By James Petras On July 18, 2008 the New York Times published an article by Israeli-Jewish historian, Professor Benny Morris, advocating an Israeli nuclear-genocidal attack on Iran with the likelihood of killing 70 million Iranians […]

By Ben White Two reports released this week are throwing the spotlight on Palestinians who are detained without charge and tortured by the Hamas and Fatah forces. Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights group, has detailed […]

By Michelle J. Kinnucan On Thursday, August 21, 2008, one of the country’s wealthiest communities will celebrate the Nakba–the violent ethnic cleansing and colonization of Palestine in 1948–in a poor neighborhood in Detroit. And if […]

By Ralph Nader The Troy University Rosa Parks Museum is located on the side of the old Empire Theatre where this courageous African-American woman declined to “move to the back of the bus” in 1955. […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan I do not know how far the Israeli peace movement is ready to go in support of the Palestinians cause. But the movement is based on the assumption that a just […]

By Robert Higgs Many people deny that the U.S. government presides over a global empire. If you speak of U.S. imperialism, they will fancy that you must be a decrepit Marxist-Leninist who has recently awakened […]

By Ivan Eland The media, egged on by John McCain and his campaign, are going to twist the arm of Barack Obama until he cries “uncle” and admits the U.S. troop “surge” has worked in […]

By Kathy Kelly At 6:45 a.m. this morning, our friend, Joel Gulledge, called from At-Tuwani, a village in the West Bank where he and another Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) member were escorting Palestinian children to […]

By Dan Lieberman Yasser Arafat formed the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in an attempt to liberate the Palestinians from what he perceived as gross injustices and persecution. Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands and oppressive tactics […]

By Ghassan Khatib There seem to be two schools of thoughts among Palestinian politicians and analysts regarding the coming elections in the United States. Some, including President Mahmoud Abbas and the head of the negotiating […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago When it comes to observing US and international laws, treaties and norms, the Bush administration is a serial offender. Since 2001, it’s: — spurned efforts for nuclear disarmament to advance […]

By Nasser Lahham – Bethlehem Palestinian journalists and writers seem to have found it difficult to address the current trend of bulldozer attacks in Israel. The piece of construction equipment appears to have joined our […]

By Ramzy Baroud The crimes committed against innocent people in Darfur represent a shameful episode in the history of Sudan and its neighbours, including Chad, which has played a dubious role in sustaining the seething […]

By Kim Bullimore – The West Bank Dear Barack, I am not American, so I won’t be voting for you come the American presidential elections.  However, given that the US Administration has continued to ignore […]

By Paul Craig Roberts "On October 21 (1948) the Government of Israel took a decision that was to have a lasting and divisive effect on the rights and status of those Arabs who lived within […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago According to Israeli-based author and journalist Jonathan Cook, Halper’s book is "one of the most insightful analyses of the Occupation I’ve read. His voice cries out to be heard" on […]

By Uri Avnery In one of the most beautiful songs in the Bible, the poet vows: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, / Let my right hand forget her cunning. / If I do not […]

By Akram Salhab – The West Bank As I lead a delegation of UK students around the West Bank, I thought about how the trip was to benefit the Palestinian people. When they spend money, […]

An Excerpt from Red State Rebels: Tales of Grassroots Resistance in the Heartland (AK Press) By Joshua Frank You can go home again, but it might break your heart or turn your stomach. Even if […]

By Sukant Chandan – London Docu-dramas, documentary films and feature films are perhaps some of the most influential media by which we develop our political perceptions and prejudices. This has been recognised long ago and […]

By Kenneth Ring We are used to hearing about the hazards, often fatal, of being a journalist these days. Everyone is familiar with accounts of courageous Russian journalists who have been assassinated and of course with  […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Along with other past and present administration officials, Attorney General Michael Mukasey supports lawlessness and police state justice. Weeks after the Supreme Court’s landmark (June 12) Boumediene ruling, he addressed […]

By Joharah Baker Even Lewis Carroll would have a difficult time picking through the politics of Palestine and Israel. In Alice’s world, everything is upside down – cats that disappear and reappear at their own […]

By Ivan Eland – Washington After having begun a series of investigative stories criticizing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in May 2008, CNN reporter Drew Griffin reports being placed with more than a million other […]