By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Israel’s watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities are turning a blind eye to cases of torture, according to Israeli human rights […]

By Franklin Lamb – Dahiyeh, Lebanon While on the surface the pro-US team here did preserve its ‘majority’, the Hezbollah led opposition actually won the election by nearly ten percent of the popular vote. Of […]

By Dr. Elias Akleh For the last three weeks the Western media had bombarded us with what they called the Iranian stolen election. They allege that the election was fraudulent and that the masses went […]

By Joharah Baker – Jerusalem Israeli political tactics are based on a fundamental premise. Disregard the core and delve into the minutest of details. This way, the basis of any given argument is easily lost […]

By Uri Avnery Hundreds of thousands of Iranian citizens pour into the streets in order to protest against their government! What a wonderful sight! Gideon Levy wrote in Haaretz that he envies the Iranians. And […]

By Belen Fernandez A June 25 editorial in the Jerusalem Post online entitled ‘Arab hearts and minds’ begins: ‘Another day, another massacre in Iraq.’ The remainder of the first paragraph covers the details of the […]

By Free Gaza Team – Larnaca The Free Gaza boat the ‘Spirit of Humanity’ departed Cyprus at 7:30am on Monday, 29 July. Twenty-one human rights and solidarity workers representing eleven different countries were aboard. The […]

By Anna Brown On February 4th, 1968, just about a month before he was assassinated, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “Drum Major Instinct” sermon from the pulpit of Ebeneezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, […]

By John Chuckman A recent article called "Ahmadinejad Won, Get Over It" by Flynt and Hillary Leverett is not the only source with serious credentials offering reasonable, non-sensational explanations for events around Iran’s presidential election. […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London Reports of prisoner abuse at the US prison at Bagram air force base in Afghanistan come as no surprise. They are just the latest example of the world’s biggest bully […]

By Franklin Lamb – Dahiyeh, Lebanon Some Legmen for the US Israeli lobby, and even some here in Lebanon appear barely able to contain themselves, such is their felt glee over the Lebanese and Iranian […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Israel’s second largest bank will be forced to defend itself in court in the coming weeks over claims it is withholding tens of millions of dollars in ‘lost’ accounts belonging to […]

By Ramzy Baroud One might be tempted to dismiss the recent findings of the US State Department on human trafficking as largely political. But do not be too hasty. Criticism of the State Department’s report […]

By George S. Hishmeh A few months after arriving in the US in 1968 and joining the staff of the Chicago Sun-Times, I was invited to speak at an Arab-American community gala dinner. My punchline […]

By Stephen Lendman – Chicago Besides waging perpetual wars, nothing better reveals America’s imperial agenda than its hundreds of global bases – for offense, not defense at a time the US hasn’t had an enemy […]

By Aijaz Zaka Syed – Dubai They say in Urdu that the first victims of a revolution are always its own people.  Watching the apocalyptic events unfold in Iran over the past couple of weeks, […]