LEONARD ZESKIND Zeskind is author of Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream. More Information DAVID NEIWERT Neiwert is author of the just-released book The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right as well as three other books on right-wing extremism and its effects on…

The current version of the supplemental spending bill contains about $100 billion for war in Iraq and Afghanistan and also about $100 billion for the IMF. A House vote in May passed with overwhelming Republican support and 51 Democrats voting against — but this did not include the IMF funding, which Republicans are opposing. This…

On Wednesday, a House subcommittee dealing with health is scheduled to hold a hearing titled “Examining the Single Payer Health Care Option” at 10:30 a.m. Also on Wednesday, there will be a briefing on healthcare reform, “How Do We Pay For It?” at 2237 Rayburn House Office Building at 1:30 p.m. Interviews are available with…

Obama administration envoy George Mitchell is traveling to the Mideast. Rep. Donna Edwards recently returned from Gaza. As Obama was traveling to Cairo, the Palestinian group Hamas, which won the most recent Palestinian election, sent a letter to President Obama through the feminist peace group CODEPINK, which just had a delegation in Gaza. Here is…

PATRICK SEALE Seale is a British journalist now living in France and a leading expert on the Mideast. His books include Asad: The Struggle for the Middle East. His most recent piece is titled “A New Middle East Alliance.” More Information ALBERT SCHARENBERG Scharenberg is a lecturer at the John F. Kennedy Institute at the…

“Let’s fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East, the Saudis and the Egyptians, stop oppressing their own people, and suppressing dissent, and tolerating corruption and inequality, and mismanaging their economies so that their youth grow up without education, without prospects, without hope, the ready recruits of terrorist cells.” — Barack Obama,…

JOEL BEININ Professor of Middle East History at Stanford, Beinin was recently a visiting professor at the American University in Cairo. MEDEA BENJAMIN ANN WRIGHT Currently in Cairo, Benjamin is a founder of CodePink and was just in Gaza, where she was given a letter to Obama from Hamas. She said today: “While Osama bin…

NOAM CHOMSKY Chomsky, whose recent books include Interventions and The Essential Chomsky, sent the following to the Institute for Public Accuracy this morning: “A CNN headline, reporting Obama’s plans for his June 4 Cairo address, reads ‘Obama looks to reach the soul of the Muslim world.’ Perhaps that captures his intent, but more significant is…

President Obama is scheduled to be in Germany on Friday and France on Saturday. BRIGITTE MARTI MARGARET FLOWERS Marti and Flowers are co-chairs of the Maryland chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (a national organization of 16,000 physicians, medical students and health professionals who support single-payer national health insurance). Sen. Max Baucus of…

HOSSAM EL-HAMALAWY El-Hamalawy is a journalist and blogger in Cairo. More Information HEDY EPSTEIN Epstein, a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, is author of Remembering Is Not Enough. After World War II, she worked at the Nuremberg Medical Trial, which tried the doctors accused of performing medical experiments on concentration camp inmates. She said today:…