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 […]

By IRIN – Ramallah Rasmiyye Hamande has lived in a cave in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) for most of her life, which may have been a blessing in disguise. ‘This cave,’ she says, ‘can’t […]

By Uri Avnery Binyamin Netanyahu may be crazy, but he is not mad. Ehud Barak may be mad, but he is not crazy. Ergo: Israel will not attack Iran. I have said so before, and […]

By Stuart Littlewood ‘People in public life are not always as clear as they should be about where the boundaries of acceptable conduct lie.’ – Nolan Committee. "Who will own Mitt Romney if he is […]

By Richard Johnson – Geneva As the crisis spawned by the on-going Syrian conflict deteriorated, with ‘a sharp rise in the number of Syrians fleeing to Turkey and Jordan’, the United Nations announced August 17 […]

By Yousef Al-Helou – Gaza In the wake of August 6 Sinai attack that left 16 Egyptian soldiers dead at the hands of unknown attackers, Egyptian authorities closed the Rafah border crossing- Gaza’s only terminal […]

By Eric Walberg The US ‘withdrawal’ from Iraq last year and the planned ‘withdrawal’ from Afghanistan in 2014 cannot help but change the face of Central Asia and the Middle East. But how does Russia […]