News and Analysis

The Iraq War Was About Oil, All Along Bill Moyers and Michael Winship July 5, 2008. Here’s a recent headline in The New York Times: “Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back.” Read on: “Four western companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them…

Gaza Locked In Despite Truce Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani CAIRO, Jul 7 (IPS) – Despite a torrent of mutual recriminations, the fragile truce between Israel and Palestinian resistance faction Hamas survived into its third week. Israel, however, has been slow to fulfil its pledge — as laid down in an Egypt-brokered ceasefire agreement…

71% of Americans say U.S. gov’t shouldn’t take sides in Mideast conflict Bradley Burston, Haaretz Correspondent Research institute at the University of Maryland finds that: 71 percent of Americans believe that the United States government should not take sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. . Of American respondents, 21 percent said the United States should take…

‘What we did was crazy and brutal’  by Billy Briggs, Scotland on Sunday 20 January, 2008 “thousands of [Israeli] cluster bombs littered like some sadistic plague upon the land. They lay on roads, in gardens, in fields, on roofs, in doorways, inside offices and shops, in homes, in children’s bedrooms and in graveyards; even the…