Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, it was a very familiar encounter: Israeli soldiers storming our house…

Years back, an old and astute professor at the University of Washington ended a fascinating lecture to a small group of freshmen…

This past Tuesday, in Fairbanks, Alaska, nine people entered the office of Senator Ted Stevens to deliver their “emphatic request” that the…

Maine, and New Hampshire are waging a grassroots campaign against Verizon’ abandonment of “low-value” landline customers in northern New England. Verizon’s $2.7…

The configuration of the New Middle East — as envisaged by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the Israeli war against…

“E noi che siamo donne, paura non abbiamo La base non vogliamo, la base non vogliamo.” And we who are women are…

As Congress wrestles with US policy in Iraq, the human reality on the ground grows worse and worse throughout the region. We…

Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On February 9, Michael Shank interviewed him on the latest developments…

The Makkah agreement, signed between rival Palestinian groups, Hamas and Fatah on February 8, under the auspices of the Saudi leadership, was…

Dear Mitch Potter, It has been some time since you wrote me on September 10, 2006, in response to my blog post…

The relationship between Iran and the United States is one of peculiar temperament: intense but accommodating at times, barefaced and seemingly self-destructive…

Q. What is the importance of Hezbollah’s last year victory and how will it influence future events in the region?   Hezbollah’s…

A military judge in Fort Lewis, Washington, has declared a mistrial in the court-martial of Lieut. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer…

The relationship between Iran and the United States is one of peculiar temperament: intense but accommodating at times, barefaced and seemingly self-destructive…

Thanks for coming. Growing resistance inside and outside the U.S. military, together with the Vietnamese resistance  to the U.S. occupation in Vietnam…

(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Remembering Tomorrow, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Remembering Tomorrow…

Earlier this week, I received a joyful phone call from Baghdad. Members of a family I’ve known since 1996 announced that one…

The Michael Steele 2006 Senatorial campaign in Maryland posed the question front and center of what does one mean by “Black Politics?” Does…

Sr. Rose Leo, the principal of the grade school I attended, was also a talented musician who could have had a career…

Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say. Please click here if you are…

Caracas, January 8, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)’” During the swearing-in ceremony of his new cabinet, Venezuela’s President Chavez announced a series of dramatic new…

While the November elections provided the Democratic Party a public mandate to end the war in Iraq, President Bush has signaled his…

Last month a coincidence of birth and death signaled a transition for South America and indeed for the world. The former Chilean…

2006 was yet another year of tribulations in the ever tumultuous Middle  East. It defied all early expectations that 2005 would be…

An Iraqi friend whom I’ve known for ten years looked worn and very weary yesterday when he came to visit me in…

It’s all too convenient for the BBC website to describe the ongoing bloodshed between Hamas and Fatah supporters in the Gaza Strip…

1. Why did the U.S. invade Iraq? (And why did important sectors of the political elite, like Scowcroft, oppose doing so?) What…

I began the preface of my latest book, “The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle,” by making the following…

There was a meeting on the weekend of December 9-10 in Cochabamba in Bolivia of major South American leaders. It was a…

The year 2006 will be remembered as one in which the American people and the world rose up to challenge the criminal…

A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track, by Andy Stern, (New York: Free Press) 2006, 212 pp. $24.   America…

The launch of Aljazeera International on November 15, the English arm of Aljazeera Satellite Television was hardly an ordinary event. It was…

¿Has sentido alguna vez que hay cosas sobre las que quieres saber lo que alguien piensa, que serían importantes para las vidas…

The launch of Aljazeera International on November 15, the English arm of Aljazeera Satellite Television was hardly an ordinary event. It was…

It must sound absurd, perhaps even unbelievable, that four peace women were arrested and put on trial for attempting to deliver a…

When I first began hearing CNN journalist and news anchor Lou Dobbs being interviewed a month or so ago on radio and…

Palestinian groups have recently suggested a ceasefire, in exchange for a cessation of Israeli violence. Ehud Olmert responded with a conciliatory speech,…

Q: “What is the relation between the social or political and the economical? Is there any difference?”   I think there is…

Finally, a year of anticipation about Venezuela’s 2006 presidential election is about to come to an end. For Chavez supporters the campaign…

The recent US election was a redemptive election. At a time that many throughout the world had written off the American electorate…

(1) Can you tell ZNet, please, what your new book, Perilous Power, is about? What is it trying to communicate? Perilous Power…

While economists laud the recently deceased Milton Friedman for being “a champion of freedom whose work transformed economics and changed the world,”…

The Democrats’ ascendancy within the US Congress could signal the regaining by the public, of its country’s direction The astounding results of…

The Democrats’ ascendancy within the US Congress could signal the regaining by the public, of its country’s direction. The astounding results of…

In an exclusive interview with the Star Weekend Magazine, Michael Albert, economist, editor of ZNet and co-editor of Z magazine, talks about…

Barely a day goes by when I don’t learn a new report about a beleaguered Iraqi refugee, or of an entire family,…

“God is greater than Israel and America,” was the echoing cry of tens of thousands of Palestinians, who descended into the graveyard…

Few elections in history have provided so clear a mandate. As the New York Times put it, Democrats were “largely elected on…

Michael Albert, born in 1947, is an author and political activist of the anarchist-syndicalist movement, living in Boston (Massachusetts / USA). He…

This election clearly represented both a repudiation of Bush but also very intense anger with the environment that has been building in…