Columns

• Mr. President: You didn't "Tear Down the Wall" - At least "Tear down...

• The Cross, The Star, and the American Flag Dimming the Light of...

• The Splendid and Unspeakable Joy of Killing Arabs

• On February 14 at the U.N., Dr. Hans Blix's "Valentine Report"...

• Iraq's Suffering Children and Impoverished Existence from Sanctions...

• A Cry of the Faithful on the Day of Arafat

• Israel: America's Shame and Humanity's Stain

• Father, Forgive them, For They know not what they do

• All Men and Letters are created Equal, except for Muslims

• Harvard, "Anti-Semitism" & Freedom of Speech

• The Burning Bush: The Global Unabomber :: Western Activism and Muslim...

• The Most Ridiculous Man on Television? :: An Open Letter to Bill O'Reilly ::

• Iraq: An Election War in Search of A Cause - First the British, Now...

• "Blessed are the Peace-Makers" :: An Open Letter to Senator Robert Byrd ::

• Mr. Bush, Your Pre-emptive War Doctrine is a Recipe for Disaster

• We Must All Reject The "Silencing" of Our Universities and of Intellectual...

• Israeli-Palestinian Children: Dying to Liberate Palestine,..

• Israel fights Islam to the last American

• For whom the Bells of Bethlehem toll

• Arafat Killed in "Crossfire"

• Abraham's Children are Dying, Mr. President - When will you stop it?

• Please, Israel, Let My America Go Free

• The Most Dangerous President: Pro-Oil, Pro-Israel, Anti-World

• Muslim Jihad? What a Joke

• "No Peace among the Nations without Peace and Dialogue among..

• Dissolve The Arab League: A Symbol of Impotence

• Beers to Muslims: 1.7 Cents For Your Thoughts

• Bush's "State of The Union Address": Uncensored

• Sharon Pushes Zinni's Resignation, Arafat Gets Blame

• Truth: Casualty of Holocaust and Campaign Financing

• Washington Post: Media Ship of Pro-Israeli Fools

• Tragically, There are no Palestinian "Buddy's"

• Israel: "Am I My Brother's Killer?" America: "Am I Israel's Helper?"

• Cry, Oh My Beloved Ummah

• Bush and Sharon: Killing the "Holy" in the Holy Land

• America's Humanity Depends on the TV Lens

• Jewish Science or Political Terrorism

• Washington Cannibals: Next Stop, Baghdad

• Sharon to Peres: "We Control America" - Congressional Pandering..

• He Who Controls The News Controls The Views

• When will America have the courage to demand Peace for Israel and Palestine

• American might moves all Nations to War and Peace, Except one

• All Humanity Responsible for Conflicts and Peace

• America's Media: Israel's Good, Muslims Bad

• It takes a world to destroy a village - "Let us Re-order this world around us"

• We Fear What We Don't Know

• Again, Arab and Muslim Leaders Asked to Join America to Kill Muslims or..

• An Opportunity for Peace, Not War

• Dangerous, Reckless Outrageous Comment on "Israel's Assassinations"

• Freedom of "Kosher" Speech

• "Quiet" - The Silence of The Ethical Media

• Sharon's War Drums Rage: Arafat, It's Over --- Vengeance is Mine

• From Bush's "Hail to The Chief Putin": "I'm a soul man"

• From Bagels to Tacos: Habla Español, Señor

• Why Not "242": "Two" States "4" "Two" People

• Damn Israel and Damn The Cowardly World that awaits..

• The Greatest Betrayal: A Homegrown Second “Nakba”

• Hey Mitchell: It’s The Occupation, Stupid

• America's Priority: Absolving Israel of Any Responsibility

• Two Examples of Media Bias and One Action Alert

• Israel’s Hottest TV Show: Survivor “The Palestinian Outback”

• Bush’s Shield and The Seven Dwarfs

• Two Middle East Realities: Free Genocide Vs. Free Trade 

• A word, A word, My first amendment for a word  

• Sharon's List  

• Silent Scream  

• The “Judaization” of American Policy While Arab Leaders Watch Helplessly  

• Israel's Dirty Dozen (s): A Case of Zionist "Foot and Mouth Disease"  

• Palestinians: Expelled, Exiled, Executed, Excoriated  

• No Free Speech on Israel  

• Smart Bombs, Dumb Politicians: The Bush Man Striketh    

• Dial "S" for Murder   

• America’s Pro-Israel Media: Lords of the Lies   

• I Beg Your Pardons   

• I'm As Mad As Hell and I'm Not Going to Take it Anymore   

• America, I Have Failed You My Country

• Memo to Friedman: Protecting Israel Hurts America and World Peace

• Israel Demands, America Enforces, Arafat Capitulates

• Response to Rabbi Joel M. Finkelstein

• America & Israel: You and Me against the World 

• Americans Count Ballots While Palestinians Count Bodies

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Norman Solomon

• The Gang That Couldn't Talk Straight

• Green Party Taking the Plunge for 2004

• War Boosters Unlikely to Voice Regret

• The Politics of Money Is Easy

• Visual Images and How We See the World

• Tilting Democrats in the Presidential Race

• The Media Politics of Impeachment

• Trust, War and Terrorism

• Britain - Not Quite a Parallel Media Universe

• The Spamming of America: Another Brick in the Wall

• Many a Jest Spoken as Truth

• Decoding the Media Fixations on Terrorism

• A Different Approach for the 2004 Campaign

• Media Nix - From Blix to Kucinich to Dixie Chicks

• Mark Twain Speaks to Us: "I Am an Anti-Imperialist"

• A Lethal Way to "Dispatch" the News

• The Thick Fog of War on American Television

• Casualties of War - First Truth, Then Conscience

• The Conventional Wisdom of Obedience

• Follow-up Needed After Newsweek Story on Iraqi Weapons

• "Globalization" and Its Malcontents

• Playing the "Terrorism" Card

• Colin Powell Is Flawless - Inside a Media Bubble

• Waiting for the Missiles in Baghdad

• Not All White House Reporters Are Pushovers

• Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2002

• Media Year 2002, R.I.P.

• Sean Penn in Baghdad - Image Gives Way to Substance

• Decoding Some Top Buzz Words of 2002

• Media Spin Can Separate War From Death

• If Commercial Radio Actually Trafficked in News

• Unilateral Power - By Any Other Name

• Media Time Capsule: Looking Backward at 2002

• Branding New and Improved Wars

• Media Sniping Frenzy Bumps Off Politics

• Polls - When Measuring Is Manipulating

• Democrats Playing Catch-Up in Media War

• Media Guide: How to View the United Nations

• Spinning Media Gears for a Faraway War

• Determined Journalism Can Challenge Injustice

• The Powell Trap: Easing Us Into War

• What If We Didn't Need Labor Day?

• "Wag the Puppy" - New Twist in Media War

• True Confessions of a Media CEO

• Fending Off the Threat of Peace

• War and Forgetfulness - A Bloody Media Game

• Will This Be an "Official Scandal" - or Something More?

• The Old Spin on the "New Economy"

• Renouncing Sins Against the Corporate Faith

• Media Sizzle for An Army of Fun

• "Monomedia" and the First Amendment

• A Modest Proposal for Media Reform

• "A Creeping Indifference and a Silent Hollowing Out"

• Three Decades Later, Watergate Is A Cautionary Tale

• Nuclear Weapons and Media Fog

• "War on Terrorism" Winking at Nuclear Terror

• Media Strategy Memo to George, Dick and John

• The Case of the 9-11 Photo

• No Media Interest in A Basic Matter of Democracy

• Still Not Good Enough - From Barbie to Botox

• Media and the Hazards of Political Faith

• Alice's New Adventures in Medialand

• NPR and The Fallow Triumph of Public Radio

• Palestinians Are Blurry in the Editorial Frame

• Profiles in Media Courage

• "The Liberal Media" - A Poltergeist That Will Not Die

• Television Becoming Spoof-Proof

• Six Months Later, the Basic Tool Is Language

• Pentagon's Silver Lining may be Bigger than Cloud

• New Heights for a Remarkable Pundit

• When Nothing But a Full-Page Ad Will Do

• American Journalism: A Class Act

• GWB and the Incredible Shrinking FDR

• A Communiqué From the Ghost of Mark Twain

• Determined Struggle brings a Radio Network back to Life

• The Discreet Charm of the Straight Spin

• In the Media Mix, What Happens to Music?

• Bad News When Madmen Lead the Blind

• Announcing the P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2001

• Noam Chomsky -- Saying What Media Don't Want Us to Hear

• Geographical Correctness Could Be A Jolt

• A Sweet Message for Americans -- "We Are Family"

• Fear and Numbing in the TV Zone

• Bloomberg's Victory and the Triumph of Business News

• The World Series in a Time of Crisis

• War Needs Good Public Relations

• War and the Televised Greatness of George W. Bush

• Killing Them Softly - Starvation and Dollar Bills for Afghan Kids

• TV News: A Militarized Zone

• Media Spin Revolves Around the Word "Terrorist"

• The "Wimp" Factor - Goading to Shed Blood

• Killing Civilians: Behind the Reassuring Words

• When Journalists Report for Duty

• A Unanimous Triumph for Masters of War

• Terrorism, Television and the Rage for Vengeance

• Idealism and Pacifica in Today's Media World

• Thirty Years Later, Memories of Attica Cry Out

• Denial and the Ravaging of Cyberspace

• How to Be a Contented Media Consumer

• Clinton Memoirs: Reflecting on the Media Wars

• A Green Party Campaign for President in 2004?

• Dancing -- or Yawning -- on the Grave of Carlo Giuliani

• Katharine Graham and History: Slanting the First Draft

• Media Mania: The Condit Scandal Goes Over The Top

• Media All-Stars: Taking The Field

• George Orwell in 2001: Speaking from The Grave

• Designs for a Different Future

• The Pentagon Papers: Media Praise Ringing Hollow

• In Medialand, It was Time to Kill

• At Commencement, Journalism has a Hazy Future

• Simulating Democracy can be A Virtual Breeze  

• Mediated Democracy: Following Italy's Example

• Executing McVeigh - Media Rites of Retribution 

• Media and Vietnam: Apparitions of Innocence

• Overdue: Media Scrutiny of The "White Bloc" 

• Bias and Fear Tilting Coverage of Israel       

• Valor on TV: Hotheads Under Hot Lights    

• U.S.- China Dispute: From Other Side of Media Window    

• The Non-Issue of "Media Finance Reform"  

• The Digital Promise of a Global Village  

• Bad News Bears Change Tone of Media Script  

• Triumph of Will: When Media Might Makes Right  

• Politics as Performance Art, Journalism as Drama Reviews  

• Reagan, Clinton and The Spectrum of Mainstream Punditry  

• Reporting on The Fight against AIDS in Poor Nations  

• From Global South's Side of The Media Looking Glass   

• The Narrow Separation of Press and State

• Ashcroft and Racism: Breaking The Code

• All Hail The Triumphant Doody-Bluster Ticket!

• A Confederate in The Cabinet

• Mushroom Clouds over Nevada

• Confirmation Path Greased for Ashcroft? Not So Fast!

• And Now, The P.U.-Litzer Prizes for 2000

• Media Crucial as Bush Faces "Legitimacy Gap"

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Ray Hanania

• New York Times debate focuses wildly on diversity issues

• Hypocrisy and racism deeply embedded in Iraq war

• Bin Laden's evil lives on in growing American hatreds

• Saddam and Bush debate?

• Nothing funny about the forces of separation

• Racism drives American Foreign Policy

• Understanding the real divide in Middle East

• Occupation is the cause of terrorism

• An inexperienced Bush pushes the Palestinians into a sea of desperation

• How Sharon and the Likud Party nurtured the rise of Hamas and benefit...

• Israel's lies about the Nativity Church

• As if the truth even really mattered any more

• In the face of Sharon's pure evil, Palestinians will win

• Arsonist Sharon sets Middle East ablaze

• Israel must accept its own role in provoking violence

• Bush administration directly responsible for the continued violence

• "Bush league" president responsible for escalation of world violence

• The real target is Islam and the Arab World

• Contradictions in the American "war on terrorism"

• Cracks in the foundation of American society that need repair

• Israel's war on Palestinians jeopardizes American war on terrorism

• The true essence of patriotism

• Suspects without cause: Arab Americans do not need to prove their patriotism

• On the matter of speaking out against "fanatics"

• Faltering Arab public relations can miss an opportunity

• Al-Jazeera poised to influence the American market

• Arab World in a unique position to influence Palestine conflict

• Is a picture really worth a thousand words?

• Expel those who embrace discrimination from the World Conference on Racism

• American hypocrisy at UN blocks Middle East peace

• The three W's of Israel's strategic assault against the Palestinians

• Playing with words: Legitimizing Violence

• Media bias whitewashes Israeli terrorism

• Israel is right: Media slightly favors Palestinians

• Bishara controversy exposes flaws in American media and Israeli Democracy  

• After McVeigh, now it's time for the US to apologize to Arabs 

• The charge of "normalization" is a weapon used by impotent leaders

• Sharon must take responsibility for Israeli deaths

• Media bias encourages more violence

• Who the world wishes to believe

• Israel's anti-Christian strategy

• A UN Force could prove Israel's crimes  

• Biased Media Coverage of the Middle East  

• Ariel Sharon's strategy is a recipe for death  

• Plowing Fields and Roads in a Life and Death: Palestinian.. 

• Senator Fitzgerald's Duplicity on Arab-Israeli Issues  

• No Heroes in the Tragedy of Iraq

• Assassinations and Terrorism: The Double Standard in Israel.. 

• Sharon's Victory is an Opportunity for the Palestinians to Reorganize

• Why did Israel elect Ariel Sharon? 

• Israel's distortion of the "Land for Peace" process 

• Israel, Your Peace is killing us: The future with Ariel Sharon 

• Bush Victory already aiming to harm Arab Interests

• The Unmistakable Corruption of the American System

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Edna Yaghi

• Let's Blast Him off the Face of This Earth

• New Year's Resolutions

• The Holocaust Owns Me

• Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Lunch with Mr. Hyde

• Arafat is Still a Leader, Regardless

• Waiting for Godot

• Living and Dying by the Sword

• Wave of Sorrow

• Redemption

• The Godfathers Three and Their New Year’s Resolutions

• Christmas-Peace on Earth?

• Eid Al Fitr

• You Can Make a Silk Purse Out of a Sow’s Ear

• Terror at Night

• Ramadan 2001, between a rock and a hard place

• The Monster America Created

• Intifada Al Aqsa - One Year Later

• Divided We Have Fallen

• To My Fellow Americans

• Attack on America, Who’s to Blame?

• You Have Made Me Your Human Bomb

• Death in the Heart of Jerusalem

• Suffer the Little Children

• Police Brutality - An Abuse of Authority

• The Long Road Home

• An Open Letter to My Governor Pataki

• Cal Thomas and His Coalition of Terror

• The Lone Ranger Rides Again

• How to Stop Suicide Bombing  

• What is a Palestinian

• Thanks to the Likes of Friedman, It Does Only Get Worse

• To Eject Synthetic Arafat or not - That is the Question

• What Are Little Girls Made Of

• Paradise Lost

• Surreal-A Penny for Your Thoughts; Real-a Piaster for Your Life

• Solomon’s Baby

• The Makings of a Suicide Bomber  

• There is More Than One Way to Fight a War…and Win!  

• Good Morning Palestine  

• The Olive Tree  

• An Open Letter to My Indignant US Congressmen  

• Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and his preaching  

• Wrong Way, Wang Wei: Bush’s Letter of Regret..  

• This World Was Never Meant for One as Beautiful as You  

• The Massacre at Deir Yassin and Hind  

• Bush: Even More Stupid Than He Looks  

• Outcome of Arab Summit Expected Scenario Come True 

• Edward’s Stone, a Symbol of Freedom  

• Uncle Sodom and Uncle Gomorrah  

• Expected Scenario at Arab Summit  

• Were I An Historical Icon  

• New Unabridged Israeli Dictionary  

• My Birthday Wish  

• Palestinian Child’s Bill of Rights  

• Scarred for Life  

• Deadly Intent  

• Time to Stop the Slaughter of Iraqis  

• Israelis, Tell Your Children  

• Valentine's Day  

• Two Faces of Mensch  

• Democracy in the Middle East  

• I Could Not Live Without My Phone, But He Doesn’t..  

• Unfinished War  

• Farewell Clinton

• My Humanity on Hold

• The Warrior Poet

• Nobody's Child

• The Sons & Daughter of Liberty

• Our Violent Society

• Abel The Street Boy

• Ben and The Land of Pandemonium

• Reply to Bruce Hudspeth

• Invasion of The Cyclops

• Open Letter to George W. Bush

• Deus Le Volt

• An Open Letter to an Israeli Settler

• When Barboos went to Hadj

• From Ramadan to Christmas

• An Appeal to All Arab and Muslim Leaders

• Crossfire

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James Zogby

• Saudis Reject Bin Laden and Terrorism

• Arab American and American Jews Agree on Path to Peace

• Pipes Nomination Down the Drain?

• Bush at Risk?

• An Early Look at Arab Americans and the 2004 Elections

• How the Neo-Cons Operate

• Dreaming of Palestine

• The Weapons Debate, US Style

• Steps the US Should Take

• Give It a Chance

• 40 Years Later, U.S. Still Faces Civil Rights Challenges

• Teaching and Learning

• Troubling but Helpful: US-Iraqi Dialogue

• No Questions Asked

• An Important Night for the Spirit of Humanity

• The Ups and Downs of George W. Bush

• What Next?

• A War Like No Other

• Rachel Corrie: A Different Kind of Liberator

• Arab Opinion of U.S. Hits All Time Low

• Sheikh Zayed Was Right

• Democrats Debate War

• Secret Evidence and Profiling: Two Disturbing Practices

• The Case For War

• On the Eve of Israeli Elections

• Arab Americans & American Jews Agree

• What do Arabs think about?

• What Arabs Think

• Hariri is Right

• U.S. Policy Unchanged

• Gore Ignites Iraq Debate

• Determined Journalism Can Challenge Injustice

• Talk of War Makes Political Changes

• One year later, the damage done

• One Year Later: Arab American Rights are Defended

• Lessons from the Hilliard & McKinney Defeats

• A New Debate on Iraq Policy

• The Vision of Suliman Olayan

• Action, Inaction

• A Further Reaction to the Speech

• A Perfectly Strange Speech

• A Lesson in Politics

• The Ever-Expanding War

• Understanding America's Right Wing :: Part Two ::

• A Congressional Election to Watch: the Middle East Conflict...

• The Steps We Must Now Take

• Understanding America's Right Wing :: Part One ::

• The Story Behind the Story Behind the Story

• Confronting the Surreal Views of the U.S. Congress

• US Politics vs. Middle East Reality

• "It's the Policy, Stupid!"

• Ideologues and Realists Battle for U.S. Policy

• New Challenges to Civil Liberties

• A Commentary on United Nations Security Council Resolution 1397

• Bush Got it Right

• The Impact of Abdullah's Initiative

• The Internment of Japanese Americans: Sixty Years Later

• New Strategy Debate Continues: Where to go from Here?

• Bush's State of the Union: Clear Rhetoric, Unclear Goals

• Toward A New Palestinian Strategy

• Remembering the Real Martin Luther King

• The Stakes are High in the 2002 Congressional Elections

• The U.S. and the World

• New Poll Shows Damage Done

• Confronting the Challenges We Face

• A Dead End

• A Clearer Picture

• The Steps After Powell

• Two Parallel Discussions

• 'Rediscovering' Arab Americans

• Lessons Learned

• Arab American Attitudes and the September 11 Attacks

• U.S. Attitudes and the Current Crisis

• "Arab Americans are Defended"

• I am angry

• A Week of Complex Emotions

• A Hot Washington Summer, A Hotter Washington Fall

• Using and abusing Arafat

• Breaking the Cycle and Myth of Violence

• Israel's Assassinations: The US Debate

• The Poison and the Antidote

• Measuring Arab Public Opinion

• Building the Arab American Bridge

• Bush II is not Bush I

• A campaign against incitement

• Undoing peace

• America: Still a Mosaic of Ethnics

• The Media War We are Losing, But can win

• The 'settlement freeze' ruse

• The Jeffords’ Switch

• New Questions about Feith

• A Great Idea

• Jimmy Carter: Our Greatest Ex-President

• A Dangerous Appointment  

• A Tough Week for a New President  

• Sharon Comes to Washington 

• Hoof and Mouth Disease and The British-Irish Conflict 

• Immigrants Maintaining Their Ties  

• Powell's Visit and The Two Middle East Conflicts

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Padraic Rohan

• Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

• On Democratizing the Global Economy

• Mr. Bush and Mr. Friedman

• Development: Myth and Reality

• The war is in us

• Terrorism?

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Meria Heller

• Democracy and Liberation

• Coloring outside the lines

• Countering The Voices of The Right is Wrong

• God Shed Dis-Grace on Thee? Will that be Our New National Anthem?

• Grim Holiday Season being felt all over

• Prescott Bush says Don't Vote Republican! :: satirical ::

• Thinking - A Lost Art in America

• "The SCAM We Have Been Believing for Decades"

• "What Makes An Anarchist"

• "The Whole World Is In Danger of Armageddon"

• Is this America?

• Who is Meria Heller? :: Intro Column ::

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Margo Turner

• Labeling standards for organic foods

• National World War II Memorial

• Drug trafficking on southwest border

• Finding the Best Way to Reform Social Security

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Hesham A. Hassaballa

• The worst possible news yet

• God does need a police force...sort of

• Does God need a police force?

• A most unwelcome change

• Yeah, but, look at what the Muslims are doing!

• Acts of God

• Putting words into God's mouth

• What's wrong with the Arab world?

• Matzah, Moses, and Muslims

• Legends of the fall

• Searching for the silver lining

• A well deserved rebuke

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Greg Felton

• Israel finds BBC too truthful for comfort

• Hamas a principled defender of Palestine

• The whole world’s watching!

• Jewish prism steals light from Arabs

• Chapter VI “American Jihad”

• Thought and Propaganda in the Media

• Israel leads U.S. back to Vietnam—Part II

• Israel leads U.S. back to Vietnam—Part I

• Israel: A monument to anti-Semitism

• Israeli oppression thrives because of the world’s indifference

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