By Uri Avnery Once upon a time, President Richard Nixon wanted to appoint a certain lawyer to the US Supreme Court. ‘But the man is a complete moron!’ one senator exclaimed. “So what,” answered another, […]

By Ralph Nader There was something missing from the release of a tape showing Mitt Romney pandering to fat cats in Boca Raton, Florida with these very inflammatory words: “There are 47 percent who are with […]

By Ismail Salami With the publication of the profane pictures of the holy Prophet of Islam in Charlie Hebdo magazine, the West seems to be consciously moving in a direction where chaos will dominate the […]

By Stuart Littlewood Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) has been providing vital help to vulnerable Palestinian communities ever since the Sabra and Shatila massacre 30 years ago. Eyebrows therefore shot up when MAP announced that […]

By Jamal Kanj Zionist and right wing Christian evangelists exploit US freedom of speech by fuelling sedition and hate between two great religions. On the other hand, right wing religious elements are manipulating Muslims’ righteous […]

By Francis Oeser Ruinous walls define a simple street – a place for donkeys, the calls of walkers selling wares, a place banded by bars of sunshine and shadow. But all is changed. See a […]

By Alison Weir Longtime journalist Alexander Cockburn passed away on July 21st, an enormous loss. Cockburn was a brilliant, witty, and courageous opponent of falsehoods and injustice. He stood on the side of the oppressed, […]

By Ramzy Baroud Recent demonstrations in protest of the rising cost of living have swept across the West Bank. While they are not indicative of a Palestinian version of the ‘Arab Spring’, they are still […]

By Patrick O. Strickland – Ramallah Two weeks ago, an Israeli court ruled that the death of Rachel Corrie, a Palestinian solidarity activist crushed by an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) armored bulldozer in Gaza in […]

By Jen Alic – Washington People often ask me why the West doesn’t attempt a Libya-style intervention in Syria. After all, things are going so well in Libya. Oil production is up. But oil production […]

By Yacov Ben Efrat We can relax: the disturbances in the Occupied Territories appear to have subsided, and the would-be third Intifada may have skipped over 2012 as it did over 2011. Back then it […]

By Vacy Vlazna ‘These matters do not in any way detract from our overall position – that we fiercely, unequivocally, strongly oppose BDS.’  — Bob Carr, Foreign Minister of Australia, 13 September 2012. On reading, Baroud’s […]

By Ludwig Watzal – Bonn Smear campaigns against people who do not follow the narrowly defined, politically correct, rhetoric concerning the permanent violations of human rights and Israel’s brutal oppression of the Palestinian people are […]

By Sonja Karkar It happened thirty years ago – 16 September 1982.  A massacre so awful that people who know about it cannot forget it.  The photos are gruesome reminders – charred, decapitated, indecently violated […]

By Jeremy Salt – Ankara Turkey’s intervention in Syria has been an act of unprecedented folly. Not since the republic was established in 1923 – not even when the military was in charge – has a […]

By Uri Avnery Visiting Ramallah in the West Bank after an absence of several months, I was again amazed by the ongoing building activity. Everywhere new high-rise buildings are going up, and many of them […]

By William A. Cook Aesop tells the story of the North Wind and the Sun: who is the stronger? They chose a traveler to test their strength; which of the two could force him to […]

By Stephen Brackens-Brinkley (In memory of people killed in the Sabra and Shatila by Lebanese Christian Phalangists and by the Israeli government. This happened in September 16 to 18, 1982.) O Sabra and Shatila, I bear […]

By Ismail Salami – Tehran The month of September has witnessed an accelerated trend of coordinated attempts to desecrate Islam and tarnish the image of the Muslims across the globe. That a blasphemous movie desecrating […]

By Franklin Lamb – Shatila Refugee Camp, Lebanon The only time this observer recalls Yassir Arafat ever becoming frustrated with the late American journalist Janet Stevens, whom he adored as a daughter, was during a visit […]

By Jamal Kanj On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a new ‘sanitized war’ is reshaping the future of America’s military industrial complex. The drones, or the new robotic war, is operated by […]