By Jim Miles In Mortal Hands – A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age. Stephanie Cooke. Bloomsbury, New York, 2009. In an era when the corporate media and the corporate politicians and the corporate military […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai A strange thing happened this week. Hundreds of villagers in Pakistan’s Northwest turned on Taliban fighters after a suicide attack on a mosque killed more than 40 worshippers during […]

By Neve Gordon Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is beginning to sweat.  Notwithstanding the agreement between President Barack Obama and Netanyahu on issues such as the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and the […]

By Franklin Lamb – Dahiyeh, Beirut "I will try to get you off the US Terrorism list if you can arrange a meeting for me with Hassan Nasrallah." – Jimmy Carter reportedly joking to Mohammad Hussein […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Following Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) documented the toll on Gaza’s children and published it in May. It did so "in response to the […]

By Rannie Amiri The results of Lebanon’s June 7 parliamentary elections are in. And defying expectations, the U.S., Israel, and Saudi-backed "March 14" Alliance managed to maintain its majority in the Chamber of Deputies and […]

By George S. Hishmeh Whatever one may think of Barack Hussein Obama’s speech in Cairo last week, no doubt it was historic and unprecedented for an American president who, by any measure, was eloquent, charismatic […]

Terry Lacey – Jakarta Indonesia has no diplomatic relations with Israel but a delegation of six Israelis just visited the country including Latif Dori, a leading figure in the leftist Mapam Party and Amira Hass, […]

By Ramzy Baroud If great oratory is a prerequisite to peace, justice, and human rights, then President Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo, on June 4, shall be enough to cure every ill afflicting every Muslim […]

By Ramzy Baroud His room is ready; the walls have fresh paint and my kids prepared a basket of chocolates and other treats to place beside his bed. They hung a poster on his door […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London What does it take for Britain’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to get the message? Having been deeply humiliated in the Euro elections and local government elections, he hangs on by […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The decision to prosecute 12 Israeli Arabs over what the local media have described as the “lynching” of an Israeli soldier on a bus shortly after he shot dead the […]

By Kevin Gosztola Obama’s speech to Muslims, which he made during his trip to the Middle East last week, may have seemed like it was made to show America shares "principles of justice and progress, tolerance […]

By Franklin Lamb – Hezbollah Election HQ, Dahiyeh Hundreds of Muazzen called believers to Lebanon’s Mosques at 3:35 AM this morning for the Al Fajr (the Dawn) prayer. The haunting and beautiful strains of  "Allahu Akbar", […]

By Jonathan Cook – Misgav A community in northern Israel has changed its bylaws to demand that new residents pledge support for "Zionism, Jewish heritage and settlement of the land" in a thinly veiled attempt […]

By William A. Cook Consider the potential consequences of Obama’s speech in Cairo last week. Set aside the complaint that he offered no actions to correct the crisis; ignore the fact that he did not […]

By Stu Harrison "We don’t live in the territories, we cannot throw stones and we cannot participate in the legitimate resistance against occupation", Haneen Zoabi, a Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament) told Green […]

By Mike Severson How much of the wrong done to the Palestinians and in a larger context, Muslims, can be excused by Barak Obama’s address to the Islamic world? The speech offered a wish to […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago As well as anyone, Edward Said understood the West’s long-standing antipathy to Islam – reflected in Samuel Huntington’s "The Clash of Civilizations" article in the summer 1993 issue of Foreign […]

By Belen Fernandez A June 1 article on the Haaretz website entitled “Israeli diplomats told to take offensive in PR war against Iran” details the role of Israeli embassies and consulates in preparing for the […]

By Jennifer Loewenstein Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama have one thing very much in common: both of them have nearly the same vision for the future of “Palestine”. They may not recognize it yet, but […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel One man spoke to the world, and the world listened. He walked onto the stage in Cairo, alone, without hosts and without aides, and delivered a sermon to an audience […]