By Rassool Jibraeel Snyman You feed your baby I strap on my bombs Two faces of the same mirror I weep as the straps bite into my flesh The cry of my babies Ring in […]

By Hussein Al-alak – UK ‘I am not yet born; forgive me. For the sins that in me the world shall commit, my words when they speak me, my thoughts when they think me, my […]

By Jonathan Cook – Tzipori Amin Muhammad Ali, a 74-year-old refugee from a destroyed Palestinian village in northern Israel, says he only feels truly at peace when he stands among his ancestors’ graves.  The cemetery, surrounded […]

By Franklin Lamb – Beirut "Well, the two cases that you give, Hamas and Hezbollah, are interesting case studies. Hezbollah has evolved significantly over time. And now it has members of parliament, in the cabinet; […]

By Dina Jadallah Now more than ever, it is necessary to state caveats when using words. In some cases, the caveats have expanded so greatly, that there is little space left for the original meaning.  […]

By Dr. Ludwig Watzal It’s all over town. Only the Obama administration does not want to hear it. The people responsible for the moral decay of U.S. foreign policy were the ‘Bush-worriers’: Vice President Dick […]

By Ramzy Baroud This is hardly the rational order of things. An overpowering military occupation was meant to be resisted by an equally determined, focused and unyielding national movement, hell-bent on liberation at any cost […]

By Dr. Elias Akleh Finally, after 20 years since its last meeting in 1989 in Tunis, the Fatah congress convened last week, Tuesday August 4th, in the city of Bethlehem to, ostensibly, rejuvenate itself with […]

By Tammy Obeidallah ‘Down with American Imperialists.’ This sign, or one of its variations, can be seen at protests and demonstratons throughout the world. U.S. policies have given credence to it, fueling legitimate hatred in […]

By George S. Hishmeh If one chooses to be charitable, the holding of the Congress of the most significant Palestinian nationalist movement in Israeli-besieged Palestine for the first time since its founding in the early […]

By Jeff Gates In October 2007, Defense Secretary Robert Gates coined a generic term to describe the most challenging combatants when waging unconventional warfare. He called them simply “the people in between.” Those people, a […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Israel Shahak’s (1933-2001) ‘Jewish History, Jewish Religion’ argued that while Islamic fundamentalism is vilified in the West, comparable Jewish extremism is largely ignored. In the book’s forward, Edward Said wrote: […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Hyderabad, India My new place in Hyderabad, India, is a little, two-storey affair that looks rather large to us after spending seven years in a two-bedroom apartment in Dubai. It’s not […]

By Jeff Gates ‘Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.’– George Santayana How quickly we forget. With the Inquisition still fresh in memory, America’s Founders embraced democracy as a means […]

By Sayed Dhansay A few weeks ago I departed from South Africa for the Gaza Strip in order to take up a short-term voluntary post with a humanitarian organization there. As the Rafah border crossing […]

By Shafiq Morton – Cape Town When Human Rights and AIDS activist, Zackie Achmat, fingered South African-born Israeli Defence Force legal adviser, Lieutenant Colonel David Benjamin, on Facebook in late July for his role ‘in […]