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 […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Said was passionately against Palestine being turned into an isolated prison wherein Israel repeatedly attacked mostly defenseless civilians with tanks and F-16s.Born in West Jerusalem in 1935. Exiled in December […]

By Sherri Muzher – Michigan In Greek mythology, there is a famous story about the beautiful Medusa who was turned into a horrific monster with hair of serpents. The transformation came about as “punishment” by […]

By Robert Weitzel Mention 9/11 to most Americans and the two numbers are considered sufficient to give meaning to that day. But mention 9/12, the day after when ‘terror’ became our national mantra and the ‘smoking […]

By Kim Bullimore On September 13, in response to a 9-year-old Israeli settler child living in the ‘wildcat’ outpost of Shalhevet, about half a kilometre from the illegal Israeli colony of Yitzhar, being stabbed by […]

By Uri Avnery The polls were wrong, as usual. And in a big way. As usual. Instead of winning by a huge margin, as predicted until the very last moment by all the polls, she […]

By Jim Miles The Secret War With Iran.  Ronen Bergman.  Free Press (Simon & Schuster), New York, 2008. If one knew little about the Middle East and its many strands of religious, political, military, and […]

By Kevin Zeese  The bailout is corporate-government on display — the corporate representatives (the Fed is the banking and finance system) go in the back room to meet with the congressional leadership of both parties […]

By Carolfrances Likins Walls built by themthrough the middle of usare not built to protect us from us,but to protect themfrom our coming to realize thatweareanus. walls between enemies might be shieldsbut wallsbetween people and […]

By Bill and Kathleen Christison Stephen J. Sniegoski, The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel, Enigma Editions, Norfolk, Virginia, 2008 Not a few honest political […]

By Susan Abulhawa He eclipsed the democratic convention buzz, gained women voters, simultaneously reassured middle to far right conservatives and may have positioned a female presidential candidate for the Republican ticket for future elections. It […]