By M. Shahid Alam
Pakistan’s rulers and ruling elites may well be thinking that the wave of people’s indignation that started in Tunisia and is now working its way through Egypt, Jordan and Yemen will never …

By Robin Yassin-Kassab
Written on the night of January 14th 2011

The dictator, thief and Western client Zein al-Abdine Ben Ali, beloved until a few hours ago in Paris and Washington, has been driven from Tunisia. His …

By Robin Yassin-Kassab
M. Shahid Alam’s latest book “Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilising Logic of Zionism” is a fascinating historical analysis, densely detailed and referenced, of the nature and trajectory of Jewish nationalism. It is bracingly honest, …

By Toufic Machnouk
Structural violence is the effect of a systemic imbalance in society that prefers the interests of some over others. Its dynamics are less visible than that of direct violence, where the causes are …

By Rick Rozoff
In the waning days of the Bush presidency while the domestic press corps was preoccupied with the impending inauguration of his successor, the White House effectively sneaked through a major, groundbreaking directive on …

By Rick Rozoff
Lost amid the national, and international, fanfare accompanying the inauguration of the 44th president of the United States today is attention to the person who is slated to be the latter’s major foreign …

By M. Shahid Alam, Professor of Economics, Northeastern University
At a time when Palestinian men, women and children, corralled in the ghetto of Gaza since 1948, are daily, hourly, relentlessly, being bombed from the air, …

Kees van der Pijl, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex
The relentless military violence applied by Israel to the population of Gaza is no longer a matter of indignation about the killing of people who have nowhere …

By Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories
For eighteen months the entire 1.5 million people of Gaza experienced a punishing blockade imposed by Israel, and a variety of traumatizing …

By Stephen Lendman
On June 16, 2008, noted Israeli historian Ilan Pappe explained “The Israeli Recipe for 2008: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleaning in the West Bank.” He wrote: “Not long ago, I claimed that Israel …

By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
The Israel-Palestine conflict cannot be understood without understanding its historical and ideological origins. Whereas conventional opinion focuses on the idea of Palestinian rejectionism of Israel’s right to exist – allegedly rooted …

By Eric deCarbonnelle, February 2009
After reading about the droughts in two major agricultural countries, China and
Argentina, I decided to research the extent other food producing nations were also
experiencing droughts. This project ended up taking a lot …

By Ahmed Bouzid, Published in association with Palestine Media Watch
The outbreak of violence in Gaza has been the top story in the mainstream media here in the United States for three days in a row now, …

By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Watching journalist John Ware’s two-part BBC television documentary aired on Sunday and Monday evening this week, “No plan, no peace in Iraq”, one came away with the impression that the entire invasion …

By M. Shahid Alam
In Pakistan today we encounter a paradox crying for an explanation; it is a paradox, moreover, whose exploration can bring some clarity to the predicament of the Islamicate today.
In January 2002, when …

By M. Shahid Alam
No idea has played a more seminal role in the recent history of Jewish and Christian Zionism than the Jewish doctrine of divine election or chosenness.[1] Since this …

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By Dr. M. Shahid Alam
It is a fact little known in the West, outside the circle of historians of Islamicate societies, that Islamicate states often employed soldiers and bureaucrats who were …

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By William R. Clark

I recall someone looking to see a little bit more about Iran here recently. I’ll attempt a “who (or what, in this case) is behind the curtain” act …