By Ghada Karmi During a conference in California in May of this year I was surprised to receive an invitation from two American activists to join their group, the Free Gaza Movement, on a boat […]

By Joshua Frank – US  Cindy Sheehan’s independent antiwar campaign against Rep. Nancy Pelosi is beginning to gain steam in San Francisco. I recently caught up with Cindy to discuss her bid for Congress as […]

By Gaither Stewart – Rome, Italy The old adage according to which time is the great equalizer holds sway in a special way in contemporary totalitarian America. Unlike the old-horse-beaten-until-it-drops-dead knows it is being beaten, […]

By Ramzy Baroud Just as the world’s attention was focussed on China’s Beijing Olympics, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, on 7 August, invaded the tiny breakaway province of South Ossetia. The initial attack on the South […]

By Gideon Levy – Israel It’s a long time since we’ve had a war that’s not ours that was so thoroughly covered and present for us. We can’t travel to Afghanistan, Iraq and Darfur with Israeli […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai, UAE What luck for rulers that men do not think, said Adolf Hitler. The Fuhrer should know. After all, he proved himself a successful, if rather reviled, leader of […]

By Khaled Amayreh – Ramallah, West Bank Despite laborious efforts by Egypt, Qatar and other Palestinian factions to reconcile Fatah and Hamas, divisions between the two largest Palestinian factions are getting deeper and wider. This […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London, UK At last, an explanation (of sorts) for the assault on Mohammed Omer by Israeli security officials has finally landed on my doormat. It comes in the form of a letter […]

By Jim Miles – Canada The warrior ethic of the American Imperial elite, embodied in its fullest measure by Zbigniew Brzezinski, has been rejuvenated momentarily by Russia’s attack on Georgia.  Reading Brzezinski’s words leaves one […]

By Ivan Eland Despite significant U.S. and Georgian culpability in the crisis in Georgia, most U.S. politicians and media painted Russia as the diabolical “evildoer.” As if the Russian military incursions into Georgia, Abkhazia, and […]

By Islam Abdel Aziz – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has accused his country’s government of supporting the pro-Israel lobby in the US and Jewish groups inside Israel. "I have evidence proving […]

By Ghassan Khatib – West Bank, Palestine With Palestinians facing greater and greater difficulties in their struggle to achieve an independent state in the territories occupied by Israel in the war of 1967, a serious debate […]

By Joharah Baker – West Bank, Palestine It’s amazing how the Palestinians and Israelis can twist and turn, flip and flop and go round and round and always end up almost exactly where they started. […]

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By David Halpin The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states – Mahatma Gandhi The rain has ceased for a while. […]

By Ibtisam Barakat – Missouri, US On Saturday August 9th in the afternoon, I was getting ready to give a talk about Palestinian olive trees to a gathering of authors and thinkers at Keystone College […]

By Jim Miles – Canada While eastern Canada suffers unseasonable rains, the west enjoys its average warm/hot summer. In the Middle East however, the heat is rising in the geo-political field. I noticed an article in the […]

By Rannie Amiri "Why did I use the phrase ‘The Ugliest of Them All’ to describe the Arab decision-makers? The reason for that comparison between ‘The Ugly American’ and ‘The Uglier Israeli,’ opposite ‘The Ugliest […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel One of the wisest pronouncements I have heard in my life was that of an Egyptian general, a few days after Anwar Sadat’s historic visit to Jerusalem. We were the […]

By Jim Miles – Canada A Doctor in Galilee – The Life and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel. Hatim Kanaaneh. Pluto Press, London/Ann Arbor, 2008. “A Doctor in Galilee” is a wonderfully descriptive narrative […]

By Fidaa Abed – Gaza As a young Palestinian from Gaza, I had been eagerly anticipating the opportunity to study at the University of California San Diego on a Fulbright scholarship. The chance to escape […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago, US From July 21 – 31, Joint Task Force (mostly US, but also UK, Brazil and Italy) "Operation Brimstone" large scale war games were conducted off the US East coast […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai, UAE This war has turned our world into a big gulag where there are no borders, no rule of law, no justice and no rights whatsoever. Just when you […]

By Ramzy Baroud Yet more haunting images of blindfolded, stripped down Palestinian men being contemptuously dragged by soldiers in uniform from one place to another. Yet more footage of bloodied men lying on hospital beds […]

By Deepak Tripathi The conflict between Russia and the pro-US regime of Georgia has been a decisive turning point in Russia’s relations with Washington and has taken us to the brink of a new Cold […]

By Ira Glunts, NY, US As Philip Giraldi points out in his article "America’s Israeli-Occupied Media,"(1) the Israeli government is continuing its campaign to get the U.S. military to attack Iran or at least give […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London, UK Is the Palestinian Authority for or against the siege? While others put on a show of solidarity with the brave ‘freedom’ voyagers as they set sail to break the […]