I don't know why I bother. No one cares, and there's nothing anyone can do about it, but I still want to point out that the "diplomacy" of the White House has come to this: Bush has given Iraq an...

This morning the Guardian printed four of Rachel Corrie's last letters. I no longer have the nerve to show just excerpts. A dear Palestinian friend of ours who is now staying with his family in J...

This is what the "major" media will make this war look like. Included in Robert Fisk's prediction: Weasel words to watch for 'Inevitable revenge' – for the executions of Saddam's Baath party o...

Clare Short is so mid-Atlantic. The British Secretary of State for International Development first criticized her government's rush to war and threatened to resign from office (this definitely not...

Eric Alterman again: These are upsetting times. You can sense the nervy dejection in the emails and calls we get here at CounterPunch. True, testing times loom, though not in such measure as for ...

Tonight Eric Alterman sees Rachel Corrie in the stars. So here we are at the festival of Purim. Back in 1994, on the eve of Purim, a son of Brooklyn, Baruch Goldstein, killed 29 Palestinian worsh...

This is a statement from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) which Rachel Corrie loved and for whose noble purpose she gave her life yesterday. Today, Rachel Corey, a 23 year old student ...

This excerpt from a February 7 email Rachel Corrie wrote to her parents appears with their help and that of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Today as I walked on top of the rubble whe...

I love the NYTimes lead headline early this morning in the print edition. And how much of it is editorial sarcasm? BUSH AND 2 ALLIES SEEM SET FOR WAR TO OPPOSE HUSSEIN Actually, as far as anyo...

The headline refers to a member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) and it is not hyperbole. The policy of the Sharon government is to discourage foreign defenders of the rights and dig...