By Remi Kanazi  I can’t lie. I’ve watched Iraqi journalist Montather Al-Zaidi whip those two shoes past George Bush’s head more times than I can count. I loved it; I even got into the corny […]

By Eva Bartlett – Gaza Leila pointed towards a lone tree and small house on a ridge above what appeared to be a vacant lot. "This was a great field," she said, "filled with lime, […]

By Najwa Sheikh Ahmed – Gaza Home for all of us is the place where we can find peace, comfort, and love, it is where we find passion, and warmth, no matter where we are […]

By Ghassan Khatib – The West Bank The recent settler violence in Hebron, which was described by Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, as a pogrom, brought to the attention of Israelis and Palestinians the […]

By Franklin Lamb – Beirut Truth be told, this observer, along with one suspects plenty of others, was miffed at Hezbollah this past Wednesday morning. As I looked up at sunrise at Sammin Mountain above […]

By Mats Svensson – Jerusalem It is Wednesday afternoon on the 5th November. I woke up this morning and was happy. The man who repeatedly exclaimed “Change” and “Yes we can” had done the impossible, […]

By Remi Kanazi In the United States, a growing number of leftists are voicing their opposition to the Israeli occupation. They condemn the demolition of homes, the jailing of Palestinians without charge, and the confiscation […]

By Eyad El-Sarraj – Gaza From my home in the Gaza Strip, I followed the American election season with interest. Many times I heard the personal stories of Americans without access to healthcare and the […]

By Nadia W. Awad – The West Bank The Damascus-based exiled leader of Hamas, Khaled Mesh’al, announced on December 14 that Hamas would not be renewing its ceasefire with Israel. At the same time, Mahmoud […]

By John Chuckman Since leaving the shaded groves of Harvard a few years ago, seeking as his second career the running of a country, Michael Ignatieff has been a prominent politician in Canada. He didn’t […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London Members of the European Parliament recently took a critical view of proposals to upgrade the EU-Israel Association Agreement and put down amendments designed to toughen up the conditions. "It’s time […]

By Jim Miles Bad Money – Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism.  Kevin Phillips. Viking (Penguin), New York, 2008. If it was not obvious when Kevin Phillips’ new work “Bad Money” […]

By Dr. Nancy Murray  "When I see 1.4 million trapped in a situation of collective punishment, without rights, I have to raise that, and I will go on raising it."  These are the words of Mary […]

By Ramzy Baroud The United States, Russia and China are sending a terrible message to the rest of the world by refusing to take part in the historic signing of a treaty that bans the […]

By Steve Conn While liberals wring their hands in despair over the Obama’s revisions to his campaign promises, the President-elect is doing exactly what Roosevelt did when challenged by third party candidates and political independents. […]

By Mustafa Barghouti As many speculate about Obama’s future policies in the Middle East, the general Arab reaction is wait-and-see. The new president will likely face a barrage of problems, the economy and Iraq for […]

By Saleh Al-Naemi – Occupied Jerusalem Israeli-Arabs are reacting with outrage with Foreign Minister and frontrunner for premiership Tzipi Livni’s call for Arab citizens to leave Israel and move into the new Palestinian state. "Israeli-Arabs […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai This is perhaps the only spectacle of its kind on the planet; the sea of humanity constantly surging, swirling and revolving around a square majestic structure. This ritual has […]

By Dr. Terry Lacey – Jakarta While U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicholas Sarkozy are pushing for a united front on an aggressive EU economic stimulus and recovery package, Commission President Jose […]

By Ed Kinane "The assembly of Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, Susan Rice and Joe Biden is a kettle of hawks with a proven track record of support for the Iraq war, militaristic intervention, neoliberal economic […]

By Osama Al-Sharif – Amman It’s bailout time! As the world economic crisis worsens, banks, mortgage companies, auto giants and other troubled businesses are desperate for government intervention. Multi-billion dollar stimulus packages have already been […]

By Daniel Barenboim – New York The sovereign independent republic of the West-Eastern Divan, as I like to call the orchestra I founded with Edward Said to promote dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians, began as […]

By Cynthia McKinney Today (November 23rd) I was slated to give remarks in Damascus, Syria at a Conference being held to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and, sadly, the […]