Research And Information Network (RAIN)

  ‘Justice was done,’ says attorney who helped relatives of Daniel Wultz, 16, win landmark suit   By Raphael Ahren   The Times of Israel May 15, 201   A Washington, DC, court has awarded $332 million in damages to an American-Jewish family whose 16-year-old son was killed in a 2006 suicide bombing in Tel [...]

Yousef Munayyer Yousef Munayyer is a writer and political analyst based in Washington, DC.   Israel is isolating its Arab citizens, despite its claims to democracy.   Al Jazeera Last Modified: 15 May 2012 20:54   Washington, DC – Lydda, a city home to some 20,000 Palestinians in 1948 quickly swelled to a population of [...]

Dr. Hanan Ashrawi is a member of the PLO Executive Committee and head of the PLO’s Department of Culture and Information   Peace is a phase of healing that must be established on truth, justice, transparency and equality. There is no other formula.   Haaretz May.15, 2012   May is the cruelest month, despite the [...]

Al Nakba (the Catastrophe) – an act of deliberate destruction.   Sam Bahour, a Palestinian-American based in Al-Bireh/Ramallah, speaking at TEDxRamallah in April 2011.   Posted May 15, 2012   see here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31327.htm __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

We follow one man as he becomes the only Israeli granted access to the inner sanctum of the whirling Dervish order.   Al Jazeera World Last Modified: 15 May 2012 13:54   Miki Cohen is a 58-year-old college teacher who has ‘discovered’ the works of Jalal ad-Din Rumi, a 13th-century Muslim poet and Sufi mystic. [...]

by Richard Edmondson   deLiberationMonday, May 14th, 2012   see the billboards here: http://www.deliberation.info/dodging-the-hebrew-hammer-in-the-fight-for-justice/   An Interview with Armen Chakerian and Susan Schuurman   Susan Schuurman and Armen Chakerian are two of the founders of the New Mexico-based Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel, a group of activists who seek to raise public consciousness [...]

By Pepe Escobar Pepe Escobar is the author of Globalistan: How the Globalized World is Dissolving into Liquid War (Nimble Books, 2007) and Red Zone Blues: a snapshot of Baghdad during the surge. His most recent book, just out, is Obama does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009). He may be reached at pepeasia@yahoo.com   Information Clearing [...]

The current head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who was essentially installed by Western powers, is adding new hurdles for Iran to clear before an agreement can be reached on its nuclear program, a standoff addressed by Gareth Porter for Inter Press Service.   Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist specializing in [...]

  By M.J. Rosenberg M.J. Rosenberg served as a Senior Foreign Policy Fellow with Media Matters Action Network, and prior to that worked on Capitol Hill for various Democratic members of the House and Senate for 15 years. He was also a Clinton political appointee at USAID. In the early 1980s, he was editor of [...]

by Bill Quigley Bill Quigley is Associate Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. He is a Katrina survivor and has been active in human rights in Haiti for years. He volunteers with the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) and the Bureau de [...]

by Haytham Bahoora   Jadaliyya May 14, 2012   The Iraqi government’s contractual delivery of Iraqi oil fields to foreign multinationals is perhaps the most consequential long-term economic consequence of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. Contracts have been signed, production rights to massive oil fields sold, and a steady stream of propaganda disseminated [...]

By David S. Cloud and Laura King,   A U.S.-backed program to recruit police has failed to significantly stem the insurgency, with some units becoming deeply entangled in criminal activity, including bribe-taking and extortion, a Pentagon-funded study finds.   Los Angeles Times May 14, 2012   WASHINGTON — A U.S.-backed program to recruit police in [...]