By Adalah-NY As Lev Leviev’s diamonds went on sale in Dubai’s newly opened Atlantis hotel in the Levant jewelry store, owned by Palestinian-Moroccan Arif Bin Khadra, Adalah-NY released a letter today in Arabic and English […]

By Ralph Nader It has never been more clear how much corporations depend on We, the People for their very existence. Corporations are given the right to exist through a public charter. For public corporations, […]

By Ralph Nader Now that the season of electoral expediency is over, Barack Obama owes Jimmy Carter an apology. At the Democratic National Convention in Denver, the Party denied Jimmy Carter the traditional invitation to […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel Two documents appeared side by side in Haaretz last week,  on November 21: a giant advertisement from the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the results of a public opinion poll. […]

By Bill and Kathleen Christison In 2005 Hillary Clinton stood in Palestine and praised the apartheid wall that the government of Israel was building with large amounts of U.S. aid in furtherance of the Zionist […]

By Steve Conn Where is "Ralph Nader country?" We know that "Marlboro Country" is a lung cancer ward and "Countrywide" is a landscape of empty and boarded up homes as far as the eye can […]

By James Petras We know in some detail of the willing and gratuitous support, which tens of millions of American citizens have bestowed on the White House and Congressional perpetrators of crimes against humanity. The […]

By Jim Miles Hamas vs. Fatah – The Struggle For Palestine.  Jonathan Schanzer. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2008.  I’m not sure where to start with this volume – other than to say it is a […]

By William A. Cook "That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another. The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot […]

By Nadia W. Awad – The West Bank Dubai was the center of attention again last week as it spent $20 million on an exorbitantly lavish, all-night party to celebrate the opening of its latest […]

By Ramzi Kysia  – Gaza "I will send fire upon the walls of Gaza…" — Amos 1:7 In a small cafe in Gaza City, Amjad Shawa, the coordinator for the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), sips […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Extra-judicial killings are indefensible, morally abhorrent, and illegal under international laws and norms. Article 23b of the 1907 Hague Regulations prohibits "assassination, proscription, or outlawry of an enemy, or putting […]

By Ralph Nader While the liberal intelligentsia was swooning over Barack Obama during his presidential campaign, I counseled, "prepare to be disappointed." His record as an Illinois state and U.S. Senator, together with the many […]

By Ola Attallah – Gaza Political wrangling and divisions threaten to hijack the hajj dream of 2200 people in the Gaza Strip and prevent them from joining millions of fellow Muslims in making the spiritual […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel In the crucial battle over the national consciousness, we are experiencing great success. Let us pause to recall: In the aftermath of the 1948 war, when we said there is […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth The middle-of-the-night eviction last week of an elderly Palestinian couple from their home in East Jerusalem to make way for Jewish settlers is a demonstration of Israeli intent towards a future […]

By Lasse J. Schmidt While the Israeli military’s investigation into the 2003 shooting of the American human rights worker Brian Avery did little to nothing in actually investigating the near-fatal injury, it was highly effective […]

By Osama al-Sharif Gaza is bracing itself for a harsh winter. Less than a week has passed since Israel slammed shut doors to all land crossings, leaving a million-and-half hapless Palestinians to a miserable fate. […]

By Nadia W. Awad  – The West Bank What came first: the chicken or the egg? And who started the latest round of clashes in Gaza: the Israelis or the Palestinians? Depending on whom one […]

By Deepak Tripathi     In the weeks until his inauguration on January 20, 2009, Barack Obama will be focusing on the most immediate tasks of assembling a new administration and familiarizing himself with the depth of […]

By Remi Kanazi James Zogby isn’t just an Arab American with an opinion. He is the president of the Arab American Institute (AAI), a well known writer, and an esteemed leader within the Arab American […]

By Franklin Lamb – Northwest of Ghajar Village, South Lebanon "We, as Lebanese, are here to confirm that we cling to freeing every grain of our soil. We will not abandon the great national cause, […]

By M. Shahid Alam "Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by color." – Anonymous It is perhaps a bit late in the day, nearly two weeks after November 4, to be writing about […]