By Mike WhitneyPalestineChronicle.com “There is no solution. We’ve destroyed Iraq and we’ve destroyed the region, and Americans need to know this.” Nir Rosen; interview with Amy Goodman, “Democracy Now”   Let’s assume for a moment, that […]

Reviewed by Jim MilesPalestineChronicle.com Naked Imperialism – The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance.  John Bellamy Foster.  Monthly Review Press.  New York, 2006. With a clear majority of the American people not supporting the war in […]

By Norman Solomon PalestineChronicle.com We often hear that the Pentagon exists to defend our freedoms. But the Pentagon is moving against press freedom. Not long ago, journalist Sarah Olson received a subpoena to testify next […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com I opened my eyes to the sound of my children, so innocently unaware of what had befallen their father: "is Daddy going to die?" asked one, in a voice engulfed with a […]

By Dr. Daud Abduallah PalestineChronicle.com This is arguably the most pressing need across the Middle East today. The lack of political dialogue and addiction to force continues to have dreadful consequences throughout the region. After […]

By Uri AvneryPalestineChronicle.com Mahatma Gandhi would have loved it. Nelson Mandela would have saluted. Martin Luther King would have been the most excited – it would have reminded him of the old days. Yesterday, a […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com President George W. Bush’s paradoxical “new strategy” in Iraq is doomed by its own contradictions as much as by Iraqi and regional paradoxes and would in no time prove that the U.S. president’s […]

By Felicity ArbuthnotPalestineChronicle.com “You angels, Pure ones, Liberators, Leaders …At this moment all I ask of you is a miracle, Just for you to know how to say Goodbye, GOODBYE, Just a miracle : a Goodbye.” […]

By Remi KanaziPalestineChronicle.com For years the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been mired by a series of failed peace negotiation, enmeshing Israeli Jews and Palestinians in a seemingly intractable struggle. Even 59 years after the creation of […]

By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com So I guess we know what the buzz is going to be for the next, ah, year or so. It looks like Barack Obama, the rookie Senator from Illinois, is going to […]

By Ahmed AmrPalestineChronicle.com You can read all about the nasty business of washing war crimes at the Washington Post. They start with fixing the headline. “Death in Haditha”  – not ‘mass murder in Haditha’ or […]

By John Pilger A genocide is engulfing the people of Gaza while a silence engulfs its bystanders. "Some 1.4 million people, mostly children, are piled up in one of the most densely populated regions of […]

By Liam Bailey PalestineChronicle.com Prominent Israeli academic and author Ilan Pape is openly critical of Israel. In his latest article, he called Israel’s policies in the West Bank ethnic cleansing and felt safe to call […]

By Jonathan Cook When I published my book Blood and Religion last year, I sought not only to explain what lay behind Israeli policies since the failed Camp David negotiations nearly seven years ago, including […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com Amid the anticipation and strange secrecy regarding the day of Sadaam Hussein’s execution, images of his lifeless body after his hanging flooded internet, the world media seemingly and conveniently forgot the tenants […]

By Ramzy Baroud PalestineChronicle.com US President George W Bush’s new war strategy due to be officially announced on Wednesday, which will likely meet an uphill battle at the now Democrat-controlled Congress, is a slap in […]

By Hisham Abu Taha  GAZA CITY – Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh yesterday called on rival groups to work to prevent internal violence from exploding into an all-out civil war. “We stress the necessity of […]

By Kathy KellyPalestineChronicle.com Sr. Rose Leo, the principal of the grade school I attended, was also a talented musician who could have had a career as an opera singer. Three days a week, after school, […]

By Joharah Baker It is extremely difficult to wade through the endless expressions of violence, disunity and discord and uncover and appreciate those rare acts of sanity, which if nurtured, could ultimately be the answer […]

By Ghassan Khatib The Palestinian-Israeli conflict stands before an unprecedented crisis, and it would appear that Palestinians and Israelis, as well as other relevant parties to the conflict, are about to harvest the fruit of […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com President George W. Bush, contrary to the will of the American and Iraqi peoples and his own military commanders, seems ready to embark on a potentially disastrous escalation of the Iraq war, […]

By Nicola NasserPalestineChronicle.com Revealing both the double standards of U.S. policies and the propaganda-oriented Israeli advocacy of “minority rights” in the Arab world, the U.S.-allied Iraqi Kurdish and sectarian leaders reacted angrily to James Baker-Lee Hamilton […]

By Jonathan Cook There is an absurd scene in Palestinian writer Suad Amiry’s recent book “Sharon and My Mother-in-Law” that is revealing about Israeli Jews’ attitude to the two other monotheistic religions. In 1992, long […]

By Salim Lone*PalestineChronicle.com It was inevitable that the first head of state to be executed for crimes against humanity would be a Muslim – and that the execution would be under American occupation. Saddam Hussein’s […]

By Shulamit Aloni Jewish self-righteousness is taken for granted among ourselves to such an extent that we fail to see what’s right in front of our eyes. It’s simply inconceivable that the ultimate victims, the […]

By Gideon Levy Among the many obituary notices published by various groups after the death of Teddy Kollek, one group’s notice was conspicuous in its absence: the Yesha Council of Jewish Settlements. It is a […]

By Joshua FrankPalestineChronicle.com Now that the Democrats are back in power, the American public can finally exhale. Bush is doomed. Cheney is on the ropes. Condi is updating her résumé while Rove prepares his exodus. […]

By Rami AlmeghariPalestineChronicle.com “Bird Nicer was killed by unknown birds in the central countryside, while preaching that killing is prohibited in the Birds’ Shari’a (Law)”. In an imagined (but somehow very real) countryside there live […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com 2006 was yet another year of tribulations in the ever tumultuous Middle East. It defied all early expectations that 2005 would be the worst for many years to follow. It ended on […]

By Kathy KellyPalestineChronicle.com An Iraqi friend whom I’ve known for 10 years looked worn and very weary yesterday when he came to visit me at my apartment in Amman, Jordan. He hadn’t slept the night […]