By Stephen Lendman Sami Al-Arian is a political prisoner in the US. Because of his faith, ethnicity and political activism, the Bush administration targeted Al-Arian for supporting "terrorism." In fact, he’s a Palestinian refugee, distinguished […]

By Ariadna Theokopoulos When I read the news releases about Magdi Allam’s Easter baptism by the Pope I immediately thought of the decline of the American economy. Granted, these days if you show me a […]

By William A. Cook Within days of the fifth anniversary of “Shock and Awe,” I received a solicitation from the Simon Wiesenthal Center to help “Combat Global Hate against the Jewish People.” Rabbi Marvin Heir, […]

By Uri Avnery  "War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men," in Talleyrand’s memorable words. In the same spirit, one could say: The American presidential elections are much too serious […]

By Jim Miles The new imperialists – Ideologies of Empire. Ed. Colin Mooers. Oneworld Publications, Oxford, England. 2006. The new imperialism is part a recognition that, yes, the United States is an imperial power as […]

By Najwa Sheikh It is Gaza again, with all its attractiveness, and its pain, with all its sad stories that break the heart, and bring the tears. Life in Gaza is a kind of adventure […]

By M. Burhanuddin Qasmi Fitna meaning mischief in Arabic is the name of Dutch right-wing MP Geert Wilders’ 15-minute film on the Qur’an which is already inducing paroxysms of rage before actually it is screened. […]

By Ramzy Baroud When Adm William J “Fox” Fallon was chosen to replace Gen John Abizaid as the Commander of the US Central Command (CENTCOM) in March 2007, many analysts didn’t shy away from reaching […]

By Mohamed el-Sawwaf in Gaza Palestinians who were detained in Egypt after crossing from the Gaza Strip accused Friday, March 21, Egyptian security forces of torturing and abusing them to get tips on the resistance […]

By Khalil Nakhleh I am not really certain when we started labeling what happened to our people and our country, following the establishment of the state of Israel, as "Al- Nakba". But this is not […]

By Joharah Baker “To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Sir Isaac Newton postulated his law of motion eons ago and today, it still rings true, not only in the laws of […]

By Ron Forthofer Robert Jackson, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice and the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials of Nazis, said: "To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; […]

By Iqbal Jassat in South Africa When does evidence mean general suppositions? Whenever so-called self-proclaimed “terror experts” seek to affirm an assumption that Islam can be characterized limitlessly by means of a handful of recklessly […]

By Tim Buchholz The Federal Reserve recently announced they would be releasing an additional $200 Billion into the market to help ease the credit crunch brought on by the sub-prime mortgage crisis. They are releasing […]

By Stephen Lendman John Dugard is The UN Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on Palestine and a rare public official. In January 2008, he assessed the situation in Occupied Palestine (OPT). It was detailed, inclusive […]

By Zoriah Photographing Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank is a difficult endeavor and one that requires a balancing act that is nearly impossible. On one hand, you must gain the trust of the IDF […]

By Vijay Rajiva Breaking All the Rules by Francis Boyle (Clarity Press, March 2008) This book, based on the Bertrand Russell Foundation Lectures at McMaster University, Canada by Dr. Francis Boyle lives up to the reputation […]

By Paul V. Rafferty Sometimes, Fiction can give us greater insight into Current Affairs than a collection of Facts. Anyone who has read Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather” or seen Francis Ford Coppola’s excellent film adaptations […]

By Suzanne Baroud "I am writing to let you know that in less than 2 hours the last turbine of the Gaza Strip’s only power plant will stop working. The fuel for the power plant […]

By Robert Fisk Five years on, and still we have not learnt. With each anniversary, the steps crumble beneath our feet, the stones ever more cracked, the sand ever finer. Five years of catastrophe in […]

By Najwa Sheikh in Gaza "I spoke with him a little, but when he sees me he begins to cry … the situation in Sderot in general is very difficult, and I do not know […]

By Robert Jensen It has long been a staple of the antiwar movement that there can be no meaningful peace without justice on a global scale. Those of us living in the First World, especially […]

By Joshua Frank It could have been the defining moment of the campaign season. But last weekend’s Iraq Winter Solider Hearings were not only ignored by the corporate press, they were also snubbed by the […]

By Joharah Baker Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recently gave the go-ahead for the construction of 750 new housing units in the West Bank settlement of Givat Zeev. The settlement, already monstrous, lies eight kilometers […]