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Posts Tagged ‘Imperialism’

Joyce Chedia – On Obama's speech in Cairo

By Guest Post • Jun 13th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

On June 4 U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama gave a much-heralded speech addressed to the Muslim world in Cairo, Egypt. The commentary below is based on a comment Chediac, a Lebanese-American, made at a June 5 Workers World Forum in New York City.

Obama made a speech. It was called “bold” and “tough on Israel” because [...]

Agustín Velloso – Hezbollah fundamentalism overtakes Christian liberalism on the left

By Guest Post • May 3rd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Interviews, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism

Translated by Toni Solo for http://www.rebelion.org/
On the past March 28th, one could read an article in a national daily newspaper entitled "To the rescue of the Market: the Left". The newspaper considered the protagonists of the rescue to be the progressive leaders of the West, among them Joe Biden, Gordon Brown, Michelle Bachelet and José [...]

Adib Kawar and Rafik Abi Younis: The uprooting conspiracy of Iraqi Christians

By Adib Kawar • Oct 28th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Introduction and translation from Arabic by Adib Kawar

What is taking place in Mosul and other parts of Iraq against the Christian component of the Iraqi people, which is one of its oldest components of the Iraqi society, is not the first crime to be committed by the occupation forces and their strategic ally the Zionist [...]

Rami Khouri: Will Iraq finally end the colonial era?

By Guest Post • Oct 22nd, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Maps, Middle East Issues, Newswire, War

One of the most fascinating developments in the Middle East these days is the attempt by the US and Iraqi governments to negotiate an agreement defining the status of American troops in Iraq, including a target date for all US troops to leave by 2011. A critical issue still being negotiated [...]

Nadia Hasan – "America Don't Worry! Israel is Behind You!"

By Nadia Hasan • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Nakba and Right of Return, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

I remember a few years ago walking through the wonderful narrow streets of the occupied Old city of Jerusalem, seeing a small shop managed by an old Palestinian man who was selling souvenirs to the tourists. I entered the shop, not because I wanted to buy something, I am not a tourist in my own [...]