Aaron Glantz, New America Media. November 10, 2009. NAM Editor Aaron Glantz spoke to former Marine Corps Cpl. Dave Hassan, who served in Iraq. Hassan said that while he was there, racist language was so pervasive he used it himself.
Agence France Presse July 27, 2009. U.S. Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell called on Arab states on Monday to fully normalize ties with Israel, after meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Jared Levy, Ali Gharib, IPS News. June 6, 2009. Many analysts view the elections through the lens of the struggle between U.S. and Iranian regional hegemonic aspirations.
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. June 5, 2009. A death at Gitmo is always felt keenly in the Muslim world, creating tension for an administration that claims it is running a 'humane' facility.
Agence France PresseJune 4, 2009. "There is so much fear, so much mistrust," the president said. "But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward."
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. May 13, 2009. The suspicious death of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, who was tortured into lying about an Iraq-al Qaeda connection, raises a series of troubling questions.
Manar Ammar, Joseph Mayton, Women News Network. May 6, 2009. Egyptian activists are speaking out against the "spinster" concept and calling for a re-examination of how the country views women.
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. January 20, 2009. The scale of the ruin, the economic siege of the enclave, and attempts to exclude Hamas are complicating factors.
Linda Mamoun, AlterNet. January 7, 2009. As Israeli troops fight their way into Gaza, scores of determined settlers are prepared to enter in their wake.
Adam Morrow, Khaled Moussa al-Omrani, IPS News. December 23, 2008. Critics in Iraq and beyond say the much ballyhooed SOFA is riddled with loopholes and above all else, a reflection of U.S. strategic interests.
Adam Morrow, Khaled Moussa al-Omrani, IPS News. November 7, 2008. "Many Iraqis ... see it as little more than a U.S. attempt to legitimize the occupation and bolster Arab support for the unpopular government."
L.L. Wynn, American Sexuality Magazine. June 26, 2008. In Egypt the label "prostitute" is often applied to women who defy traditional social and sexual codes of conduct.
Manila Ryce, The Largest Minority AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. February 19, 2008. This not only violates the most basic rights of people living with HIV. It also threatens public health.
Tad Daley, AlterNet. November 9, 2007. America's standard for saying which countries can go nuclear is simple: Countries we like can. Countries we dislike can't.
Juan Cole, Tomdispatch.com. August 25, 2007. There are times when the resonances of history are positively eerie. The parallels of Napoleon's occupation of Egypt with Bush's disaster in Iraq are enough to make you jump out of your chair.
Laila El-Haddad, AlterNet. December 18, 2006. Israel shut its last border crossing with Egypt, keeping hundreds of thousands of Palestinians stranded and penned like cattle, unable to move freely in and out of their own land.
