By Neve Gordon Eighteen-year-old Sahar Vardi is currently in an Israeli military prison. She is being punished for the crime of refusing to be conscripted into the Israeli military. A few weeks before her imprisonment […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London When Ron Prosor arrived in London last year to take up his post as Israeli ambassador he was eager to step up public relations. He told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz: […]

By Vijay Rajiva In a recent article on Palestinian political economy we are given a lucid and comprehensive account of neo liberal economic policy and the US-Israeli and European involvement in the process of integrating […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai You don’t have to be born in the West or be a Westerner to hate the Taleban. Most of us in the Middle East and the larger Muslim world […]

By John Chuckman McCain does a good job with the appearance of a boyishly honest man. He puts on his quiet voice and uses his boyish (albeit now partially fossilized) expressions and, reminding me of […]

By Ramzy Baroud To run a full marathon experts suggest that the aspiring athlete requires at least six months of rigorous training, proper gear, a particular diet, regular check-ups, mental focus and preparation, and a […]

By Ghassan Michel Rubeiz – New York Israelis are not united in supporting their government’s policies of a four-decade festering occupation of Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese territories. The occupation is costly, morally troubling and beyond […]

By Joharah Baker – The West Bank In what will probably be her last trip to the region in her capacity as US Secretary of State this week, Condoleezza Rice called Israel’s settlement activity in […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago The UN Convention against Torture defines the practice as: "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes […]

By Ivan Simic – Belgrade On August 25, 2008 the Federal Assembly of Russia unanimously voted to urge President Medvedev to recognise Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states. On the following day, President Medvedev […]

By Ali Alarabi  The candidacy of Senator Barrack Obama is a remarkable one by all accounts, from a historical perspective it is an unprecedented feat that an African American stands for the highest office in […]

By Jim Miles Racing the Enemy – Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan.  Tsuyoshi Hasegawa.  Belknap Press, Harvard University, 2005. The end of the Second World War with Japan is a story of the […]

By Saber Ahmad Jazbhay Plain in the sniperscopelittle more than fleshless than completely skeletala silhouettedefiantly heads acrossno man’s landwhena missile less thanan inchblows a hole in his chestand like a dead leafhe crumbles in a […]

By Ghassan Khatib Israel’s decision to release some 200 Palestinian prisoners as a "goodwill gesture" to President Mahmoud Abbas comes not long after the exchange of prisoners and bodies, including many Palestinians, between Israel and Hizballah […]

By Huwaida Arraf – Gaza On Saturday, after 32 hours on the high seas, I sailed into the port of Gaza City with 45 other citizens from around the world in defiance of Israel’s blockade. […]

By Ralph Nader The “politics of avoidance” is receiving a great deal of media attention during this period of national political conventions. Unfortunately, the newspapers and television programs do not use the phrase: “the politics […]

By Rannie Amiri Many, many years later, the memory of a campus speech delivered by Senator—now vice presidential candidate—Joseph Biden of Delaware remains especially vivid. Although the topic was predictably foreign policy, on which he […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The pro-US President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia ordered the bombardment of the Russian-majority South Ossetia province. This gave the Russians the justification to invade Georgia on August 8, 2008 and occupy […]

By Remi Kanazi, New York In 1948, my grandmother was expelled from Palestine. Like many of the 780,000 evicted that year, she never saw her birthplace again. But she always dreamed of a dignified return […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London A small band of brave, humanitarian-minded volunteers in a couple of hired boats have done, in the name of human decency, what the leaders of the US, Britain and the EU, […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago For the West, everything changed but stayed the same, hard-wired and in place. Things just lay dormant in the shadows during the Yeltsin years, certain to reemerge once a more […]

By Eva Bartlett – Al Arish, Egypt The days are searing heat and sweat-drenched clothing.  Most people stay indoors, in air-conditioning, or under shade.  Near the sea, tents and umbrellas provide relief from the sun, […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel  I was shocked when I read the headline in Haaretz. It quoted Sari Nusseibeh as saying "There is no Room for Two", meaning two states between the Mediterranean Sea and […]