By Stephen Lendman On November 4, the world exhaled. The age of George Bush ended, and a new one under Barak Obama began. With high hopes he’ll reverse the toxic legacy of the past eight […]

By Ramzy Baroud The sovereignty of an independent, stable country that has carried out many constructive moves in recent months and weeks, which could have surely contributed to the stabilization of the Middle East, has […]

By John V. Whitbeck In the first major appointment of his administration, President-elect Barack Obama has named as his chief of staff Congressman Rahm Emanuel, an Israeli citizen and Israeli army veteran whose father, according to […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Barack Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya swept to victory as the US first black president. Despite the long campaign, the mud slung, the ugly inferences and demeaning […]

By Mahmoud El-Yousseph After reading about Israel’s most recent Man of the Year Award recipient, I did not know whether to laugh or cry.  It looks like the judging panel at the Israeli television station […]

By Mazin Qumsiyeh – The West Bank As an immigrant who thrived in every way in the US for 29 years having arrived with nothing but my will to learn, I know that indeed anything […]

By Mamoon Alabbasi – London The life and works of the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish were celebrated in London Monday in a special event that paid tribute to the renowned Arab writer. The event, […]

By Joshua Frank Tuesday’s celebration hangovers have finally started to wear off, and the pieces are beginning to fall into place. Change will be coming to Washington in January, but it is difficult to decipher […]

By John Chuckman Already in the press there have been stories of plans to dampen the public’s expectations of Obama. The expectations are undoubtedly beyond being satisfied by any human being. Obama’s bright face, a […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai At the height of the Asian financial crisis and meltdown of Russia in 1990s, a pundit said that Boris Yeltsin went to bed drunk and Brazil woke up with […]

(An open letter to President-Elect Barack Obama) Dear Mr. President-Elect, Barack Obama, First of all, let me convey my heartiest congratulation to you on your election as the President of the United States of America. […]

By Nadia W. Awad – The West Bank  After two years of campaigning, debating and fund-raising, the US presidential elections are finally over. And after probably his first decent night’s sleep in two years, President-Elect […]

By Ghassan Khatib – The West Bank The domestic Israeli political scene and balance of powers have a very strong effect on the peace process and the domestic Palestinian scene. The Israeli balance of power is […]

By James Petras Introduction The role of the mass media (MM) in influencing mass and class behavior has been a central concern among critical writers, especially since the turn of the Twentieth century. Debates and studies on […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London It’s time to register Friends of Israel as an agent of a foreign power The corridors of power at Westminster are swarming with Israel supporters even though the British public […]

By Ivan Eland The Russian military was clearly superior to that of a small country in its "near abroad" – Georgia -but is a "resurgent" Russia a threat to the United States? If the United […]

By IRIN News – Nahr al-Bared, Lebanon he picked plastics and paper off the rubble-filled conveyor belt, Issam Sayyed indicated to a white house behind him pock-marked with bullet holes and with its roof caved […]

By Gilad Atzmon – London Once again America has proven that it can bring a change about. In fact, I would not count on Obama himself to bring a real change, as we all remember, […]

By Ralph Nader Dear Senator Obama: In your nearly two-year presidential campaign, the words "hope and change," "change and hope" have been your trademark declarations. Yet there is an asymmetry between those objectives and your […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel In a day, it seems at the moment, the incredible will happen: the most important "white" country in the world will elect a black president. 143 years after the assassination […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai A fellow traveler, who has been religiously batting for Barack Obama, wrote in this week: "I think through divine intervention, good luck or whatever, Obama has it wrapped up. […]

By Ali Alarabi Is the McCain-Palin campaign getting desperate? Obviously they are and they are getting more than desperate with their ugly attacks on Palestinian American Colombia university professor Rashid Khalidi and his alleged new […]

By Nadia W. Awad – The West Bank After a month of haggling, Tzipi Livni, appointed to replace outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, announced this week that she has not been able to form […]

By Joharah Baker – The West Bank Sticker number six. That is what you should try to avoid at all costs when traveling out of Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport. For those uneducated in the […]

By Robert Weitzel "You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I’ll tell you what his ’pinions is." – Mark Twain Mark Twain once said “in matters concerning religion and politics a man’s reasoning […]