This is only a simple instance of how the pioneers of human rights fail to respect and venerate what they consider to be their first and foremost social value. By Kourosh Ziabari — My Catbird Seat One of my close friends is suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, a severe mental illness which has almost paralyzed [...]

By Franklin Lamb Exclusive to Al Manar Some opinion analysts, like the 2009 Zogby International poll of American attitudes toward Israelis and Palestinians, express surprise with what they are learning from the American public and detect significant changes in American public attitudes favoring US disengagement from Israel. US activists successfully prevented the unloading of an [...]

Will the great purge begin ? Most voters seemed to understand that the outcome of America’s midterm election was the result of a devastated economy and the President Barack Obama’s failure to create jobs or even to understand the difficulties that are confronting many American families.  But it’s nevertheless strange how America’s elites never seem [...]

By Alan Hart — My Catbird Seat There is a debate in Israel about whether the Zionist state is on the slippery slope to fascism or is already fascist. As far as I am aware the mainstream Western media has not drawn any attention to this: It was Albert Einstein, the father of modern physics, [...]

“just about lowest thing anyone could do” By Stuart Littlewood – My Catbird Seat “Whatever happened to the Liberal Democrats’ pledge to ‘reject all prejudice and discrimination based upon race, colour, religion, etc…’ and to ‘fight poverty, oppression, hunger, ignorance, disease and aggression wherever they occur and to promote the free movement of ideas, people, [...]

BY KOUROSH ZIABARI An exclusive,  in-depth interview with Alan Hart, veteran British journalist and former BBC Panorama Correspondent. Author of  Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews Alan Hart is an indispensable name in journalism. Unquestionably, he has been one of the most influential British journalists with an expertise in the Middle East affairs. A [...]

By Prof James Petras — My Catbird Seat Introduction: The November 2, 2010 electoral debacle of the Democratic Party in the US cannot be solely ascribed to the failed policies of President Obama, the Congressional leadership or their senior economic advisers. Nor is the demise of what passes for the American “center-left” confined to the [...]

By J. Speer-Williams — My Catbird Seat – “When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up” – Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoch, 1939-1987 When we don’t exercise our bodies, our muscles become weak. When we [...]