The UN is part of Palestine’s problem | by Frank Barat

At the United Nations building in New York City on Friday, 23 September 2011, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) addresses the General Assembly in his bid to obtain full recognition of...

The Negev’s Hot Wind Blowing | by Jonathan Cook

Over the past 15 months the dusty plains of the northern Negev desert in Israel have been witness to a ritual of destruction, part of a police operation known as Hot Wind. On 29 occasions since June 2010, hundreds of Israeli paramilitary officers have made the...
How the 1 percent rules | Lance Selfa

How the 1 percent rules | Lance Selfa

The Occupy movement’s most powerful unifying factor has been its clear and simple identification of the key problem in American society: the divide between the vast majority of the population–the 99 percent–and the richest and most powerful 1...