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No More Tunnels Please: Gaza Held Hostage to Egypt’s Turmoil
By Ramzy Baroud
Air of uncertainty is engulfing most matters related to Egypt. Since the Egyptian revolt started over two years ago, the country remains hostage to a barefaced power struggle with many destructive implications that have polarized ...
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Destroying the Planet for Record Profits
By Tom Engelhardt*
We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide. And one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment: ecocide. But we don’t have a word for the conscious act of destroying ...
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Nuclear Terror in the Middle East
By Nick Turse*
In those first minutes, they’ll be stunned. Eyes fixed in a thousand-yard stare, nerve endings numbed. They’ll just stand there. Soon, you’ll notice that they are holding their arms out at a 45-degree angle. Your eyes will ...
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Imperial Gigantism and the Decline of Planet Earth
By Tom Engelhardt*
It stretched from the Caspian to the Baltic Sea, from the middle of Europe to the Kurile Islands in the Pacific, from Siberia to Central Asia. Its nuclear arsenal held 45,000 warheads, and its military had five million troops ...
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Beit Daras and the Buried History of Massacres
By Ramzy Baroud*
Few with any sense of intellectual or historical integrity would still question the bloody massacre that took place in the village of Deir Yassin 65 years ago, claiming the lives of over 100 innocent Palestinians. Attempts at ...
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The Enemy-Industrial Complex
By Tom Engelhardt*
The communist enemy, with the “world’s fourth largest military,” has been trundling missiles around and threatening the United States with nuclear obliteration. Guam, Hawaii, Washington: all, it claims, are targetable. ...
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Obama’s Peace Antics in Israel – Four More Years of This?
By Ramzy Baroud*
At the precise moment US President Barack Obama’s Air Force One touched down at Ben Gurion Airport on March 20, persisting illusions quickly began to shatter. And as he walked on the red carpet, showered with accolades and ...
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Of Hope and Pain: Rachel Corrie’s Rafah Legacy
By Ramzy Baroud*
“Hi Papa .. Don’t worry about me too much, right now I am most concerned that we are not being effective. I still don’t feel particularly at risk. Rafah has seemed calmer lately,” Rachel Corrie wrote to her father, Craig, ...
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Israeli Occupation: Hypocritical EU Must Make a Stand
By Ramzy Baroud*
More bad news emerged from Israel in recent weeks. Indeed, good news is seldom associated with Israel and its military occupation and institutionalized discrimination and mistreatment of Palestinians.
But now even those ...
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Waterboarding Americans and the Redefinition of Torture
By Nick Turse*
Try to remain calm -- even as you begin to feel your chest tighten and your heart race. Try not to panic as water starts flowing into your nose and mouth, while you attempt to constrict your throat and slow your breathing and keep ...
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Iraq at the Brink: A Decade after the Invasion
By Ramzy Baroud*
Soon after the joint US-British bombing campaign ‘Operation Desert Fox’ devastated parts of Iraq in Dec 1998 , I was complaining to a friend in the lobby of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad.
I was disappointed with the ...
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