As the world marked International Human Rights Day, one of the century’s most notorious dictators, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, died under house arrest in Chile at the age of 91. His

Despite the deluge of information on the Middle East in the US media Americans remain baffled and confused about basics in politics and culture. It is my guess that most

On Saturday, December 16th, 2006 Palestinian solidarity activists gathered on St. Catherine street in downtown Montreal to draw attention to a 2005 appeal from over 170 Palestinian civil-society organizations to,

 Former President Jimmy Carter has come under sustained attack for having dared to use the term "apartheid" to describe Israel’s policies in the West Bank. However, not one of Carter’s

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Tuesday reiterated a callfor a long-term truce with Israel and for the formation of a temporary Palestinian state along the 1967 borders.In a rambling

A secret meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora took place in Egypt last October, the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency reported.   The report

A new Pentagon report out yesterday describes the continuing disaster in Iraq. One item was on refugee flows. It says that: “The numbers of refugees fleeing the violence are immense:

This is the speech I mentioned a couple of days ago… It should be noted that Fatah issued a statement that the speech had “inaccuracies,” but did not elaborate further.

A delegation of the Muslim Brotherhood parliamentary bloc- headed by Hussein Mohamed Ibrahim- the MB bloc’s deputy chief-received, last Wednesday evening, a delegation from the Socialist Group in the European

The declared reasons for detaining Khayrat Al Shater last week are that flimsy; since the man has nothing to do with the militia parade staged by the Azhar University students.