Yemeni Activist Tawakkul Karman, First Female Arab Nobel Peace Laureate: A...
AMY GOODMAN: In an interview this morning, Yemeni activist Tawakkul Karman said her prize is a victory for Yemen and for all of the uprisings of the Arab Spring. Karman is a 32-year-old journalist and...
View ArticleYemeni Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkul Karman on Human Rights Abuses...
Yemeni Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkul Karman, one of three recipients who split the award this year, spoke in New York City at the Brecht Forum in September 2010 about state violence, targeted...
View ArticleNobel Peace Winner Tawakkul Karman on Yemen and the U.S. War on Terror
AMY GOODMAN: We’re going to end today with the words of the new Nobel Peace Prize winner. There were three. They were three women. One of them comes from Yemen. Her name is Tawakkul Karman. She spoke...
View ArticleArab League Suspends Syria, Concern Grows over Foreign Intervention to End...
AMY GOODMAN: We continue on Syria with Bassam Haddad, the director of the Middle East Studies Program at George Mason University. His book, Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of...
View ArticleSyrian Human Rights Lawyer Razan Zaitouneh Speaks from Hiding, Says Over...
AMY GOODMAN: Today in Brussels, the European Union decided to impose sanctions on 18 Syrians in response to the killings of protesters by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The names of those sanctioned...
View ArticleSeymour Hersh: Propaganda Used Ahead of Iraq War Is Now Being Reused over...
AMY GOODMAN: Today the United States, Britain and Canada plan to announce a coordinated set of sanctions against Iran. ABC News and the Wall Street Journal report the sanctions will target Iran’s oil...
View ArticleArab Spring Under the King: Bahraini Activist Ala'a Shehabi on Crackdown on...
Clashes have erupted in Bahrain ahead of today’s release of a report that investigates the crackdown on the pro-democracy uprising earlier this year. The Bahraini monarchy commissioned the supposed...
View ArticleAs Syria Toll Tops 5,000, Activist in Hiding Urges Global Action to Stop...
JUAN GONZALEZ: International pressure on the Syrian regime is increasing as the death toll there continues to rise. According to opposition forces, Syrian army defectors killed at least 27 government...
View ArticleA Path to War? Assassination of Iran Nuclear Scientist, New Sanctions Strain...
JUAN GONZALEZ: We turn now to the heightening tensions between Iran and the United States. The Iranian government says a nuclear scientist involved in its uranium enrichment program was killed by...
View ArticleSyrian Activist Speaks from Hiding: The Bloodshed is Continuing Despite...
AMY GOODMAN: We turn to Syria. Reuters is reporting street battles are raging at the gates of the Syrian capital of Damascus. At least 26 people were reportedly killed this weekend in what activists...
View ArticleA Struggle for Regional Supremacy: Syria Conflict Escalates as World Powers...
AMY GOODMAN: Syria is seeing some of the worst violence of the 11-month uprising against Bashar al-Assad amidst an ongoing international standoff over how to respond. Assad’s forces have launched what...
View ArticleDebate: Attacking Iran, AIPAC, Israel-Palestine and Obama with Rashid Khalidi...
AMY GOODMAN: On Sunday, President Obama addressed the influential pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, emphasizing the U.S., quote, "will not hesitate" to use...
View ArticleRead an Excerpt from Anthony Shadid's New Memoir, "House of Stone"
On Thursday, we will interview New York Times reporter Nada Bakri, wife of recently deceased, New York Times foreign correspondent, Anthony Shadid. Shadid died of an apparent asthma attack while...
View ArticleNada Bakri, Widow of Anthony Shadid, on Her Husband's Life and Posthumous...
JUAN GONZALEZ: Three weeks ago, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid died of an apparent asthma attack while reporting on the conflict in Syria....
View ArticleCeasefire Reached After Israeli Air Strikes Killed 26 Palestinians in Gaza
AMY GOODMAN: Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip have reportedly agreed to a ceasefire after four days of cross-border violence. Earlier today an Egyptian official said both sides have...
View ArticleBahraini Hunger Striker's Life in Peril as U.S.-Backed Forces Continue...
AMY GOODMAN: We turn to Bahrain, where security forces continued the crackdown on protesters across the country over the weekend. According to a statement issued by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights...
View ArticleFrom Military Threats to Crippling Sanctions, U.S.-Israel Posturing on Iran...
AMY GOODMAN: Could Israel launch an attack on Iran before the U.S. election in November? As the drums of war beat louder in Israel, we turn right now to two guests in Washington, D.C. Trita Parsi is...
View ArticleIslamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan on the Growing Mideast Protests and "Islam &...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: To talk more about the protests across the Middle East, we’re joined by Tariq Ramadan, professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University and a visiting professor at the...
View ArticleMiddle East Protests at U.S. Embassies Spread in Uproar over Anti-Muslim U.S....
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Violent protests continue in the Middle East over an American-made film considered blasphemous to Islam. Earlier today, hundreds of Yemeni protesters stormed the U.S. embassy in Sana’a....
View ArticleExclusive: As Obama and Romney Agree on Afghan War, Israel and Syria, Third...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re on the road in our 100-city tour in San Rafael, California. President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney squared off Monday night in Boca Raton, Florida, in their final...
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