By Felicity Arbuthnot – London ‘At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh had I the ability, and could reach the nation’s ear, I would, pour out a fiery stream […]
By James Petras Iran chaired, hosted and led the recently rejuvenated Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Teheran, attended by delegates from 120 countries, including 31 heads of state and 29 foreign secretaries of state. Even […]
By Jeremy R. Hammond The U.S. media is, unsurprisingly, making their best effort to paint Egypt’s newly elected president, Mohamed Morsi, in a negative light, the general accusation being that he is attempting to usurp […]
By Martin Khor – Geneva The 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) concluded in Tehran on August 31 in high spirits with the political leaders adopting several declarations and action plans, and many of […]
French judges investigating suspicions that Yasser Arafat was poisoned are preparing to travel to the West Bank and have the Palestinian leader’s body exhumed, his widow has said in a statement. If the trip receives the […]
Despite nearly ten per cent growth in the economy of the occupied Palestinian territory in 2011, future prosperity in the West Bank and Gaza is threatened by continued restrictions, fiscal austerity, agricultural decline and a […]
President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that the "Palestinian Spring" had begun, as Palestinians took to the streets across the West Bank in protest over rising prices. "The Palestinian spring has begun, and we are in […]
By Ramzy Baroud The official position of Arab nations is unambiguous: solidarity with Palestine is paramount. But facts on the ground point to a disturbingly different reality, one in which Palestinians are mistreated beyond any […]
By William A. Cook ‘In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel Defeat Jihad.’ — (Pamela Geller, San Francisco ad campaign) The California Assembly’s resolution passed on […]
By Fadi Elhusseini – Ankara As we are in September approaching the annual United Nations general debate, for the second consecutive year, the Palestinian bid for the recognition of the State of Palestine appears to […]
By Ali Younes In Jordan media reports said that former Crown prince Hassan might form the new cabinet in light of the dire economic and political upheavals Jordan is going through now. News outlets also […]
By Johnny Barber – Kabul Four decades of war. Two million people dead. Trillions of dollars spent. Money disappearing into the pockets of corrupt politicians, bureaucrats, policemen and the armed forces. No accountability. No transparency. […]
Polluted water in the Gaza Strip is seriously affecting people’s health and the situation looks set to get worse, the UN warns in a new report. Gaza’s rapidly growing population of about 1.64 million – […]
Two Palestinian refugees were reported killed and a third seriously injured in Al-Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria on Monday morning, according to witness accounts. Palestinians in the camp said a barrage of shells hit a […]
Israel has completed evacuation of a large unauthorized West Bank settlement outpost, culminating years of legal wrangling. The case had become a rallying cry for hardline settler groups opposed to any withdrawal from occupied land […]
By Haidar Eid – Gaza Following assurances and promises by U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to spread democracy in the Middle East only to see the destruction of Iraq […]
By Tamar Fleishman –The West Bank The camps stood opposite of each other during each one of the Ramadan Fridays. From dawn to afternoon- when the prayer at Al-Aqsa was being conducted, the Palestinians stood […]
By Ismail Salami – Tehran Despite the West’s deliberate inattention to and willful disregard for Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Tehran, there is no denying the fact that the summit has occasioned extreme chagrin in Washington […]
By Samah Sabawi (When a young Palestinian-American restaurant owner posted a photo of what he believed to be a historic, pre-1948 globe-map of Palestine on his facebook page, he was attacked for posting an ‘offensive’ […]
By Hakim and Kathy Kelly ‘Stop fighting,’ suggests Farzana, a brave 22 year old Afghan stage actress. Significantly, her statement is in sharp contrast to what seems to be the democratic world’s unquestioned modus operandi […]
The final statement of the Non-Aligned Movement summit will confirm the rights of Palestinian refugees, President Mahmoud Abbas’ diplomatic adviser said Friday. The 120-member Non-Aligned Movement is expected to issue a 680-clause statement on Friday. […]
By Jennifer Loewenstein – Madison, WI Sixty-Seven years after the end of World War II, a team of researchers and cameramen from the Anne Frank House in Holland showed up at the Capitol Lakes retirement […]
By Karen Dabrowska Time has run out for the two-state solution because of the unending and permanent Jewish colonization of Palestinian land. That is the conclusion of Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor the authors of […]
By Uri Avnery Avigador Lieberman has a restless nature. From time to time he has to do something, anything. As Minister of Foreign Affairs he should be doing something about, well, foreign affairs. Trouble is Israel’s […]
A retired 6-term congressman who represented slain activist Rachel Corrie’s district said Thursday he was unsurprised by an Israeli court verdict to dismiss a civil suit filed by the family. Democrat Brian Baird of Washington […]
Israeli authorities have given Palestinian farmers living in Jericho, in the occupied West Bank, an order to uproot palm trees they have grown and leave agricultural lands within 45 days. The orders came in the form […]
By Jamal Kanj Here we go again! Evet Lvovich Lieberman, the Moldavian who became Avigdor Lieberman when in 1978 his religion uniquely qualified him for instantaneous Israeli citizenship, is demanding removal of Palestinian President Mahmood […]
By Kathy Kelly Anne Montgomery died yesterday. I remember her words to me and to our young Iraqi friend Eva, sitting in the Al Monzer hotel in Amman, Jordan. This was in 2006, and she’d […]
By Bill Van Auken Three US Marines and six soldiers have escaped criminal prosecution in connection with the videotaped urination on the corpses of slain Afghans and the burning of copies of the Koran in […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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