In trying to whitewash Israel’s cruel crimes against the Palestinian people, including the ongoing cruel campaign against the Gaza Strip, Israel’s ambassador to the United States Michael Oren made a mockery of human decency, freedom of speech and objective truth.
During a lecture at the University of California-Irvine on Monday, 8 February, Oren tried to present [...]

URGENT: Protest against Daniel Ayalon in London
MONDAY 8 FEBRUARY, 10.30 am, outside the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Temple Place, WC2 (opposite Temple tube)
Daniel Ayalon, the Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister, is coming to Britain. Yisrael Beitenu, a far-right party, is well-known for its racist policies, including its proposals to jail Palestinians [...]

The law is clear. The conscience of humankind is shocked. Yet, the siege of Gaza continues. The people of Gaza have exhorted the international community to move beyond words of condemnation. It is time for us to take action!
The Long March toward Freedom
To mark the anniversary of Israel’s bloody 22-day assault on Gaza the International [...]

From Khalid Amayreh in al-Khalil
American-backed Palestinian Authority security forces are stepping up repressive tactics against Hizbultahrir (Islamic Liberation Party) activists throughout the Israeli-occupied West Bank .
Earlier this week, PA security personnel surrounded the home of Maher al Jabari, spokesman of the party in downtown Hebron, demanding that he turns himself in.
Al-Jabari refused, telling the commander [...]

From Khalid Amayreh in the West Bank
Fearing a backlash from the largely conservative Palestinian public, the Palestinian Authority (PA) on Sunday decided to cancel a beauty-queen pageant that was slated to take place in Ramallah next week.
The pro-Fatah Maan news agency quoted the Governor of Ramallah as saying that he decided to “freeze and postpone [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second left. AFP photo

The global economic order needs “radical change,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday, calling for Islamic principles to replace capitalist values.
“The present economic crisis is due to the capitalist system. The world needs radical change,” Ahmadinejad told a one-day economic summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, [...]

By Dave Lindorff
Country Joe said it best in his iconic “Fixin’ to Die” Rag: “Oh, it’s one, two, three, what are we fightin’ for? Don’t ask me. I don’t give a damn.” In fact, we were fighting for nothing in Vietnam. It was a war that started out because the US didn’t want the Commies [...]

A national tour to highlight the systematic and institutionalised ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by the Israeli authorities, organised by Action for Palestinian Children and supported by Palestine Solidarity Campaign

It is undeniable that Firefox is the best web browser but we also know it uses excessive memory resources of our computer although we know for it’s fast browsing capability which makes itself  start up a bit longer.
The solution is just boost it with SPEEDYFOX! This enhancement is capable of increasing start-up speed up to [...]

NEW YORK CITY — The Israeli cosmetics company, Ahava, which illegally manufactures and appropriates its products in occupied Palestinian territory, has dropped its spokesperson Kristin Davis amid a public relations debacle sparked by the peace group CODEPINK’s Stolen Beauty campaign.
As Gawker.com first reported yesterday, ‘Sex & the City’ star Kristin Davis has been dropped by [...]

by Chris Floyd
In that august forum of serious, respectable conservatism, “The Corner,” Mark “Mandingo” Steyn has responded to the post here yesterday taking him and his fellow Islamophobes to task for the “psychosexual panic” they evince in the face of their self-concocted vision of a “takeover” of Europe by prodigiously breeding Muslims. It goes without [...]

by Jonathan Cook in Tzipori
Amin Muhammad Ali, a 74-year-old refugee from a destroyed Palestinian village in northern Israel, says he only feels truly at peace when he stands among his ancestors’ graves.
The cemetery, surrounded on all sides by Jewish homes and farms, is a small time capsule, transporting Mr Muhammad Ali — known to everyone [...]

By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
Our biggest challenge in my opinion is not the Israeli occupation, corrupt politicians, the apartheid wall, the economic deprivation, the moral slide, or the environmental catastrophe unfolding. Our biggest challenge is excess and paralyzing cynicism. How can one not be cynical when even just the past week:
- Israeli courts ruled that [...]

By John Sylvester (c) 2009
In a recent report by Peter Horrocks, Director of BBC World Service, it is clear that as society becomes more networked, the fortress mentality of the mainstream media is increasingly under siege by social media, but they are adapting. There’s a lesson for us all in this.
For so long now, Web [...]

The month of Rajab gives us an opportunity to reflect on the obligation (fardiyah) of the Khilafah. Recent events – such as the Chinese persecution of Uighurs, France’s attack on the Islamic dress code, America’s assault on Afghanistan/Pakistan, and the siege of Palestine – point to the dire need of the Khilafah Rashida: the Islamic [...]