Plutocrazy – America 2004
"Who’s benefiting from the $5.8 billion being thrown away in Iraq? Surely, not you and I and all the working stiffs in America. It is the military industrial complex and the Plutocrats who laugh all the way to the bank, regardless of how many die on either side of their war for profit."
Palestinian Elections: A Test for Palestinians, the United States and Israel
"To facilitate the elections, the U.S. must demand that Israel lift its closure on the Occupied Territories, remove the military checkpoints that restrict movement within the West Bank and parts of the Gaza Strip, and refrain from intimidating and/or arresting campaign workers, election volunteers, and the candidates themselves including Hamas candidates and supporters."
Post-Arafat scene
"The possibility of a new Palestinian hudna should not be interpreted as a sign of weakness. Palestinian cessation of armed attacks against Israelis will not succeed if this decision is not matched with at least an Israeli commitment to stop the assassination campaign against Palestinian leaders. The international community, especially the US, must find a way to convince Israel not to attempt to use what Israel calls “targeted killings”.
African Muslims in Spain
"The European renaissance was thus propelled by the spread of enlightenment, culture, and civilization from Muslim Moorish ruled Spain and Portugal to the remainder of Europe. And this was expedited by the translation of African/Arab texts on theology, medicine and the sciences into Spanish, French, English, Portugese, and German (all of them retaining Arabic terms today)."
A Look Ahead to 2008 :: Part Two ::
"Hillary Clinton would seem to have the inside track to the Democratic nomination for 2008. However, she could be seen as a far too polarizing figure whose candidacy in the general election could bring out the evangelicals in droves for the Republicans as Kerry's did this year."
