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Film Release: ‘The Truth: Lost at Sea’ Counters Israeli Propaganda (VIDEO)

January 6, 2020

Rifat Audeh’s documentary, “The Truth: Lost at Sea” was made available online nearly two years after its official release in film festivals around the world. The documentary details the journey of the Freedom Flotilla, a […]

Justice for Some – Book Review

December 10, 2019

(Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Noura Erakat. Stanford University Press, 2019) The sounds of the bombs that fell on Gaza in November 2019 were almost as deafening as the sound of […]

Build Resistance not Walls: A Reader for a World without Walls – Review

November 30, 2019

(Build Resistance not Walls: A Reader for a World without Walls. Ed. Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, Stop the Wall. November 09, 2019.) A collection of essays concerning the boundaries being established by walls, Build […]

Harmonious, Asymptotically – Book Review

November 25, 2019

(Fractured Destinies, by Rabai al-Madhoun, translated by Paul Starkey, 257 pp. Hoopoe $18.95) The word “concerto” takes its derivation from the Latin concerto, -are, -atus (“to contend”), though contemporary usage modulates the word to mean […]

Pen and Notebook – A Short Story

October 7, 2019

(Excerpts from The Sea Clock, by Nayrouz Qarmout.  Comma Press. Manchester, 2019.) Their feet were too small for the task. They lengthened their strides as the road opened up before them, breaking into a run, […]

Speaking for Israel: A Speechwriter Battle’s Anti-Israeli Opinions at the United Nations

October 1, 2019

(Speaking for Israel: A Speechwriter Battle’s Anti-Israeli Opinions at the United Nations.  Aviva Klompas.  Skyhorse Publishing, New York, 2019.) I expected much more from a book speaking for Israel, something to truly engage the mind […]

The Voice of Palestine’s Second Occupation, Part 2 – Book Review

September 12, 2019

(Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women Paperback. Jo Glanville, Editor. Telegram: May 1, 2007.) Me (the Bitch) and Bustanji, Selma Dabbagh We return to another story of a half-Palestinian in Kuwait by perhaps the most […]

Sahar Khalifeh: The Lost Gospel of Palestinian Letters – Book Review

September 2, 2019

(Wild Thorns. Sahar Khalifeh. Interlink Books, New York, 1985) For decades Palestinian literature has shown promise of making the leap from cult to major religion. There have been three leading prophets: Ghassan Kanafani, Mahmoud Darwish, […]

Empire of Borders – Book Review

August 22, 2019

(Empire of Borders – The Expansion of the US Border around the World. Todd Miller. Verso, New York/London, 2019.) Todd Miller’s new work, Empire of Borders – The Expansion of the US Border around the […]

Obama’s Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State – Book Review

August 12, 2019

(Obama’s Unending Wars – Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State.  Jeremy Kuzmarov.  Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2019.) Obama is a shining light in comparison to his two bookends, George Bush and […]

The Voice of Palestine’s Second Occupation, Part 1 – Book Review

August 8, 2019

(Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women Paperback. Jo Glanville, Editor. Telegram: May 1, 2007.) The voice of the Palestinian woman is occupied twice over. First, by the Israeli bootheel whose half-century occupation of Palestine qualifies […]

Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East – Book Review

July 26, 2019

(Dying to Forget – Oil, Power, Palestine, & the Foundations of U.S. policy in the Middle East.  Irene L. Gendzier.  Columbia University Press, New York, 2017.) Many books discuss the transition of U.S. interest in […]

The Management of Savagery – Book Review

May 15, 2019

(The Management of Savagery – How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of al-Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump.  Max Blumenthal.  Verso, London/New York, 2019.) Even though the ending is known, Max Blumenthal’s book The […]

America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy Making From Bush to Obama to Trump – Book Review

May 10, 2019

(America in Afghanistan: Foreign Policy Making From Bush to Obama to Trump.  Sharifullah Dorani.  I. B. Taurus – Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc.  London/NewYork, 2019.) Sharifulla Dorani’s work, America in Afghanistan, provides an interesting overview of U.S. […]

Preventing Palestine: A Political History From Camp David to Oslo – Book Review

April 24, 2019

(Preventing Palestine –  A Political History From Camp David to Oslo.  Seth Anziska.  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2018.) In all my recent readings of history and current events, Preventing Palestine stands out as being […]

Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline, from Obama to Trump and Beyond

April 7, 2019

(Easternization: Asia’s Rise and America’s Decline, from Obama to Trump and Beyond.  Gideon Rachman.  Other Press, New York, 2016.) The premise of Easternization concerning Asia’s rise is a topic of prime importance for those following […]

Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel – Book Review

April 3, 2019

There is a memorable passage from satirist Evelyn Waugh’s perhaps purposively unremembered political masterpiece “Black Mischief” (1932), in which Basil Seal, the chief Anglo architect of a modernization program in the fictional African island nation […]

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America – Book Review

April 2, 2019

(The End of the Myth – From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America.  Greg Grandin.  Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt & Co., New York, 2019) Much of current political news swirls […]

Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East – Book Review

March 18, 2019

(Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East.  Christopher Davidson.  Oneworld Publishing, U.K., 2016.) Written in response to the ‘Arab Spring’ initiated in Tunisia in 2011, Shadow Wars – The Secret Struggle for the […]

The Plot to Attack Iran – Book Review

February 28, 2019

(The Plot to Attack Iran – How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran.  Dan Kovalik. Skyhorse Publishing, New York, 2018.) Western mainstream media (MSM) typically present Iran as a degenerate […]

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History – Book Review

February 4, 2019

(Palestine – A Four Thousand Year History.  Nur Masalha. Zec Books, London, 2018.) The Israeli narrative of a nation/state returning to its homeland after a fifteen hundred year exile required deft work by the David […]

The Russians Are Coming, Again – Book Review

January 23, 2019

(The Russians are Coming, Again – The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce.  Jeremy Kuzmarov and John Marciano. Monthly Review Press, New York, 2018.) The mainstream media continues to harvest all the […]

The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World – Book Review

January 8, 2019

(The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World.  Robert Kagan.  Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2018.) It is always an interesting ride to read a Robert Kagan book as it is a journey into […]

War on Peace – Book Review

December 20, 2018

(War on Peace – The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Power.  Ronan Farrow. W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., New York, 2018.) Members of the political corps of the U.S. writing about […]

How the US Creates ‘Sh*thole’ Countries – Book Review

December 11, 2018

(How the US Creates “Sh*thole” Countries.  Cynthia McKinney Ed. Clarity Press, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, 2018.) Whether you consider yourself already well educated on the U.S. empire or are looking for a starting place, “How the […]

Bibi, The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu – Book Review

December 2, 2018

(Bibi – The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu.  Anshell Pfeffer.  Signal/McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House, Toronto, 2018.) This morning I read online the current problems Benjamin Netanyahu is having within the Knesset […]

Twilight of the American Century – Book Review

November 24, 2018

(Twilight of the American Century. Andrew J. Bacevich. University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2018.) The histories of empires and the histories of war are generally written by the winner to put themselves […]

Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories – Book Review

October 1, 2018

(The Biggest Prison on Earth – A History of the Occupied Territories.  Ilan Pappe.  Oneworld Publications, London, 2018) The history of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine is continued with Ilan Pappe’s recent work, The Biggest […]

Ramzy Baroud’s ‘The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story’

September 25, 2018

(Ramzy Baroud. The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story. London: Pluto Press, 2018. Order it now) The Last Earth is a masterful weaving of personal stories into the full tapestry of a people, of individuals, torn from […]

Reclaiming Our Narrative: Why You MUST Obtain This Book (VIDEO)

September 6, 2018

Dear Friends & Readers, The success of my recently-published book: THE LAST EARTH: A PALESTINIAN STORY is heart-warming in many ways.  Aside from the feeling of relief that years of research, writing and rewriting are […]

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