March 6, 2017
In a pre-dawn raid attacking a home in el-Bireh, Basil al-Araj, 31, Palestinian youth activist and writer pursued by Israel for nearly a year, was assassinated by invading Israeli occupation forces this morning. (more…)
By Jonathan Cook on March 3, 2017
Photo: Bill Hackwell
The Israeli leadership shows no signs of heeding the lessons of an official report into the 2014 Gaza war that led to massive destruction and loss of life in the tiny coastal enclave, Palestinians warned this week. (more…)
By Patrick Henningsen on March 2, 2017
Helene Bertha Amalie ”Leni” Riefenstahl was a German film director and propagandist for the Nazis. In the 1930s, she directed Triumph des Willens (“Triumph of the Will”) and Olympia, resulting in worldwide attention and acclaim. (more…)
By Jonathan Marshall on February 23, 2017
Only a few months ago, interventionists were demanding a militant response by Washington to what George Soros branded“a humanitarian catastrophe of historic proportions” — (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on February 8, 2017
A United Nations Panel of Experts sent its report to the UN Security Council this week. The tenor of the report is bleak. Yemen, say the experts, is ‘in danger of fracturing beyond the point of no return’. (more…)
February 14, 2017
A Palestinian academic sounded the alarm over the preplanned tactics of psycho-physical torture perpetrated against Palestinian children in Israeli jails. (more…)
By Philip Giraldi on February 11, 2017
The United States is adding new sanctions on Iran over that country’s alleged misdeeds, and nearly all of those allegations are either out-and-out lies or half-truths. (more…)
By Jonathan Cook on February 7, 2017
The Israeli parliament passed legalisation law on Monday night – a piece of legislation every bit as suspect as its title suggests. The law widens the powers of Israeli officials to seize the last fragments of Palestinian land in the West Bank that were supposed to be off-limits. (more…)