Bahraini State Terror Continues

By Stephen Lendman Bahraini and Saudi security forces continue daily terror in Bahrain, human rights groups condemning the violence, including Amnesty International (AI), providing regular updates. On May 11, AI reported more than 47 health professionals, including doctors and nurses, have been arrested, charged and may face trial before a military court for doing their [...]

International silence over the Middle East felonies

By Kourosh Ziabari As the U.S.-backed repressive regimes of the Middle East harshly crack down on their unarmed, innocent citizens, the international community has kept a low profile and indifferently watches the massacre of pro-freedom demonstrators in Libya, Bahrain and Yemen by the merciless dictators of the Persian Gulf region. Did you like this? Share [...]

A Neoconservative ‘Shock and Awe’: The Rise of the Arabs

By Ramzy Baroud A pervading sense of awe seems to be engulfing Arab societies everywhere. What is underway in the Arab world is greater than simply revolution in a political or economic sense– it is, in fact, shifting the very self-definition of what it means to be Arab, both individually and collectively. Did you like [...]

All-American Decline in a New World

By Tom Englehardt. Republished from FPIF. This is a global moment unlike any in memory, perhaps in history. Yes, comparisons can be made to the wave of people power that swept Eastern Europe as the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989-91. For those with longer memories, perhaps 1968 might come to mind, that abortive moment when, in the United States, France, Germany, [...]

U.S. Human Rights Policy is Self-serving and Duplicitous: George Katsiaficas

Interview by Kourosh Ziabari George Katsiaficas is a renowned university professor, sociologist, author and activist. He is a visiting American Professor of Humanities and Sociology at Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea where he teaches and does research on the 1980s and 1990s East Asian uprisings. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

Mixed Messages: Arabs Challenge Israeli Hasbara

By Ramzy Baroud When the Libyan people took on their reviled dictator, Moammar Gadhafi, Israeli officials seemed puzzled by the alarming and unprecedented trend of popular awakenings in the Arab world. Israel’s Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has claimed that these awakenings are only proof of the ‘weakening’ of the Arabs – even at a time [...]

DESPERATELY NEEDED: Jews Confront Zionism

BREAKTHROUGH ON A CRITICAL FRONT: JEWS CONFRONT ZIONISM Prominent rich American Jews like NYC’s mayor Bloomberg, or the scions to the Seagram’s fortune (the Bronfmans), constitute a tiny percentage of Jewish opinion, but it’s the only one receiving constant and ubiquitous attention throughout the corporate media (which many of them own outright, too, as is [...]