Analysis and testimonies

- Latin America
- 29 Jun 2009
- Eva Golinger
Honduras : Obama’s first coup d’Etat

President Zelaya of Honduras has just been kidnapped Caracas, Venezuela – The text message that beeped on my cell phone this morning read “Alert, Zelaya has been kidnapped, coup […]
- Analysis and testimonies / Middle East / Understanding the Muslim World
- 24 Jun 2009
- Mohamed Hassan
Afghanistan – Pakistan: the black hole of the empire

Why did Bush go to Afghanistan? Why is Obama going too? The oil and gas pipelines. The reasons for the Taliban’s rise and Karzaï’s collapse. Who profits from opium? […]
- Analysis and testimonies / Middle East / Understanding the Muslim World
- 01 Apr 2009
- Mohamed Hassan
The Darfur crisis: blood, hunger and oil

Interview : Grégoire Lalieu and Michel Collon Is the first genocide of the 21st century happening now in Darfur? This Sudanese province is the theater of a conflict on which […]
- Analysis and testimonies / Middle East / Understanding the Muslim World
- 23 Feb 2009
- Mohamed Hassan
“Gaza is a normal place with normal people”

INTERVIEW : Grégoire Lalieu & Michel Collon Many readers reacted positively to our Mohamed Hassan’s interview about the Hamas. A lot of people expressed indeed their need of clear, precise […]
- Middle East
- 13 Jan 2009
- Ameera Ahmad and Ed Vulliamy
In Gaza, the schools are dying too

A new word emerged from the carnage in Gaza this week: “scholasticide” – the systematic destruction by Israeli forces of centres of education dear to Palestinian society, as the ministry […]
- Middle East
- 12 Jan 2009
- Norman Finkelstein
The Facts about Hamas and the War on Gaza

Hamas was signaling that it wanted a diplomatic settlement of the conflict along the June 1967 border. In order to defeat the peace offensive, Israel sought to dismantle Hamas. The […]
- Analysis and testimonies / Middle East
- 12 Jan 2009
- Michel Chossudovsky
War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields

The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves. This is a war of conquest. […]
- Middle East
- 12 Jan 2009
- Ilan Pappé
Israel’s Righteous Fury and its Victims in Gaza

My visit back home to the Galilee coincided with the genocidal Israeli attack on Gaza. The state, through its media and with the help of its academia, broadcasted one unanimous […]
- Middle East
- 09 Jan 2009
- Khaled Hroub
Hamas in the eyes of an expert

Al Jazeera: Two senior Hamas leaders were recently killed in Israeli air strikes. How will this impact the organisation’s leadership? Khaled Hroub: Hamas’ leaders are very used to hiding and […]
- Middle East
- 08 Jan 2009
- Gilad Atzmon
Living on borrowed time in a stolen land

Communicating with Israelis may leave one bewildered. Even now when the Israeli Air Force is practicing murder in broad daylight of hundreds of civilians, elderly persons, women and children, the […]