The David Project’s dirty tricks. While name-and-shame tactics can be put to positive effect, they can also easily backfire and do more harm than good. We need to learn the art of being disagreeable in the most agreeable possible fashion. by Ali Abunimah

Syrians throughout the country took to the streets on Tuesday, 21 June 2011.
They turned out to express their support for the reform measures announced by President Bashar Al-Assad the previous day in the speech he delivered at the University of Damascus.

Angry Holy Land Christians tell him “We need advocates for the truth.”
Kairos Palestine, the voice of Palestinian Christians, has given the Archbishop of Canterbury a strong ticking-off for remarks he made during a BBC interview. — By Stuart Littlewood

A powerful and important Press Conference with some extremely impressive speakers. They are all Truth Sayers in the Land of Deceit! By Debbie Menon / My Catbird Seat

Xenophobic Dynamic Duo Defeat Freedom — by Franklin Lamb
Hanan is the Islamophobic Lebanese woman, Hanan Qahwaji who as a child lived in the South Lebanon village of Maryoun overlooking the Lebanon-Palestine border during three years of the on again off again Lebanese Civil War.

“I believe all people act out of self-interest. And Jews who define themselves at some level as Jews — like myself for instance — are concerned with a Jewish self-interest. Which in my case is: an end to Zionism. A theory of political life based on altruism or concern for victims purely is doomed to fail.” — Phil Weiss of Mondoweiss

Move Over organizers made a strong effort to showcase Jewish opposition to AIPAC… as if protest is not an obligation of US citizens.”
The existence of such an official opposition allows critics to blow off steam without having any real impact; it creates the pretense of freedom without the reality.
by Stephen Sniegoski

Should Americans Focus More on our Enemies at Home