Le Monde diplomatique
 The Nation
Richard Bulliet
Mona Eltahawy
Mark Hertsgaard
Rami G. Khouri
Peter Kwong
Tom Porteous
Patrick Seale
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Canada's Class Act by Rami G. Khouri
It is heartening to witness such a class act as Canada’s apology to its indigenous peoples -- a powerful example that others in the world who care to resolve conflicts, and achieve peace and security, would do well to study closely.
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"Do you have love in your culture?" by Dahr Jamail (Le Monde diplomatique)
Last month, Muhammad Omer and Dahr Jamail received jointly the 2007 Martha Gelhorn Prize for Journalism. Their treks to and from their homes to the ceremony were quite different -- Jamail, coming from San Francisco, and Omer, coming from Gaza. Jamail tells Omer’s story.
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Militancy and Defiance in the Real Middle East by Rami G. Khouri
Large numbers of Arabs, Iranians and Turks -- hundreds of millions of people -- have shed their legacy of passive acquiescence in their own suffering, weakness, marginalization and victimization.
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Prospects for the Syrian-Israeli Talks by Patrick Seale
It remains to be seen how far Syria can afford to advance in its bilateral negotiations with Israel in the absence of serious progress towards Palestinian statehood.
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Bush's Last Fourth by Wm. Scott Harrop and R. K. Ramazani
On his last Fourth of July as president, George Bush speaks from Thomas Jefferson’s home, Monticello, as perhaps the least Jeffersonian president in US history -- having no regard for “the opinions of mankind.”
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When the Tough Decide to Become Diplomatic by Immanuel Wallerstein
Tough lines work if you have the power to enforce them. Diplomacy is something forced upon the stronger party in a two-way conflict. The United States in North Korea and the Israelis in Gaza/Palestine and Lebanon are now learning that -- a bit late.
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Winds of Diplomacy by Rami G. Khouri
For the United States or Israel to attack Iran now seems unlikely given the blossoming diplomacy with Israel on several fronts, and the likely downshift of the US occupation of Iraq. A cost-benefit analysis favors diplomacy.
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