Gaza and the World: Will Things Ever Change? (Ramzy Baroud)

Jan. 3, 2009 (World News Trust) -- In times of crisis, most Arabs tune in to Aljazeera television. Sometimes it’s comforting for the truth to be stated the way it is, with all of its gory and unsettl ...

Americans Should Act to End Violence Against Gaza (Jeremy R. Hammond)

Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip was predictable, if not preventable. Israel's crimes against the Palestinians simply could not take place on such a massive scale were it not for U.S. support. ...

Elements of an Inside Job in Mumbai Attacks (Jeremy R. Hammond)

Dec. 21, 2008 (Foreign Policy Journal) -- Indian police last week arrested Hassan Ali Khan, who was wanted for investigations into money laundering and other illicit activities, and who is also said ...

Gaza: The Untold Story (Ramzy Baroud)

Dec. 18, 2008 (World News Trust) -- It’s incomprehensible that a region such as the Gaza Strip, so rich with history, so saturated with defiance, can be reduced to a few blurbs, sound bites and reduc ...

Cluster Bomb Treaty and the World's Unfinished Business (Ramzy Baroud)

Dec. 13, 2008 (World News Trust) -- The United States, Russia and China are sending a terrible message to the rest of the world by refusing to take part in the historic signing of a treaty that bans ...

New York Times Misleads on Taliban Role in Opium Trade (Jeremy R. Hammond)

The New York Times and other major U.S. media sources commonly report on the production of opium in Afghanistan as though it were under the control of the Taliban. The facts on the ground, however, t ...

Gaza: Salvation in a News Broadcast (Ramzy Baroud)

Dec. 1, 2008 (World News Trust) -- When Gaza's electricity is in working order, most Palestinians in the impoverished and overcrowded Strip huddle around their television screens. It's neither "Ameri ...

The Rights of Women as Casualties of War (Ramzy Baroud)

Nov. 21, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Qurban-Bibi and Nahil Abu-Rada are two women, one Afghan and the other Palestinian, who made news with similar tragedies. But their losses also helped further deli ...

Unsettling Signs: Buzzwords, Politics and US Elections (Ramzy Baroud)

Nov. 14, 2008 -- (World News Trust) -- There are a few buzzwords that every American politician, aiming for high office must utilize, even if disingenuously, to have a reasonable chance at getting el ...

Playgrounds for Palestine: One Marathon at a Time (Ramzy Baroud)

Nov. 6, 2008 (World News Trust) -- My right knee is wrapped. My left ankle is iced. I lost the nail on my right big toe, and have about 20 blisters and a similar number of bruises on both of my feet. ...

The Racism of McCain... and Obama... and the Media (Jeremy R. Hammond)

The underlying assumption in the argument that association with Rashid Khalidi or his views on the Israel-Palestinian conflict is worthy of criticism is itself, by its own standard, inherently racist ...