Commentary: The real threat in Egypt: Delayed democracy
No one in Egypt is talking about demolishing the peace treaty with Israel, even the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is standing against the Israeli violations against humanity.
Ninth Commemoration of the Political Persecution of Professor Sami Al-Arian
On this day nine years ago Dr. Sami Al-Arian was snatched from his family and community by the U.S. authorities in a pre-dawn raid that the professor described in a poem. Thus, tomorrow marks the beginning of the tenth year of the incessant persecution of a voice of conscience for freedom in Palestine, and equal [...]
Is NYPD Running Wild? Patterns of Brutality Raise Questions About Mayor’s Control of Police
Behind the NYPD’s beating of Jateik Reed and the killing of Ramarley Graham is a long history of police harassment. A series of incidents last year, in some cases where police broke the law, has sullied the reputation of the NYPD. From the department’s handling of Occupy protesters and journalists, to officers’ participation in illegal gun sales and a ticket-fixing [...]
Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, Hegemony and Its Dilemmas , Imperial Hegemony and Its Discontents
Back in May 2007, I stumbled across online sketches at the website of a Kansas architectural firm hired to build a monster U.S. embassy-cum-citadel-cum-Greater-Middle-Eastern command center on 104 acres in the middle of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. They offered an artist’s impressions of what the place would look like — a giant self-sufficient compound both prosaic (think [...]
U.S. Attitudes Toward Egypt (2012)
JZ Analytics was commissioned by New York University (Abu Dhabi) to conduct an online survey of American attitudes toward Egypt. Conducted in January 2012, the poll shows: • Americans hold a net negative view of Egypt• Americans are wary of the Muslim Brotherhood’s role in government• Americans are sharply divided along partisan lines when it [...]
Radical U.S. Muslims Little Threat, Study Says
WASHINGTON — A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialized , with plots and arrests dropping sharply over the two years since an unusual peak in 2009, according to a new study by a North Carolina research group. The study, to be released on Wednesday, found that 20 Muslim Americans [...]
BDS Movement Hopes To Go Mainstream National Boycott Israel Conference Uses Language of Left
The movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel — long painted as a fringe group by the Israel advocacy community — is seeking to wrap itself in the mantle of the mainstream American left. At the movement’s first-ever national conference, presenters and attendees compared BDS to the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott, the Cesar Chavez [...]
Muslim-American Terrorism in the Decade Since 9/11
Twenty Muslim-Americans were indicted for violent terrorist plots in 2011, down from 26 the year before, bringing the total since 9/11 to 193, or just under 20 per year (see Figure1). This number is not negligible – small numbers of Muslim-Americans continue to radicalize each year and plot violence. However, the rate of radicalization is [...]
New Evidence Reveals U.S. Has Used Drones to Target Rescue Workers and Funerals in Pakistan
A report found that since President Obama took office between 282 and 535 civilians have been reported as killed in Pakistan, including more than 60 children. AMY GOODMAN: The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to rescue victims or were attending funerals. So concludes a new report by the London-based Bureau of Investigative [...]
Open letter in support of professor Terri Ginsburg; appealing to N. Carolina Supreme Court
Terri Ginsberg was a visiting film studies professor at North Carolina State University when she was dismissed after sharing views critical of Zionism and the state of Israel. She filed a grievance with the university, which denied her a hearing – three times. So she took her case to the courts. Two lower courts have decided against [...]
Elect Romney, Get War in Iran?
Should Mitt Romney make it to the White House, his Middle East policy and plan for Iran may be as hawkish as that of Bush Junior, thanks to Eliot Cohen. In 2005, a group of graduate students at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced and International Studies (SAIS) participated in the school’s annual diplomatic simulation. The high-pressure scenario required [...]
