If you are as weary as I am of all the bad news, one escape is to just turn away and find something else to read.
Here we are, forty years into the occupation and the false hope of peace, and still people are dying every day.
So I have a few books that I am going […]

Below I am posting a very fascinating short film by Samira Makhmalbaf (Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s eldest daughter) on what was going on in Afghanistan on the day of the Sept 11 attacks. It’s not a documentary, rather it’s an actual film, a very fascinating one to say the least. Do watch.

I don’t think there is any question that the Israeli Secret Service, whether the Mossad or Shin Bet, are the dirtiest scoundrels of any intelligence services the world over. Their attempts to subvert opponents know no bounds, including Israeli lives.
New British report claims Israeli Shin Bet colluded with PFLP behind the Entebbe hijackings so as […]

You may have heard about what so-called “Police Brutality” in Iran, but let’s review it again:
Police arrested a lot of people calimed to be “the Vile/Corrupt men”. Police was very proud of its job and people thought to them self: “Wow they did something that they wouldn’t have done in 100 years!”
But before we move […]

With all the news getting worse around here, I find my immediate reactions to reading the paper or hearing a headline getting louder and more exasperated. My sighs are heavier. My eyes roll further back into my head. Somehow, I’ve become even more sarcastic. I’m digesting it all faster and the indigestion gets more and […]

I could not believe my eyes when I read that another Saudi man had died last Friday in the religious police (Commission for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice) headquarters in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. This is the second death of a man held custody by religious police in the last ten days.
Ahmed […]