Comprehensive and Inclusive Immigration Reform

Comprehensive=Inclusive Immigration Reform US Immigration law is based upon the principle of family unification, and when an American citizen or legal permanent resident falls in love with someone from another country, they are allowed to petition to bring their...

On Collaboration and Resistance

On collaboration and resistance of the oppressed Ziyaad Lunat, The Electronic Intifada, 3 January 2009 In 1835, Thomas Macaulay, a British colonial officer in India, decreed that "We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions...

How Obama Lost Control of Iraq Policy

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=29519 First Published 2009-01-02 How Obama Lost Control of Iraq Policy   There is a continued military insistence on a conditions-based approach to a US withdrawal from Iraq that is part of a broader plan by Bush...

Pity the Neocons

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=29532 First Published 2009-01-03 Pity the Poor Neocons   All the neocons have left now is to cheer the Israeli air force as it, in effect, shoots fish in a barrel, i.e. blasting away at selected Palestinian targets...

Depleted Uranium in Gaza

Jan. 4, 2009 Dear all, According to some media reports, GBU-39 with depleted uranium has been used in the Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip. Pasted below is the information we have at the moment. Please let us know if you have more information regarding this...

On Solidarity and Sexual Violence

http://necessarymeansfight.blogspot.com/2013/02/on-solidarity-and-sexual-violence-open.html   On Solidarity and Sexual Violence: An open letter to the Palestine Solidarity Movement The explosion of media coverage of sexual assault and community response to gender...

The Gaza Ghetto Uprising

The Gaza Ghetto Uprising Joseph Massad, The Electronic Intifada, 4 January 2009 Nazi troops round up Polish Jews during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943. (Photographer Unknown) One is often baffled by the ironies of international relations and the alliances they...

Selective Terrorism

I am getting literally dozens of messages every day now on the Israeli action in Gaza.  Many are excellent and yet the tv and newspapers in the U.S. continually approach the situation much like they did in the early days of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.  The...

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