By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai Mark Twain said a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.  This is what seems to be happening in this US […]

By Mikhael Manekin – Jerusalem Breaking the Silence, an organisation of Israeli Defence Force (IDF) veterans, conducts tours in the West Bank city of Hebron, the only Palestinian city with a settlement in its midst. […]

By Timothy Seidel Unfortunately, there is much in this U.S. presidential campaign season that is predictable.  From the constant tit-for-tat reactionary posturing by the major-party candidates to the seemingly paralyzed status of the U.S. Congress […]

By Sonja Karkar – Melbourne The end of Ehud Olmert’s Israeli Prime Ministership should see the likely new leader Tzipi Livni continue peace talks with the Palestinian Authority. She will have a difficult time. The […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago James Petras is Binghamton University Professor Emeritus of Sociology. His credentials and achievements are long and impressive as a noted academic figure on the left. A well-respected Latin American expert, […]

By Ralph Nader "Real change comes from the bottom up, not the top down. The genius of the American system has been to let that change flow upward, from neighborhoods to cities to states and […]

By Ramzy Baroud Europe has showed greater willingness in recent months to play a larger part in the Middle East’s most protracted conflict, that of Israel and Palestine. But willingness doesn’t necessarily indicate readiness. For […]

By Nadia W. Awad Israel has just come back from its latest spending spree. By the standards of your average shopper, its shopping list was quite boring, with only one item on it: weapons. What […]

By Joharah Baker Following the American Civil War, the "separate but equal" laws were established in the United States, which basically stipulated that the blacks, finally emancipated, would be ‘equal’ citizens of the US but […]

By Miko Peled The racist discourse in America is alarming and often people don’t even notice when it takes place. When the lady at the town hall meeting asked John McCain if Barak Obama was […]

By Hussein Al-alak – UK We are often told, that the British presence in Iraq is to help bring about ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ to assist the fundamentalist Iranian aligned ‘Iraqi government’ bring about ‘stability’ but these […]

By Andrew Bosworth, Ph.D. One would think that Iraqi farmers, now prospering under ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ would be able to plant the seeds of their choosing, but that choice, under little-known Order 81, would be […]

By James Petras There are two opposing approaches to the analysis of ecological destruction and the emergence of Indian movements in Latin America: the liberal and the Marxist. The liberal approach emphasizes ‘universal responsibility” for […]

By Hatim Kanaaneh – Acre I just finished reading the news about riots and clashes between Arabs and Jews in Acre in Haaretz, the one Israeli paper that still attempts a modicum of balance in […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan While campaigning, Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain is raising questions about the character of his Democratic opponent, Senator Barak Obama. McCain and his running mate, Governor Sara Palin have incited […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Since 9/11, the notion of an October surprise has been around. The idea going something like this. Another real or manufactured terror attack. The dominant media stokes fear. The public […]

By Robert Weitzel "I was the first who wanted to impose Israeli sovereignty…I admit it…I was not ready to look into all the depths of reality." – Incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. In a September 30 […]

By James Zogby Media commentators were breathless in anticipation of the vice presidential debate between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Sarah Palin. Given Palin’s repeated gaffes in television interviews, there was an expectation that she […]

By Hany Ramadan – Doha Muslims from around the world are coming together in the Qatari capital, Doha, on Sunday, October 12, to save Israel-occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem), home to Islam’s third holiest shrine. "Al-Quds is […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai As a literature student, one was endlessly fascinated by the term Poetic Justice. The ancient Greeks, especially Aristotle, believed that virtue should be ultimately rewarded and vice punished in […]

"We are not fighting against men or a kind of politics but against the class which produces those politics and those men." (from Dirty Hands, a political play by Jean Paul Sartre, first performed in […]

By Ramzy Baroud One should rightly assume that the weight of the US financial crisis, the full impact of which is just beginning to unravel, and the widening military debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan, would […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Since 1967, Israel has systematically and relentlessly sought control of the entire "Holy Land" by seizing Gaza, the West Bank and all of Jerusalem. The entire area remains occupied and, […]

By Alexander Costy – Jerusalem Aid workers are supposed to be the good guys in international relations. Their work is steeped in ethics. They try to do what’s good for people, or at the very […]