Middle East
-
Secret 'Kill Lists' Fly in the Face of US and Int'l Law (William Fisher)
Aug. 31, 2010 -- NEW YORK (Inter Press Service) -- Two of the nation's most influential human rights organisations have filed a lawsuit challenging the government's authority to carry out "targeted k ...
-
BOOK REVIEW: Palestine Betrayed. By Efraim Karsh (Jim Miles)
Palestine Betrayed. Efraim Karsh. Yale University Press, London, 2010. Aug. 27, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Was Palestine betrayed? Of course it was, by the British, the United States, France, the ...
-
Rebranding Iraq: Playing with Numbers and Human Lives (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 26, 2010 -- The soldiers of the U.S. 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division hollered as they made their way into Kuwait. "We won," they claimed. "It’s over." ...
-
Deconstructing the Official Narrative on the U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq (Jeremy R. Hammond)
Aug. 20, 2010 -- (Foreign Policy Journal) -- Iraq is back in the news, at least for a moment. The occasion is "A truly historic end to seven years of war," in the words of Lt. Col Mark Beiger, quoted ...
-
Trapped at Ground Zero (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 19, 2010 -- The controversy over the right of Muslim Americans to build community center and mosque a short distance from the site of the September 11, 2001, ter ...
-
Errant Climate May Be Sign of Breakdown, Scientists Say (Charles J. Hanley)
Heat waves, fires, and floods fit their predictions Aug. 13, 2010 -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Floods, fires, melting ice, and feverish heat -- from smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High Arcti ...
-
Bourj el-Barajneh: Searching for Meaning in a Refugee Camp (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 12, 2010 -- BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Two young girls stood, as if frozen, staring below them at an ever vibrant Beirut. Their balcony, like the rest of their house and ...
-
Smoke on a Bridge: Lebanon Awaits a Verdict (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 5, 2010 -- BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Jamal is a Lebanese driver in his late 50s. He appeared unshaven and terribly exhausted as he drove his old passenger van from the ...
-
Why Muslims Should Rethink Palestine (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 30, 3010 -- Thousands of faithful assiduously listened as I outlined the challenges facing Palestine and its people. Cries of "Allahu Akbar" -- God is Great -- o ...
-
BOOK REVIEW: Start-Up Nation - The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle. By Dan Senor and Saul Singer (Jim Miles)
July 23, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Start-Up Nation - The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle. Dan Senor and Saul Singer. Council of Foreign Relations Book, McClelland & Stewart. 2009. There are no ...
-
The Palestinian Authority: Redundant but Dangerous Language (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 22, 2010 -- Each time Israel fails to keep its "side of the bargain," the Palestinian Authority responds with the same redundant language. The cycle has become s ...
Page 80 of 87