By Osama Al-Sharif – Amman The Palestinians just can’t get their act together. The latest Egyptian initiative to bring all Palestinian factions to Cairo early next month now seems threatened because the two largest groups, […]

By Ghassan Khatib The recent clashes in Acre between Israeli Jews and those of Palestinian origin brought to the surface a very thorny issue, the uncomfortable co-existence in Israeli society between the Palestinian minority and […]

By Hiyam Noir – Gaza After a long drought during the summer months, prolonged heavy rains in Gaza Strip are severely damaging the poor infrastructure, causing landslides in many places threatened people’s lives, flooding the […]

By Joshua Frank Unless John McCain has a bombshell of a scandal to drop on Barack Obama at the 11th hour, this election is beginning to look like it’s in the bag for the Democrats. […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Throughout much of American history, dissent was never tolerated if thought to threaten entrenched interests. Especially in times of war, economic crisis, or social stress. During the great Red Scare […]

By Ralph Nader I wish to declare the principle of political equivalence as grounds for the moral authority to govern through shared benefits and sacrifices between these in Washington, D.C. who rule and the citizens […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London At last, someone has published an easy-to-read document that sets out very clearly how Israel consistently ignores the legal and human rights obligations that form the basic conditions to the […]

By Neve Gordon At dawn the activists arrived. Around thirty Ta’ayush (Arab-Jewish Partnership) and international volunteers came to the Palestinian groves adjacent to the Jewish settlement in Tel-Rumeida, Hebron, to help the landowners pick their […]

By James Petras Latin America is entering a period of profound economic recession, financial crises, collapsing stock market quotations, prices, deep devaluation of its currencies, growing unemployment, declining revenues and the prospect of a prolonged socio-economic […]

‘By Kevin Zeese For a country that considers itself the “greatest democracy on Earth,” the U.S. sure does run messy elections. This year about one-third the public is voting early (something Marylanders will be voting […]

By Hatim Kanaaneh – Arrabeh, Galilee Mqiqa Summer is a trying season when it comes to deciding on the choice of fruits from my garden for breakfast. And whether to indulge my cholesterolophobia by skipping the […]

By Mats Svensson It has been two months since the launch of the book, International Assistance to the Palestinians after Oslo: Political Guilt and Wasted Money. The book is a summary of Anne Le More’s […]

By Gideon Polya     "The Chronicles of Nefaria" by William Cook (Expathos, Groningen, Netherlands, 2008) is more than a novel – it is simultaneously also a poem, a play and a liturgy. It is a very […]

By Joharah Baker – The West Bank If the Palestinians had not gone through the Oslo experience, I would have said this plan just might work. Ideally, nothing makes more sense than for Palestinian police […]

By Deepak Tripathi As America enters the final week of the 2008 election campaign, there is something new and historic in prospect and a number of future scenarios come to mind. What actually happens will […]

By Tariq A. Al-Maeena – Jeddah At an international conference in London dubbed ‘Terrorism: alternative global perspectives’, Alan Hart, the author of ‘Zionism: the Real Enemy of the Jews’, stated that ‘The United States is […]

By Jim Miles – Canada Is it writers block, or is it that the world is in such a mess that it has simply short-circuited my mind?  So many bad news scenarios present themselves on […]

By Christopher Parsons The potential for ubiquitous surveillance that emerges with Enhanced Drivers Licenses (EDLs) could only be imagined by the Stasi in Communist East Germany, but is a genuinely looming specter for contemporary North […]

By Ralph Nader The three so-called presidential debates – really parallel interviews by reporters chosen by the Obama and McCain campaigns – are over and they are remarkable for two characteristics – convergence and avoidance. […]

By Ira Glunts I recently had the opportunity to ask former U.S. Middle East envoy Dennis Ross this question: Should the U.S. create foreign policy on the basis of what Israel perceives or threatens to […]

By Omar Barghouti Since the launch of the Palestinian boycott movement a few years ago, we have experienced an awkward phenomenon that demands urgent comment. Several organizations known for years — in some cases, decades […]

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 […]