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February 28, 2006

The US Would Be Lucky If Dubai Ran Its Ports By Linda Heard 

Miscalculation and Confusion in the West By Ali Al-Hail 

US and Iran: A Tale of Missed Opportunities By Nasim Zehra 

Why defend God and Islam? And Why now? By Nahida Izzat 

February 27, 2006

An Aspect of The Fiscal Situation In The Arab Gulf Rich Oil & Gas Producing countries By Ali Al-Hail 

Drug smuggling made easy: Why GWB wants to sell America's ports to his friends? By Jane Stillwater 

In Support of My Mayor By Gilad Atzmon 

Wikipedia: Good Intentions, Horrible Consequences By Abid Uallah Jan 

A Caricature of Free Speech The reality of freedom of expression in Europe By Richard Seymour 

Martyring Voltaire By James Hall 

The Miracle of the Holy Qur'an By Tariq Al-Swaidan 

Katrina: Where Did the Money Go? By Amr Al-Faisal 

Abbas: Moderating Influence Arab News

February 26, 2006

Dubai Port World: A Matter of National Security By Tariq A. Al-Ma'eena 

Sabra & Shatila Film Shocked The French & The Germans, But Not The Arabs BY Ali Al-Hail 

Is it political conjunctivitis, lack of humanity, or both? By Ben Tanosborn 

The Caricatures in Middle East Politics, Flemming Rose, and the Mossad By James Petras and Robin Eastman 

The New York Times Rubbing Salt into Muslim Wounds By Abid Ullah Jan 

A Reply to the Globe & Mail Marvin Kurz's Article, "Rights of Terrorists" By Ismail Zayid 

The Saga of Superpower Myths By Sharique Na'eem 

Re-Arranging the 20th Century: Allegro, non Troppo By Gilad Atzmon

February 25, 2006

Sunnis And Shi'is Are Both Muslims By Ali Al-Hail

Syria just changed over to the euro: I want to change to euros too! By Jane Stillwater 

Why Should  Ken Livingstone Apologise? Or Rather, Who Should Apologise? By Gilad Atzmon 

Bereaved Israelis Meet with Hamas to Discuss Peace By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Karzai Threatening Pakistan and Iran By Abid Ullah Jan 

It's Time to Put Muslim Holidays in US Calendars By Jane Jewell 

February 24, 2006

Letters to the Editor, February 24, 2006

Whose Bombs were They?   By Mike Whitney

A Radical Idea Control Your Own Ports By James Hall 

Threats To The West Are From Within By Ali Al-hail 

Microsoft, Israel and Vanunu By Eileen Fleming 

Open letter to the Assembly of First Nations By Hanna Kawas, Canada Palestine Association 

Ports, UAE, and The Addiction to Foreign Dependence By Sajjad Khan 

February 23, 2006

Letters to the Editor, February 23, 2006

US Debate Over Hamas: Making a Bad Situation Worse By James Zogby 

Iran was not referred to the Security Council for Noncompliance By Mike Whitney 

Israeli Defense Minister Declares Palestine “Axis of Evil” By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Why there WILL be a war on Iran: Bush's daddy will pay for it By Jane Stillwater

An Open Letter to Canadian PM Stephen Harper From Ismail Zayid 

By Sanctioning Hamas, The West Is Sanctioning itself By Ali Al-Hail 

Cartoon Awakening: Toward a Positive Media Strategy By Ramzy Baroud 

Check Your Conscience at the Door: We're Building an Empire By Jason Miller 

Flemming Rose's Inexcusable Excuses only Epitomize Hypocrisy By Dr. Habib Siddiqui 

Freedom of Expression, Only If We Agree By Hassan Elkhalil, LL.M 

Sami Al-Arian Interviewed By Ryan Blackburn 

The Making of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim By Abbas J. Ali 

February 21, 2006

Data-mining our blogs: It's like tuna sleepwalking through quicksand! By Jane Stillwater 

Freedom for Danish Bacon, Part3 By Yamin Zakaria 

Democracy means the U.S. way or 'no way' By Don Nash 

Hamas Called US to be Removed from Terrorist List By Curtis F.J. Doebbler 

Notes on the Run Up to the Balfour Declaration By David John Pini

February 20, 2006

Why America Will Reap in Iran What it Doesn't Expect By Abid Ullah Jan 

A War of Religions? God Forbid! By Uri Avnery 

The Story of the Trees By Adam Keller 

Pandora's Box Opened in Iraq: Looking Backward, Forward, And Beyond By Daniel Jordan and Neil Wollman 

Running US Trade Deficits With China By James Hall 

In Defence of the Prophet and his People By Kristoffer Larsson 

Solidarity of Civilizations By Altaf Bhimji 

Time for Contemplation By Sharique Naeem 

Western Democracy Fails in Too Many Ways By Jonathan Power 

British Foreign Policy as Major Part of the Problem By Clare Short

Gitmo: A Byword for Shame By Iman Kurdi 

Shadow of the Israeli Sanctions on the Palestinian People Arab News 

February 18, 2006

Letters to the Editor, February 18, 2006

Starving the Palestinian Tigers By Abdel-Beri Atwan

Our Choice: Distrust and Hate, or Social Cohesion? By Ben Tanosborn 

Some Thing Of Some Kind Has To Be Done Despite The Apparent clash By Ali al-hail 

The Basra video and the truth about the US-UK invasion and occupation of Iraq By Alfred Roberts 

Muslim Americans in Massachusetts Denounce and Condemn Danish Provocation in a Letter to Danish PM By Tahir Ali 

Muslims Have a Mission to Achieve in the West BY Hussain Khan 

February 17, 2006

Letters to the Editor, February 17, 2006

Hamas Plots Exodus from Israeli Bondage, a Poem, By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

Weathering the Globalization Storm By Ramzy Baroud 

What Might Humanity Learn from Mujahid's Able Disability? By Ali Al-hail 

Danish Cartoons: Expression of Freedom or Abuse of Speech? By Habib Siddiqui 

Denmark, Where Are You? A Story Of Longing By Thomas Koppel 

Free Speech, Cartoons, and Double Standards By Mohamed Khodr 

Offensive Cartoons: The Need for Standards of Decency By Mirza A. Beg 

February 16, 2006

Order out of Chaos By Tony Soldo 

More American Mistakes in the Middle East, in Palestine and Iran By Sam Hamod 

Australian wheat scam & 20,000 Iraqi infant deaths By Gideon Polya 

Hurricane Katrina: 'National Failure' or Criminal Negligence By Mike Whitney 

Iran: Disinformation Phobia By James Hall 

Judging The West By Its Deeds By Ali Al-hail 

Why the Red States love Bush: He moved YOUR cheese By Jane Stillwater 

Operation Imperialism: The Enduring Mission, Part I By Sarah Meyer 

February 15, 2006

Taming the Beast or Democratic Party, Where Are You? By Bernard J. Fine 

British Forces Abuse Iraqis Again By Helen Pender 

Revisiting New Delhi By Ershad Mahmud 

Freedom of the Press and Stupid Cartoons By Raff Ellis 

America and Political Islam By Abid Mustafa 

Blasphemous Cartoons: An Opportunity for Unity, Activism, and Protest for Muslim Americans By Mohamed Khodr 

Cartoons, Voltaire, and the Non-Clash of Civilisations By Sajjad Khan 

Fair and Balanced? Death Threats Hit Prominent Political Columnists By Todd Brendan Fahey 

February 13, 2006

Flemming Rose Cartoons: Faking an Islamic-Christian Conflict to Fuel the Permanent War Strategy By Hassan El-Najjar and Patti Leslie 

Frog-marching the Media to the Gallows By Mike Whitney 

The Secret of Kadima By Uri Avnery 

Story Time: The Sons And Their Mother Of Parliamentary Values By Ali Al-Hail 

Are budgets a true litmus test for politicians? By Ben Tanosborn 

CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE: Statement by The Danish Institute for Human Rights 

Britain's Abu Ghraib Arab News 

February 12, 2006

Flemming Rose Cartoons: Faking an Islamic-Christian Conflict to Fuel the Permanent War Strategy By Hassan El-Najjar and Patti Leslie 

Hyaan Hersi Ali's Contemptible Performance By Ali Al-Hail 

The Prophet Muhammad Caricatures (2) But there is a context! By Jan Oberg

Fogh Rasmussen must go By Carsten Kofoed 

Cartoons and Bombs By John Chuckman 

Prophet Muhammed cartoons show media's double standard By Sarwat Husain 

The Danish cartoons: Freedom of expression or licence to insult By Astrid Essed 

Darfur: It's not about religion or race. It's about greed By Jane Stillwater 

Impeachment Means the People Still Have the Power By Ramsey Clark 

21st Century Islamic Finance By Chris Cook 

February 11, 2006

Letters to the Editor, February 11, 2006

Shed Your Addiction: Beyond Mere Survival in the American Dystopia By Jason Miller 

At Last, A Real Middle East Democracy Project By Ramzy Baroud 

A Canadian Professor, Peter March, Crosses Red Lines of "Academic Freedom" By Hilmi Salem 

Britain in Washington's Faction Fighting Over Iraq By Simon Jenkins 

George Bush With a Twist By Tariq A. Al-Maeena 

Hamas to Moscow Arab News 

February 10, 2006

European Media Provokes Muslims to Inflame Zionist Ideology of Clash of Civilization By Christopher Bollyn 

Flemming Rose: How Zionists Fuel Hostility to Muslims By Christopher Bollyn 

The Prophet Muhammad Caricatures: Freedom of Suppression By Jan Oberg 

The Cartoons of Prophet Muhammad By Enver Masud 

The Prophet Mohammad Cartoons: It takes two to avoid a clash of civilizations By Jonathan Power

February 9, 2006

Letters to the Editor, February 9, 2006

A Call for Respect, Calm Reflection By Recep Tayyip Erdogan & Jose L. Rodriguez Zapatero 

Iraqi Voices Drowned Out in a Blizzard of Occupiers' Spin By Sami Ramadani

Because it is Israel By Rami Almeghari 

Freedom of Expression and Obligation to Decency By Mirza A. Beg 

Thank you, GWB: To put my daughter through college, I'm selling the family china! By Jane Stillwater 

There is no justification for violence in response to offensive cartoons By Nader Habibi 

The Idea of Lebanon! By Hassan Elkhalil 

Jewish Secular Fundamentalism By Gilad Atzmon 

February 8, 2006

Freedom for Danish Bacon, Part1 By Yamin Zakaria 

Why Must Bin Laden Pray To Allah For The US-Western Irrational Policies? By Ali Al-Hail

Bigotry as European Chic By Fawaz Turki 

US Diplomacy Over Iran Echoes Louis XVIII's Court By Polly Toynbee 

February 7, 2006

The State of the Union: A Closer Look By James Zogby 

Is Free Speech Truly Alive and Well in the Western Nations? By Linda Heard 

The Palestinian Elections: View from the Diaspora By Hatem Abudayyeh 

Something Out of Danish Character By Muhammad M. Al-Harbi

Danish Cartoons: Enough Is Enough By Zafarul-Islam Khan 

Cartoons: Please don't make us as a nation responsible for one newspaper or one government By Thomas Hansen

February 6, 2006

Both Must Stop: Negative Depicting of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) And of his Sunnah By Ali Al-Hail 

Bush's Tyranny for a Bankrupt Nation By Mike Whitney 

"Shall We Not Revenge?" By Uri Avnery 

What did Stephen Harper Actually Win in Canadian Elections? By John Chuckman 

What the Iran 'nuclear issue' is really about By Chris Cook

A Freedom Gone Too Far By Faisal Sanai 

There Are 101 Ways to Skin a Cat By Amr Al-Faisal 

Corruption in Palestine Arab News 

February 5, 2006

Letters to the Editor, February 5, 2006

Our Little Shop of Diplomatic Horrors: Hamas Meets the Democracies By James Brooks 

Religious Coercion: Lies they spread about Islam By Habib Siddiqui 

The State of the Empire Address:  Our Emperor's Call to Arms to Sustain the Rich By Jason Miller 

Cartoons: Under the Veil of Freedom of Speech By Minhaj Qidwai

Ignoring Israeli Nuclear Arsenal Is Double Standard Arab News 

Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark By Tarek Mishkhas 

Republishing Cartoons Is Stupid and Offensive By Rasheed Abou-Alsamh 

February 4, 2006

Time to Scrap the NPT By Mike Whitney 

GWB's January 2006 State of the Union Speech By Jane Stillwater 

What Would Jesus Do? By Remi Kanazi 

It's Not Just About the Danes By Tariq A. Al-Maeena 

The Depicting Cartoon Campaigners: Were They Depicting their ignorance? By Ali Al-Hail

Aid and Abet: Washington's Calls for Democracy Exposed as Sham By Emad Mekay 

Is Solana Ignorant About Who Really the Terrorists Are? By Jihad el Khazen 

February 3, 2006

Letters to the Editor, February 3, 2006

The Power of the Muslim and Arab Worlds By Ray Hanania

Afghanistan Five Years Later By Mike Whitney 

America's One and One-half Party System By Ben Tanosborn 

What Really Happened at the State of the Union By Cindy Sheehan 

The Old Boys Network of the IAEA By Ali Al-Hail 

Muslim Response to the Cartoons in The Danish Paper By Mirza A. Beg 

The Palestinian Election Polling Issue:  Is it a Problem of the Poll Centers or the Change of Attitudes? By Nabil Kukali 

Filipino military attacks undermining the Bangsamoro people's peace and life By Cocoy Tulawie 

February 2, 2006

Bush Speech: Astounding Hypocrisy Arab News 

Annexing Khuzestan; consolidating the oil-wealth of the Caspian Basin By Mike Whitney 

Democratization Or Americanization? By Ali Al-Hail 

40,000 Arab-Israeli Citizens to be Ethnically Cleansed as Hamas Star Rises in Palestine By Genevieve Cora Fraser 

February 1, 2006

We will not sell our people or principles for foreign aid By Khaled Mesha'al 

Hamas Victory: Positive for All By M. A. Muqtedar Khan 

Taking Stock: Let's see now, where are we? By Bud Fine 

Why They Hate Us So Much: 100 Facts By Jerome Almon 

Are We Witnessing The End Of Imperialism? By Ali Al-Hail 

 

 

 
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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