By Scott A. Hunt Many of my friends have told me that Barak Obama is the man to abandon the failed policies of the past and create peace in the Middle East. They say he […]

By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PHD Some one million Arab and Muslim Americans, including some in my own family, voted for Obama in the primaries. I was not one of them and I will likely vote for […]

By Omar Barghouti "The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet but not to make them die of hunger," said Dov Weisglass, Sharon’s closest advisor, a few years ago. Today, Israel is slowly […]

By Nicola Nasser For the first time since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in April 2003, the deputy of Saddam Hussein, the late President of Iraq, Izzat Ibrahim Addouri has resurfaced, despite a $10 million […]

By Dr. Elias Akleh Gaza has been turned into a ticking bomb ready to explode any day. This started with US/Israel/Abbas trio conspiracy, according to Vanity Fair magazine, to topple the democratically elected Hamas-led Palestinian […]

By Najwa Sheikh In Gaza every thing is the contrary of how it should be, with the summer hot days becoming so close, I found myself unable to cope with the idea of not going […]

"Mordechai Vanunu is an Israeli former nuclear technician who revealed details of Israel’s nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently kidnapped in Rome by Israeli agents and smuggled to Israel, […]

By Sherri Muzher Regardless of which side one supports in the Arab-Israel conflict, the 41 years since the Six Day War has been a disastrous period of time that has gone well beyond a chalk […]

By Joharah Baker  Since last June, stories of ill patients unable to leave the Gaza Strip, Israeli military invasions and fuel cuts have been streaming out of the coastal strip at a steady pace. The […]

By Stephen Lendman Each election cycle, hope springs eternal. Candidates promise change and voters buy it. Intelligent ones. People who know better or should. The current campaign highlights it. A surge is building for Obama, […]

By Gaither Stewart The United Nations High Commissioner For Human Rights, the Vatican and opposition parties recently criticized the recent decision of Italy’s newly elected rightwing government headed by Silvio Berlusconi and his neo-fascist allies […]

By Ralph Nader You are sixteen. You can legally work, drive a motor vehicle and with parental consent get married in most states. Why can’t you legally vote? Good question, and one that supporters for […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Forty-one years ago this week, Israel launched the 1967 war that lasted only six days but it has changed the politics and geography of the region for ever. It left Israel […]

By Remi Kanazi At what point does rhetoric stop and effective action begin? For Palestinians, decades of dialogue and supposed peace overtures have proved fruitless, only serving to protect the status quo: sixty years of […]

By Brian McAfee In the aftermath of a major natural disaster, the ongoing tragedy that is playing out in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) is unnecessary and criminal in nature. The military junta, that had initially […]

By Debbie Menon Another, ex-US Administration ‘disgruntled’ staff, in another book, ‘Tell-all’? Scott McClellan, none other but the White House Press Secretary for two years nine months in The Bush Administration, pleads innocent to participation […]

By Caelum Moffatt Last week, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad announced that the highly anticipated Palestine Investment Conference [PIC], held in Bethlehem between May 21-23, had raised $1.4 billion. The lavishly catered and grandiose spectacle […]

By Ghassan Khatib What little news is seeping out from the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli negotiations gives the impression that chances of reaching an agreement this year are small, even though 2008 has been described by the […]

By Stephen Lendman So says Heinz Dieterich Steffan – German sociologist, economist, political analyst and Hugo Chavez consultant who claims he coined the phrase "21st century socialism" in the mid-1990s. He currently teaches at the […]

By Iqbal Jassat Since the pages have turned in commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Nakba, do new headlines and reports covering stories other than Palestine suggest that its business as usual in Israel?  Indeed […]

By Nicola Nasser Firing home-made primitive rockets at Israeli targets from the Gaza Strip, the mass sweeping through the Palestinian – Egyptian border crossing of Rafah in January and the series of ongoing peaceful demonstrations […]

By Genevieve Cora Fraser He was my taxi driver In East Jerusalem So proud of his wife and children His home "Everyone knows me Write to me From America Just my name and East Jerusalem […]

By Rannie Amiri "Finally, you have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the ‘falling domino’ principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what […]

By Uri Avnery I cannot say that I ever liked Ehud Olmert. But now I almost feel sorry for him. It is not pleasant to see how they pounce on him, like jackals and hyenas […]