By Eva Bartlett "His father died this morning," a hotel guest explained, gesturing to Raed, slumped and silent in his chair, face long. It was Wednesday, August 20 in Sinai’s al-Arish, a town about 50 […]

By Ola Attallah – Gaza City Walking down the market in his Gaza neighborhood, hajj Abu Murad was baffled. A few days ago the market was almost deserted with shelves left empty because of the […]

By Sam Husseini Yesterday, a defacto coalition of conservative Republicans and progressive Democrats defeated a Wall Street giveaway backed by Bush, Obama, McCain, the Democratic and Republican congressional “leaderships” — and most of all, the […]

By Uri Avnery The German name Sternhell means bright as the stars. The name fits: the positions of Professor Ze’ev Sternhell indeed stand out sharply against the darkness of the sky. He warns against Israeli […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago The crime of the century. The greatest one ever. Author Danny Schechter calls it "Plunder." The title of his important new book on the subprime and overall financial crisis. Economist […]

By Kevin Zeese "Senator McCain and I agree." "I think Senator McCain would agree." "Senator McCain is absolutely right." Over and over, a dozen times in 90 minutes Senator Obama expressed his agreement with Senator […]

By Ramzy Baroud The numbers are grim, whether in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian economy is in one of its most wretched states, and the disaster is mostly, if not entirely […]

By Mats Svensson The young girl from Gaza tells me how she yearns for the red and white bird. It used to come every morning to the little veranda where her mother served a breakfast […]

By Ali Jarbawi  It is difficult to conceive of two more natural enemies than Hamas and the Zionist movement that dominates Israeli politics. In their different ways, each is rhetorically committed to the destruction of […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai Syedna Ali, the last of the great Muslim Caliphs, is noted for both his courage and timeless wisdom. In fact, there’s a whole collection of his thoughts titled Nahjal […]

By Gaither Stewart – Rome  "Things as they are don’t seem to me satisfactory…The world as it is, is unbearable." (Albert Camus, Caligula, act 1, scene IV) "What is so bewildering is the conviction—and it […]

By Ramzy Baroud I was ecstatic as I read an email sent by a manager at a Canadian toy company. The company donates a large number of toys each year to inner city kids throughout […]

By Franklin Lamb – Beirut "We in Hezbollah want to demonstrate to our adversaries and doubters what we can achieve for our fellow Lebanese and our Palestinian brothers and sisters and to show them that […]

By Joharah Baker September 16 and 17 mark a very difficult anniversary for the Palestinians. Twenty-six years ago, approximately 2,000 Palestinian men, women and children were massacred in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla […]

To: President Mahmoud AbbasChair of the Palestine Liberation Organization Executive CommitteePresident of the Palestinian National Authority Re: The Rights of Palestinian Refugees and the Final Status Negotiations Dear Mr. President, Greetings of Return, We, the […]

By Kevin Zeese Citizens from across the political spectrum are telling Congess, No to the Bailout. When we wrote our membership thousands responded. I’m urging people to respond again to keep the pressure building. We […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Since taking office in January 2001, the Bush administration targeted Hugo Chavez for removal. It tried and failed three previous times: — in April 2002 for two days; aborted by […]

By Franklin Lamb – Beirut "The response to the massacre at Sabra-Shatila was for the resistance to become active in Lebanon. If the Lebanese people had given up on the resistance, they too would have […]

By Khalil Nakhleh, Ph.D. – Ramallah 1. Our current Palestinian situation can be characterized candidly, as one observer described it over 20 some years ago, as a "fragmented national mood"; where more than 80% perceive […]

By Joshua Frank Increasingly, progressives I talk with admit they are starting to get a little disgusted with the antics of Barack Obama, that great agent of change. It wasn’t too long ago when these […]

By Ghassan Khatib The Oslo negotiations, which were conducted secretly in Norway in parallel to the official negotiations in Washington, led to the first ever agreement between Israel and the Palestinian leadership. Yet Oslo cannot be […]