VIETNAM : Vietnam must free bloggers Dieu Cay, Phan Thanh Hai and Ta Phong Tan

His Excellency Trương Tấn Sang, President, Socialist Republic of Vietnam Your Excellency, I am writing to express my concern about the founding members of the Club for Free Journalists Nguyen Van Hai (a.k.a Dieu Cay), Phan Thanh Hai (a.k.a Anhbasg), and Ta Phong Tan. The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City will reportedly convene [...]

Lessons from the South African anti-apartheid struggle

For many years I supported the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa as a member of the Holland Committee on Southern Africa (HCSA). I apply what I learned in supporting the Palestinian people to achieve freedom, justice and equality including the right of return for refugees. Dutch and South African anti-apartheid activists provided input to broaden [...]

US, Iran and the media

In the past three decades, but especially in the past three years, the US media has devoted more news stories on Iran than on any other Muslim country. The focus has been mostly on Iran’s nuclear program that has the potential of becoming a nuclear weapons program. For about every one hundred articles published on [...]

Is Iran behind the Saudi assassination plot?

On 11 October 2011, the Obama administration accused members of the Iranian government of plotting with Mexican drug lords to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador in the US, as part of a global terrorist campaign – that the plot is linked to ‘global terrorism’ is a link the US wants people to make, but without [...]

Iran-US cold war and the nuclear issue

Is the US really concerned about Iran’s nuclear program that could potentially be converted from energy into a military program down the road, or is it using the issue to determine how Iran is integrated into the West and what its role must be in the Middle East? Those who have studied the history of [...]

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