The Sunday Times (London, UK) claims that its undercover investigation shows Japan bribed officials from six small governments with cash and prostitutes to influence their votes on the International Whaling Commission (IWC).

With its deadly commando raid on a Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla that left nine civilians dead and dozens injured, Israel once again resembles a self-destructive Goliath to much of the world.

Israeli soldiers attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships early Monday in international waters off the coast of the Gaza Strip. Ten people were reportedly killed on board and twenty others wounded,when troops from the Israeli Defense Force raided the six-ship convoy. Dubbed the Freedom Flotilla, the convoy carried 700 passengers from thirty countries bringing 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid to the impoverished Palestinian city of Gaza.

Thousands of Bay Area residents joined forces Saturday in San Francisco to protest the passage of Arizona’s controversial immigration bill, SB 1070.

Two months after 9/11, I was at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York for the World Economic Forum summit that was moved there from Davos and I was talking with Rabbi Meir Lau, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, when a vaguely familiar diminutive woman walked over and held her hand out to the Rabbi.

A symbol of hope for Muslim American reformers can be found in the heart of Manhattan's West Village, the home base of a man who epitomizes the kind of spiritual leadership that so many young American Muslims yearn for.

Gil Scott Heron made sure his revolution was not televised in Tel Aviv but some prominent people are broadcasting his message anyway.

Arab and Muslim media coverage of the failed car-bombing in New York’s Times Square aimed to fill holes in U.S. mainstream media reporting and expose its biases.

When she came to speak at New York University, she packed the room. It might have been the weirdest crowd I’d ever seen at an Islamic Center at NYU event. (Okay, “weird” is likely too strong—how about odd?) One half of the room were comic book fans who had probably never attended an event hosted by a Muslim institution, and the other half were Muslims awkwardly admitting to themselves and the world that they loved comic books.

This summer's calendar of events once again includes the Inner-City Muslim Action Network's bi-annual one-day summer festival called "Takin' It To The Streets."