By Tariq Ali It is Year 6 of the UN-backed NATO occupation of Afghanistan, a joint US/EU mission. On 26 February there was an attempted assassination of Dick Cheney by Taliban suicide bombers while he […]

By Aluf Benn and Shmuel Rosner A well-worn joke about former secretary of state Colin Powell’s mission to Ramallah and Jerusalem in 2002 that began with an attempt to achieve a cease-fire and ended in […]

CAIRO – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asserted Monday, February 26, that factions whose candidates will assume posts in the incoming national unity government are not required to abide by the cabinet’s stances. "The government is […]

By Rory McCarthy JERUSALEM – A UN human rights investigator has likened Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories to apartheid South Africa and says there should be "serious consideration" over bringing the occupation to the […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com While media attention has been focused on the U.S. quagmire in Iraq, an equally failed war in Afghanistan has received little coverage. As in countless militaristic U.S. nation–building fiascos, “mission creep” in […]

By Benita Ferrero-Waldner  Two years ago, Israel and the European Union decided to upgrade their relations through a comprehensive joint action plan, in the framework of the European Neighborhood Policy. While up to then, EU-Israel […]

By Akiva Eldar The United States has requested that Israel refrain from even sending out feelers to assess Syria’s negotiating proposals, Ze’ev Schiff reported in Haaretz Friday. "Exploratory talks," Condoleezza Rice explained during her recent […]

NABLUS, West Bank – A Palestinian man was shot dead as the Israeli army continued their crackdown in the West Bank city of Nablus. The largest Israeli raid in the West Bank for months entered its second […]

By Bernard Sabella   We Palestinians have grown accustomed to complain and there are a myriad of reasons why we should continue on this course. Yet, the challenges we are facing at present and the opportunities […]

By Uri Avnery  PalestineChronicle.com "WE ARE ready for the next war," a reserve soldier told a TV reporter this week, on the scene of a brigade-size maneuver on the Golan Heights. What war? Against whom? About […]

By Jonathan J. BeanPalestineChronicle.com William Wilberforce is one of the great forgotten men of history. But, all that is about to change as America marks Black History Month with Amazing Grace, the remarkable new film […]

By Jonathan Cook The scene: a military checkpoint deep in Palestinian territory in the West Bank. A tall, thin elderly man, walking stick in hand, makes a detour past the line of Palestinians, many of […]

By Stephen LendmanPalestineChronicle.com Hugo Chavez Frias was reelected by an overwhelming nearly two to one margin over his only serious rival on December 3, 2006 giving him a mandate to proceed with his agenda to […]

By Kathy KellyPalestineChronicle.com This past Tuesday, in Fairbanks, Alaska, nine people entered the office of Senator Ted Stevens to deliver their "emphatic request" that the Senator vote against supplemental funding for the war and then […]

By Remi KanaziPalestineChronicle.com There may have been a period when all roads led to Rome, but for the Palestinian people, all roads lead to checkpoints. The latest checkpoint Palestinians find themselves at is not manned […]

By Ira GluntsPalestineChronicle.com Despite the grand and hopeful proclamations of Condoleezza Rice [1] in which she pledged a major US commitment to promoting a two-state solution in the region, the real reason for her visit […]

By Stephen LendmanPalestineChronicle.com Hugo Chavez Frias gained an Ecuadoran ally last November when voters rejected Washington’s choice and the country’s richest man and elected Raphael Correa its President by an impressive margin.  Correa is a […]

By Ivan ElandPalestineChronicle.com As President Bush continues his Nixonesque policy of “exiting” Iraq by escalation and intimidation, both Republican and Democratic politicians are also imitating the Vietnam-era rhetoric of blaming the citizens of the chaotic […]

By Ramzy BaroudPalestineChronicle.com The configuration of the New Middle East — as envisaged by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the Israeli war against Lebanon in July-August 2006, most certainly has no place for […]

By Nicola Nasser PalestineChronicle.com Instead of building a diplomatic momentum on the political breakthrough mediated by their Saudi Arabian ally who succeeded in developing an Arab and Palestinian consensus on going along with the U.S.-steered […]

By Joharah Baker  Political developments are speeding up in the Palestinian arena, and this time, seemingly in the right direction. The Hamas-led government and the Fateh-led presidency have finally put down their guns and are […]

Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author and foreign policy expert. On February 9, Michael Shank interviewed him on the latest developments in US policy toward Iran, Iraq, North Korea and Venezuela. 02/21/07 "FPIF" — […]

By Mike Whitney PalestineChronicle.com "The US economy is in danger of a recession that will prove unusually long and severe. By any measure it is in far worse shape than in 2001-02 and the unraveling […]

By James Zogby If the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had wanted to make a real contribution to enhancing future prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian peace, she would not be spending her time in the […]

By Gidi Greenstein Israel has put itself in two kinds of a catch-22 situation in its relationship with the Palestinians. The first one has to do with the question of partner: it was decided not to […]

 JERUSALEM – A summit between Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, and Palestinian leaders in Jerusalem in a bid to re-start the Middle East peace process has ended without progress. Rice met with Ehud Olmert, the […]

By Ron Jacobs In the territories of Palestine, an internecine war ebbs and flows between the factions that represent he Palestinians. Simultaneously, the military forces of Tel Aviv wage their own battle against the Palestinian […]

By Professor James PetrasFor PalestineChronicle.com Introduction: The imperial system is much more complex than what is commonly referred to as the “US Empire”. The US Empire, with its vast network of financial investments, military bases, […]

By Philip RizkPalestineChronicle.com I spent my 25th birthday in Jabalya, Gaza’s biggest refugee camp. I have known Jamal, a taxi driver in Gaza, for almost two years. I could only protest so many times at […]

By Avi Issacharoff Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni met Saturday evening with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Jerusalem ahead of a trilateral summit with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas scheduled for Monday. Rice […]