

May 21, 2005

Defacing Jesus By Defacing the Qur'an By Sam Hamod 

Threatening to Punish Gaza Is Completely buoyant  By Ali Al-Hail 

Godzilla vs. Shock & Awe: The occupation of Japan vs. the occupation of Iraq By Jane Stillwater 

Qur'an desecration creates Amazon jungle of issues By Ray Hanania 

Western religious bigotry of Islam is a matter of policy By Abid Mustafa 

Muslims desecrate the Qur’an – daily By Shujaat Wasty 

Illegal Dispossession of Palestinian Refugees Underway: It Will Never Be Just By Khaled Amayreh 

Ruefully Naïve American Game to Get to Syria By Azmi Bishara 

What Abbas (Abu Mazen) Should Say to President Bush By Patrick Seale 

Reciprocation could help By Daoud Kuttab

Musharraf’s Choice: Hosni Mubarak or the Army Generals in Turkey? By Nasim Zehra 

Outsourcing of Torture By Arab News

May 20, 2005

Letters to the Editor, May 20, 2005

Israeli Isolation Wall Ensnares Jews, a Poem, By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Understanding History and the Path of the Peace-Making By James J. Zogby 

UN Security Council Resolutions Should be Reviewed with any New Evidence and Amended to Restore Justice By Ghulam Muhammed 

The ‘SYSTEM’ Has Been Destroyed By Jim Kirwan 

The other Humane Middle East By Tayyaba Qidwai 

Border strategy just plain wrong By Rafael Briones

May 19, 2005

Letters to the Editor, May 19, 2005

Alberto Gonzales' Kristallnacht: purges for a safer America By Mike Whitney 

Qur'an Desecration: Far Worse than Abu Ghraib By M. A. Muqtedar Khan 

Did Newsweek really err? By Linda S. Heard 

Iranian Nuclear Threat and Fox News Channel War Lies By Paul Sheldon Foote

May 18, 2005

Letters to the Editor, May 18, 2005

Divestment and boycotts of Israel are a moral necessity to bring peace By Mazin Qumsiyeh

Palestinians In 57 Refugee Camps Are Still Awaiting To Return After 57 Years Of Being Evicted From Their Homes By Ali Al-Hail 

The Palestinian Uprising: A Force to Be Reckoned With By Ramzy Baroud 

Don Quixote Politics Won't Extinguish the Fire in Iraq By Ramzy Baroud 

The American press — how free? By William Fisher 

History and Big Screen By Fawaz Turki 

May 17, 2005

Prior To Its May 25 Conference: A Reading Into AIPAC’s Legacy And Rhetoric By Ali Al-Hail 

The Illusion of Two Parties By Jack Dalton 

The Latest Worrying Sign in Mideast By Ian Black 

Vicious Circle: The Dynamics of Occupation and Resistance in Iraq By Carl Conetta 

No Democracy for Uzbekistan? By Linda Heard 

Why the Guantanamo Incident Created So Much Commotion By Adrienne McPhail

May 16, 2005

A Call for Support and Volunteer Arabic Translators By Hassan El-Najjar 

And the Catastrophe Continues, By MIFTAH 

Palestinians Lost Homes and Homeland But Not Their History By George Bisharat

Back to Washington Arab News 

The Organization Of Islamic Conference: The Desecration Of The Holy Qur’an, Isn’t It An Issue? By Ali Al-Hail 

USA Following Israel in Public Assassination Policy By Billy Johnston 

Neoconservatives in US Planning the Next Cold War Gwynne Dyer 

IMF — 60 Years of Mixed Results By Fahed Fanek 

Bush's gambling debts By Jeffrey D. Sachs

May 15, 2005

Israel's Decades of Wrongdoing BY Ali Al-Hail 

Ignorance is Not Bliss. It is Just Ignorance By Mary Majayda 

Desecration of the Holy Qur'an By Minhaj Qidwai 

55 Million Died During Holocaust of World War II, Half Of Them Were Russians By Deepak Sarkar 

Let's face it - the state has lost its mind Cover story By John Pilger 

Various US Groups Protest AIPAC Annual Conference on  May 23, 2005

May 14, 2005

The Jewish Holocaust Was Then, The Palestinian Holocaust Is Now By Tariq A. Al-Maeena 

The Zionist Independence Day Is A Day Of Mourning And Fasting For Jews Untainted By Zionist Heresy Jews Against Zionism 

Death of a Myth By Uri Avnery 

Desecrating the Qur'an: Crass Insensitivity Arab News 

Koran Story Exposes Myth of American Democracy and Morality By Ray Hanania 

Taps for America: Is Bush About to Unleash The Final Solution? By Jane Stillwater 

The Wages of a Misconceived War By Nasim Zehra 

Finally a Single Truth, Amid the Firestorm of Lies By Jim Kirwan

May 13, 2005

Letters to the Editor, May 13, 2005

Arab American Prosecutions Symbolize the New American Gulag By Ray Hanania

The Bush Administration: The 'Enforcers' of Global Corporate Rule By Mike Whitney 

We Know All This About Bush and Blair By Phil Hong 

Judging Georgie: Why Bush must gut our courts as fast as he can By Jane Stillwater 

Desecration of the Quran: Who are the Real Culprits? By Yamin Zakaria

May 11, 2005

The Matthew Manning Memo: How US Intelligence and Facts Were Fixed to Justify the War on Iraq 

The Bush Administration's Dual Loyalties By Kathleen and Bill Christison

Trashing the Truth in US Mainstream TV By Jim Kirwan

A Tentative Strategy for Ending the War By Mike Whitney 

May 10, 2005

A Humiliating US Gift By Daoud Kuttab 

Racism and Bigotry: Humanity's Greatest Scourge By Linda Heard 

Revenge is sweet for Gorgeous George Galloway By Linda S. Heard 

What ADC and AAI Will Celebrate By James Zogby 

Iraq a Kind of Slow-Motion Suez for Blair By Jonathan Steele 

May 9, 2005

Benny Morris, Ray Hanania, and the Palestinian Right of Return By Mike Odetalla 

The Specter of Violence in America By Mike Whitney 

The Abbas Terrible Dilemma By Ramzy Baroud 

Blair Makes into History By Minhaj Qidwai 

Lawyer faces 30-year prison for defending unpopular client: Feels encouraged by massive support By Lisette Poole 

Indian Muslims and Israel's International Security Concerns By Ghulam Muhammed

May 8, 2005

Follow the Leader? By Amr Al-Faisal 

Free Speech in the Crosshairs By Mike Whitney 

IPCRI Policy Paper: Allow the Statehood Logic to Prevail, a Palestinian State Now 

The challenge of navigating Palestinian politics By Ray Hanania 

A Climate Of Suspicion By Jim Kirwan 

Nothing Is Hate Speech When Directed Against Arabs By Ihor Slissarenko 

Global Warming By Gary Novak

May 7, 2005

Letters to the Editor, May 7, 2005

Why Americans and Israelis Should Strengthen Abbas’ Hands Ziad Asali 

West’s Denial of Soviet Role in Hitler’s Defeat Jonathan Steele 

The Arab democracy debate intensifies in Washington Rami G. Khouri 

Plugging the Iraqi loopholes George S. Hishmeh 

UK Election: the Magician Falls to Earth Jonathan Freedland 

Tony Blair's very weak point Jonathan Power

NPT: Allaying the Fears of Nuclear Have-Nots Nasim Zehra 

Britain’s Verdict Arab News

May 6, 2005

Letters to the Editor, May 6, 2005

The Peculiar State of Israel By John Chuckman 

A Tool in the Hands of Zionism By Hassan Tahsin 

When Will Blair Give Way to Brown and Save Labour? By Jackie Ashley 

How Free Is the US Press? By William Fisher 

Killing the Messenger Arab News 

US Military Attacks Ocean Marine Mammals By Steve Jones 

May 5, 2005

Bush and Blair Created Reasons to Go to War By US Congressman John Conyers 

A Zionist Media Success Story By Paul Estoc 

The Obscenity of the UK General Election By Yamin Zakaria 

To err is human, but to ALWAYS err in Bush's favor? C'mon By Jane Stillwater 

C-span2 rebroadcasts Dr. David Ray Griffin's lecture '9-11 and the American Empire' By Jolly Roger

The Cost of Lebanese Sectarian Democracy! By Hassan Elkhalil 

Canada's Emerging Politics of Destruction By John Chuckman

May 4, 2005

Change Policy to Win Hearts By Linda S. Heard 

Israel Rules, a Poem, By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Labour Isn't an Option!!! By Gilad Atzmon 

The big businesses of war, Haliburton and Bechtel, Making a killing in Iraq By Doug Lorimer 

May 3, 2005

Iraq Still Haunting Blair By Linda Heard 

Preparing for Abbas' visit By James J. Zogby 

The Return of the Robber Barons By Jim Kirwan 

Celebrations in Vietnam, Lebanon, and Abdullah's Visit to Texas By Minhaj Qidwai

May 2, 2005

Why America Needs to Leave Iraq By Mike Whitney 

Now Ann Coulter will be on MY case By Jane Stillwater 

Bolton at the UN: Palestinians Have Reason to Worry By Maggie Mitchell Salem

May 1, 2005

May Day Greetings From the Freedom Socialist Party, U.S. and Australia 

Palestinian Labours under "Moral Terror", To Starve or to Betray By Sami Abu Salem 

The Psycho “Prime-Time” News Conference By Mike Whitney 

A Tale of Two Demonstrations By Uri Avnery 

Two Sistine chapels … and Botero's Abu Ghraib By Ben Tanosborn 

Pashtuns and Palestinians: On Two Fronts of the Same War By Abid Ullah Jan

 

 

 

 

 
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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