Thursday 15th May marked Nakba Day, Yawm an-Nakba, "Day of Catastrophe": the onset of the displacement of perhaps 800,000 Palestinians
Strategically placed politicians and scientists are conveying the message that GM food is both safe and necessary
Ruben De Sai on how Nigel Farage's UKIP and the mainstream media are preventing an honest debate on the European elections, and the economic issues that no one is talking about.
Just before Israel's 66th Independence Day, the country acquired a new national hero, writes Uri Avnery
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." (Voltaire, 1694-1778).
Successive British Governments have persistently denied the importance of industry in the national economy, with some of ministers foolishly regarding industrial decline as inevitable writes George T Edwards
Headlines in the mainstream Western media, and Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague, obediently echo White House propaganda
The form of state prevalent in the developed capitalist world at the time of the Commune was a state that functioned to support the bourgeoisie in its war against the working class
The Indian Oil and Environment minister has added fuel to the debate about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by approving field trials of 200 GM food crops on behalf of companies like Monsanto
Over one thousand people are dying each month in Iraq as a result of foreign Jihadists exploiting the borders with neighbouring Syria