By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Ehud Olmert, who handed over the Israeli premiership to Benjamin Netanyahu after three years heading the government, suffered a slow and public political demise.  The eight lame-duck months since his resignation […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago So says a confidential EU report revealed on March 7 by The London Guardian’s Rory McCarthy. It accuses Israel "of using settlement expansion, house demolitions, discriminatory housing policies and the […]

By James Petras The Pentagon’s military strategists have recognized that they have suffered political losses, with strategic consequences in their recent military invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. US military support for the Israeli invasions of […]

By Adrienne Weller Israel’s winter blitzkrieg into Gaza, like all its other forays against Palestinians, was made in the U.S.A. This is thanks to enormous U.S. financial support for Israel – roughly $3 billion a […]

By Jim Miles – Canada The first part of this essay introduced the theme of the unison between three of the larger global concerns – the economy, the war on terror and the environment. While […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai President Barack Obama has come up with his own plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan. And one is amazed at the world of difference between his approach and that of […]

By Max Ajl The U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), whose president is Henry Siegman, just released a report, entitled, "A Last Chance for a Two-State Israel-Palestine Agreement." The Executive Summary observes that “In short, the next […]

By Franklin Lamb – Beirut ‘We anticipate that the shape of the US assistance programs in Lebanon will be evaluated in the context of Lebanon’s parliamentary election results and the policies formed by the new […]