by Charley Reese

Have you ever wondered how human beings can be so cruel? And how cruelty crosses all the boundaries – national, racial, and ethnic? I have. Rereading an autobiography published in 1941 by a communist agent reminded me of the dark side of human nature.

By Bill Moyers

At the Central Baptist Church in Marshall, Texas, where I was baptized in the faith, we believed in a free church in a free state. I still do.

by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr

Thank you all for this kind reception. On the 25th of this past year's July, I presented an international webcast from Washington, D.C., announcing the impending—within a matter of days—breakdown of the international financial system, which would continue to worsen, until either a remedy had been supplied, or the system would disintegrate.

By Bassam Aramin

I take this opportunity to call upon the Israeli Jew who is celebrating his holiday of freedom to answer this question: How on this night can you stand to celebrate your freedom at the expense of another's freedom?

Keep hoping

By Salama A Salama

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez harshly criticized the US administration again after the unauthorized passing of the USS George Washington along the coast of the Latin American country. Chavez promised to bury the USA in the 21st century.

The Middle East

Justin Raimondo

While not the thinking person's only concern, Israel's continued hegemony over US foreign policy formulation is the greatest threat to world peace, writes Hassan Nafaa*

The Venezuelan president’s meeting with members of the “In Defense of Humanity” network"

By Pascual Serrano

A United States military post in Ecuador, considered an important drug-interdiction center, would be banned under the country’s new constitution, which faces a referendum this year.

(Israel's Congressman in Washington should move to Tel Aviv and stay there!)

Gershom Gorenberg

Kudos to Rabbi Eric Yoffie, head of the Union for Reform Judaism, who has publicly spoken out against Jewish political cooperation with those Evangelicals who label themselves "Christian Zionists," with their most prominent organization - Christians United for Israel - and with its leader, Rev. John Hagee. Yoffie's words:

The Ahmadinejad Machine

By Dieter Bednarz

The new Iranian parliament is again dominated by loyalists to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He stands a good chance of being reelected next year -- despite the fact that his constituents suffer the brunt of his mismanagement and corruption.

Ivan Eland

During the early days of the Clinton administration, Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cringed when Madeleine Albright implied that because the United States had such a big, beautiful military, it should be willing to use it promiscuously overseas. After the debacle in Iraq, the growing group of those who desire a more restrained foreign policy – liberals, conservatives, libertarians, and independents – should still be cringing.

by Ann Wright, John Brown and Brady Kiesling

Five years ago this month, the three of us left the US Foreign Service in opposition to the war on Iraq. We were not pacifists. We were professional, non-partisan diplomats bound by our oath of loyalty to the US Constitution.

By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem

I realize very well that you are not carbon copies of each other. And I also know that there are many Jews around the world who truly despise what Israel has been doing to the Palestinian people in your name.

What do Ron Paul, Barack Obama, and Adlai Stevenson have in common?

by Justin Raimondo

The response to my "confession" of admiration for Barack Obama is instructive on several levels, the first being the amount of sheer emotion generated.

IRAN wants to ban all nuclear weapons through an international treaty, the country's foreign minister said at the UN's Conference on Disarmament.

By Fidel Castro Ruz

I remember when he visited us, months before the electoral campaign when he was thinking of running as a candidate for the Presidency of Ecuador. He had been the Minister of the Economy in the government of Alfredo Palacio, a surgeon with professional prestige who had also visited us as Vice President, before becoming the President in an unexpected situation that took place in Ecuador.

By Gail Minor

I feel like some of those running for office, their surrogates and the conservative media are all used car sales men.. They are skilled at selling you something that you don’t want and is not even what you are interested in.

From Khalid Amayreh in Occupied Jerusalem

A worldwide organization representing anti-Zionist Jews has strongly condemned the ongoing mass killing and maiming by the Israeli occupation army of hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

By James Macintyre

Four Colombian hostages who had been "living dead" in the jungle for six years were freed by Marxist rebels last night after a deal was brokered by Venezuela's leftist President, Hugo Chavez.

Chávez orders immediate liberation of indigenous peoples fenced in by English corporation in Apure

by Luigino Bracci Roa

by Rodney Sheffer

One day, late in my career as a biology teacher, we had finished our lesson for the day on organic evolution, and there were a few minutes left in the hour. A student asked me if I believed in god.

By Dennis Kucinich

Today is the sixth anniversary of my "Prayer for America" speech. Please take a moment to read the speech...

In light of the events that have taken place since I wrote and delivered it on February 17, 2002, you will see that long before anyone else in Congress saw the danger our country was headed toward, I spoke out -- truthfully and forcefully.

Singer/songwriter James McMurtry is once again making a political statement through his music. On his new song “Cheney’s Toy”, McMurtry picks up where he left off with his controversial anthem “We Can’t Make it Here.” “Cheney’s Toy” reminds us that the war in Iraq is still going on — with veiled references to Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and the stark image of a soldier who returned from the conflict, blind and brain damaged.

by JAMES McMURTRY

by James Mcmurtry

McMurtry has long been known as fine storyteller, but he has lately received nationwide attention for his role as a musical activist. On Just Us Kids, McMurtry picks up where he left off with his controversial anthem “We Can’t Make It Here.”

Ivan Eland

As the nation's major media outlets crown John McCain (George W. Bush on steroids) as the Republican nominee for president, their nearly criminal neglect of Ron Paul's candidacy in the 2008 presidential campaign is nearly complete. "Big media" have never deemed Paul a "major candidate," as their paltry coverage of him shows.

Hamas needs to place its Islamist agenda on the backburner and concentrate instead on alleviating the suffering of Palestinians, argues Galal Nassar

By Debra Craig

They can't say I didn't try to retain my loyalty to the Republican Party. I stood steadfast as the George W. Bush regime entered into an illegal war thanks to the over 900 lies his administration told.

{And THESE Jews are the ones to whom the true biblical (torah) inheritance of the land of Israel belongs - these are the 'Hebrews' -- the oppressed Hebrews that we learned to love in Sunday School - These are the protectors (not rulers) of the Holy Land for all peoples of all nations - intent on making Jerusalem a City of Peace - Not a State of War for a Puppet State of USAEUROISRAEL}

Regarding The Zionist Massacre in Gaza: Following is a letter that was sent from Neturei Karta USA and Canada to Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahar Co-Founder of Hamas:

By Ron Paul Ron Paul speaking 07/02/08 at CPAC after Romney announces he is leaving the race. McCain also spoke but was booed by the conservatives.

Layla Anwar

What's this big deal about the "Super Baaawwl"?

Do you actually call that football? A bunch of armored mental midgets kicking and falling on each other because of an egg shaped ball?

By Sen. Mike Gravel

Dennis Kucinich deserves the praise and gratitude of all Americans who want our government to promote peace and justice at home and abroad. On all the issues, Dennis took brave, honest positions that reflect his great courage and decency.

Johan Galtung, dr hc mult, Professor of Peace Studies

Gandhi was fighting the UK Empire, meaning UK invasion and occupation. One invasion, Viceroy Richard Wellesley in 1798 against the Sultan of Mysore, was also clearly anti-Muslim. The same year Napoleon's mission civilisatrice invaded Egypt to make himself Sultan el-kebir, Great Ruler, but were thrown out in 1801. The English came in 1807 and Egypt was a colony till 1922.