I am part of a round table discussion on the events in the Middle East and North Africa on the Today show on China Radio International. You can hear the program here: http://media.iphone.cri.cn/magazine/today/2011/02/110222today1.mp3
The corporate media are reliable and consistent. They consistently focus on the sensational, and they reliably take the position of the US government. So, it should come as no surprise that the recent release of US diplomatic cables by Wikileaks is being covered with much sound and fury, signifying little on many issues. On the Read the full article…
An alarming trend is sweeping Europe. Far right wing parties, using anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric, have made electoral gains in several European countries. In the June European parliament elections, these parties were able to garner votes in a way they haven’t before. The British National Party (BNP) which has its roots in fascist parties of Read the full article…
This is a talk I gave on Sept 16h in downtown Manhattan on the proposed community center and what the controversy reveals about the state of Islamophobia and politics in the US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FxoCeU7dAc
New York’s WBAI radio station had me on for a one-hour special on September 11, 2010. Here’s how the producers of the program, Equal Time for Free Thought, describe the show: It has been 9 years since the terrorist attacks on two cities in the US, that at least according to the ruling classes changed Read the full article…
One consequence of the anti-Muslim hysteria that is gripping the US right now is that the mainstream media are actually looking for people on the left who can make principled arguments in defense of Muslims. Sherry Wolf was on MSNBC and did an amazing job! I wasn’t surprised when WBAI radio contacted me to do Read the full article…
Dear President Obama and Imam Rauf, I am writing to you because anti-Muslim rhetoric has reached a feverish pitch here in the US. As you know, this has had dire consequences for Muslims, from arson attempts at mosque sites to gun shots and physical violence. It is therefore important and urgent that you speak out Read the full article…
First published by Socialistworker.org DEPENDING ON the poll one consults, anywhere from 54 percent to 61 percent, and as many as 68 percent of Americans, oppose the building of a Islamic community center two blocks from “Ground Zero,” the site of the World Trade Center. Polls, of course, are notoriously inaccurate measures of public opinion. Read the full article…
This article appeared in Mrzine, Commondreams, Dissident Voice and socialist worker. The events of September 11 laid the basis for the emergence of a vicious form of Islamophobia that facilitated the U.S. goals of empire building in the 21st century. This form of Islamophobia focused on the enemy “out there” against which the U.S. supposedly Read the full article…
This piece appeared on the same day on MRZine and swoline PREDICTABLY, BARACK Obama’s speech in Cairo came under hysterical criticism from the right. Sean Hannity screamed that Obama gave “sympathizers of 9/11” a voice on the world stage, Charles Krauthammer derided the apologetic tone, and Sen. James Inhofe called it “un-American.” At the same Read the full article…
This interview first appeared in Socialist Worker WHAT HAS been the impact of the U.S. occupation and its puppet government on women in Afghanistan? Has the U.S. liberated Afghan women as it claimed it would? FIRST, LET me say that after September 11, the U.S. government threw us from the frying pan into the fire. Read the full article…