In this Channel 4 Dispatches documentary It shouldn’t happen to a Muslim Peter Oborne looks at whether or not Islam and British Muslims have been

This video takes a critical look at the MEMRI TV ‘news service’ upon which all faux-journalists so heavily rely e.g. Tom Freidman of the NYT…As’ad

The indomitable Trita Parsi lays out in the clear light of day the repercussions of a US strike against Iran and debunks the hollow rationale and

Video: Dan Rather Reports The Most Wanted Man In Iran  Not many answers. But a rare interview with the elusive 24-year-old Abdolmalek Rigi, leader of the

Political leaders and the tabloid press are well apprised of the fact that we all love to hate a bogeyman, someone who can be mocked,

Excellent documentary made by that bastion of good, old-fashioned American journalism, Bill Moyers, and fascinating on account of how many parallels there are with the

Mehdi-Palang has already provided some of the links for these videos. I thought posting the whole documentary, Reel Bad Arabs, based on Professor Jack Shaheen’s

This documentary takes its bearings from an interview with distinguished scholar, public intellectual and political activist, Edward W. Said (1935-2003), branching out into a broader

Narrated by Lord of the Rings star, Viggo Mortenson, this video retells in the first-person, world-renown American historian, political commentator and activist, Howard Zinn’s political

While political scientist, Norman G. Finkelstein discounts the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran as posturing (see his interview with Press TV here), it

The objective of forging a lasting peace to the Israel-Palestine conflict has, at least on the surface, acted as a kind of Holy Grail for

“In 1923 Vladimir Jabotinsky, leading intellectual of the Zionist movement and father of the right wing of that movement, wrote: “Zionist colonization must either stop,

Afghanistan remains in deep turmoil and the situation appears to be deteriorating with every passing day. Two recent events should crystallize the evermore deleterious situation

The footage shows Irish Noble Peace Prize recipient, Mairead Maguire getting shot at with rubber-coated-metal bullets by the Israeli army in an unprovoked attack. The

After detailing the manifold experiments with LSD, radiation, chemical and biological agents undertaken by the US government and the Pentagon on American servicemen and women,

Anoushiravan Ehteshami, Professor of International Relations and Politics at Durham University (UK), published an article last year on openDemocracy entitled Iran and the United States:

Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak as many had already anticipated extended the decades-old state of emergency by a further two years as of the 1st of

Now it appears that the thugs who man the Bush administration have decided to resort to outright extortion in order to pummel the Iraqi government

George W. Bush wants to ensure that Iraq is transformed indefinitely into an American protectorate, irrespective of the outcome of the 2008 presidential elections. We

Do violent films promote and engender violence and violent crimes, or do they merely reflect the violence inherent in our societies? Are children and adolescents

‘It’s like a huge pot of honey that’s attracting a lot of flies’[1] – Sen. John McCain The effort to rebuild Iraq has been riddled

Today, it seems that celebrities and a social conscience are two indissociable halves of a single package. Nowadays every celeb and his mother seems to

Dunkin’ Donuts, recently pulled an ad in which a well-known celebrity chef, Rachel Ray, dons the traditional Arab garment known as the keffiyeh under pressure

Lebanon breathed a heartfelt sigh of relief last week with the long-awaited election to the presidential office of army Chief of Staff General Michel Suleiman.

This is some incredible stuff…Khosrow Golsorkhi (1944-1974), a Marxist-Leninist with a rare gift for poetic composition, was given the opportunity to speak at his trial,