Khaled Meshaal, the leader of Hamas’ political bureau, has confirmed that he intends to step down after eight years in the post, the Islamist movement has said. "Political bureau chief Khaled Meshaal has notified Hamas’ consultative […]
By Paul Craig Roberts Washington is moving the world toward a dangerous war. The Obama regime is using its Ministry of Propaganda, a.k.a., the American media, to spread the story that President Obama, Pentagon chief […]
By Ismail Salami – Tehran The temptation of attacking Iran long entertained by Washington and Israel is gradually crystallizing into a reality of fear and angst and has already become an alarmingly worrisome idea even […]
By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria, South Africa As the first month of 2012 ebbs away, a question dominating many conversations is whether war is still likely to break out in the Persian Gulf anytime soon. While […]
By Ludwig Watzal US-American and Israeli politicians and their neoconservative extremist friends in Western Europe and the United States do their very best to provoke the Iranian leadership to react irrationally against the different terrorist […]
Thailand has formally announced its recognition of Palestine as an independent state, making the Southeast Asian country the first country to recognize Palestine in 2012. The Palestinian Authority said on Thursday that the Palestinian delegation at […]
By Uri Avnery ‘Israel has no foreign policy, only a domestic policy,’ Henry Kissinger once remarked. This has probably been more or less true of every country since the advent of democracy. Yet in Israel, […]
By Paul Craig Roberts January 11 was the tenth anniversary of amerika’s Guantanamo torture prison. National Public Radio commemorated the anniversary by airing critics and defenders of Washington’s violation of US statutory law, the Geneva […]
By Philip Giraldi – CNI Defenders of the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, which declares the entire world to be a ‘battlefield’ against terrorism and authorizes the U.S. military to detain indefinitely anyone suspected […]
The Gaza government on Thursday vowed to find the perpetrators of an attack on a human rights activist who was stabbed in Gaza City. Mahmoud Abu Rahma was attacked by masked men and stabbed multiple […]
Head of the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has expressed concerns over Israel’s dismantlement of the Karni crossing in northeastern Gaza Strip. Valerie Amos said in a press conference at the UN Security Council on […]
European Union officials have called on the Israeli government to release Palestinian prisoners detained before the Oslo Accords, Israeli daily Maariv reported on Wednesday. The Hebrew language paper said that EU foreign policy chief Catherine […]
At least two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli ground and air attack north of the besieged Gaza Strip, medical sources reported. Three others were also wounded in the air raid in Beit Hanun, […]
By Eric Walberg – Cairo Scarcely a word is heard about foreign affairs amid US election talk, despite the many fires around the world that the US military is either stoking or trying to douse […]
By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The wheel is turning full circle. Last week the Israeli parliament updated a 59-year-old law originally intended to prevent hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees from returning to the homes […]
Interviewed by Yousef M. Aljamal (Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. […]
A French parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee report says Israel is practicing “apartheid policies” in distributing water resources in the West Bank. The report said that water has become "a weapon serving the new apartheid", blasting […]
Palestinian rights groups say masked Hamas police beat and detained members of the Gaza Strip’s tiny Shia Muslim community during a religious commemoration last week. It was the first claim of harassment by a group […]
By Ramzy Baroud Theodore MacDonald was too ill to attend the launch of his book, Preserving the United Nations; Our Best Hope for Mediating Human Rights. Less than three weeks later, on March 7, 2011, […]
By Graham Peebles Violence, abuse, non-accountability, hate, such is communal living today within the occupied West Bank, where some 518,974 colonisers sit within 200 illegal settlements. According to Noam Chomsky, "The settlements cover over 42% of […]
By Vacy Vlazna That an Australian Senate Complaints Committee will be holding a hearing in February on a complaint about the broadcaster SBS promoting antisemitism for its screening of Kosminsky’s The Promise is testimony to […]
By Yousef M. Aljamal, Gaza For the second week in row, the Center for Political Development Studies [CPDS] holds a video link on the role of Zionist lobby in US election. Ali Abunimah, the founder […]
The Palestinian Monetary Authority chief said Monday that Palestinian banks were safe from hackers as three Israeli banks and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange came under cyber attack. Jihad al-Wazir told Ma’an that Palestinian banks […]
"The Israeli occupation of Arab and Palestinian territories must end," Ban said during Reform and Transition to Democracy Conference held in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Sunday. He also urged an end to use of violence […]
By Clive Hambidge Habituation writes James Austin M.D ‘means that repeated stimuli yield a decreasing response.’ Conversely and importantly he goes on, ‘Sensitization implies that responses increase when stronger stimuli are repeated.’ For in this […]
By Ali Younes In town hall meeting during campaign stop in Greenville, South Carolina, last Saturday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said to me, in response to my questions, that he supports attacking Iran with […]
By Stuart Littlewood The British government gets hot under the collar at the very thought of Gaza smuggling anything in. So much so, that as Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza was coming to an end […]
Islamic Jihad leader Khalid al-Batsh said a PLO reform committee meeting in Amman on Sunday agreed to separate the PLO legislature from the PA parliament, in moves intended to make the organization more representative. Palestinian […]
Agents with Israel’s spy agency, Mossad, have posed as CIA agents in operations to recruit members of the Pakistani group Jundallah, according to a report in US-based Foreign Policy magazine. Using US dollars and passports, […]
Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah political group, has dismissed a United Nations call for his movement to disarm, saying it was determined to maintain a military capacity to defend Lebanon. A UN Security Council […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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