Brooklyn College’s claim that it fired Petersen-Overton for insufficient credentials doesn’t hold up By Philip Weiss January 28, 2011 6 Great piece by Justin Elliott at Salon reporting the sequence of events in Kristofer J.…
‘LA Times’ piece says Erekat, Abbas and Qurei are colonial pawns By Philip Weiss January 28, 2011 2 Yesterday the LA Times ran this stunning op-ed by Saree Makdisi on the Palestine Papers;…
Egypt shuts down the internet on eve of protest as the world community gathers By Philip Weiss January 27, 2011 25 Raw video from the Associated Press Issandr El-Amrani reports that the internet has been shut…
A prayer for Egypt By Today in Palestine January 27, 2011 16 Pride, I’ve never been more proud to be Arab than I am now. Growing up…
Biden: see no good, hear no good, speak no good By Philip Weiss January 27, 2011 16 Joe Biden doesn’t know what to say, on the PBS News Hour, except that Mubarak…
Ahmed Moor reporting from Cairo: ‘I was tired, but not more tired than the people who have waited 30 years for the opportunity to breathe’ By Ahmed Moor January 27, 2011 5 Ahmed Moor has a stirring piece about his experience in the Egyptian protests on the Al…
In ’09 Obama lectured Cairo about his commitment to democracy By Philip Weiss January 27, 2011 3 Obama speaking at Cairo University on June 4, 2009, his famous speech to the Muslim…
State Dep’t says democracy is OK for Tunisia but not Egypt because of Israel By Philip Weiss January 27, 2011 15 Thanks to Pulse, here is a wonderful interview of State Dep’t spokesman P.J. Crowley by…
The Egyptian intifada and what it may mean for Israel/Palestine By Alex Kane January 27, 2011 24 The Egyptian uprising against the Mubarak regime is historic and important in its own right.…
Abunimah on the Palestine Papers: ‘If the US is unable to change its utterly failed policies, it might as well get out of the way’ By Adam Horowitz January 27, 2011 13 Ali Abunimah reviews the Palestine Papers in the Christian Science Monitor and says they are…
