Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Arab and Muslim immigrants have experienced increasing discrimination by the US government. Megan Harrington interviews Hatem Abudayyeh of the Arab American Action Network.

A federal program that was supposed to improve the worst of the public housing in the US gets hijacked by private developers and government bureaucrats. Sabrina Williams reports.

In June, vigilante forces attacked nonviolent Iranian student protesters, charging them on motorcycles and assaulting them with batons, chains, and knives. In addition, the Iranian government threatened to punish the students severely, arresting over 4,000 people. Three student leaders have been kidnapped. Where are the protests of the global peace movement and political left, asks Jeremy Brecher?

Mostly from a UK perspective. Thirty-six lies, along with the truth.

The US and Britain claimed that Iraq had close ties to al-Qaida and was a security threat because it had weapons of mass destruction. These claims, widely challenged at the time, are now known to be false. Ignacio Ramonet reports.

The 'Southern Plan' is a US-inspired attempt to get Mexico to apply to its buffer-zone borders with Central America the same control that the US exercises over its frontier with Mexico. But the migrants still risk death and despair in the hope of heading north to the promised land. Herve Revelli reports.

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy influences the thinking of the US government and has a near monopoly on the supply of 'expert' witnesses to the media. After almost two decades of relative moderation, the institute is now drifting towards the Israeli right. Joel Benin reports.

I'm not a gun-hating liberal or anything, but I've never understood this logic nor seen any credible evidence that it's supportable, but Orrin Hatch thinks more guns will reduce gun violence in DC...