By Hasan Afif El-Hasan The pro-US President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia ordered the bombardment of the Russian-majority South Ossetia province. This gave the Russians the justification to invade Georgia on August 8, 2008 and occupy […]

By Remi Kanazi, New York In 1948, my grandmother was expelled from Palestine. Like many of the 780,000 evicted that year, she never saw her birthplace again. But she always dreamed of a dignified return […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London A small band of brave, humanitarian-minded volunteers in a couple of hired boats have done, in the name of human decency, what the leaders of the US, Britain and the EU, […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago For the West, everything changed but stayed the same, hard-wired and in place. Things just lay dormant in the shadows during the Yeltsin years, certain to reemerge once a more […]

By Eva Bartlett – Al Arish, Egypt The days are searing heat and sweat-drenched clothing.  Most people stay indoors, in air-conditioning, or under shade.  Near the sea, tents and umbrellas provide relief from the sun, […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel  I was shocked when I read the headline in Haaretz. It quoted Sari Nusseibeh as saying "There is no Room for Two", meaning two states between the Mediterranean Sea and […]

By Ghada Karmi During a conference in California in May of this year I was surprised to receive an invitation from two American activists to join their group, the Free Gaza Movement, on a boat […]

By Joshua Frank – US  Cindy Sheehan’s independent antiwar campaign against Rep. Nancy Pelosi is beginning to gain steam in San Francisco. I recently caught up with Cindy to discuss her bid for Congress as […]

By Gaither Stewart – Rome, Italy The old adage according to which time is the great equalizer holds sway in a special way in contemporary totalitarian America. Unlike the old-horse-beaten-until-it-drops-dead knows it is being beaten, […]

By Ramzy Baroud Just as the world’s attention was focussed on China’s Beijing Olympics, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, on 7 August, invaded the tiny breakaway province of South Ossetia. The initial attack on the South […]

By Gideon Levy – Israel It’s a long time since we’ve had a war that’s not ours that was so thoroughly covered and present for us. We can’t travel to Afghanistan, Iraq and Darfur with Israeli […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai, UAE What luck for rulers that men do not think, said Adolf Hitler. The Fuhrer should know. After all, he proved himself a successful, if rather reviled, leader of […]

By Khaled Amayreh – Ramallah, West Bank Despite laborious efforts by Egypt, Qatar and other Palestinian factions to reconcile Fatah and Hamas, divisions between the two largest Palestinian factions are getting deeper and wider. This […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London, UK At last, an explanation (of sorts) for the assault on Mohammed Omer by Israeli security officials has finally landed on my doormat. It comes in the form of a letter […]

By Jim Miles – Canada The warrior ethic of the American Imperial elite, embodied in its fullest measure by Zbigniew Brzezinski, has been rejuvenated momentarily by Russia’s attack on Georgia.  Reading Brzezinski’s words leaves one […]

By Ivan Eland Despite significant U.S. and Georgian culpability in the crisis in Georgia, most U.S. politicians and media painted Russia as the diabolical “evildoer.” As if the Russian military incursions into Georgia, Abkhazia, and […]

By Islam Abdel Aziz – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has accused his country’s government of supporting the pro-Israel lobby in the US and Jewish groups inside Israel. "I have evidence proving […]

By Ghassan Khatib – West Bank, Palestine With Palestinians facing greater and greater difficulties in their struggle to achieve an independent state in the territories occupied by Israel in the war of 1967, a serious debate […]

By Joharah Baker – West Bank, Palestine It’s amazing how the Palestinians and Israelis can twist and turn, flip and flop and go round and round and always end up almost exactly where they started. […]

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By David Halpin The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states – Mahatma Gandhi The rain has ceased for a while. […]

By Ibtisam Barakat – Missouri, US On Saturday August 9th in the afternoon, I was getting ready to give a talk about Palestinian olive trees to a gathering of authors and thinkers at Keystone College […]

By Jim Miles – Canada While eastern Canada suffers unseasonable rains, the west enjoys its average warm/hot summer. In the Middle East however, the heat is rising in the geo-political field. I noticed an article in the […]

By Rannie Amiri "Why did I use the phrase ‘The Ugliest of Them All’ to describe the Arab decision-makers? The reason for that comparison between ‘The Ugly American’ and ‘The Uglier Israeli,’ opposite ‘The Ugliest […]