By Alex Awad. Come and See – Mr. President, The announcement of the Israeli government on August 31 to confiscate 1,000 acres belonging to four Palestinian villages near Bethlehem is like pouring salt on the fresh wounds of Palestinians. Israeli officials say this act of land confiscation is in response to the kidnapping and killing of […]
By Omar Robert Hamilton. LRB Blog – On 26 August a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was agreed, bringing a fragile end to a war that killed 2150 Palestinians (mostly civilians) and 73 Israelis (mostly soldiers). Since then Hamas has not fired a single rocket, attacked an Israeli target, or done anything to break the terms […]
By Alan Goodman. Welcome to the Revolution – I have two questions for the Creative Community For Peace (CCFP). They ran an ad in the New York Times (September 13, 2014) titled “Commitment for Peace and Justice.” This ad has nothing to do with peace, much less justice. Despite its title, the ad is, as described by the CCFP […]
By Stephen J. Sniegoski. The American involvement in the Ukrainian imbroglio has a number of causes, which include the significant role of the neoconservatives. In a series of articles, investigative journalist Robert Parry has made an insightful analysis of this neocon role, linking it to their opposition to Obama’s recent “foreign policy that relies heavily […]
By Stephen J. Sniegoski. Mainstream liberal David Ignatius observes in the ultra-establishment Washington Post: “Let’s look at the reality on the ground in the Middle East: Iraq and Syria are effectively partitioned along sectarian lines; Lebanon and Yemen are close to fracturing; Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia survive intact but as increasingly authoritarian states. “In the […]
By Stephen J. Sniegoski. It had become apparent in 2013 that the American people had grown averse to America’s involvement in wars, and this was given empirical confirmation by a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center in November 2013, which revealed that 51 percent of Americans believed that their country’s military involvement was excessive.[i] […]
By Alan C. Brownfeld. Lobbying groups in Washington have, for many years, had a pernicious influence upon policy-making in many areas. Wall Street lobbyists promoted a bailout of their failed financial institutions, and lobbyists for General Motors did the same. Lobbyists for Boeing and other large corporations have kept the Export-Import Bank afloat. The National […]
By Stefanie Loos. Reuters – The most powerful pro-Israel lobbying organization, AIPAC, is working on drafting legislation that would aim to counter the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, two sources familiar with the situation told BuzzFeed News. The legislation, which has not yet been introduced and has been in the process of being […]
By John Pilger. johnpilger.com – “There is a taboo,” said the visionary Edward Said, “on telling the truth about Palestine and the great destructive force behind Israel. Only when this truth is out can any of us be free.” For many people, the truth is out now. At last, they know. Those once intimidated into silence […]
By Nihad Awad. TIME – Despite misappropriating and misusing the name “Islamic State,” ISIS is little more than a criminal gang that attaches itself like a leech to revered symbols of Islam. It exploits counterproductive Western policies driving desperate people into its fold and uses injustices in the Muslim world as a smokescreen to cover its own […]
