Occupied Iraq's Not-So-Distant Mirror

by Bill Weinberg, Middle East Policy

Book Review:

The Great Syrian Revolt
and the Rise of Arab Nationalism
by Michael Provence
University of Texas, Austin, 2005

"Verging on Genocide" in the Czech Republic?

by Gwendolyn Albert, WW4 REPORT

by Reza Fiyouzat, Dissident Voice

Those in the Iranian socialist opposition arguing for a nuclear-free Iran have either been absent from the Western left's discourse—or have been getting the short end of the stick from some in the US left. Trapped in a mentality as simplistic as that of George Bush, a good part of the US left has been repeating a similar logic, saying that either you can go along with the imperialists' plans and support Bush or else find excuses to support the Iranian government's pursuit of nuclear energy.

by Assieh Amini, Stop Stoning Forever Campaign

by Bill Weinberg, New America Media

Amid daily media body counts and analyses of whether the "surge" is "working," there is an even more horrific reality in Iraq, almost universally overlooked.

The latest annual report by the London-based Minority Rights Group International, released earlier this year, places Iraq second as the country where minorities are most under threat—after Somalia. Sudan is third. More people may be dying in Darfur than Iraq, but Iraq's multiple micro-ethnicities—Turcomans, Assyrians, Mandeans, Yazidis—place it at the top of the list.

Twenty-Two Years After the Philadelphia Massacre

by Hans Bennett, The Defenestrator

The ILEA in El Salvador

from CISPES

The case of RCTV and the fictional democratization of communication

from El Libertario, Caracas