By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai After the assassination of former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto, her son Bilawal quoted her as saying: “Democracy is the best revenge.” Watching Asif Zardari step into General Pervez Musharraf’s […]

By Ramzy Baroud The series of unfortunate and costly decisions made during the two terms of the Bush administration, combined with economic decline at home, might devastate the US’s world standing much sooner than most […]

By Vijaya Rajiva In early September, 2008,  a group of Palestinian  intellectuals, businesspeople, and academics called The Palestine Study Group presented a Report of their long deliberations entitled Palestinian Strategic Options to End Israeli Occupation.(1). […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai A friend and fellow Indian keeps warning me to lay off India and sub-continent issues. My friend, who has made a lifelong mission of speaking up for the voiceless […]

By Sam Bahour – The West Bank  Palestinians have been historically outmaneuvered, politically neutralized, and made totally dependent on international handouts. Or have they? A newly released Palestinian strategy document which outlines strategic political options […]

By Joharah Baker – The West Bank Every year Palestinians along with the wider Muslim world, observe the Islamic month of fasting, Ramadan. This year, according to the lunar calendar, Ramadan began on September 1, […]

By Alain Gresh – Paris President Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit to Damascus this month confirms the failure of his policy of isolating the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. That policy began at the end of 2004, […]

By Cesar Chelala, New York During her visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Israel to stop expanding settlements on occupied Palestinian territory. Hours before, a new report […]

By Osama Dawoud – Gaza Not many people in the Gaza Strip spend their time thinking about Utah’s Great Salt Lake. I have been dreaming of it for months. This year, I was awarded a […]

By Stephen Lendman, Chicago Renamed and back, but first a personal note. Post-Katrina, writing about "The New Orleans Aftermath and (its) Ugly Glimpse of the Future" turned this retiree into a writer and radio host. […]

By Rawan Yousef Salah, Nablus, The West Bank Finally, it was time for departure. The trip supervisor finished checking the students’ list on the bus. The driver closed the door, and the bus moved slowly […]

By Zohar Shechtman, Hulon, Israel I am driving; the road is quiet. I turn the radio on and a familiar song is playing. He liked this song, liked it a lot… I remember that ever […]

By Joel Gulledge I left my home in the United States to spend the summer in the West Bank, where I was attacked by Israeli settlers late last month. As a member of the Christian […]

By Zohair M. Abu Shaban – Gaza As a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, I could not have been more proud to learn last June that I had earned a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to study […]

By Robert Weitzel – Madison, WI "If I were a Jew, I would be a Zionist. I am a Zionist. You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist." – Senator Joseph Biden Considering […]

By Wassim Al-Adel – London  While boycott and divestment campaigns in the West become more sophisticated and widespread, the Arab world’s longstanding boycott of Israel is being undermined by Arab governments, companies and businessmen. This […]

By Uri Avnery "If he steals my cow, that is bad. If I steal his cow, that is good" — this moral rule was attributed by European racists to the Hottentots, an ancient tribe in […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Prior to entering WW II, US strategists had a clear aim in mind at its conclusion – to hold unchallengeable power in a new post-war global system: military, economic and […]