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July 2013

July 25, 2013

The pros and cons of White House iftars in the Obama era

An interesting debate is going on in Muslim corners of the Blogosphere and social media...

November 2012

November 08, 2012

Why is Apple denying Americans information about their governnment’s drone attacks?

If you care about the health of American democracy and/or the large numbers of civilians...

July 2012

July 16, 2012

Are you doing your part to support the few media that support us?

If you didn't catch it, the leading progressive political magazine in America, The Nation, recently...

January 2012

January 08, 2012

Old folks “occupy” CA bank

This sight surely scared the bank manager more than a sprinting horde of "Brains!"-chanting zombies...

June 2011

June 27, 2011

My essay on Martin Luther King, Jr.

I'm pleased to report that a 2008 essay I wrote for Religion Dispatches on the...

May 2011

May 19, 2011

Leave no arms merchant behind

Johann Hari has sharp piece on the OBL assassination and US foreign policy. Here's a...

April 2011

April 23, 2011

The Arab Street is owed an apology!

Most of the time I post stuff about Denmark, it tends to be bad news--of...

September 2010

September 26, 2010

The folly of “enhanced interrogation”

...and most Neocon contributions to foreign policy and counterterrorism, for that matter. There's a very...

April 2009

April 04, 2009

Cheney as the Smirking Man

Political life after 9/11 often seems to imitate fiction. Increasingly, pulp fiction, alas.According to Seymour...

May 2008

May 26, 2008

Aren’t Obama’s critics the ones who keep getting “duped”?

The ever insightful Jim Lobe injects some perspective into the vacuous Beltway debate about Obama's...

May 14, 2008

Give a man enough rope…

Is that roasted elephant I'm smelling?GOP cancer: Party could lose 20 more seats - John...

March 2008

March 12, 2008

The number of Muslims in Congress has doubled

Indiana just elected a Muslim to Congress in a special election.Second Muslim elected to Congress...

January 2008

January 25, 2008

My post on MLK at Religion Dispatches

I have a post at Religion Dispatches on the perverse ironies of the unspoken complacency...

January 18, 2008

Religion Dispatches – “UK Muslims & the ‘War on Christmas'”

Have only written one piece so far, but I'm am now pleased to call myself...

December 2007

December 02, 2007

Debate for sale in Washington

Posing as a shadowy emissary of a rich dictatorship, an investigative journalist approached a number...

November 2007

November 29, 2007

Was Blackwater just following orders?

The established stereotype is of diplomats as cautious and conflict-averse negotiators that struggle to rein...

July 2007

July 13, 2007

CNN propaganda against Michael Moore’s “Sicko”

If you haven't seen "Sicko", Michael Moore's courageous and pioneering documentary on American health care...

February 2007

February 22, 2007

Carter: Americans agree with me, not the MSM

I posted on eteraz.org about Jimmy Carter's claim at an event today ("Carter says majority...

December 2006

December 04, 2006

Hurricane Katrina, the Christian Right and the worship of the Market

Since successful blogging seems to depend partly on regularly churning out product for content-hungry visitors...

November 2006

November 24, 2006

Taoist wisdom for the Iraq war

Lao Tzu understood patriotism and honor:A great nation is like a great man: When he...

November 11, 2006

Muslims, the new “natives”

Am writing a brief reaction paper to the chapter in Daniel Pals' (highly recommended) Eight...

November 08, 2006

The long overdue end to the Neocon nightmare

An inspired and inspiring polemic ("End of the Neo-Cons") has been loosed on the lunacy...

July 2006

July 14, 2006

Alan Wolfe on American conservatives’ inability to govern

Alan Wolfe argues here in the The Washington Monthly that conservatives have a dismal record...

July 08, 2006

Europe fiddles as Gaza crumbles under Israel’s siege

Jonathan Steele in The Guardian provides an antidote to the blindly pro-Israeli sophistry we're hearing...

June 2006

June 24, 2006

Norm Solomon on selective outrage over barbarism

The ever insightful Norm Soloman on the consequences of the American media's spineless and selective...

June 22, 2006

Comparing US Muslims to European Muslims

A very interesting article in The Economist.Look out, Europe, they say Why so many Muslims...

June 09, 2006

KY Christians demanding schools teach “BC” and “AD”

From The Forward: Religious Groups Push Kentucky Schools To Use 'Before Christ' Activists, along with...

May 2006

May 18, 2006

UNICEF: 25% of world children seriously underweight

UNICEF - Press centre - A Quarter of the World’s Children Seriously Underweight “The lack...

March 2006

March 10, 2006

Fukuyama: Neocons a gang of ‘Leninists’

While there are few more stinging put-downs on the American Right than "Leninist", I actually...

February 2006

February 06, 2006

Hurricane Katrina and religion in America (article by me)

I have an article in the current issue of Islamica Magazine, "Comprehending Catastrophe", on the...