The NewStandard ceased publishing on April 27, 2007.
Jon Elmer is a Core Contributor to The NewStandard. He is a freelance photojournalist; his writings, interviews and photographs have appeared in numerous publications worldwide, including most recently, The Journal of Palestine Studies and The Progressive.
Jon has photographed and reported from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Western Sahara, Maoist-controlled areas of Nepal, and at anti-war and "anti-corporate globalization" demonstrations all across North America.
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10/14/05 ‘Disengagement’ Affords Some Relief for Gaza Fishing Enclave
10/10/05 Israeli High Court Rules Army Use of Human Shields Illegal
10/03/05 Air Raids Terrorize Gaza Residents, Target Key Infrastructure
09/22/05 Palestinians Cheer as Army Quits Two West Bank Settlements
09/16/05 Israel’s High Court Rejects World Court Ruling on Barrier
09/13/05 Former Gaza General Eludes UK War Crimes Charge
09/13/05 Investigation: Five Palestinians Killed in Tul Karm Raid Noncombatants
09/07/05 Israeli Army Continues Use of Palestinians as Human Shields
08/31/05 Israeli Terror Compensation Rules Treat Jew’s Victims Differently
08/26/05 Soldiers, Anguish Remain Around Evacuated West Bank Settlements
08/19/05 Protest, Grief as Barrier Segregates Palestinian Village from Farms
08/16/05 New Settlement Puts Pressure on Jerusalem Palestinians
07/22/05 Violence, Poverty Underscore Story of Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
07/13/05 On Iraq-Jordan Border, Various Roles Play Out in Desert
06/01/05 ‘Mistakenly’ Arrested Sunni Politician One Among Many
12/06/04 U.S. has invasive, high-tech plans for Fallujah’s returning refugees
10/18/04 Two Iraqi journalists gunned down in separate incidents
10/16/04 US Marines come under attack from Syrian territory
09/10/04 Iraqi deaths quietly mount as official U.S. troop toll passes 1,000
08/20/04 Iraqi Olympic soccer team outraged at Bush campaign ad
08/19/04 US soldiers kill 2 prisoners in Abu Ghraib
08/19/04 Journalists who defied Najaf ban threatened with death
08/16/04 Iraqis continue to accuse US troops of pillaging civilian homes
08/16/04 Media blackout in Najaf enforced at rifle-point, journalists evicted
08/01/04 Bush-Cheney organizers request racial profile of photographer
07/31/04 ‘Serious’ water crisis looming in Basra, UN warns
07/20/04 Thousands of Iraqis overwhelm newly opened passport offices
07/16/04 New Iraqi PM may have executed men just before ‘handover’
07/07/04 Mounting Evidence Suggests Israeli Operatives Working in Occupied Iraq
07/03/04 Army report confirms Psy-ops staged Saddam statue toppling
07/02/04 US soldiers charged with drowning Iraqi civilian
06/24/04 US CentCom asks Army to send more troops to Iraq
06/23/04 Recorded message calls for assassination of Iraqi PM
06/22/04 Fallujah Residents Protest Deadly Weekend Attack by U.S. Military
06/21/04 Israeli operatives reportedly conducting covert ops in Kurdistan
06/16/04 Halliburton caught overbilling Pentagon for Iraq contracts, again
06/16/04 U.S. and its Iraqi appointees show division on prisoners, palaces
06/15/04 U.S. releases 400 detainees, Red Cross says release them all
06/13/04 Car bombing, assassination target U.S. occupation and Iraqi allies
06/11/04 Use of dogs in Abu Ghraib authorized at the highest levels
06/09/04 Briefs show administration's intentions to legalize torture