By Uri Avnery – Israel One of the wisest pronouncements I have heard in my life was that of an Egyptian general, a few days after Anwar Sadat’s historic visit to Jerusalem. We were the […]

By Jim Miles – Canada A Doctor in Galilee – The Life and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel. Hatim Kanaaneh. Pluto Press, London/Ann Arbor, 2008. “A Doctor in Galilee” is a wonderfully descriptive narrative […]

By Fidaa Abed – Gaza As a young Palestinian from Gaza, I had been eagerly anticipating the opportunity to study at the University of California San Diego on a Fulbright scholarship. The chance to escape […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago, US From July 21 – 31, Joint Task Force (mostly US, but also UK, Brazil and Italy) "Operation Brimstone" large scale war games were conducted off the US East coast […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai, UAE This war has turned our world into a big gulag where there are no borders, no rule of law, no justice and no rights whatsoever. Just when you […]

By Ramzy Baroud Yet more haunting images of blindfolded, stripped down Palestinian men being contemptuously dragged by soldiers in uniform from one place to another. Yet more footage of bloodied men lying on hospital beds […]

By Deepak Tripathi The conflict between Russia and the pro-US regime of Georgia has been a decisive turning point in Russia’s relations with Washington and has taken us to the brink of a new Cold […]

By Ira Glunts, NY, US As Philip Giraldi points out in his article "America’s Israeli-Occupied Media,"(1) the Israeli government is continuing its campaign to get the U.S. military to attack Iran or at least give […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London, UK Is the Palestinian Authority for or against the siege? While others put on a show of solidarity with the brave ‘freedom’ voyagers as they set sail to break the […]

By Sam Hamod  (In memory of Mahmoud Darwish, the greatest of Arab Poets) At the checkpoint, the Israeli private asked me my name, I told her, my name is Zaitoun, she asked, what does that mean, […]

By Frank Barat – Nablus, West Bank On Saturday the 9th of August we headed out to upper Nablus where we’d arranged an interview with the ex-mayor of the city, Bassam Shaka. Our taxi left […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago, US After the Soviet Union’s 1991 dissolution, Georgia’s South Ossetia province broke away and declared its independence. So far it remains undiplomatically recognized by UN member states. It’s been traditionally […]

By Robert Weitzel, Madison, US "The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down." — Barak Obama When Barak Obama […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London, UK  While the fragile ‘freedom’ boats and their courageous volunteer crews steer a course for Palestinian territorial waters in an effort to break Israel’s illegal siege of the Gaza Strip, […]

By Joharah Baker – Palestine An uneasy calm has taken over the Shujaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City after a weekend of bloodletting that has, frankly, put us all to shame. Eleven people in all were […]

By Ivan Simic, Belgrade, Serbia On August 8, 2008, South Ossetia attracted world’s attention when Russian military forces entered Georgian territory, and seriously interfered in the Georgian-South Ossetian unresolved conflict. This conflict is well known […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago, US The 2002 Homeland Security Act established its largest investigative and enforcement arm in 2003: the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) created "as a law enforcement agency for […]

By James Petras – US Hernando Calvo Ospina’s recent book, Colombia, Laboratorio de Embrujos: Democracia y Terrorismo del Estado is the most important study of Colombian politics in recent decades and essential reading in light […]

By Kathy Kelly – Chicago About six months ago, Dan Pearson, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, swiveled around in his office chair in our tiny "headquarters" to ask what we thought about organizing a walk […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel Oh dear, what has happened to the knight on the white horse? This week, many of Barack Obama’s admirers were shocked. Up to now, it had been believed that the […]

By John Harvey – Olympia, WA This February I had the privilege of spending a month with the people of Gaza, Palestine.  As a representative of Sister Cities International, I was working to establish the […]

By Ruth Tenne – London Through a great part of my life the only food I have eaten came from an Israeli source for the simple the reason that I was born in Israel and […]

By Jim Miles – Canada  I – Introduction and Overview This is one of the more difficult articles/reviews I have worked on.  I have been well aware of Peak Oil for a while, but never […]

By Dan Whittemore– Denver On November 6, 2007, I was arrested with about eighty-five others in Denver, Colorado, trying to stop hate speech as expressed in the Columbus Day Parade.  I suffered about ten hours […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai When US President Bush visited India in 2006, a proud Prime Minister Manmohan Singh informed the Leader of the Free World that unlike in Pakistan and the rest of […]