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mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Friday March 28, 2008 - 22:36 by Noah Baker Merrill   image 1 image
Yesterday news reports began streaming in of a "major security operation" being conducted by the Iraqi security forces, backed by US air and other support, in many parts of Southern Iraq. The main target appears to be the Mahdi Army, which has observed a ceasefire for many months. That ceasefire now seems strained to the breaking point. Moqtada Sadr has called for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience, and many Sadrist-controlled areas are responding. But while news reports vary in their ability to place these ongoing developments in context, most are missing the most essential dynamics at work. (Mar 26, 2008) ... read full story / add a comment
People power: Palestinians the fallen border wall between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, 30 January 2008. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Friday March 28, 2008 - 22:21 by Ziyaad Lunat   image 1 image
Ziyaad Lunat is a postgraduate student of the Government Department at the London School of Economics (LSE) and Political Science, the President of LSE Student Union Palestine Society and a broadcast journalist. He is currently on the organizing committee of the Nakba60-London, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Palestinian dispossession. ... read full story / add a comment
Scapegoating the Palestinains for Germany's past: German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, January 2006. (Inbal Rose/MaanImages)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Monday March 24, 2008 - 20:26 by Raymond Deane   image 1 image
Raymond Deane is a composer and activist. He is currently living for part of the year in southern Germany. ... read full story / add a comment
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mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Saturday March 15, 2008 - 08:21 by Dahr Jamail   image 1 image
This is an article originally published in January, but which is useful to understand the situation of Iraq 5 years after the invasion. Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist, is the author of the recently published Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq (Haymarket Books, 2007). Over the last four years, Jamail has reported from occupied Iraq as well as Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey. He writes regularly for Tomdispatch.com, Inter Press Service, Asia Times, and Foreign Policy in Focus. He has contributed to the Sunday Herald, the Independent, the Guardian, and the Nation magazine, among other publications. He maintains a website, Dahr Jamail's Mideast Dispatches, with all his writing. ... read full story / add a comment
In the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Palestinian youth throw stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes that erupted against the Israeli incursions into the Gaza Strip, 3 March 2008. (Luay Sababa/MaanImages)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Saturday March 15, 2008 - 08:14 by Ghada Ageel   image 1 image
Ghada Ageel is a third-generation Palestinian refugee. She grew up in the Khan Younis refugee camp in Gaza and teaches Middle Eastern politics at the University of Exeter in Britain. ... read full story / add a comment
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Thursday March 13, 2008 - 19:13 by Lily Hamourtziadou
In the face of the 5th anniversary of the Occupation of Iraq, this article gives a glimpse of the human tragedy behind the US aggression. ... read full story / add a comment
Young relatives of newborn baby Amira Abu 'Aser mourn during her funeral in Gaza City, 5 March 2008. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Wednesday March 12, 2008 - 07:40 by Ali Abunimah   image 1 image
Co-founder of The Electronic Intifada, Ali Abunimah is author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse (Metropolitan Books, 2006). ... read full story / add a comment
mashrek / arabia / irak / imperialismo / guerra / stampa non anarchica Monday March 10, 2008 - 19:02 by Khader Musallam
Il governo israeliano ha fatto sapere che, anche se Hamas dichiarasse una tregua unilaterale, non fermerebbe l'offensiva militare contro la popolazione della Striscia di Gaza, anzi, promette che quest'offensiva sarà aggravata. ... read full story / add a comment
Palestinians carry the body of Salsabeel Abu Jalhoumm, a 21-month-old girl who was killed early on Sunday when an Israeli air strike hit near her home in the northern Gaza Strip, 2 March 2008. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Wednesday March 05, 2008 - 06:11 by Rami Almeghari   image 1 image
Rami Almeghari is currently contributor to several media outlets including Palestine Chronicle, IMEMC, The Electronic Intifada and Free Speech Radio News. Rami is also a former senior English translator at and editor in chief of the international press center of the Gaza-based Palestinian Information Service. ... read full story / add a comment
Palestinians in the West Bank city of Qalqiliya clash with Israeli soldiers near the wall during a demonstration against Israel's incursion into the Gaza Strip, 3 March 2008. (Khaleel Reash/MaanImages)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Wednesday March 05, 2008 - 06:04 by Nimer Sultany   image 1 image
Nimer Sultany is a Palestinian citizen of Israel and currently a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School. He has worked as a human rights lawyer in the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and as the head of the political monitoring project at Mada al-Carmel (the Arab center for applied social research). This commentary was originally published by The Guardian's Comment is Free and is republished with the author's permission. ... read full story / add a comment
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mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Wednesday March 05, 2008 - 05:58 by Laila El-Haddad   image 1 image
Laila El-Haddad is a Palestinian freelance journalist, photographer, and blogger who divides her time between Gaza and the United States. She most recently co-directed the short film Tunnel Trade, which aired on CBC and Al Jazeera International. Her blog, Raising Yousuf, is named after her four-year-old son. ... read full story / add a comment
Smoke billows from Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip following an Israeli strike on 1 March 2008. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Sunday March 02, 2008 - 22:39 by AM   image 1 image
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continued its attacks on Gaza today. IOF's military operations have killed 47 Palestinians in Gaza today. Of those, 27 were civilians, including ten children and three women. Since Wednesday 27 February 2008, IOF killed at least 77 people and injured approximately 130. ... read full story / add a comment
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mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Sunday March 02, 2008 - 22:35 by Omar Barghouti   image 1 image
Omar Barghouti is an independent political analyst. ... read full story / add a comment
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mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Wednesday January 16, 2008 - 02:26 by Noah Baker Merrill   image 1 image
Iraqis are returning to Baghdad from abroad, but the flow is still only a trickle. And the differences in numbers being reported by aid groups and the US and Iraqi governments underscore the political value these numbers hold for proponents of the "Surge". But what even this debate misses is the difference between reducing the number of violent deaths for now, and laying the foundations for a future of peace for Iraq. ... read full story / add a comment
US President George W. Bush holds a falcon as the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nayhan, stands by during Bush's visit to the Gulf country, 13 January 2008. (Eric Draper/White House photo)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Wednesday January 16, 2008 - 00:47 by Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani   image 1 image
CAIRO, 10 January (IPS) - Recent months have witnessed several notable political reorientations in the Middle East, involving Iran, the Gulf states, Egypt and Lebanon. Several experts say the changes reflect a shift in Washington's regional strategy following recent US policy setbacks. ... read full story / add a comment
A Palestinian printing press prepares an anti-Bush banner for demonstrations in the Gaza Strip agains US President George W. Bush's visit to the region, 8 January 2007. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Friday January 11, 2008 - 23:25 by Ben White   image 1 image
Ben White is a freelance journalist specializing in Palestine/Israel. His website is at www.benwhite.org.uk and he can be contacted directly at ben@benwhite.org.uk. ... read full story / add a comment
The illustration commissioned by the Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-entry to the Occupied Palestinian Territory that Al-Quds newspaper refused to publish.
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Friday January 11, 2008 - 23:22 by Sam Bahour   image 1 image
Sam Bahour is a business consultant and may be reached at sbahour@palnet.com. ... read full story / add a comment
During a protest in Gaza City against Bush's visit, Palestinians carry empty coffins symbolizing 62 Gazans who have died since June 2007 from not being to receive proper medical care due to the Israeli siege, 8 January 2008. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Friday January 11, 2008 - 23:19 by Mohammed Ali   image 1 image
Mohammed Ali works for an international relief agency in Gaza and also as a freelance journalist. His blog is www.gazawy.blogspot.com. ... read full story / add a comment
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, US President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert smile for the cameras at Annapolis, Maryland, 26 November 2007. (Omar Rashidi/MaanImages)
mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Sunday December 02, 2007 - 23:27 by Osamah Khalil   image 1 image
Osamah Khalil is a Palestinian-American doctoral candidate in US and Middle East History at the University of California at Berkeley, focusing on US foreign policy in the Middle East ... read full story / add a comment
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mashriq / arabia / iraq / imperialism / war / non-anarchist press Sunday December 02, 2007 - 23:14 by Jamal Juma'   image 1 image
Jamal Juma' is coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign. This article appeared originally in Electronic Intifada. ... read full story / add a comment
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