By Gaither Stewart While the drums of war roll and the US warships are parked along Iran’s shores, questions and more questions emerge from the disastrous past of US-Iran relations. In this climate and after […]

By Ivan Eland Some things never change. In a continuation of the Bush administration’s Orwellian doublespeak on the Iraq War, President Bush recently gave an upbeat speech in Dayton, Ohio, extolling the progress in Iraq […]

By Ben White As the 60th anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel approaches, Western church leaders are putting their names to a historic joint declaration calling for a just peace in Palestine/Israel. […]

By Chris Lane It’s late;How pale the sky over PalestineClouds dripping bloodon ancient golden stone. Withered white the jacarandaonce garbed in purple dressReady for the dance.How silent the blue bells,Dangling on dead donkey necks. How […]

By Genevieve Cora Fraser Prisoners in their own landA million Iraqis DeadMission accomplishedThe man grinned and saidPlunder, rape, destruction Occupation’s outputIslamic tensions fedDehumanize Western soldiersA new zombie raceGrab a man by the jawBlow off his faceThe […]

By Uri Avnery Next month, Israel will celebrate its 60th anniversary. The government is working feverishly to make this day into an occasion of joy and jubilation. While serious problems are crying out for funds, […]

By Patrick Moser OFER MILITARY CAMP, West Bank – Mohammed, 14, barely glanced at the Israeli military judge as he was led shuffling into the cramped courtroom, his legs in shackles. The Palestinian boy had […]

By John V. Whitbeck I have been watching with growing amazement and concern the assaults on the bizarrely quasi-religious Olympic Torch as it has staggered through London, Paris and San Francisco, as well as the […]

By M. Shahid Alam On January 31, 2008, when the Winograd Commission submitted its final report on the Second Lebanese War of July 2006, this was a first in Israeli history: a report on why […]

By Yigal Bronner and Neve Gordon "Archaeology has become a weapon of dispossession," Yonathan Mizrachi, an Israeli archaeologist, said in a recent telephone interview with us. He was referring to the way archaeology is being […]

By Ben White Earlier this week, Lee Marsden wrote about how Republican presidential candidate John McCain has managed to pick up the support of Christian Zionist heavyweight John Hagee. While Hagee praises McCain’s position on […]

By Nizar Sakhnini At 4:00 P.M. on May 14, 1948, "State of Israel" was proclaimed in Tel Aviv. About 8 hours later, the White House announced: "This government has been informed that a Jewish State […]

By Ramzy Baroud When it comes to Iraq, reporters appear intent on omitting or fabricating news. The latest battles in Basra, Iraq’s second largest city and a vital oil seaport, furnished ample instances of misleading […]

By Jim Miles The Three Trillion Dollar War – The True Costs of the Iraq Conflict. Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes. W.W. Norton & Company, N.Y. 2008. Following on their previous pronouncement that war costs […]

By Katherine Mukhar Piled into a Land Rover, three of us (me, my friend and his driver) began our trek from Jericho to Ramallah over one of the most hazardous roads I have ever been […]

By Gaither Stewart "When it is authentic believing is uncertain like existence." – (Nicola Chiaromonte, To Believe or Not To Believe.) Solidarity is the fundamental link that unites human beings. In every time and every […]

By Lasse Wilhelmson in Stockholm There is a debate currently taking place in Sweden concerning the national institute, Forum for Living History (FFLH). It was established by the social democrats when they were in power […]

By Ronnie Kasrils As a 10-year-old growing up in Johannesburg, I celebrated Israel’s birth, 60 years ago. I unquestionably accepted the dramatic accounts of so-called self-defensive actions against Arab violence, to secure the Jewish state. […]

By Najwa Sheikh In Gaza there is another taste of deprivation, poverty, and pain. A taste that no one can know except those who lived it and witnessed its harshness. A taste they know through […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi reminds one of those irrepressible Shakespearean wits.  The Bard employed them not only for necessary comic relief but also to offer his own commentary — steeped in old-fashioned […]

By William A. Cook There exists in the great satirists – Swift, Voltaire, and Twain – a profound respect for the human’s ultimate weapon against mass stupidity, the human intellect. That stupidity is exemplified in […]

By Kevin Zeese The seeds of the independent electoral movement are beginning to sprout and the Iraq occupation is likely to be its fertilizer. In 2004 there was only one significant challenger to the corporate […]