Rainbow of Crisis

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3 June 2009, by URI AVNERY
A Fascist Odor of the New Coalition

How lucky we are to have the extreme Right standing guard over our democracy. This week, the Knesset voted by a large majority (47 to 34) for a law that threatens imprisonment for anyone who (...)
1 June 2009
Palestinian Students’ Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI)

"Gaza today has become the test of our indispensable morality and common humanity."
1 June 2009, by Paul Rogers
The war on civilians

The extension of war in Pakistan - from the Afghan border regions to Lahore - is inflicting a terrible toll on the country’s poor and displaced.
29 May 2009, by MOUIN RABBANI
The Dangers of False Optimism in the Middle East

The recent announcement that Barack Obama will deliver a major address to the Muslim world from Cairo in early June has further heightened expectations that the new American administration is (...)
28 May 2009, by Jeff Halper
Netanyahu Chooses Warehousing

Would Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu say the magic words "two states" after his meeting with President Obama? All Israel held its breath. (He didn’t). The gap between the two is wider than those (...)
28 May 2009, by Siddharth Varadarajan
Only diplomacy can reverse North Korea’s nuclear status

Given the impact a nuclear Korean peninsula will have on Japan and the rest of Asia, Beijing and Washington have an incentive to formulate a joint approach towards (...)
28 May 2009, by Walden Bello
Can China Save the World From Depression?

Will China be the "growth pole" that will snatch the world from the jaws of depression? This question has become a favorite topic as the heroic American middle class consumer, weighed down by (...)
26 May 2009, by Economic & Political Weekly
A Logical Defeat for the Left

There is a certain irony in the defeat of the Left, in particular of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M), in the recent general elections. It was among the handful of communist (...)
26 May 2009, by Ellen Cantarow
Obama and two States

A false claim is wafting through the press: Obama is hanging tough with Benjamin Netanyahu, he’s going to "twist Israel’s arm" and at long last force the Jewish state into a two-state agreement, (...)
25 May 2009, by Brian Atkisnky
Israeli Government Obstinance Following Netanyahu’s Return from Meeting in US with Obama

Now that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has arrived back from his first meeting in Washington D.C. with US President, Barack Obama, the pundits are out on both sides, either filled (...)