By Gilad Atzmon – London Back in 2003 I wrote, “If ‘world peace’ is our main concern, we must achieve a balance of power, we must let the oppressed people of this world have access […]

By Uri Avnery If you want to understand the policy of a country, look at the map – as Napoleon recommended. Anyone who wants to guess whether Israel and/or the United States are going to […]

By Kim Bullimore – The West Bank More than 40 years ago, the Argentinean-born Cuban Revolutionary, Ernesto Che Guevara wrote in his message to the Tricontinental that the "forgotten peoples" of the world – the […]

By Tariq A. Al-Maeena The Israeli government has been practicing and perfecting the art of ethnic cleansing since 1948 right under the nose of the world and no one has the power or the guts […]

By Ali Alarabi The indictment of Sudan’s president comes as a dangerous and unhelpful development on the issue of Darfur and the unfortunate victims in that troubled region of Sudan. The issue of Darfur is […]

By Ghassan Khatib There is consensus among Arab politicians and analysts that the past seven-and-a-half years of US President George W. Bush have been the worst period of US policy for the Middle East in history. […]

By Samah Sabawi (Based almost entirely on the story The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Anderson) Once upon a time, in a land called Occupied, there lived people who yearned to have a State […]

By Tim Buchholz Every day we seem to be inching more and more toward more war. According to Ali Akbar Dareini’s article in the AP, “Iran test-fired nine long and medium range missiles Wednesday during […]

By Naji Ali – San Francisco I wasn’t really surprised by the watchdog group Physicians for Human Rights-Israel’s (PHR-I) latest intervention to Israel’s health ministry, in which they accused Israeli doctors of complicity in the […]

By Rannie Amiri The English translation of the July 3rd headline in the respected Egyptian daily, Al-Masry Al-Youm (Today’s Egyptian) was long and cumbersome, yet unmistakable: “Ministry of Interior Calls Scholars to Train State Security […]

By Marc Gopin – Washington It is the innocent victims of war that break our hearts when nations and groups cannot lay down their arms. We watch them bleed, we watch them die on a […]

By Stephen Lendman Party conventions are less than two months off, and already rumors are circulating. When the Democrats hold theirs from August 25 – 28, Obama is the virtually sure nominee. According to some, […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed As the debate over India’s nuclear deal with the United States heats up, a totally new angle has been added to the controversy: Whether the deal is ‘anti-Muslim’ and if the […]

By Ramzy Baroud Most people would not have even realised that the 23rd congress of the Socialist International was being held near Athens were it not for the moment when Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak […]

By Roger Owen In the vast — and largely ideological — literature produced by the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, Britain’s responsibility for the events of 1948 is not often directly discussed, neither polemically nor from a more […]

By The Palestinian BDS National Committee On 9 July 2008, the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) launched a major new online resource for the campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. BDSmovement.net will bring […]

By Haidar Eid – Gaza On Monday 30 June, Gaza was abuzz with the sudden announcement that Egypt would open Rafah Crossing — the only gateway for 1.5 million Palestinians who have been imprisoned here […]

By Noam Chomsky  The deal just taking shape between Iraq’s Oil Ministry and four Western oil companies raises critical questions about the nature of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq — questions that should certainly […]

By Motasem Dalloul – Gaza Every day, dozens of children are seen on Gaza streets selling cigarettes, biscuits and mints in order to help their struggling families. (IOL Photo) Mohammed Selmi, 12, rushes from school to his […]

By Stephen Lendman Washington is currently negotiating two accords with the al-Maliki government to take effect after expiration of the UN’s military mandate on December 31. One agreement is for a long-term "strategic framework" to […]

By Samah Sabawi This poem is inspired by my beloved family in Gaza who have taught me that life always wins in the end. Children are born, weddings are celebrated and even in the bleakest […]

By Ramzy Baroud The world of journalism, like any other profession, can be muddled with a plethora of distractions, self-interests and agendas that certainly do not serve the cause of a free press. Outside as […]

By Uri Avnery It was just a passing conversation, but it has stuck in my memory. It was soon after the Six-Day War. I was coming out of the main hall of the Knesset, after making a […]

By William A. Cook Perception is often the stepchild of ignorance, especially when controlled by those with the most to gain. It is especially difficult for our Congress to perceive clearly when it grovels at […]

By Rannie Amiri "Differences among the Lebanese have reached the edge of suicide." – Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, in a meeting of the country’s Christian and Muslim religious leaders after renewed violence in the city […]