Another false ending: Contracting out the Iraq occupation

Another false ending to the Iraq war is being declared. Nearly seven years after George Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln, President Obama has just given a major address to mark the withdrawal of all but 50,000 combat troops from Iraq. But,...

September 1st, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

Canadian government apologizes to Inuit for the past, while screwing Barriere Lake Algonquins in the present

During the 1950s, the Canadian federal government enacted policies to relocate Inuit families from their homes in Inukjuak, located in northern Quebec, to the remote High Arctic areas of Resolute Bay and Grise Fiord. Their traditional homeland provided all they needed to sustain, including plenty of...

August 31st, 2010 | Politics, Racial Equity, World | Read More

Direct talks: Five myths

Originally published on the Mosaic Blog Direct talks between Palestinians and Israelis are scheduled to commence in Washington on September 2, a decade after the last real final-status talks, and nearly two years after the last direct talks. Mahmoud Abbas and Benjamin Netanyahu will come face to face...

August 30th, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

Glenn Beck’s Attempt to Bastardize Dr. King’s Dream

Rewriting history is one of the many offenses that political conservatives are constantly accusing liberals of committing. But no one is guiltier of this transgression than conservatives themselves, who have a particular fondness for rewriting the history of the civil rights movement, especially their...

August 27th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Glenn Beck, US | Read More

Four reasons why Americans should oppose Zionism

By Steven Salaita Originally published on the Foreign Policy Journal Israel has been subject to some bad publicity recently. In 2008-09, it launched a brutal military campaign in the Gaza Strip that killed over 400 Palestinian children. In May, 2010, bumbling Israeli commandos murdered nine nonviolence...

August 24th, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

America’s forgotten founders

No one can deny the starring role that James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and other leading lights played in America’s constitutional founding. They launched history’s greatest project in democracy and will forever be remembered for setting alight the path to liberty. So...

August 24th, 2010 | Featured, US | Read More

Mosque madness

Two American Islamic organizations proposed to build a mosque and community center several blocks from ‘ground zero,’ where the World Trade Center’s twin towers were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.[1] This proposal has divided the city that suffered the attack, and now the...

August 20th, 2010 | US | Read More

“Government-run” no longer defines the Indian health system

A single phrase is often used to define the Indian health system: “Government-run.” Add those two words to any discussion about health care or reform and most people reach an immediate conclusion about the merits of the agency. Now it is time for the phrase to disappear because it no longer accurately...

August 17th, 2010 | American Indians, Health, Politics, US | Read More

Noam Chomsky on Israel

Internationally recognized as one of America’s most critically-engaged public intellectuals today, Noam Chomsky spoke with me about Israel and its interplay with the United States. Listen or read entire interview. Listen to the interview. Photo by: AP

August 16th, 2010 | Featured, US, World | Read More

A third party: The choice for the African-American masses

In the many months since the 2008 presidential election, an increasing number of those within the African-American community have begun to question whether the electing of the United States first African-American President, Barack Obama, has functioned to yield any significant results in regard...

August 16th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Politics, US | Read More

Obama must bring back that magic to the Middle East

Originally published on LinkTV’s Mosaic Blog Will it be a strike against Iran by the U.S. and or Israel? Will there be political upheaval in Egypt after Mubarak’s reign? And will Israel invade Lebanon or Gaza? These are some of the questions that can be heard on the streets of Cairo, Amman,...

August 11th, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

Rising above the blame: Politics, race and the “racial stalemate”

President Obama’s 2008 “A More Perfect Union” speech spoke of a country stuck in “a racial stalemate”: stuck in that place “for years”. Yet, in 2010 we are still cemented there. In “Shirley Sherrod: ‘Where are we headed?”, a July 22, 2010 interview conducted by PostPartisian’s...

August 11th, 2010 | African Americans, Featured, Politics | Read More

Why we sued to represent Muslim cleric Aulaqi

Anwar Aulaqi is a US citizen and Muslim cleric living somewhere in Yemen. The US has put him on our terrorist list and is trying to assassinate him. The Center for Constitutional Rights and the ACLU filed suit today so we can be pro bono lawyers for his father, Nasser Aulaqi, to stop the government...

August 3rd, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

Is America a Christian nation?

Speaking from the heart of the Muslim world in Turkey’s Cankaya Palace in April 2009, President Barack Obama answered the question with the nuance that has come to characterize his public statements: America, he declared, is “a predominantly Christian nation” but “we do not consider ourselves...

July 31st, 2010 | Featured, Politics | Read More