By Sam Hamod  (In memory of Mahmoud Darwish, the greatest of Arab Poets) At the checkpoint, the Israeli private asked me my name, I told her, my name is Zaitoun, she asked, what does that mean, […]

By Frank Barat – Nablus, West Bank On Saturday the 9th of August we headed out to upper Nablus where we’d arranged an interview with the ex-mayor of the city, Bassam Shaka. Our taxi left […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago, US After the Soviet Union’s 1991 dissolution, Georgia’s South Ossetia province broke away and declared its independence. So far it remains undiplomatically recognized by UN member states. It’s been traditionally […]

By Robert Weitzel, Madison, US "The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down." — Barak Obama When Barak Obama […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London, UK  While the fragile ‘freedom’ boats and their courageous volunteer crews steer a course for Palestinian territorial waters in an effort to break Israel’s illegal siege of the Gaza Strip, […]

By Joharah Baker – Palestine An uneasy calm has taken over the Shujaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City after a weekend of bloodletting that has, frankly, put us all to shame. Eleven people in all were […]

By Ivan Simic, Belgrade, Serbia On August 8, 2008, South Ossetia attracted world’s attention when Russian military forces entered Georgian territory, and seriously interfered in the Georgian-South Ossetian unresolved conflict. This conflict is well known […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago, US The 2002 Homeland Security Act established its largest investigative and enforcement arm in 2003: the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) created "as a law enforcement agency for […]

By James Petras – US Hernando Calvo Ospina’s recent book, Colombia, Laboratorio de Embrujos: Democracia y Terrorismo del Estado is the most important study of Colombian politics in recent decades and essential reading in light […]

By Kathy Kelly – Chicago About six months ago, Dan Pearson, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, swiveled around in his office chair in our tiny "headquarters" to ask what we thought about organizing a walk […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel Oh dear, what has happened to the knight on the white horse? This week, many of Barack Obama’s admirers were shocked. Up to now, it had been believed that the […]

By John Harvey – Olympia, WA This February I had the privilege of spending a month with the people of Gaza, Palestine.  As a representative of Sister Cities International, I was working to establish the […]

By Ruth Tenne – London Through a great part of my life the only food I have eaten came from an Israeli source for the simple the reason that I was born in Israel and […]

By Jim Miles – Canada  I – Introduction and Overview This is one of the more difficult articles/reviews I have worked on.  I have been well aware of Peak Oil for a while, but never […]

By Dan Whittemore– Denver On November 6, 2007, I was arrested with about eighty-five others in Denver, Colorado, trying to stop hate speech as expressed in the Columbus Day Parade.  I suffered about ten hours […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai When US President Bush visited India in 2006, a proud Prime Minister Manmohan Singh informed the Leader of the Free World that unlike in Pakistan and the rest of […]

Mahmoud Darwish, the world’s most recognized Palestinian poet passed away in a US hospital Saturday, August 9, 2008 after undergoing complicated heart surgery. Darwish has published more than two dozen books of poetry and prose […]

By Ramzy Baroud Ahmed Moussa was a 12-year-old Palestinian boy from the West Bank village of Nilin, near Ramallah. Mohamed Bahloul is a 12-year-old Palestinian boy from Gaza City. The former was shot and killed […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago There’s good news and bad, mostly the latter but don’t discount the good. On May 22, (non-binding) HR 362 was introduced in the House – with charges and proposals so […]

By M. Shahid Alam "Anti-Semitism has grown and continues to grow, and so do I." — Theodore Herzl [1] As a self-defined movement for the national ‘liberation’ of European Jews, Zionism had an anomalous relationship […]

By Amin Howeidi – Cairo Barring any unexpected developments, the Palestinians may have a state before the end of 2008. It will not be the best of states in the best of worlds. It will […]

By Robert Weitzel, Madison, WI "People of the world — look at Berlin, where a wall came down . . . and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands […]