By Rannie Amiri “They have now completely surrounded Sadr City. The media is talking about Gaza, while we now have a second ‘Rafah Crossing’ in Sadr City. The hospitals are jammed with dead bodies…the occupation […]

By Ramzy Baroud On February 12, 2008, Arab League information ministers issued a communique outlining ‘tough’ guidelines for Arab satellite channels. The new guidelines specifically prohibited the broadcasting of negative reporting of heads of state, […]

By Stuart Littlewood I don’t know about you, but Hillary Rodham Clinton scares the pants off me. "I want the Iranians to know that if I am president, we will attack Iran,” she ranted when […]

By Ivan Eland Enmeshed in two military occupations that have turned into well-publicized quagmires, the Army and Marines are understandably having trouble enlisting new recruits. Their answer: vastly increase the number of convicted felons and […]

By Franklin Lamb in Lebanon Part III: the CIA and the Pentagon Weigh in "Those bastards [the Israeli military] know the rules and what the US Arms Export Control Act requires! The CBU 58’s are […]

By Omar Barghouti and Haidar Eid Open Letter to Nadine Gordimer In your response to our letters of concern and protest over your planned visit to Israel, to participate in a writers festival largely endorsed […]

By Stephen Lendman This article summarizes an August 2007 B’Tselem report now available in print. It’s one of a series of studies it conducts on life in Occupied Palestine to reveal what major media accounts […]

By Mats Svensson It is dry, it is hot. Black string bikinis descend the small steps meeting black flapping swimming trunks. They look naked thanks to the black mud. Both bodies entirely black, only the […]

By Ramzy Baroud The following are excerpts from Baroud’s upcoming book, "101 Ways to Survive a Refugee Camp." We waited breathless. Breathing heavily was hazardous under these somewhat exceptional circumstances. The army, my father often […]

By Joharah Baker Every year, Israel’s independence celebrations are a sore reminder to the Palestinians of the price they were made to pay for this state to be created. This year, on the 60th occasion […]

By Franklin Lamb in Lebanon Part II: Why the Bush administration wants to negotiate now with Hezbollah "These fools do not learn from their past mistakes. When they withdrew from Lebanon, they continued to occupy the […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed It seems like only yesterday. But it’s nearly two years ago that I did an impassioned piece on the tragedy of Darfur. Thank God, it managed to make its point. It […]

Note: This article has been adapted from a presentation made by the author before the 4th International Conference against  the Occupations, in March, 2006, in Cairo. By William A. Cook “Great is truth, but still […]

By Ivan Eland According to General David H. Petraeus’s progress report to Congress on Iraq, the latest worst threat to the shaky U.S. position is Iranian-backed “special groups.” This label refers to parts of Moktada […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan April 25th was the twenty-sixth anniversary of Sinai liberation from the Israeli occupation and it deserves celebration. Sinai is the only Arab land that has been liberated since the 1967 Arab-Israeli […]

By Uri Avnery War with Syria? Peace with Syria? A big military operation against Hamas in the Gaza strip? A cease-fire with Hamas? Our media discuss these questions dispassionately, as if they were equivalent options. […]

By Congressman Dennis Kucinich Congressional Record, April 22, 2008, Page: H2522 Mr. Speaker: Today I join my colleagues in Congress in celebrating Israel’s accomplishments over the past 60 years. I am happy to be co-sponsor […]

By Dr. Haidar Eid Dear Ms. Gordimer, I am a Palestinian lecturer in Cultural Studies living in Gaza. I happen to also have South African citizenship as a result of my marriage to a citizen […]

By Stuart Littlewood Things are going from bad to worse in the Holy Land while the international community does what it does best: twiddling its thumbs. Israel’s blockade of Gaza brings UN aid to a […]

By Kim Bullimore in Ramallah Today, for a few hours, Palestinians took control over an illegal Israeli settler outpost on the outskirts of Ramallah. Replacing Israeli flags with Palestinian ones, Mohammed Al-Khattib and other members […]

By Joharah Baker One week ago, in yet another Israeli offensive into the Gaza Strip which claimed 21 Palestinians in a day, Reuters photographer Fadel Shana lost his life. According to media reports, the 23-year […]