by Mike Giglio Scores of protesters are feared dead after a day of violence in Cairo. Mike Giglio was among the foreign reporters arrested and beaten by security forces August 14, 2013 “Information Clearing House – “Daily Beast” – The clouds of teargas were so thick that from behind police lines it was hard to see what…
by Finian Cunningham August 11, 2013 “Information Clearing House – If Saudi rulers had more brains, they might be formidably dangerous. Even with lackluster intelligence assets, they are already causing enough havoc and bloodshed across the Middle East and North Africa regions, pouring millions-of-dollars-worth of weaponry into Al Qaeda and other Takfiri networks that are destroying once…
Resigning the vice presidency, Mohamed ElBaradei warns that ‘extremist groups’ will be the only beneficiaries of Wednesday’s forced dispersal of pro-Morsi sit-ins Mohamed ElBaradei (Photo: Reuters) Egyptian Vice President for International Affairs Mohamed ElBaradei submitted his resignation Wednesday in a letter to the interim president, implying his objections to the interim government’s policy…
by Chinmaya R. Gharekhan – Historians probe the myths surrounding the founding of Israel Al-Aqsa mosque, East Jerusalem To Israel’s credit, almost simultaneously with its creation, historians of great integrity and courage have emerged there to offer to the international community alternative narratives of the events surrounding the new nation’s birth and its immediate aftermath. The…
by Mohamed El-Menshawy Without condensing the issue of democracy in Egypt and diagnosing it as a struggle between the Islamist current and what is known as the civil current, democracy in Egypt is subject to many threats. Most notably, an alarming trinity founded on rising exclusionary fascist rhetoric; encouraging Islamophobia; and overt calls to marginalise…
The FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent another domestic attack. But are they busting terrorist plots—or leading them? October 9, 2011 | UPDATE: On September 28, Rezwan Ferdaus, a 26-year-old graduate of Northeastern University, was arrested and charged with providing resources to a foreign terrorist organization and attempting to destroy national defense premises.…
by Richard Falk It was to be expected. It was signalled in advance. And yet it is revealing. The only other candidates considered for the job were equally known as Israeli partisans: Daniel Kurtzer, former ambassador to Israel before becoming Commissioner of Israel’s Baseball League and Dennis Ross, co-founder in the 1980s (with Indyk) of…
by Peter Buffett I HAD spent much of my life writing music for commercials, film and television and knew little about the world of philanthropy as practiced by the very wealthy until what I call the big bang happened in 2006. That year, my father, Warren Buffett, made good on his commitment to give…
by Felicity Arbuthnot “The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.” (Samuel Adams, 1722-1803, letter 1775.) This will surely have you falling down with surprise. According to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act and obtained by the (UK) Sunday Telegraph, the August 2009 release from Scotland’s Barlinnie jail of Libyan…
Prominent film director, Mira Nair, has announced via her official Twitter account that she will not be attending Israel’s upcoming Haifa Film Festival. In a five-part statement, tweeted last Friday, Nair said: “I was just invited to Israel as a guest of honor at the Haifa International Film Festival…I will not be going to Israel…