By Ramzy Baroud When it comes to Iraq, reporters appear intent on omitting or fabricating news. The latest battles in Basra, Iraq’s second largest city and a vital oil seaport, furnished ample instances of misleading […]

By Jim Miles The Three Trillion Dollar War – The True Costs of the Iraq Conflict. Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes. W.W. Norton & Company, N.Y. 2008. Following on their previous pronouncement that war costs […]

By Katherine Mukhar Piled into a Land Rover, three of us (me, my friend and his driver) began our trek from Jericho to Ramallah over one of the most hazardous roads I have ever been […]

By Gaither Stewart "When it is authentic believing is uncertain like existence." – (Nicola Chiaromonte, To Believe or Not To Believe.) Solidarity is the fundamental link that unites human beings. In every time and every […]

By Lasse Wilhelmson in Stockholm There is a debate currently taking place in Sweden concerning the national institute, Forum for Living History (FFLH). It was established by the social democrats when they were in power […]

By Ronnie Kasrils As a 10-year-old growing up in Johannesburg, I celebrated Israel’s birth, 60 years ago. I unquestionably accepted the dramatic accounts of so-called self-defensive actions against Arab violence, to secure the Jewish state. […]

By Najwa Sheikh In Gaza there is another taste of deprivation, poverty, and pain. A taste that no one can know except those who lived it and witnessed its harshness. A taste they know through […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi reminds one of those irrepressible Shakespearean wits.  The Bard employed them not only for necessary comic relief but also to offer his own commentary — steeped in old-fashioned […]

By William A. Cook There exists in the great satirists – Swift, Voltaire, and Twain – a profound respect for the human’s ultimate weapon against mass stupidity, the human intellect. That stupidity is exemplified in […]

By Kevin Zeese The seeds of the independent electoral movement are beginning to sprout and the Iraq occupation is likely to be its fertilizer. In 2004 there was only one significant challenger to the corporate […]

By Issa Samander Assad is a farmer from a small village near the northern West Bank town of Tulkarm. The family concern has done well over the years, producing some 12,500 liters of olive oil and […]

By Gaither Stewart in Buenos Aires A book by the dean of Argentine writers, the 96-year old Ernesto Sabato, bears the title, La Resistencia, though the word Resistance itself is used sparingly in his 150-page […]

By Ghassan Khatib There would appear to be two strands of interaction between Palestinians and Israelis in the current negotiations process. One deals with final status issues and involves the top political leadership on both […]

By Peter Chamberlin If it is true that the power belongs to the people in America, and Congress still answers to the people, then what force prevents the people from rising up to demand that […]

By Lenni Brenner According to the classic publishing world joke, Lincoln, doctors and dogs are always public favorites, so a book about Lincoln’s doctor’s dog would always be the best seller the year it came […]

By Joshua Frank "There sure as hell is a draft going on," the passenger sitting next to me said begrudgingly as the flight attendant handed him a ginger ale on our way in to Los […]

By Uri Avnery "Hey! Take your hands off me! Not you! You!!!"–the voice of a young woman in the darkened cinema, an old joke. "Hey! Take your hands off Tibet!" the international chorus is crying […]

By Judith Pugh in Melbourne Recently, the Federal Parliament of Australia passed a motion apologising to the indigenous people whose society was destroyed by the settler population. Many Australians were unaware that Mr Mark Liebler […]

By Salman Abu Sitta To Palestinians, as well as to an increasing number of people the world over, Al-Nakba represents the largest, longest, planned ethnic cleansing in modern history for which reason the title under […]

By Gaither Stewart Arab resurgence was born on the heels of European occupation of Arab lands in the 19th century as an anti-European, anti-imperialist struggle. However instead of Pan-Arabism the awakening spawned Pan-Islam, today reaching […]

By Jim Miles The Zoo on the Road to Nablus – A Story of Survival from the West Bank. Amelia Thomas. Public Affairs, New York, 2008. This tale from the West Bank operates at several […]