By Kevin Zeese Although many of Senator Obama’s policy pronouncements are disturbing to peace voters, there are two things that Senator Obama has said during the long presidential campaign that give voters opposed to war […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London I and my dog Mortimer apologise most sincerely to the world, and especially to Arab friends, for our prime minister’s crass speech to the Knesset. Britain, like the US, has an […]

By Ramzy Baroud For some folks interested in genealogy, tracing one’s roots is a stimulating activity. It’s immensely interesting and meaningful to learn where one’s life started. DNA testing has made it possible to trace […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Jeff Halper is an American-born Israeli Professor of Anthropology as well as a peace and human rights activist for over three decades. In 1997, he co-founded the Israeli Committee Against […]

By Ali Alarabi Last Wednesday prisoners exchange between Hezbollah and Israel in which Israel got the remains of the two soldiers whom Hezbollah snatched from their military jeep in a cross border raid that aimed to […]

By Roni Ben Efrat Accompanying its verbal escalations over the Iranian nuclear project, Israel ventured on an extraordinary air force exercise in early June. According to the New York Times, this included more than 100 […]

By Frank Barat – Jerusalem -5.30am, Beit Sahour (suburb of Bethlehem): Departure from accommodation. Need to take taxi to Gilo Checkpoint (to go to Jerusalem). A lot of taxis go past me. They are all full. -5.50: […]

By Uri Avnery I spent the whole day flipping between the Israeli channels and Aljazeera. It was an eerie experience: in a fraction of a second I could switch between two worlds, but all the […]

By Alberto Cruz Lebanon, thanks to Hizbollah, is breaking moulds in the Middle East. After Hizbollah’s defeat of Israel in the war of the summer of 2006, it has again humiliated the Zionist State by […]

By Neve Gordon  "Jerusalem bulldozer ‘terrorist’ kills 3 in rampage," read the headline of a CNN article describing the recent attack of a Palestinian construction worker that left three Israelis dead and scores wounded. A […]

By Iqbal Tamimi One of today’s main articles on the Guardian reads ‘Israel exchanges Lebanese murderer for bodies of two captured soldiers’. When anyone in the English reading world sees this title and what follows […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London "The real Zionist vision does not recognise any maps. It is a vision of a state without borders – a state that expands at all times according to its demographic, […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Post-9/11, torture has been official US policy under George Bush – authorized at the highest levels of government. Evidence of its systematic practice continues to surface. First some background. On […]

By James Petras "Inflation is here big time", Charles Holliday CEO, Du Pont. June 24, 2008 "The sustained rise in the price of oil and commodities has hammered industries…and deepened fears of global inflationary spiral […]

By Gaither Stewart – Rome “With Russia it’s always like that,” writes contemporary Russia’s most read author, Viktor Pelevin. “You admire it and you cry, but when you look at what you admire up close, […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai Few issues have exercised me as much as the conflict in Darfur has. One hates to blow one’s trumpet but I have the dubious distinction of being the first […]

By Robert Weitzel – Madison, WI “If I had a world of my own . . . nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, […]

By Michel Cousins – Madrid “I never expected anything like it” was the comment of one Pakistani Muslim attending the World Conference on Dialogue organised by the Muslim World League and hosted by Custodian of […]

By Stephen Lendman Fresh water is precious everywhere but especially in one of the driest, hottest places on earth – the Middle East. It’s why it’s a strategic resource and the reason countries like Israel […]

By Joharah Baker When Barak Obama first appeared as a presidential candidate, it was as if a tiny breath of fresh air had swept across America, making its way over the Atlantic and into the […]

By Sean Brennan The Gaza Ghetto We remember, work sets you free,From the holocaust, and scream.Breaking our concrete bonds,We munch our way towards Pharaoh.Clawing at clay,To fashion our freedom,We escape Zion’s den.‘Bent double, like old […]

On Adva Center’s Report: The Cost of Occupation: The Burden of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (June 2008). By Khalil Nakhleh Prologue (1) This report was produced by Adva Center in Tel Aviv and authored by a […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan While attending the French sponsored Union for the Mediterranean conference, the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, was quoted by BBC saying “the two parties, Israel and the Palestinians, are […]

By Hiyam Noir – Gaza We are walking through the narrow streets and alleys in Jablyia refuge camp, suddenly we make a stop, we stand outside a house full of life and works crowded of art, […]