By Khalid Amayreh
One of the most scandalous manifestations of the present international order is the so-called “nuclear hypocrisy.” The United States, the only country to have committed a nuclear holocaust,  is insisting  that Iran has no right to possess a nuclear capability.
This nearly pornographic hypocrisy which  the U.S. displays  vis-à-vis the issue of nuclear proliferation [...]

By: ZionCrimeFactory
The 9/11 attacks are the catalyst of nine years of death, destruction, persecution, and pain for the Muslim peoples of Iraq & Afghanistan as well as many other Middle Eastern nations. There have been 1.3 MILLION Iraqis killed since the U.S. invasion in 2003. Hundreds of thousands more have been killed in Afghanistan, [...]

By Khalid Amayreh
source: Middle East Monitor

No catalogue of Israeli oppression and persecution of the Palestinian people can be complete without the ongoing plight of the villagers of Tuwani in the southern West Bank.
The small hamlet, which residents say dates back to time immemorial, has been a frequent target [...]

By Khaled Amayreh
Once again, hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims around the world are affronted with another Arab summit conference, which is taking place in Serte in Libya. There, flamboyant [...]

Yesterday, after 6 days of kidnapping and beating our friend Omar Mousa
Ala’eddin from the village of Al-Ma’sara, the Israeli occupation authorities
released him broken and battered.  We spend much of the day with him.  Omar
is an English student at Hebron University and was returning with other
students and two of his professors from a field [...]

WHEN FACTS AND PROPAGANDA COLLIDE – THE BBC BENDS OVER BACKWARDS TO ACCOMMODATE ISRAELI CLAIMS
When a Thai kibbutz worker was killed in Israel by a rocket launched from Gaza last week, BBC News online gave the incident headline coverage flagged up on its home page. (BBC news online, [...]

Source: news.com.au
ALMOST three-quarters of Russians believe the United States is an “aggressor” nation hell-bent on world domination, a poll suggests.
The survey by the independent Levada Center polling agency found that 73 percent of respondents agreed that the US was “an aggressor trying to take control” of all countries in the world.
Only 8 per cent agreed [...]

By Mark Benjamin
Self-proclaimed waterboarding fan Dick Cheney called it a no-brainer in a 2006 radio interview: Terror suspects should get a “a dunk in the water.” But recently released internal documents reveal the controversial “enhanced interrogation” practice was far more brutal on detainees than Cheney’s description sounds, and was administered with meticulous cruelty.
Interrogators pumped detainees [...]

Obama visit plan has caused controversy among the Indonesian Muslims although the plan is canceled now.  According to a polling of Detik.com,  a widely-read popular online news website, by today 23 March, more than 67% has shown refusal on the president visit.
The polling itself reads: “The US President Obama will visit Indonesia in the coming [...]

Source Palestine Think Tank
This week’s  PTT has many new items of interest, but we’d like to point out a few that are particularly relevant to us as “activists”, “campaigners” and Palestinians who struggle to keep their cause in the light and going in the right direction.
The first, by Mohamed Khodr is about [...]

Khalid Amayreh (*) is a journalist who lives in Hebron, a city brutalized and bloodied daily by armed Jewish settlers who are driving the authentic inhabitants by force. He is what might be called a true Palestinian; a man of integrity who was never seduced by financial rewards and prestige; a man standing who has [...]

Manila (Voa-Islam.com) – An Islamist militant accused of being behind the deadly 2002 Bali bombings is alive and hiding in the southern Philippines despite earlier reports of his death, a senior military official said on Tuesday.
Dulmatin, leader of the regional militant group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), was not killed in a clash in 2008 as the [...]

Qatar (Voa-Islam.com) – Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, blamed the United States and developed countries for not halting climate change and said that the global economy should immediately abandon its reliance on the American dollar, according to an audiotape released Friday by the broadcaster Al Jazeera.
“Talk about climate change is not an [...]

Surabaya (voa-islam. com) – A thousand of ulemas in east java have been making an agreement to reject the arrival of US president to Indonesia on 20th march. This rejection is as form of protests because of US actions that tortue moslem in all over the world.
Those ulemas have been compromising that obama is cruelty [...]

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.
Nicolò Machiavelli

WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO
Obama, before he actually “did” anything, had a reputation. And, indeed, reputation – what others think you are, and not what you actually are – is a crucial factor in a public figure. A political leader, while marketed, literally, in order to [...]