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NATO Summit in Washington – US Invites Israel, Arab Countries
By Palestine Chronicle Staff The Financial Times reported on Friday that the United States has invited the foreign ministers of Israel and several Arab countries to attend the NATO summit in Washington next month. […]

Biden Considers ‘Israel Model’ for Ukraine; But What Does It Mean?
US President Joe Biden’s administration is reluctant to offer Ukraine full NATO membership and is instead pushing for the “Israel model,” meaning a time-limited commitment to maintain the flow of Western weapons to the country, […]

Prophets of Doom: Kissinger and the ‘Intellectual’ Decline of the West
By Ramzy Baroud The problem, of course, is not Kissinger himself. The crisis is twofold: The West is unwilling to accept that war, for once, will not solve its problems; but it also has […]

In Response to Opportunistic Critics: Where I Actually Stand on the Russia-Ukraine War
By Ronnie Kasrils The recent hatchet job by Greg Mills and Ray Hartley in the Daily Maverick shows they believe it is their hallowed duty to strike down any voice daring to question the Western […]

Israel Funds ‘Strategic Materials’ for Ukraine under US Pressure
The US government pushed Israel into a one-time deal to provide Ukraine with mysterious “strategic materials” several weeks ago, Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed on Thursday. Tel Aviv reportedly wants the details of the arrangement kept […]

Rejecting NATO’s Peace Prize: Palestinian NGOs are True Nobel Laureates
By Ilan Pappe – The Palestine Chronicle One person and two organizations received the Nobel Peace Prize this year. I respect all of them. Like so many others, I cannot feel but admiration for […]

‘Rationality is Not Permitted’: Chomsky on Russia, Ukraine and the Price of Media Censorship
By Ramzy Baroud One of the reasons that Russian media has been completely blocked in the West, along with the unprecedented control and censorship over the Ukraine war narrative, is the fact that western […]

From Korea to Libya: On the Future of Ukraine and NATO’s Neverending Wars
By Ramzy Baroud Much has been said and written about media bias and double standards in the West’s response to the Russia-Ukraine war, when compared with other wars and military conflicts across the world, […]

Is Europe Really More Civilized? Ukraine Conflict a Platform for Racism and Rewriting History
By Ramzy Baroud When a gruesome six-minute video of Ukrainian soldiers shooting and torturing handcuffed and tied up Russian soldiers circulated online, outraged people on social media and elsewhere compared this barbaric behavior to […]

Today’s Ukraine War was Made in the West Yesterday
By Issa Khalaf War is the dark side of the human species, its rationalizations and justifications ubiquitous. Ukraine seems like a victim, the asymmetrical underdog. Those who care about Palestine (and elsewhere) have a deep […]

The Russians Are Coming: Are Beijing and Moscow at the Cusp of a Formal Alliance?
By Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo It should matter little to the Chinese that American diplomats and a handful of their western allies will not be attending the Beijing Winter Olympics in February. What truly […]

Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua: The US-Russia Conflict Enters a New Phase
By Ramzy Baroud As soon as Moscow received an American response to its security demands in Ukraine, it answered indirectly by announcing greater military integration between it and three South American countries, Nicaragua, Venezuela […]

Who Represents Afghanistan: Genuine Activists vs ‘Native Informants’
By Ramzy Baroud Scenes of thousands of Afghans flooding the Kabul International Airport to flee the country as Taliban fighters were quickly consolidating their control over the capital, raised many questions, leading amongst them: […]

After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed
By Jim Miles (After the Apocalypse – America’s Role in a World Transformed. Andrew Bacevich. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company. New York. 2021.) The contemporary apocalypse as seen by Andrew Bacevich in his latest […]

The Lion and the Eagle: The Interaction of the British and American Empires, 1783-1972 – Book Review
By Jim Miles (The Lion and the Eagle – The Interaction of the British and American Empires 1783-1972. Kathleen Burk. Bloomsbury, London/New York, 2018) The 200-year historical span of Kathleen Burk’s “The Lion and the […]

As Washington Retreats, Eastern Mediterranean Conflict Further Marginalizes NATO
By Ramzy Baroud The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance in name alone. Recent events notwithstanding, the brewing conflict over territorial waters in the Eastern Mediterranean indicates that the military union between […]