By Hiyam Noir and Fady Adwan – Gaza The smuggling of goods through tunnels beneath the surface of Rafah in Gaza Strip continues, in the eighth day of the tattered ceasefire between the Palestinian armed […]

By Ira Glunts When the United States invaded Iraq in order to destroy a nonexistent nuclear threat there were national and world protests.  Opposition to that war was loudly voiced by American politicians and world […]

By Friends of Mohammed Omer – London Concerned citizens have asked the Israeli ambassador to the UK, Ron Prosor, to investigate reports that the young award-winning Palestinian journalist Mohammed Omer was brutally assaulted by Israeli […]

By Vijaya Rajiva Palestine, the last of the Liberation movements has a special place in the hearts and minds of the countries that were liberated in the 20th century. The newly liberated countries, India being […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The failure to achieve a two-state solution is a forgone conclusion because Israel has been allowed to flout the international laws with impunity. The Palestinians missed the last opportunity to establish […]

By James Petras Latin American development presents us with a rich array of paradoxes, which befuddle the predictions, prescriptions, and commentaries of writers and academics from the right and left.  Abrupt changes and shifts in […]

By Jonathan Cook In 1895 Theodor Herzl, Zionism’s chief prophet, confided in his diary that he did not favour sharing Palestine with the natives. Better, he wrote, to "try to spirit the penniless [Palestinian] population across […]

By Tariq A. Al-Maeena    President George Bush should be out of office in a matter of months. “The sooner, the better”, mutter those Americans who view his two terms as president of the United […]

On June 21, 2008  the author gave a 20-minute talk, followed by an hour-long Q and A period, to the Albuquerque Chapter of the United Nations Association.  The main subject was how the U.N. should […]

By Zoriah in Baghdad The above image is of a confiscated weapons cache housed inside of a US/Iraqi army base in Sadr City. Notice that there are no magazines in these weapons. As I was […]

By Kevin Zeese Ralph Nader criticized Senator Obama for failing to "take on the white establishment." Obama’s reaction was Nader is "delusional." Nader’s reaction was Obama is "illusional."   Obama and his supporters should listen to […]

By Morton Mecklosky MECKLOSKY: You’re listening to WUSB here at Stony Brook, and I have Francis A. Boyle, Professor of Law.  I just had Vincent Bugliosi on talking about his book, The Prosecution of George W. […]

By Saree Makdisi A cease-fire went into effect in Gaza last week, offering some respite from the violence that has killed hundreds of Palestinians and five Israelis in recent months. It will do nothing, however, […]

By Remi Kanazi I love Adam Sandler. From Billy Madison to Happy Gilmore to the Chanukah Song, the predecessor of the Superbad generation has effortlessly conquered the domain of slapstick comedy and inappropriate jokes. But […]

By Ron Taylor "White satin curtains flowed from the roof of the canopy, with attached golden sunflowers giving a most poignant backdrop as the sun sank slowly into the rocky, barren hills of Hebron …The […]

By Ramzy Baroud Whether Barack Obama is or, at one point, was a Muslim should be a trivial matter in any society governed by secular, democratic dictates that apply to all, on equal footage, regardless […]

By Bill Fletcher Jr. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict often inspires a sense of powerlessness. What can average Americans do to bring an end to this decades-old conflict when our leaders have failed so miserably? And what […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed in Dubai History, language and culture might separate Iran from the rest of the Middle East. But physically and geographically, the Arab world and Iran are very close — closer than they […]

By Joharah Baker No ceasefire can ever hold if it is constantly being nudged towards the edge of a precipice. For the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, designed to sustain for six months, it has taken less than […]

By Hiyam Noir In 1989, Shawan Jabarin 29 , a respected human rights field worker in the West Bank Al-Haq Human Rights organization, was nominated to the Reebok Human Rights Award, given to young people […]

By Jim Miles Superclass – The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making.  David Rothkopf.  Viking Canada, Penguin Group, Toronto.  2008 This book is written by a person with the right credentials to […]

By Frank Barat Frank Barat: Thanks for accepting this interview. Firstly I would like to ask if you are working on something at the moment that you would like to let us know about? Ilan […]

By Hiyam Noir and Fady Adwan in Gaza Amid all levels of infrastructural devastation in the Gaza Strip, many families are hit by increasing poverty, and many are forgotten, living absolute marginalized. In the heart […]