Addressing supporters immediately following verdict, Odeh declares, ‘There is justice in this world. We will find it.’ Palestinian activist and torture survivor Rasmea Odeh was found guilty of an immigration violation on Monday by a U.S. federal jury in Detroit,…
Pope Francis’ visit to the Holy Land raises one overwhelming question: ‘what is the nature of religious power in our world of the 21st century?’ ‘can it have transformative effects’? Media pundits and most liberal voices from the…
This Sunday, on the back of the Lebanese football team’s unifying victory over South Korea last week, comes another sporting event capable of bringing together Lebanese of all backgrounds: the Beirut Marathon. Now in its ninth year, the marathon…
Fifty years ago they brought civil disobedience to the civil rights movement, and Saturday, they were honored for their bravery. Nearly a dozen Freedom Riders were honored Saturday night at the 38th Annual Freedom Fund Gala at the Renaissance…
While the mainstream media has been dominated by big stories, others are not getting enough attention. For example, Israel’s Jerusalem Education Administration (JEA) recently decided to enforce the use of new, censored textbooks in all private schools in East…
On October 3 the lower house of the Belarus parliament adopted in the two readings the bill ‘On Making Addenda and Amendments to Some Laws of the Republic of Belarus’. This bill, among other things, makes foreign financial support and…
The last few weeks have witnessed a new wave of fear in Iran in the form of ‘lashing’. It can be said that it had a been a while since we last heard of lashing for freedom of speech…
(Updated Oct. 18) A handful of young people started Occupy Wall Street in mid-September, as a protest against the banks and corporations that have grown rich while most have grown poorer. Within weeks they had attracted hundreds and then thousands…
More than 100,000 thousand Syrians rallied against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad on Saturday during the funeral of Mishaal Tammo, a Kurdish opposition figure slain the previous day, Abdessalam Othman, of the Kurdish Future Movement in Syria,…
If you’ve started seeing Occupy Together in your daily email box as we have, you probably know the word is spreading like a wildfire. The site has recently been linked on occupywallst.org, Adbusters, tweeted by Michael Moore and sent…
