By Johnny Barber – Gaza On Sunday it was reported that a young boy had been shot on farmland near the Rafah crossing. The details were unclear. Several colleagues and I traveled to Rafah to […]

By Richard Lightbown On 11 March a French soldier was shot dead in Toulouse by a lone gunman who escaped on a scooter. On 15 March two more soldiers were shot dead were shot in […]

By Ramzy Baroud The Afghans are a proud people with a long and formidable history of resistance to foreign occupation. The fact that they have always prevailed, however, should not distract from the horror they […]

By Neve Gordon Recent raids on Gaza were not just about allocating more money to defense – they were also about war with Iran. In response to the recent assassination of Zuhair al-Qaisi, the Secretary […]

Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal (James Petras, The Arab Revolt and the Imperialist Counterattack, Clarity Press, Atlanta 2012, 130 pp. $ 16.95.) ‘Under the Clinton regime, US militarized imperialism in Africa took off’, writes James Petras, […]

By Mamoon Alabbasi – London There is no doubt that the thirty-minute video ‘Kony 2012’ by the advocacy group Invisible Children has raised much awareness regarding the relatively under-reported atrocities committed by the Ugandan rebel […]

By Stuart Littlewood UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has worked himself into a lather over Iran’s blocking of a Foreign Office website. He says: ‘I condemn this action by the Iranian Government. UK for Iranians’ was […]

By Roger Sheety The recent killing of 25 Palestinians in Gaza and the wounding of at least 80 more within four days—March 9-12—requires some context as the majority of western mainstream media outlets are either […]

By Stuart Reigeluth Sporadic violence in Gaza is a way for Israel to test its latest military gadgets. As depicted last week in a very real way, Gaza is a large petri dish for Israeli […]

By Deepak Tripathi First the video of United States Marines urinating on bodies of Afghans who had been killed. Then the revelation that copies of the Quran had been burned at Bagram Air Base, which […]

By Gulamhusein A. Abba The hysteria over Iran’s nuclear capabilities having reached such a stage as to call for immediate bombing of its nuclear facilities is deliberately and insidiously being whipped up by Israel to […]

By Johnny Barber – Gaza I have read several accounts over the last few days of how life in Southern Israel has become unbearable for the people living there. In retaliation for the latest provocation […]

By Samah Sabawi (Full Transcript. Excerpts from this speech were presented at the University of Sydney Australia during Israeli Apartheid Week 2012.) I would like to talk about normalization. I found the best definition of […]

By the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers In Afghanistan, the tragic Kandahar killing spree has prompted renewed talk about the proposed U.S. Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement. At stake in these discussions is the security of Afghanistan, […]

By Frank Barat ‘I will support Israel whatever the cost,’ recently said Stephen Harper, Canadian Prime Minister. When it comes to Israel, Mr Harper could not be more clear. He is not hiding behind pragmatic […]

By Uri Avnery ‘What have you learned in school today, my son?’ ‘There was no school today. There is an emergency!’ ‘And what have you learned from that, my son?’ Actually, quite a lot. This […]

[From the point of view of Rachel Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) killed day by an Israeli army bulldozer.] By Zahra Pilavdzic First they came for the landripping roots like teethfrom the […]

By James Petras and Robin Eastman Abaya  From March 4th to March 9th, 2012, 13,000 militant Israel Firsters, took over “political Washington”[1] and imposed a foreign regime’s (Israel) political agenda to the rousing applause and appreciation […]