by David Cronin OFFG says: This piece was originally published in March 2015, but is still highly relevant. It gives us an insight into the culture of polite self-censorship...

by Andre Vltchek Lebanon cannot stand on its feet anymore.  It is overwhelmed, frightened and broke. It stands on the frontline, facing ISIS in the east and north, a...

by Eric Zuesse No matter how bad the fundamentalist Sunni-Islamic Saud royal family are, America’s government still supports them and condemns the countries that the Sauds hate: those are...

A number of Palestinian protesters dressed like Santa Claus have clashed with the Israeli army while protesting in the West Bank, Bethlehem, on 18 December. Around 50 Palestinians clashed...

as part of our challenging the narrative of the “new 9/11” series, former US marine Ken O’Keefe comments on the Paris terror attacks for Iran’s Press TV The idea that...

by David William Pear from OpEdNews.com A delegation of 23 members of the women’s peace activist group CodePink just returned from a 9 day tour of Palestine. I was...

by Systematic Still from the video below. Press TV reports: Israeli warplanes have struck targets near the international airport in the Syrian capital, Damascus, Syrian media says. The reports said...

A Hezbollah soldier lectures ISIS militants during a truce about how their actions are benefiting Israel.

Reading the New York Times, Washington Post, and other allegedly liberal major media outlets, one could be forgiven for thinking that the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is tit-for-tat,...

by Kit After years of criticism for their soft-heartedness, and hundreds of Israeli casualties from savage stone-throwing-related terrorist attacks, Israel is finally taking a stern line on the Palestinian...

by LeanToTheLeft A response by CiFer “LeanToTheLeft” to the Guardian article “Israel’s hawks can’t dodge blame for this day of violence” “Israel’s hawks can’t dodge blame for this day...

by Vaska Al Jazeera reports that, in what amounts to acts of war crime, Israeli soldiers were instructed to shoot civilians in Gaza last summer: The 237-page report by...

Read full article on Nafeez Ahmed’s website After writing for The Guardian for over a year, my contract was unilaterally terminated because I wrote a piece on Gaza that...