Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by ALI Tariq
Looking down on the world from the imperial grandeur of the Oval Office in the fall of 2001, the Cheney–Bush team was confident of its ability to utilize the September events to remodel the world. The Pentagon’s Vice Admiral Cebrowski summed up the linkage of capitalism to war: ‘the dangers (…)
, by Collectif / Signatures multiples
We the undersigned expatriate Iraqi workers, students, scientists, academics, writers, artists, professionals and business people, witnessing with horror the destruction of our people under an illegal foreign occupation, stand together with the peace movement throughout the world in (…)
, by Dayna
It was when I moved from a small village from the “North” to the big city of Jerusalem. It was not a transition from a far disconnected space called “an Arab village” to the city of red lights, crimes and sex; but a transition from a place of familiarity to the city of impossible paradoxes, of (…)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert
With the threats to bomb Iran, the victory of Hamas in Palestine and the ’low intensity’ civil war in Iraq, the Middle East is going through new turbulence and transformation. Gilbert Achcar talked to State of Nature online magazine.
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SoN-: With the recent rise in sectarian violence in (…)
, by ALI Tariq
Looking down on the world from the imperial grandeur of the Oval Office in the fall of 2001, the Cheney-Bush team was confident of its ability to utilize the September events to remodel the world. The Pentagon’s Vice Admiral Cebrowski summed up the linkage of capitalism to war: ‘the dangers (…)
, by BROWN Nathan J, HAMZAWY Amr, OTTAWAY Marina
FOREWORD
During the last decade, Islamist movements have established themselves as major political players in the Middle East. Together with the governments, Islamist movements, moderate as well as radical, will determine how the politics of the region unfold in the foreseeable future. They (…)
, by ABDEL SALAM Mohammad
The success of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt’s parliamentary elections, the crisis faced by the ruling party, the disintegration of the traditional opposition parties, and the unprecedented violence turned the elections into a turbulent operation. Yet this should not conceal the fact that the (…)
, by FREE PATRIOTIC MOVEMENT, HEZBOLLAH
1- Dialogue
National dialogue is the only avenue to find solutions to Lebanon’s crises on stable and firm bases that are a reflection of a unifying consensual will. The following conditions must be obtained to ensure its success:
A- The participation of parties that have a political, popular (…)
, by MALIG Mary Louise
In the last few months, all eyes were fixed on the outcome of the 6th Ministerial of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Hong Kong. At stake was the fate of the Doha Development Round.
Thousands of protestors, coming from all walks of life and various sectors and movements around the globe, (…)
, by WARSCHAWSKI Michael
Hamas’s decisive victory in the unquestionably democratic elections held in the Palestinian occupied territories is the result of many factors. However, above all else, it is a great victory for Ariel Sharon’s policy. For decades the destruction of the PLO has been a strategic objective for the (…)
, by HOWEIDY Amira
Amira Howeidy listens in as the Egyptian left attempts to salvage a role
As media pundits and politicians continue to ponder the future of political Islam in Egypt following the Muslim Brotherhood’s election successes the left has all but disappeared over the horizon from where, presumably, (…)
, by MILES Hugh
It is vilified as a propaganda machine and Osama bin Laden’s mouthpiece. In truth, though, Al Jazeera is as hated in the palaces of Riyadh as it is in the White House. But, as millions of loyal viewers already know, Al Jazeera promotes a level of free speech and dissent rarely seen in the Arab (…)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert, SHALOM Stephen R.
Whatever the limitations of Rep. Murtha’s call to redeploy U.S. troops from Iraq that we have already emphasized (“On John Murtha’s Position,” ZNet, Nov. 21), he went much too far for most Democrats or for the Bush administration. Nevertheless, there have been others who have urged the (…)
, by Correspondant(es)
The courts of the government of Iran have sentenced a number of prominent labour movement activists to several years in prison, to be followed for some of them with exile. Their only “crime” is the attempt to hold a celebration event on May Day 2004.
These workers were arrested at the (…)
, by LEMA Luis
ICRC delegates had access to Algerian detainees from 1955 onwards and noted the occurrence of torture. They were not allowed to talk about it but Le Monde published a summary of their report - press article published in Le Temps (Switzerland) on 19 August 2005.
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All other (…)
, by SHEKARLOO Mahsa
Activists for women’s rights are prominent among the many Iranians who fear a reinvigorated crackdown on personal and social freedoms in the wake of the surprise election of the ultra-conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the presidency of the Islamic Republic. Though Ahmadinejad sought to soften (…)
Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS
Palestinian Civil Society Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights.
One year after the historic Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (…)
, by BELLO Walden
It was on the second day that I got the sense that things were coming together in a way akin to that whereby several climatic disturbances fuse to create what meteorologists have called the “perfect storm.”
It was probably the combination of eyewitness accounts that made clear beyond a shadow (…)
, by Correspondent(s)
Tamassint is among the localities that remains distressed in the wake of the earthquake that shook the Rif region one year ago. Its inhabitants are protesting against the lack of any serious reconstruction policy and have been subjected to repeated repressive measures.
The march they (…)
, by ROYANIAN Simin
Question (Chicago indymedia): [U]nder shah women had all the rights. When Islam radicals took over they lost them. How is that US imperialism?
Our response: Women did not have all their rights under the Shah. Sharia Law was the law in Iran prior to 1979. The Islamic Sharia law was the basis of (…)
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