Tibet and Palestine By Uri AVNERY (Gush Shalom)

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LIKE EVERYBODY else, I support the right of the Tibetan people to independence, or at least autonomy. Like everybody else, I condemn the actions of the Chinese government there. But unlike everybody else, I am not ready to join in the demonstrations.
Why? Because I have an [...]

Charges dropped against last of ‘Los Angeles Eight’

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For the last 20 years, the U.S. government has accused me of being a terrorist. Along with six other Palestinians and a Kenyan, we were dubbed the “Los Angeles Eight” by the media. Our case even made it to the U.S. Supreme [...]

Blame it on the Balfour Declaration

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By Linda S. Heard, Special to Gulf News
ews in Israel and Britain have been celebrating. This month marks the 90th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, a letter of intent sympathising with Zionist aspirations that arguably changed the fate of the entire Middle East.For Palestinians, that [...]

USA: Drop war talk, cut off Iran’s gas, Kirk urges

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… Co-chairman of the bipartisan House Iran Working Group, Kirk for three years has been advocating cutting off Iran’s gasoline supplies to supplement other economic sanctions and weaken President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hold on power.
Kirk also is trying to persuade the Bush administration to [...]

Sanctions on Gaza Strip: Real Aims

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Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak authorized Thursday a plan for disrupting electricity supply to the Gaza Strip as well as significantly shrinking fuel shipments. This is supposed to reduce the number of Qassam rockets fired from the Strip by Palestinian armed groups against Israeli targets.
…As [...]

The United States and the Kurds: A Brief History

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…At the 1919 Versailles Conference, in which the victorious allies of World War I were carving up the remnants of the Ottoman Empire, President Woodrow Wilson unsuccessfully pushed for the establishment of an independent Kurdistan. Since that time, however, U.S. [...]

Why Muslim nations trail the West

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By Sayuti Hasibuan (Dean of Dept of Econ. Al Azhar University, Indonesia) One striking fact about the state of human development in the world today is that Muslim countries rank generally low on the human development index. No Islamic country comes anywhere near the [...]

On Propaganda and Islamophobia

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by Abukar Arman. n the past few years, while many good things happened to Muslims in America, dark clouds continue to gather over them as a result of relentless propaganda by certain special interest groups. All one has to do is to randomly listen to talk [...]

Another British victim of terrorism in the Middle East

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On the 10th Oct.2007 a Briton died in the Middle East as the result of terrorism. According to the United Nations he was killed in an explosion from a cluster bomb, which he trying to defuse, in southern Lebanon which was [...]

“Seven countries in five years”

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Wesley Clark’s new memoir casts more light on the Bush administration’s secret strategies for regime change in Iran and elsewhere.
In “A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country,” published by Palgrave Macmillan last month, the former four-star general recalls two visits to the Pentagon following the [...]

The Mother of all Pretexts

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by Uri Avnery
…But this idealistic movement aimed at settling in a country inhabited by another people. How to bridge this contradiction between its sublime ideals and the fact that their realization necessitated the expulsion of the people of the land? The easiest way was [...]

Why Islamic civilization must be re-discovered

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It is high time for Islamic civilization to be rediscovered and celebrated by Muslims and non-Muslims alike, especially in the West. And it is equally important that we ignore all those who, for political reasons, have a longtime vested interest in dismissing or suppressing [...]

I survived Blackwater

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As a U.S. official in Baghdad for nearly two years, I was frequently the “beneficiary” of Blackwater’s over-the-top zeal. “Just pretend it’s a roller coaster,” I used to tell myself during trips through downtown Baghdad.
We would careen around corners, jump road dividers, reach speeds in excess of 100 mph and [...]

Are There Too Many Muslims in America?

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In a recent interview with The Politico, Rep. King said, “Unfortunately, we have too many mosques in this country. There are too many people who are sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully. We should be finding out how [...]

Seymour Hersh: ‘The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing’ in Iraq

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SPIEGEL ONLINE: A lot of people have been saying that the US presence there is a big part of the problem. Is anyone in the White House listening?
Hersh: No. The president is still talking about the “Surge” (eds. The “Surge” refers to President Bush’s [...]

So What About Iran?

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DO BUSH, Cheney & Co. indeed intend to attack Iran?  don`t know, but my suspicion that they might is getting stronger. Why? Because George Bush is nearing the end of his term of office. If it ends the way things look now, he will be remembered as a [...]

Why Did Israel Attack Syria?

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The latest accusations should be seen as an example of Israel and the neocons “creating their own reality”, as one Bush adviser famously observed of the neocon philosophy of power. The more that Hizbullah, Syria and Iran are menaced by Israel, the more they are forced to [...]

Petition to EU on Uzbek sanctions

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To: GAERC Council, Representatives of EU Member States
Representatives of civil society call on the European Union to extend sanctions against the government of Uzbekistan…The machine of fabricating cases against devout Muslims and people with independent religious beliefs shows no sign of abating. The authorities do not make any [...]