This is the statement released on the day news broke about the "freedom flotilla' incident. I publish it here for the sake of clarity and  perspective on the position of the publisher of Medialternatives. AMF condemns Israel violence against humanitarian flotilla The Alternative Media Forum conde...

The German-Jewish organization Jewish Voice for Peace in the Middle East is preparing a Jewish flotilla to the Gaza Strip. "We intend to leave around July," a member of the organization, Kate Leitrer, said to Israeli press agency Ynet. "We have one small craft so far, in which there will be betwe...

The massive VE day celebrations in Moscow have put the rest of the world to shame. While the UK was experiencing election drama of a hung parliament, and the USA was still mulling over the collapse of Bears Sterns, Greek Contagion and banking reform, Russia held one of the largest VE day celebrat...

IMAGINE a world in which the state keeps compulsory psychiatric records of all its citizens dating from birth. A world in which the only mode of treatment is drugs and electroconvulsive shock therapy. A world in which dissident voices, outspoken critics, different points of view are swept away be...

NEW YORK – A leading US civil liberties group mounted a legal challenge against the US government on Wednesday over its refusal to grant a visa to a leading South African Muslim academic. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the case in Boston challenging the US Departments of State and Homel...