Monthly Archives: July 2007

By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters, 3 July 2007 GAZA (Reuters) – Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in the Gaza Strip since March, was handed over by his Islamist captors to ruling Hamas officials in the early hours of Wednesday, … Continue reading →

Berezovsky charged with coup plot over Guardian interview In pictures: Russia’s oligarchs Luke Harding in Moscow, The Guardian, 3 July 2007 Russia has charged the exiled tycoon and Kremlin critic Boris Berezovsky with conspiring to seize power on the basis … Continue reading →

By Bill Williams, CounterPunch, 2 July 2007 Over the last few weeks, as I have thought hard about how the Finkelstein and Larudee tenure denials went down the way they did, I repeatedly stumble upon a troubling, but perhaps plausible, … Continue reading →

By Scott Shane and Neil A. Lewis, New York Times, 2 July 2007 President Bush spared I. Lewis Libby Jr. from prison Monday, commuting his two-and-a-half year sentence while leaving intact his conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice in … Continue reading →

Volume XIV, Summer 2007, Number 2 BOOK REVIEW Hamas: Politics, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad by Matthew Levitt. Yale University Press, in cooperation with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2006. 324 pages, $26.00, hardcover. Sara … Continue reading →