Middle East

As history unfolds in Egypt, I am in awe of the courage of ordinary citizens as they express their hopes for their country. The situation is very fluid, and it’s unclear if Egypt’s [...]

The protests in Egypt, against a dictatorship the US has supported for decades, are very inspiring. Here is an action alert from the Muslim Public Affairs Council with information on how you can [...]

As the massive protests that started on Tuesday in Egypt unfold, there is talk that Egyptians may be on the verge of overthrowing their autocratic government, and possibly upsetting President [...]

The inimitable Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies that is. Way more Phyllis than me (which is a very good thing!). Here is our take, including policy, political and movement [...]

A WikiWeek! By Judith Le Blanc On Nov. 29, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, I had the honor of speaking on behalf of civil society organizations to a special [...]

The WikiLeaks story will have some legs for some time, which is probably a good thing. There are things to criticize WikiLeaks about, but in general the website is performing an invaluable [...]

So the early reactions from peace activists to the mid-term elections seems to range from “catastrophic” to “really, really bad” to “coulda been even worse.” [...]

Veteran Washington Post writer David Broder is generally thought to be a decent guy, one of the “deans” of Washington journalism and punditry. I’m not a huge fan of his, I think [...]

The U.S. is the #1 weapons dealer in the world, and weapons are the country’s top manufacturing export.  The Obama Administration has had a $60 billion weapons deal to Saudi Arabia in the [...]

Gandhi Statue in the middle of London’s Tavistock Square Just got back from London, where I had a spectacular time at the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s annual conference (yep, CND is [...]