By Saeb Erekat In his article entitled ‘Till September: The PA’s Meaningless Deadlines’, dated February 26, Ramzy Baroud fails to present the real picture of the Palestinian situation today. Characterizing the Palestinian leadership as a ‘‘self […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Last week the Guardian, Britain’s main liberal newspaper, ran an exclusive report on the belated confessions of an Iraqi exile, Rafeed al-Janabi, codenamed ‘Curveball’ by the CIA. Eight years ago, Janabi […]

By Steve Breyman Dear 112th Congress: You are surely as inspired by events in Cairo, Tunis, and Benghazi as the rest of us. And you are surely as distressed by events in Afghanistan, Iraq, and […]

By Mohamed El Moktar The momentum of the current events is amazingly bewildering; it is all the more so when the contagion is spreading at a never-before-seen pace conferring a historical dimension to the unfolding […]

By Mamoon Alabbasi – London Just before the Arab revolt erupted across the region there was much talk about how minorities in the Middle East we being mistreated. Of course such concerns were not unfounded, […]

By John Pilger Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers who prepared the President’s daily intelligence brief. McGovern was at the apex […]

By Uri Avnery ‘Why don’t the masses stream to the square here, too, and throw Bibi out?’ my taxi driver exclaimed when we were passing Rabin Square. The wide expanse was almost empty, with only […]

By Stephen Lendman In December 2010, the Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel published a study titled, Inequality Report: The Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel, saying: Affecting Jews as well, it takes […]

By Ira Glunts (The Goldstone Report: The Legacy Of The Landmark Investigation Of The Gaza Conflict edited by Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, and Philip Weiss; foreword by Desmond Tutu, introduction by Naomi Klein, Nation Books, […]

By James Petras In the midst of the Arab uprisings throughout the Middle East, at a time when even the European (EU) has publically condemned Israel’s blockade of Gaza and its illegal land seizures in […]

By Ramzy Baroud Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his supporters in the Fatah party want us to believe that dramatic changes are underway in the occupied Palestinian territories. This is part of a strategy […]

By George S. Hishmeh – Washington, D.C. Is Barack Obama, who is marking his mid-term as president, any different from his predecessors, except Dwight Eisenhower, as far as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is concerned? There had been high […]

By Ali Younes The one thing clear about the Libyan people’s revolt against the dictatorial rule of Mummar Qaddafi is the absence of any resemblance of something called the Libyan government. The murder of scores […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Israel has been indulging in a sustained bout of fear-mongering since the Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak was toppled earlier this month. The ostensible aim has been to warn the international community […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London Hang you head in shame, O Peace Prize laureate. The Nobel award, said Barack Obama at the time, was ‘an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by […]

By Jim Miles In its Fortieth Anniversary special issue, Foreign Policy magazine (now owned by the Washington Post) presents a series of articles titled ‘Unconventional Wisdom.’ According to the editor’s letter, Foreign Policy endeavours “to […]

By Dallas Darling When President Barack Obama warned Palestinians they would face ‘repercussions’ if they voted against more Israeli settlement expansion at a United Nations Security Council meeting, even ‘demanding’ such democratic activity be stopped, […]

By Steve Breyman She couldn’t resist adding her voice to the current discussion over the Arab uprisings. As the popular revolt in Egypt drove Hosni Mubarak from power, former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice lamented […]