By Stephen Lendman Washington is currently negotiating two accords with the al-Maliki government to take effect after expiration of the UN’s military mandate on December 31. One agreement is for a long-term "strategic framework" to […]

By Samah Sabawi This poem is inspired by my beloved family in Gaza who have taught me that life always wins in the end. Children are born, weddings are celebrated and even in the bleakest […]

By Ramzy Baroud The world of journalism, like any other profession, can be muddled with a plethora of distractions, self-interests and agendas that certainly do not serve the cause of a free press. Outside as […]

By Uri Avnery It was just a passing conversation, but it has stuck in my memory. It was soon after the Six-Day War. I was coming out of the main hall of the Knesset, after making a […]

By William A. Cook Perception is often the stepchild of ignorance, especially when controlled by those with the most to gain. It is especially difficult for our Congress to perceive clearly when it grovels at […]

By Rannie Amiri "Differences among the Lebanese have reached the edge of suicide." – Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, in a meeting of the country’s Christian and Muslim religious leaders after renewed violence in the city […]

By Frank Barat On Wednesday the 2nd of July, a “Palestinian from East Jerusalem deliberately plowed a bulldozer he was driving into a passenger bus on Jaffa Street in the capital shortly after noon, killing […]

By Kim Bullimore – The West Bank On 2 July, Husam Taysir Dwayat, aged 30, took the bulldozer he was driving and rampaged through West Jerusalem’s Jaffa St, killing 3 people and injuring at least 66 […]

By Kathy Kelly – Amman Over the past two years, here in Amman, Jordan, I’ve regularly visited the family of Umm Hamdi, an Iraqi woman forced out of her native Iraq four years ago by […]

A Response to Bill Moyers: Waking from the Patriot’s Dream to the Bliss of Global Reality By Sam Husseini When I was in high school in New York City, shortly after Ronald Reagan became president, […]

By Jim Miles Descent Into Chaos – The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Ahmed Rashid.  Viking (Penguin) New York, 2008. The popular news reporting from Pakistan […]

By Philip Rizq – Gaza At the border crossing into Gaza a middle aged woman sat next to me looking rather pale. She was accompanied by what looked like her mother, even frailer than her. […]

By Aijaz Syed – Dubai Our world would be so dull without its delicious ironies and ever fascinating double standards. Who could have ever thought that having condemned North Korea as part of the ‘axis […]

By Gaither Stewart – Rome Dedicated to those who continually raise the bugaboo of the Communist menace to the make-believe, hypocritical, lying and socially perfidious  ‘American way of life’. I visited the tomb of Antonio […]

By Joharah Baker Prisoner swaps are the talk of the hour these days. With an imminent Hizbullah-Israel prisoner swap likely to take place as early as next week and a Hamas-Israel exchange also on the […]

By Dr. Eyad Sarraj – Gaza After nearly one year of a suffocating siege imposed on Gaza by the Israeli military establishment, a truce agreement was reached between Hamas and Israel. This followed months of […]

By Javier Solana – Berlin Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have now been talking to each other for more than six months, since the peace process was re-launched at Annapolis in November 2007, with the stated […]

By Kathy Kelly- Amman The city of Amman, Jordan, is awash with numerous colorful signs that proclaim independence, “Istiklal.”  The word is found on posters and placards in store windows. It names a major thoroughfare, […]

By John Pilger Two weeks ago, I presented a young Palestinian, Mohammed Omer, with the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Awarded in memory of the great US war correspondent, the prize goes to journalists […]

By William A. Cook President George W. BushThe White House1600 Pennsylvania AvenueWashington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: I recently outlined my views on the Middle East in a major speech given the day after I […]

By Jim Miles Marching Toward Hell – America and Islam after Iraq.  Michael Scheuer.  Free Press (Simon & Schuster), New York, 2008. Michael Scheuer’s new work “Marching Toward Hell” is very clear with its overall […]

By Uri Avnery Ehud Barak delivered an ultimatum: if Olmert is not replaced, he, Barak, will dismantle the coalition. But when the time approached, he understood that Olmert would drag him down with him into […]