He will be voted out of office, I promise, and then they’ll vote for the bill again: ASUC President Will Smelko vetoed a bill Wednesday that called for the University of California to divest from companies that have provided war supplies to Israel.The bill states that United Technologies and General Electric are supplying Israel with [...]

I recently discovered this underground rapper and I must say, I’m glad to have done so. Actually, I didn’t really discover him per se, but rather someone posted one of his music videos on my blog’s comments section, which reminded me of the value of the blog. Sometimes I’m entirely tired of having this blog [...]

Ha’aretz: The fiance of the Neda Soltan, a 27-year-old Iranian woman shot dead during protests in in Tehran, met with President Shimon Peres on Monday during a visit to Israel. “I came to Israel as an ambassador of the Iranian people, as a messenger from the camp of peace,” said Caspian Makin.

[The divestment campaign was first launched at UC Berkeley when I was an undergraduate there. It took a long time, but the activists at Students for Justice in Palestine finally did it.] Early yesterday morning, the University of California Berkeley Student Senate (ASUC) passed a bill to divest from companies that provide military support for [...]

NPR – Excerpt: “‘Much to my surprise, the Islamic scriptures in the Quran were actually far less bloody and less violent than those in the Bible,’ Jenkins says. Jenkins is a professor at Penn State University and author of two books dealing with the issue: the recently published Jesus Wars, and Dark Passages , which [...]

Foreign Policy Magazine – Excerpt: “In exchange for Rafsanjani’s loyalty, the supreme leader appears to have given him power over a new bill that will establish a National Elections Commission to reform the electoral process. Not only is this issue at the heart of Iran’s political crisis, but the commission would also determine the eligibility [...]

NIAC – Excerpt: “The National Iranian American Council applauds the passage moments ago by the House of Representatives of H.Res.267, the Norooz Resolution, and commends Representative Mike Honda (D-CA) for championing this historic resolution.” “The Norooz Resolution passed by a 384-2 vote, marking the first time in history that the House of Representatives officially recognizes [...]

Israel has long claimed that Palestinian civilians die at the hands of Israeli attacks only because Palestinian militants fire from among them and that civilians die from Israeli response fire. Palestinians have long claimed that Israelis deliberately target Palestinian civilians and even use them as human shields as they seek out Palestinian fighters.  Israel is [...]

See the interesting al-Jazeera video here..

al-Jazeera video on how US-Israeli relations are now under strain.

Needs to get herself a clue: “Since a disputed presidential election in June set off enduring unrest, the opposition has timed some of its protests to holidays. The December protests came during Ashura, the commemoration of the martyrdom of Ali, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.”  So according to this NY Time’s correspondent, Ali (a.s.) was [...]

NY Times – Excerpt: “The series of political and economic reforms I undertook in the Soviet Union in 1985, has been the subject of heated debate ever since. Today the controversy has taken on a new urgency — not just because of the 25th anniversary, but also because Russia is again facing the challenge of [...]

Oh how this is funny.