By Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah
There seems to be a perfect conformity between Gabi Ashkenazi and his last name. The Israeli chief of staff is considered one of the main Israeli  war criminals responsible for the virtual genocide against the Gaza Strip during the past winter. On his murderous hands, he carries tons of innocent blood, [...]

Palestinians and foreign activists have torn down segments of Israel’s separation wall in a demonstration marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In the town of Qalandiya in the occupied West Bank, a group of masked activists using a lorry pulled down a two-metre cement block before Israeli security forces confronted them [...]

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second left. AFP photo

The global economic order needs “radical change,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday, calling for Islamic principles to replace capitalist values.
“The present economic crisis is due to the capitalist system. The world needs radical change,” Ahmadinejad told a one-day economic summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, [...]

By Khalid Amayreh

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – A Jewish rabbi has issued a book giving Jews permission to murder non-Jews, including babies and children, who may pose an actual or potential threat to Jews or Israel.
“It is permissible to kill the Righteous among [...]

Mahmoud Abbas, the beleaguered head of the Palestinian Authority, has finally but belatedly admitted that  the so-called Peace process with Israel has completely  failed and that the Palestinian people will have to seek an alternative to it.
In a speech in Ramallah Thursday evening, Abbas rightly blamed Israel for the collapse of the political process, saying [...]

By Dave Lindorff
Country Joe said it best in his iconic “Fixin’ to Die” Rag: “Oh, it’s one, two, three, what are we fightin’ for? Don’t ask me. I don’t give a damn.” In fact, we were fighting for nothing in Vietnam. It was a war that started out because the US didn’t want the Commies [...]

A national tour to highlight the systematic and institutionalised ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children by the Israeli authorities, organised by Action for Palestinian Children and supported by Palestine Solidarity Campaign

By Stephen Lendman
On October 28, New York Times writer Nick Bunkley wrote the following:
“Federal agents (today) fatally shot a man they described as the leader of a violent Sunni Muslim separatist group in Detroit.” Targeted was Luqman Ameen Abdullah “whom agents were trying to arrest in Dearborn on charges that included illegal possession and sale [...]