By Victor Kattan – Al Shabaka A Freedom of Information request with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) by Al-Shabaka has led to the release of new documents on Gaza’s gas fields, and surprising […]

(On the massacre of South African miners.) By Raphael D’abdon Walking to schoolin marikanai have seen black children staringat their fathers’ lifeless bodieson their way to school.stale blood clots under theirperfectly polished shoes.at schoolall the […]

By Jamal Kanj Western and Israeli media are lush with purported leaks on joint efforts of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Ehud Barak trying to enlist reluctant military brass on a […]

By Ramzy Baroud Somewhere in my home I have a set of photo albums I rarely go near. I fear the flood of cruel memories that might be evoked from looking at the countless photos […]

By Shafiq Morton – Cape Town An op-ed (Cape Argus, 17 August) by Ben Levitas, chairman of the Cape Council of the South African Zionist Federation, alleges that South Africa’s foreign policy is now unfairly, […]

By Eric Walberg The discrepancy between Western media on the Middle East and the reality is astounding. Egypt’s Mubarak is a good guy and reliable ally until, presto, he is a bad guy, corrupt, a […]

By Ralph Nader The media coverage of the Presidential campaigns is a dreary repetition of past coverage. Stuck in a rut and garnished by press cynicism and boredom, media groupthink becomes more ossified every four […]

By James Gundun – Washington, D.C. Three weeks ago Michael Posner, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, paid a visit to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission with a deceptive blueprint under his arm. In […]

By Kathy Kelly At Maryhouse Catholic Worker, in New York City, word arrived, on a hot August day that, due to street construction, the water would be cut off for four hours the following day.  […]

By Felicity Arbuthnot One of the images of Jewish heroism, lauded in history books and in Holocaust commemorations, is the courage of those, especially the young, in the Warsaw Ghetto, when all Jewish Warsaw residents […]

By Pina Piccolo (In honor of the 16,000 specimens of homo migrans who have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea since the beginning of the second millennium of the Common Era.) For us no squawking helicopter […]

(For Hassan Safadi and the others) By Francis Oeser The cell is dark. Bearer than deserts. Stifling as loveless threats. *** But, beware: the silence in my cell is the mindless noise outside where hate and […]

By Richard Falk When it is realized that Mahatma Gandhi shook the British Empire with a series of hunger strikes, none lasting more than 21 days, it is shameful that Palestinian hunger strikers ever since […]

By Nicola Nasser – Bir Zeit, West Bank To keep ‘all options on the table’ in the U.S. – Israel plans to change the incumbent Syrian and Iranian regimes and neutralize what both countries perceive […]

By Franklin Lamb, Beirut Remarkably, this Ramadan holiday season in Lebanon designees from both the Shia Higher Islamic Shiites Council and the Sunni Dar el Fatwa, figuratively speaking, pointed their binoculars deep into the eastern […]

By Ismail Salami – Tehran The Israeli narrative of launching an attack on Iran’s nuclear plants has been so overpoweringly hyped up and taken for granted by Israeli media that one achieves certitude that such […]

By William A. Cook Last month, Stuart Jeffries writing in the Guardian, observed, ‘Capitalism is in crisis across the globe – but what on earth is the alternative?’ In 1840, Orestes Brownson in his essay […]

By Stuart Littlewood Palestine’s Olympians have gone home, and not even ardent supporters like me were aware they’d been here. That’s a slight exaggeration. We caught a brief glimpse of them on TV in the […]

By Patrick O. Strickland – Tel Aviv On 15 may, the NY Times ran an editorial authored by Aaron David Miller under the title of ‘Preserving Israel’s Uncertain Status Quo.’ Miller argues that the Israeli […]

By Sherri Muzher Regardless of the US presidential election results in November, Palestinians will be told to resume direct negotiations with Israel if they wish to see a state of their own. Apparently, the old expression […]