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

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

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

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

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

Individual acts and the collapse of Pakistan

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. Last week, I wrote about an impending civil war in Pakistan, projecting a possible “complete collapse of Pakistan...

July 19th, 2010 | Middle East, Politics, World | Read More

$10 million not enough to restore justice and dignity for indigenous women in Canada

After 600 Aboriginal women and girls go missing or found murdered in Canada the federal government decides to throw-a-bone and give $10 million dollars. In March, the Canadian Minister of Justice budgeted $10 million over two years to address the issue of murdered and missing women in Canada, however,...

July 12th, 2010 | Featured, Women, World | Read More

What’s worse: Steele’s Afghanistan comments or the reaction?

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. It shouldn’t be breaking news to anyone that the Chairman of the Republican Party, Michael Steele, said something...

July 9th, 2010 | Middle East, Politics | Read More

All politics are local: Al-Qa’eda and the Afghanistan War

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. In our latest video from Rethink Afghanistan, we close it by asking a question. “Afghanistan got your attention now?”...

July 6th, 2010 | Featured, Middle East | Read More

One Year Later: Honduras resistance strong despite US supported coup

Co-written by Bill Quigley and Laura Raymond. Bill and Laura work at the Center for Constitutional Rights. One year ago, on June 28, 2009, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was awakened by gunfire. A coup was carried out by US-trained military officers, including graduates of the infamous US Army...

June 29th, 2010 | Featured, World | Read More

McChrystal’s revenge: Everyone hates Karl Eikenberry

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. Supporter’s of General McChrystal’s counterinsurgency policy are heart-broken over his firing. Not that they...

June 25th, 2010 | Middle East | Read More

Crazy COIN Strategy: US-Pakistani Nuclear Deal

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The views expressed below are my own. Our strategy in Afghanistan is pretty bad, but aside from the obvious broken logic of creating peace through war, I wouldn’t...

June 22nd, 2010 | Middle East | Read More