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The 7th Chasky, a yearly celebration of indigenous culture and resistance, is taking place this year on October 20th from 1-6pm in the Mission. Everyone welcome!...

The Israeli missile strike came at the end of the four-hour incursion. It wasn't clear what the target was. Residents said people came out into the streets around 4:30 a.m. when they heard the tanks pulling out, but two [US built and paid for] Israeli helicopters remained overhead, and one of them fired the missile....

The U.S.-brokered deal to end the standoff in Ramallah has been widely lauded, both for defusing a confrontation with potentially catastrophic political implications, and for signaling the beginning of sustained American engagement in the Middle East. Closer examination of the facts, however, suggests the Bush administration is playing with a fire largely of its own making, and that its conduct in this affair is symptomatic of a U.S. approach which both aggravates conflict and obstructs meani...

Universities are among our most important social institutions. They educate our youth, train future...

Israel censors all images coming out of the territories. What you see on TV (assuming the media does not self-censor) has passed through Israeli military censors. This story chronicles one person's attempts to smuggle videotape of the siege on the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem out of Israel. Unfortunately, the person who has been holding on to the footage (23 hours worth) was so paranoid of Israeli agents that he could not be convinced that this person was not an agent. The footage ...

Under the guise of anti-terrorism, Israeli forces treat Palestinians worse than cattle. With due process nowhere to be found, hundreds are detained for long periods and most are tortured. Some are assassinated. Homes, orchards, and business places are destroyed. Entire cities are kept under intermittent curfew, some confinements lasting for weeks. Injured or ill Palestinians needing emergency medical care are routinely held at checkpoints for an hour or more. Many children are undernouris...

Last week, an e-mail spoof was sent claiming to be from an organizer of the conference, Fadi Kiblawi. The e-mail's from-address was his, but he did not write it. It went to every faculty member, and claimed to be a pitch for the conference. Of course, it featured anti-Jewish slurs in order to make the conference appear anti-Jewish. The organizer whose e-mail was spoofed realized this happened when he started receiving nasty responses....

Three of the most common myths about race -- and the reality behind each....

The problem is not the inability of the public to understand the bigger picture, as former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright likes to suggest. It is the opposite. The bigger picture, the hidden agenda, is well understood by ordinary people. We should not forget Henry Kissinger's brutally frank admission that "oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs"....

It's this kind of hypocrisy that galls people all over the Arab world. The Bush administration has sent a message about as clear as it can be that Israeli lives count, Arab lives do not....