By Joharah Baker There are some people whose faces betray the difficulties they have encountered throughout their lives. Salah Shweiki is one of them. Sitting under the large tent set up in Silwan’s Bustan Quarter, […]

By Natalie Abou Shakra – Gaza City "Can we take more massacres? Answer me! Can we?" demanded Fadi, an 18 year old student at Palestine University in Gaza. The hall was packed with students in […]

By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria As Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) struggles to hold onto power, his Israeli-backed reign of the Occupied West Bank is turning into a colossal disaster for the Palestinians. Amidst encouraging signals […]

By Sarah Whalen What can you say about the kids who despised the war on terror? They painted ‘Freedom’ in giant letters on walls. They tied a scarf around the eyes of the ‘Justice’ courthouse […]

By Nathaniel Mehr Robin L. Riley et al Eds, Feminism and War: Confronting US Imperialism (London: Zed Books, 2008). ‘Feminist geopolitics,’ writes Jennifer Hyndman, “aims to recast war as a field of live human subjects […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai This looks like an open season for Dubai bashing. From liberal socialists to idle socialites and from old-fashioned cynics to habitual Arab-Muslim baiters, just about everyone is coming up […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago After the 1929 October 24, 28 and 29 market crash, the weekly entertainment industry magazine Variety (on October 30) published its most famous ever headline: "Wall Street Lays an Egg." […]

By Rassool Jibraeel Snyman I look for the stars in Gaza I cannot see them The smoke blinds me The acrid smell of burned flesh chokes me Bodies litter the landscape My hands covered in […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel 979 days have passed since the soldier Gilad Shalit was taken prisoner. On any one of these days it would have been possible to free him for the price fixed […]