By Deepak Tripathi The finger points everywhere.             At he who starts the fire,He who pours oil.Who stands quietly by,Who screams violently.Who condemns,Who applauds.The slanderer,The glorifier.O’ where is He?To put out the flames. – Deepak Tripathi […]

By Ramzy Baroud Should Israel be worried? Very much so, for the age of total impunity is coming to an end. Critical voices of the Israeli occupation and mistreatment of Palestinians are rising – not […]

By Eric Walberg The empire requires a nice juicy enemy to keep people’s minds off its own sins. During the Cold War, Hollywood responded admirably to the challenge, churning out anti-communist thrillers with Russian bad […]

By Ramzy Baroud Has the sea always been so cruel? The little girl was dressed in blue pants and a green jacket. Her hair was finely kempt in a ponytail, probably interwoven by her mother. […]

By Dan Lieberman The court decision in Israel, which exonerated the driver of a huge bulldozer in the death of activist Rachel Corrie, recalls a previous confrontation between man and machine – the 1989 stance […]

By Ismail Salami – Tehran Canada’s abrupt move to sever all ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran manifestly springs from a strong Zionist sway which has permeated the political structure of the country. Naturally, […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth It is possibly the greatest of American political myths, repeated ad nauseam by presidential candidates in their election campaigns. President Barack Obama has claimed that the United States enjoys a special […]

By Eric Walberg On 7 September, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced that Canada is suspending all diplomatic relations with Iran, expelling all Iranian diplomats, closing its embassy in Tehran, and authorizing Turkey to act […]

By Johnny Barber – Kabul ‘We are at War. Somebody is Going to Pay,’ said George W. Bush on Sept 11th, 2001. Eleven years later, we are still at war. Bullets, mortars and drones are still extracting […]

By Ali Younes For former Jordanian citizen Akram abu al-Reish the reality of finding himself overnight a stateless person without any documentation to prove his legal existence was a very harsh reality that he and […]

By William A. Cook ‘The hypocrite’s outward appearance shines brightly and passes for holiness, but under that show lies the terrible weight of his deceit which the soul must bear through all eternity.’ — From […]

By Ismail Salami – Tehran Much to the bitter disappointment of international community, a report recently declassified by CIA reveals that a war that started in the name of democracy in Iraq in 2003 and […]

By Shafiq Morton – Cape Town Recently there has been a determined, if not desperate flurry of letter writing to the press by the South African Zionist Federation. Strong sentiments on Israel at the African […]

By John Pilger What is the world’s most powerful and violent ‘ism’? The question will summon the usual demons such as Islamism, now that communism has left the stage. The answer, wrote Harold Pinter, is […]

By Alison Weir Not often is a political fix so public. The Democratic committee that develops the party’s campaign platform recently failed to include the apparently obligatory “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of […]

By Mohammed S. AlNadi A new Hamas-only government was sworn in at the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza Sunday, with Ismail Haniyeh continuing as prime minister but with some cabinet reshuffling. A day earlier, Fatah […]

By Patrick O. Strickland – Jaffa At first glance, it may appear that the demonstrations which alighted across the West Bank on 05 September were routine. Weekly demonstrations, sit-ins, marches, hunger strikes, and graffiti are […]

By Uri Davis – Ramallah On more than one occasion has Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced before the FATAH Revolutionary Council his intention of holding comprehensive elections to all the national institution of our Palestinian […]

By Uri Avnery Nothing could be more scary than the thought that this duo – Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak – is in a position to start a war, the dimensions and outcome of which […]

By Jamal Kanj Last week an Israeli court ruled the state of Israel was not at fault for the death of US activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer […]