By Ludwig Watzal The US Empire constitutes the greatest threat to world peace. This has been proven by the history of this nation. Starting out as a nation born in the fight against British colonialism, […]

By Adie Mormech – Gaza City Thousands of Palestinians gathered for evening prayer in front of the Egyptian embassy in Gaza City Monday evening, in memory of the 16 Egyptian soldiers killed the previous night. […]

By Rebecca Johnson Sixty-seven years ago, on August 6, the first uranium bomb was exploded above Hiroshima with the force of 15 thousand tons of TNT. Tens of thousands were killed by the blast and […]

By Ismail Salami – Tehran In continuation of the US-led illegal sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran, Congress passed on Wednesday night a bill, which imposes more embargoes on the country including those on […]

By Georgina Reeves In his latest piece written for the New York Times, Avraham Burg asks: ‘Where is the good old Israel?’ Assuming he is not being tongue-in-cheek, and there is no suggestion in the […]

By Hasan Afif El-Hasan Governor Mitt Romney, the presumptive presidential Republican nominee suggested in a speech delivered in Israel that the reason the Israelis has had greater economic success than the Palestinians was in part […]

By Sam Bahour ‘We have to get rid of Arafat.’ — Israeli defense Minister Shaul Mofaz to Prime Minister Sharon caught on an open mic. (Source: Haaretz, Hebrew) “We operated against Ahmed Yassin and Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi […]

By Yousef M. Aljamal – Gaza Strip ‘You will become an uncle soon,’ my sister Zeinab told me cheerfully. She didn’t know then what fate had in store for her, for us. In April 2007, as […]

By Zahra Pilavdzic Here, buried, beneath the rubble of slaughter. The pawns cry not for kings, but for their missing… mothers, now martyrs. They seek escape at the end of a long, dark checkerboard to hell. Here in the absence of decency… there is no poetry, just blood. and… only the angels can […]

By Jamil Khader Egyptian Director Rami Imam’s popular Ramadanic sitcom, Naji Attallah’s Band, revolves around the personal vendetta of Naji Attalah (performed by the well-known comedic actor, Adel Imam) against the Israeli government. A former […]

By Paul Craig Roberts The State Department has an office that hunts German war criminals. Bureaucracies being what they are, the office will exist into the next century when any surviving German prison guards will […]

By Mohamed El Mokhtar The wide contrast between Palestinian economic hardship – an Israeli-imposed ordeal for the most part- and the Western-bankrolled, American-subsidized Israeli prosperity lies squarely, according to Mitt Romney, in the “cultural superiority” […]

By Jamal Kanj Pre-empting Mitt Romney’s campaign visit to Israel, President Barack Obama last Friday signed the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Co-operation Act of 2012. The bill was drafted by the American Israel Public Affairs […]

By Iqbal Jassat As Syria disintegrates and important landmarks in cities across many of its region displaying visible scars of war, it’s becoming clear that the Assad regime’s reign is terminal. While this outcome is predictable, the […]

By Felicity Arbuthnot – London ‘I think most people who have dealt with me think I am a pretty straight sort of guy, and I am.’ — Tony Blair, November 2007. In the last several […]

By Stuart Littlewood Mitt Romney is listed among People magazine’s 50 ‘most beautiful’ of 2002. He was up there with Nicole Kidman, Britney Spears and Julia Roberts. But how pretty does he look in 2012? […]

By Asma Agbarieh-Zahalka The late Moshe Silman’s act of self-immolation rattled the entire country. Both the media and social protest activists have put out heartfelt pleas to try to dissuade others from following suit. But […]

By Ramzy Baroud Northern Mali promises to be the graveyard of scores of innocent people if African countries don’t collectively challenge Western influence in the region. Mali is fast becoming the Afghanistan of Africa. The […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Israel has barely put a foot right with the international community since its attack on Gaza more than three years ago provoked global revulsion. The right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu has serially […]

By Patrick O. Strickland – Hebron (Al-Khalil) A winding road, smooth and freshly paved, carries passengers from Jerusalem to Hebron, situated deep in the stomach of the West Bank. This route, like 80 percent of […]