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Book review: Must-read about the nuclear mess
Stephanie Cooke's "In Mortal Hands"In an era when corporate media, corporate politicians and corporate military men gang up together and denounce and threaten other countries because of their nuclear related activities, they should spend much of that rhetorical energy cross-examining themselves in a mirror. North Korea's latest...CAIR holds civil rights townhall amid concerns
CAIR holds civil rights townhall amid concerns DETROIT — The Council on American Islamic Relations held a meeting on Friday, June 12 to discuss several issues in the Muslim community. These included airport profiling, FBI informants and citizenship processing delays. CAIR-Michigan Director Dawud Walid, L, and CAIR...
What are Mousavi’s options now?
June 15th, 20090 The Associated Press reported on Monday that one of its photographers witnessed Iranian security forces firing at a crowd of protesters, killing one person and seriously wounding several others, after hundreds of thousands of chanting opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marched in central Tehran to support their pro-reform leader...Palestinian legislator speaks on the Hill
WASHINGTON — "President Barack Obama's Cairo speech generated excitement among Palestinians." That was part of the message Dr. Mustafa Barghouti expressed when he spoke on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC early last week. "Finally, we have a president that recognizes the right for Palestinian dignity and equal opportunity," he said....Long way from ‘Settlerland’ to ‘Palestineland’
JERUSALEM — Has Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got the Obama message? To judge by his minimalist response to President Barack Obama's landmark Cairo University address and his continuing reluctance to meet Obama's demand for a total freeze on Israeli settlements, the answer would seem to be, 'No'. It's a mighty...
Lebanese vote for status quo
June 12th, 20090 WASHINGTON (IPS) — The victory of the Western-backed coalition in Lebanon's Sunday elections will likely allow the U.S. to avoid making tough decisions about how to deal with the country had the opposition, led by Hizbullah, won. Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Siniora casts his ballot at a polling station in Sidon, southern...Iranians keen on improved ties with U.S.
WASHINGTON (IPS) — More than three out of every four Iranian citizens favor improved relations with the United States, according to a major survey conducted less than one month before this Friday's presidential elections in Iran by a U.S. non-governmental organization, Terror Free Tomorrow (TFT). Just over half (52 percent) of the...
Goodbye, GM
June 12th, 20090 I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors. By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled. As I sit here in GM's birthplace, Flint, Michigan, I am surrounded by friends and family who are filled with anxiety about what will...AIPAC wall beginning to crack
For years, AIPAC (The American Israel Public Affairs Committee) has helped to stonewall the Middle East peace process by building a solid wall around the Israeli government, protecting it from criticism in the U.S. Senators and representatives have feared the wrath of AIPAC come Election Day, even in states and districts where the...Is Lebanon now a Wahabi state?
The fifth series of parliamentary elections held in Lebanon's Second Republic since its birth in 1989 were in some respects the most dominated by Saudi Arabia. Vote-buying was perhaps more rampant than ever before. In order to influence the election result, Saudi Arabia directly addressed the citizens of Lebanon by buying votes in...Good place to start learning about Iran
Robert Baer's "The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower" Iran is obviously a key player in the Middle East. The many references within other texts dealing with other aspects of the Middle East and the several texts dealing specifically with Iran highlight its significance. Part of that significance is that Iran...Mixed local reactions to Lebanon election
A Lebanese family show their ink-stained fingers at a polling station in Beirut's suburbs June 7, 2009. Lebanese voters cast ballots in a tightly contested general election on Sunday pitting March 14th coalition against the March 8th coalition. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi Lebanese Americans from throughout Metro Detroit are expressing...
Clinton to address ADC convention
June 12th, 20090 WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton is to accept the ADC Global Leadership Award and deliver keynote remarks on Saturday, June 13 during the 2009 American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee National Convention in Washington D.C. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton The three-day convention is also to feature...Twin sisters excel at Crestwood
DEARBORN HEIGHTS — For most high school students, the mid-afternoon hours are reserved for hanging out with friends, eating, or perhaps taking a long, refreshing nap. Layal, L, and Zeinab Khocheiche But for Layal and Zeinab Khocheiche of Dearborn Heights Crestwood High School, after school time took on a whole different...Shora appointed to DHS council
WASHINGTON — The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) announced on June 5 that at a ceremony held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in ADC National Executive Director Kareem Shora as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). American-Arab......
Ruling party wins in Lebanon
June 10th, 20090 BEIRUT – Lebanon's Western-backed March 14 coalition has defeated a stiff challenge by the Hizbullah-led opposition in national elections to retain its parliamentary majority. A Lebanese election official counts ballots after their polling station closed in Zahle in the Bekaa valley June 7, 2009. Lebanese voted on Sunday in...
Arabs praise Obama speech, await actions
June 10th, 20090 Local media flocked to the Lebanese American Heritage Club to hear reaction to President Obama's speech from local Arab American community leaders Osama Siblani, L, Imad Hamad, Hasan Newash and others. PHOTO: Nick Meyer/TAAN DEARBORN — A press conference was held Thursday morning at the Lebanese American Heritage Club in...
Obama’s speech in Egypt aimed at healing rift with the Muslim world
June 10th, 20090 U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech in the Grand Hall of Cairo University June 4, 2009. Obama told the world's Muslims on Thursday that violent extremists had exploited tensions between Muslims and the West, and that Islam was not part of the problem but part of promoting peace. REUTERS/MENA "I am honored to be in the...
Reuniting Families Act spurs hope
June 10th, 20090 Over 370,000 available family-preference visas went unused from 2004 to 2008, according to State Department figures. Approximately four million people are currently stuck in the visa entry backlog. Over 2.7 million of these are on a waiting list for visas from the family-preference category. Family-preference visas are used to......
A return to resistance in Iraq
At least 20 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq in May, the most since last September, along with more than 50 wounded. Iraqi casualties are, as usual — and in both categories — at least ten times that number. A U.S. soldier walks past a man during a patrol in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad June 2, 2009....Report ties dubious Iran nuclear documents to Israel
WASHINGTON (IPS) — A report on Iran's nuclear program issued by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month generated news stories publicizing an incendiary charge that U.S. intelligence is underestimating Iran's progress in designing a "nuclear warhead" before the halt in nuclear weapons-related research in 2003. That false......
Palestinian Authority going the Israeli way
RAMALLAH (IPS) — A surge in confidence, following unprecedented U.S. political support, led to the Palestinian Authority's bloody crackdown on a Hamas cell in the northern West Bank on Sunday which left six Palestinians dead. However, reports of questionable Palestinian Authority (PA) tactics, including the use of Palestinian...Obama ties Palestinian cause with Israel’s security and Arab reform
On June 4, in Cairo, President Obama started a promising dialogue with Islam: President Barack Obama waves to the audience as he leaves the Grand Hall of Cairo University after delivering a speech in Cairo June 4, 2009. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic "So let there be no doubt: Islam is a part of America. And I believe that America......