By Uri Avnery The president of the United States is the king of this planet. I live on this planet. Therefore, the election of the President concerns me, too. Very much so. The President is not […]

By IRIN – Nahr al-Bared They look like cargo crates: long lines of prefabricated steel units, stacked two high, set on the edge of the ruined Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Inside […]

By Saleh Al-Naami After many meetings, consultations and deliberations the Egyptian government has succeeded in formulating a draft agreement for Palestinian national reconciliation which both Fatah and Hamas have approved in principle. The Palestinian National […]

By Ramzy Baroud The 25th annual World Food Day, marked on 16 October, was an occasion whose arrival and passing received little media attention or governmental fanfare. Evidently, much of the world media and governments […]

By Ola Attallah – Ramallah Hamza Al-Qaraawi, a nursing student at An-Najah University, was sitting with his family when he heard knocks at their door. When he opened the door, a dozen of plain-clothed, grimed-faced […]

By Hussein Al-alak "The world is a dark enough place for even a spark to be welcome!" – Sir. Terence Rattigan Walking through the streets of down town Amman, among the ruins of the ancient Roman Amphitheatre […]

By Khaled Amayreh – Ramallah The sacking by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas of Intelligence Chief Tawfiq Tirawi on Tuesday seems to be more than just a "formality" related to the latter reaching the […]

By Mats Svensson I had seen it before, a few days earlier. I had seen it on my way into one of the many homelands of the 21st century. I saw the woman who wasn’t let […]

By Kevin Zeese So far the US taxpayer has given Wall Street, Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac and the big banks $1.2 trillion. Did anyone hear a thank you? How about an apology for their risky gambling […]

By Joharah Baker – The West Bank It is no wonder Jewish settlements are at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Not only do they usurp Palestinians from land and water and cut into their […]

By Yossef Ben-Meir In recent days, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and this year’s Nobel Prize winner in economics Paul Krugman expressed support for a fiscal stimulus package in the face of the economic crisis. […]

By Hatim Kanaaneh I have just emerged from a week-long frustrating experience. It was exhilarating to spend the week in the company of our good guests, friends to whom we owe much. Yet now I […]

By Ola al-Madhoun – Gaza A human rights organization in Gaza released a report showing a rise in the number of children abandoned in Gaza and warned that the problem of abandoned and illegitimate children […]

By Jim Miles Hope Destroyed, Justice Denied:  the Rape of Palestine. William A. Cook.  EXPATHOS, Groningen, Netherlands, 2008. The cover of Hope Destroyed, Justice Denied: the Rape of Palestine tells a significant story on its […]

By Nadia W. Awad – The West Bank My 16-year old brother arrived home yesterday aching and tired, exhausted from a day of participating in the Peace League, a football league involving different high schools […]

By The Popular Committee Against Siege (PCAS) – The Gaza Strip Introduction As the Gaza Strip enters its fifth month of "calm" with the Israelis, 80 percent of the population lives below the line of poverty. Palestinian […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel Throughout its thousands of years of history, Akko has never been an Israelite town. Even according to the mythological story of the Bible, the Israelites did not conquer the city, […]

By Robert Weitzel I had just pressed the ‘donate now’ button on votenader.org when my email pinged. It was a rambling missive from Neil, a self-described ‘Grumpy Old Son Of A Beach’ who’d read an […]

By Deepak Tripathi The 9/11 attacks on America and the subsequent "war on terror" prosecuted by President George W. Bush have brought the debate on terrorism into sharp focus. Hardly any country today can claim to […]

By Mary Rizzo – Italy It’s not easy or even fun to be an expatriate. Unless you didn’t know, that is just a highfalutin word that is used especially for American emigrants. Why the special […]

By Kevin Zeese Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz predicts the Iraq war will cost the United States 3 trillion USD. Nouriel Roubini, the economist who predicted today’s financial crisis in 2006, predicts the U.S. will […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London  As many others have remarked, Israel is among the worst brand-names on the planet. That’s understandable considering the regime was founded on terror, is massively armed and subsidised by the […]