By Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter For nearly two decades, there have been peace processes in the Middle East but no peace. In recent visits to the region — including Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory — we have heard…
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Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter: Time to move on Mideast peace
Tagged with: Desmond Tutu, Elders, Jimmy Carter, nelson mandela, UNSC
Posted in GeoPolitics, History, Israel, Middle East, Op/Ed, Palestinian Territories
Posted in GeoPolitics, History, Israel, Middle East, Op/Ed, Palestinian Territories
What’s Al Jazeera’s problem?
Since its launch in 2006, Al Jazeera English has expanded into more than 190 million households in more than100 different countries, including most of Europe and even Israel. But its sister station, Al Jazeera Arabic, became notorious in the U.S. after broadcasting…
Russell Simmons: A Challenge to WTC Mosque Opponents
The rights of American Muslims are being questioned in other locations. Will Gingrich and Palin speak out on their behalf? We hear a lot these days about how this famous conservative, or that one over there, has nothing against Islam.…
Tagged with: New York City, Newt Gingrich, Park51, Russell Simmons, Sarah Palin
Posted in American Politics, Op/Ed, United States
Posted in American Politics, Op/Ed, United States
Obama Admin. Urges Allies to Crack Down on WikiLeaks
The Obama administration has asked Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allies to consider criminal charges against Julian Assange for his Afghan war leaks. Philip Shenon reports. The Obama administration is pressing Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allied Western governments to…
Tagged with: Julian Assange, Obama Administration, Wikileaks
Posted in Censorship, Defense, Freedom of speech, Journalism, Politics, Propaganda, Reports/Studies/Books
Posted in Censorship, Defense, Freedom of speech, Journalism, Politics, Propaganda, Reports/Studies/Books
Japan can’t stay postwar forever
It became rich as America’s compliant vassal state. Now Japan’s efforts to move on are being thwarted by the US Revolutions, it is often claimed, do not happen when people are desperate. They occur in times of rising expectations. Perhaps…
Tagged with: Japan, US-Japan relations, Tri-Lateral Commission
Posted in Asia, Dipomacy, History, Imperialism, Op/Ed, Politics
Posted in Asia, Dipomacy, History, Imperialism, Op/Ed, Politics
Zardari’s Katrina
Why is Pakistan’s president junketing while his people are drowning? This week, Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, boarded a private Gulfstream Jet along with his family and his hundreds-large entourage to visit the European countries included on the president’s grand…
The New York Times and the Afghan documents
Julie Hyland The posting by WikiLeaks of some 92,000 secret documents on the Afghanistan war, together with the coverage of this material in the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel, has sparked widespread comparisons with the leaking nearly 40 years ago…
Tagged with: new york times, war diary, war logs, Wikileaks
Posted in Op/Ed, Afghanistan, Reports/Studies/Books, Censorship
Posted in Op/Ed, Afghanistan, Reports/Studies/Books, Censorship
