Just like our sisters and brothers in other parts of the world, we will need new voices, perspectives, and modes of communication to rethink our nation’s values, its policies, and its relationship to the global community at this crossroads moment … Continue reading →

Americans vastly underestimate the degree of wealth inequality in America, and we believe that the distribution should be far more equitable than it actually is, according to a new study. Full article.

jan 30, 2011: 150,000 protesters have gathered in tahrir square to demand the end of the hosni mubarak dictatorship. watch al jazeera’s live stream here.

lucid analysis of how the egyptian uprising might shape the politics of the middle east and what it will mean for american foreign policy. check it out.

brilliant in-depth interview with codepink’s tighe barry, who has been on the streets of egypt all week long. worth a listen here.

jan 28, 2011: the egyptian consulate is not letting us get thru to leave a message, let alone talk to a human being. all emails r being bounced back. let’s keep calling the white house (202-456-1414), their comments line (202-456-1111) … Continue reading →

Thousands of Egyptians are planning to take part in peaceful marches and sit-ins in major cities. There are rumors that the intelligence services will release a group of thugs under the name Brothers of Truth that will charge through the … Continue reading →

jan 27, 2011: hundreds of egyptian activists r being arrested right now, at this moment. don’t leave them on their own. call egyptian embassies and consulates. tell them to stop the arrests and respect the will of the egyptian people.

This was a protest that crossed class, ideology and religion, and that is what scares the government, so long used to successfully playing divide and conquer among the opposition groups. “The psychological barrier of fear has been broken,” says Shadi … Continue reading →

The two-state solution is now dead and buried by Israel and the PLO. Impossible for anyone (even the BBC) to pretend that there can be an independent Palestinian state. A long crapulent depression is bound to envelop occupied Palestine, but … Continue reading →

jan 25, 2011: just got this from an egyptian friend: in cairo we are now more than 10,000, all saying one thing: “step down mubarak.” pray for us.

nationalism supported by violent militarism against the “other” is something that transforms societies. u cannot have one face for those outside the sacred circle and another one for those inside. “It is too easy to demonise Israel, in part because … Continue reading →

If Tunisia can become the Arab world’s Turkey, a functioning democracy where Islamism is part of the electoral mosaic rather than a threat to it, the tired refrain of all the Arab despots that they are the only bulwark against … Continue reading →

Tunisia’s transitional cabinet has decided to recognise all banned political parties and agreed on a general amnesty for all political prisoners. The interim government, appointed earlier this week, held its first session on Thursday. Full article.

a surprisingly good report on palestinian land confiscation by NPR’s lourdes garcia navarro. hope to see more. full NPR report here.

“There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites – polar opposites – so that love … Continue reading →

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. (Martin Luther King Jr)

Two South African groups have launched a move to get an arrest warrant issued against Tzipi Livni, the chairperson of Israel’s Kadima party, during a visit to the country next week. Full article.

The downfall of Tunisia’s President Ben Ali and his flight from the wrath of the street, may signal the opening act of an awakening of the poor and oppressed of North African and the Arab world. The rulers of these … Continue reading →

For years, Koch, King and others who share their anti-Muslim views hid behind that word: “radical”. They said that they have no problem with Muslims as people or Islam as a religion. It is only “radical Islam” or “Islamists” that … Continue reading →

There is no military solution in Afghanistan, so the supreme irony is that in siding with the Americans all we have done is send the levels of violence up in Pakistan. The “war on terror” has weakened the state and … Continue reading →

most interesting doc, shot and directed by an israeli. entire film can be watched on youtube. this is the first of 10 parts. inside look at abe foxman/the ADL and also a school trip to poland where israeli school children … Continue reading →

Political prisoners? Surely, that can’t be right, can it? Surely, it’s only dictatorships in far-flung corners of the world who hold political prisoners, and not the United States of America? Full article.