By Miko Peled Now that Kosovo is the newest independent state to emerge out of the ruins of the former Yugoslavia parallels are being drawn between the Balkans and the Middle East. One response to […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed We face this battle in the newsroom almost on a daily basis. Every time there’s a slaughter of the Palestinians — which is almost every day — we in the news […]

By Kevin Zeese For the last two years United Technologies has been seeking to purchase the Diebold Corporation. Diebold’s main business is ATM machines but, it is the manufacturer of election equipment under the name […]

By Felicity Arbuthnot The world community is encouraged to celebrate and commemorate two occasions this year: Israel’s theft of Palestine and the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights. As the British government announces that the […]

By Jennifer Loewenstein  Around 10:30pm on the night of February 28th, M and his wife S spoke in low tones in a dark room dimly lit by a battery-operated lamp. They were trying to decide […]

By Mohamed Omer I had a long day, an awful day, taking photos and writing from on the ground in Gaza City and northern Gaza. I met with two children who survived Wednesday’s Jabalyia soccer […]

By Stephen Lendman At 8:50AM on February 27, an Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a civilian microbus on the coastal road near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. Six members of the Izziddin […]

By Agustin Velloso 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of Hamas as a political movement in Palestine, involving two decades of continuous struggle against Israeli occupation. Most importantly, Hamas has confronted not just the Middle East’s […]

By John V. Whitbeck The hijacked aircraft which crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11 may well have had the U.S. Capitol, seat of the U.S. Congress, as its target. While we may never know for […]

By Jim Miles Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier issued a news release expressing his concern about the escalating violence in the Gaza Strip. It does nothing to help resolve the situation and only demonstrates […]

By Stuart Littlewood If Prince Harry (motto adorning his baseball cap: "We do bad things to bad people,") is determined to return to the fray and pop off his guns again, he might at least pick […]

By James Zogby in Washington This month, the US Institute for Peace released “Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East,” a report that examined US peace-making efforts over the past four decades. The […]

By Omar Barghouti On Friday, 29 February 2008, Israel’s deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai threatened Palestinians in Gaza with a "holocaust," telling Israeli Army Radio: "The more Qassam fire intensifies and the rockets reach a […]

By Uri Avnery  We Israelis live in a world of ghosts and monsters. We do not conduct a war against living persons and real organizations, but against devils and demons which are out to destroy […]

By Kathleen and Bill Christison We want to express our strong support for Ralph Nader’s presidential candidacy. There are several reasons. The first is a response to the many who say that, because Obama cannot […]

By Rep. Ron Paul In recent months the undeclared war in Iraq seems not to have been on the minds of most Americans. News of the violence and deprivation which ordinary Iraqis are forced to […]

By Dr. Sam Hamod Sadly, America is going through a kind of hypocrisy.  Remember, we are supposed to be an "open society," with religious freedom and respect, and all those good things we keep saying […]

By Jim Miles Each year I take several sabbatical retreats into wilderness country, to find the calmness and serenity that the thin veneer of civilized life cannot provide. The wilderness may be wild and completely […]

By Franklin Lamb By this observer’s count there are no fewer than 8, and perhaps half again that number, of al-Qaeda inspired, Salafist orientated groups now organizing and operating in Lebanon. Most are represented in […]

By Joshua Frank In an attempt to squelch rumors that he is pro-Palestinian, or god forbid Muslim, Barack Obama made it clear in the final Democratic Presidential debate on Tuesday that he is anything but. […]