Nissan Leaf EV launched in USA

Steve Parker, 11.15.2009

Journalist/Broadcaster covering the auto industry and auto racing for 35 years.

In 1947, Tokyo Electric Cars Company built a lead-acid battery powered EV delivery truck called the Tama which it sold through 1950, when oil supplies...

A Debate Worth Noting

James Zogby, 11.14.2009

Founder and president of the Arab American Institute

A story universally missed last week was the extraordinary debate that occurred in Congress in advance of a vote on a resolution against the Goldstone Report.

Obama In Flux

William Bradley, 11.14.2009

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

As he embarks on his first big trip to Asia, President Barack Obama's strategies are in flux in many areas.

"Qum" Buy Ya

Amb. Marc Ginsberg, 11.13.2009

Former US Amb. to Morocco

While the technical revelations regarding the Qum nuclear enrichment facility filter out as the IAEA prepares its final report to the U.N., the U.S. is at a crossroads regarding Iran's nuclear program.

Dialogues Against Militarism Gratitude

Stephen Funk, 11.12.2009

Queer and Antiwar in the Marine Corps

DAM is making connections and creating infrastructure and camaraderie with many groups so we are better able to work together across international borders against our common struggles.

Did Clinton Just Change US Policy on Hezbollah?

Sharmine Narwani, 11.12.2009

Sharmine Narwani is a Senior Associate at St. Anthony's College, Oxford University.

They say talk is cheap, but is it possible that recent comments by Hillary Clinton are signaling a radical change in US foreign policy?

Celebrating Berlin While Enabling Israel's Apartheid Wall

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, 11.11.2009

Multimedia Journalist, most recently for the New York Times

The 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall highlights both the inherent thirst for freedom and proclivity to hypocrisy ingrained in the human condition.

Israel Stands Alone

Lloyd Greif, 11.11.2009

Entrepreneur

Obama has shown far more concern for strengthening ties with authoritarian regimes on the Arabian Peninsula than to maintaining the historically close alliance with the region's only true democracy.

Mothers and Soldiers: Healing the Bonds Destroyed by War

Christian Avard, 11.11.2009

Staff reporter Deerfield Valley News, Dover VT

Susan Galleymore is the author of Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War & Terror. She made international headlines as she traveled to Iraq to visit her son stationed in the Sunni Triangle.

The Wall: 20 Years After Berlin

Kevin Coval, 11.10.2009

Aauthor of Everyday People and Slingshots (A Hip-Hop Poetica)

"The night of Nov. 9... was the fulfillment of a dream." German Chancellor Angela Merkel today concrete stretches into sky, twenty-six feet high. ...

Delusional Self-Defense, Delusional Congressional Vote

Noura Erakat, 11.11.2009

Adjunt Professor Georgetown, Attorney, and Activist

Rather than condemn Israel's act of aggression, Congress added its name to a pungent piece of manipulative delusion: that Israel's onslaught of Gaza constituted an act of self-defense.

Maj. Nidal Hasan and the "Desperation Explanation"

Heather Robinson, 11.10.2009

Senior Writer for the New York Daily News

Mainstream media has helped to cloud perceptions of the true causes of suicide terrorism. They've reinforced the perception that suicide bombing and other forms of terrorism are in some sense arguably justifiable.

Mr. Netanyahu, Tear Down This Wall

Robert Naiman, 11.10.2009

Policy Director of Just Foreign Policy

On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, leaders are full of self-congratulation. But they bear large responsibility for another wall constricting human freedom: the apartheid wall dividing the Palestinian West Bank.

Interview: Hezbollah And Hamas on Obama, Netanyahu, Terrorism ... And Oprah

Sharmine Narwani, 11.09.2009

Sharmine Narwani is a Senior Associate at St. Anthony's College, Oxford University.

While both groups embrace Islamic values as their core ideology and driving principle, their political actions appear to be driven more by realpolitik than Quranic mandate.

The Week In Headlines

Katie Halper, 11.09.2009

Co-Founder of Laughing Liberally, a political comedy group

Boycott Israel? Norwegian University Must Decide

David Harris, 11.09.2009

Executive Director, AJC, and Senior Associate, St. Antony's College, Oxford University

Later this month, Norway's second largest university will consider a proposed boycott of Israel for developing "Zionist ideology and renouncing Palestinian history and identity."

UN Note: The Missing U.S. Ambassador

Phyllis Bennis, 11.08.2009

Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies

Susan Rice, known for her powerful support for accountability regarding war crimes in Darfur, regardless of potential political consequences, had of course reversed herself when the issue was accountability for Gaza.

A Response to Bradley Burston's Critique

Henry Siegman, 11.06.2009

President, U.S./Middle East Project

For now, blaming Palestinians for their misery is nothing more than a pretext for the continuation of a colonialist enterprise that every other democracy in the world has relegated to a shameful past.

Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet, 11.06.2009

Editors of Simple Intelligence

This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Like Him or Not, Karzai's the Man in Afghanistan SI Analysis: After opposition candidate Abdullah Abdulla...

We Need 'A Street', Not J Street

David Suissa, 11.06.2009

founder of OLAM magazine, weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Jewish Journal

Can you imagine how transformational it would be if a high profile, "pro-Arab, pro-peace" organization pressured Palestinian leaders to dismantle the teaching of Jew-hatred in Palestinian society -- a hatred that has made a mockery of all moves toward peace?

Abbas's Decison Signals Need for Implementation Not Negotiations for Two State Solution

Daoud Kuttab, 11.07.2009

Palestinian journalist residing in Jerusalem and Amman.

The Israelis, the Americans, the international community and any proponent of a negotiated settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict couldn't dream of finding a better Palestinian leader.