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Israeli conspiracy or Palestinian opportunity?

"Sadly Sharon, who is clearly unwilling to enter into genuine peace negotiations--or even disengagement security talks--with our neighbors, is also unwilling and possibly emotionally or intellectually unable to explain to the Israeli public the urgent and vital demographic rationale for far-reaching disengagement."

The Zombie State

"We were all duped into hating Arabs and believing in a war that didn't have to happen. We were fed images we hadn't seen before of what came across as savage, backward societies - exotic, from a different world."

America, Imagine This!

"Iraq, after colonizing New England and ethnically cleansing its native inhabitants, has converted it into an exclusive, racist, colonial-settler state for Arabs brought in from Sudan who were dying from a severe drought, the worst in a thousand years."

My Vote

"While President Bush has repeatedly affirmed his respect for Islam and the Arab world, he has failed to act in the face of repeated bigoted statements made by members of his Administration and his leading supporters."

Two Weeks to Go – and One President to Oust

"The thousands of African-American women and men lining up at early-voting sites in Florida are sending a profound message across this country."

A Draft or Merely Hot Air?

"The current tar baby in Iraq has bogged down 140,000 U.S. troops and may ensnare more after November if the worsening violence and freedom from electoral constraints cause the next administration—whether headed by Bush or Kerry—to escalate U.S. involvement. So the government may be tempted to enlarge the military “on the cheap” by using conscription."

A Few Comments on Tafsir of the Qur’an

"Recently, people have appeared who, without the slightest qualification for interpreting the Qur'an, try to impose their own objectives and ideas upon both the Qur'an and the Sunnah."

Holding Up a Mirror to the Face of U.S. "Exceptionalism"

"Empire is about power; absolute power corrupts because it allows people such as Donald Rumsfeld to treat people, whether Iraqi civilians or American soldiers, as mere ciphers."

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Will the US change policy toward the conflict?

"Bush is likely to maintain his unilateral approach to foreign policy, although he may seek greater cooperation with allies in NATO and countries such as Russia and China. Kerry intends to replace unilateralism with multilateralism; this means the placing of greater priority on cooperation with the UN, the EU and other world powers."

The Mode of Pakistani Print Media

"High cost of publication is not only the reason of falling quality of journalism. The lack of professional institutes, facilities to learn the needs of modern journalism, knowledge and feeling the moral & ethical values being media associates are another factor of deficiencies."

"Million Worker March" a Spirited Success

"Oct. 17, 2004 was an historic day for Labor. The Million Worker March (MWM) brought a progressive blueprint for change to Washington, D.C. In front of the Lincoln Memorial, the organizers’ central message rang out loud and clear: “The Labor Movement will follow its own independent agenda to restore America!” They also blasted the AFC-CIO’s boss, John Sweeney, and his cronies, for boycotting the event."

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Gaza’s Wars of Perception

"Sharon's determination to act unilaterally means that, as a matter of design, there is to be no Palestinian counterpart with whom to implement the initiative."

Divergent worldviews

"Although the candidates present opposing views on the decision to go to war in spring 2003, they share a basic commitment to maintain deep American involvement on the ground until Iraq is stabilized."

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"Mississippi Mutiny"

"...the ugly truth has arisen, just days before Election Day. Nothing could be worse for the Bush camp."

Thin pickings from November 2

"Looking back over the past eleven years or so of America and Israel-Palestine, the only tangible difference between the Democrats and the Republicans (as now constituted under Bush and Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld) has been that while Republicans follow the full-frontal rejectionism of the Likud, Democrats have favored the slyer, less obvious but nonetheless implacable Zionism of Labor."

My View on Dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian Water Dispute

"In order to reach the Promised Land, we must begin to think outside of the box and to propose even the most preposterous ideas that might in the end lead us to something much better for us all."

The March of Democracy

"Talking about whether Musharraf should don the uniform or not in a country which has for better part of its existence been ruled by the military might seem rather naive."

Thank you, Dubby

"The world-view of Sharon, which at first appears so realistic, is the very opposite of realism. It is a view that will lead us to disaster."

Abandoning Srebrenicia

"It now appears that The United Nations had cut a deal that allowed the Serbs to obliterate the entire male population of a major Southern European town."

The Three Stooges in Iraq, and the U.S.’s First Stooge

"The notion that the United States has some special expertise in nation building, some unique gift and exceptional ability to bestow the “blessings of democracy” on others, stems in no small part from the mythology of the U.S. war in the Philippines."