Following is an interview with a high-level translator and university professor who lives in Damascus. He was interviewed by Rick Sterling on January 15.  Qusay is not his real name. RS: What is the current situation in Damascus? Qusay:  It is over  a month since the...

My friend lives in Damascus. I will call him Qusay to protect his identity. Qusay was born and grew up in Aleppo and still has family there. He is a high-level translater and university professor.  From his family he learned what unfolded in Aleppo following the...

Seventy-five protesters gathered under threatening skies at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California at 6:30 am on Wednesday, November 20. Their mission: to speak out and briefly interrupt the shipment of weapons to Israel from this air base. For 90 minutes,...

Acclaimed  international  journalist and publisher Helena Cobban is visiting the Bay Area with public events from October 10-15. Cobban is the founder of the highly-regarded publishing house Just World Books with many books on Palestine, Gaza and the Arab-Israeli...

A three day Palestine conference in Berlin was forcibly shut down after three hours on Friday. Electricity was abruptly terminated in the midst of the presentation by Salman Abu Sitta, the 87 year old author of the authoritative “Atlas of Palestine”. Former Greek...

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres recently said, “the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.”  The Israeli Ambassador responded that Guterres’ comments were “shocking”,...

Many nations in the Americas have suffered from US promoted coups, dictatorships, sanctions and outright invasions. Nicaragua may take the cake for being the most victimized.  Dan Kovalik has written a book which reviews the history of  intervention and resistance up...

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, we invite you to a joyful RAGE Against the War Machine at noon on Sunday, Feb 19. The event will start at Embarcadero Plaza, then proceed to War Machine Village in the financial district and conclude with a tea party on the...

This new video showcases the song Free Julian Assange, by Francisco Herrera with lyrics by Dennis Bernstein. The song was initially produced for a rally and demonstration in the San Francisco Bay Area. The event will be on October 8. The video can be seen here....

Last week (June 8-10) there were two summits in Los Angeles, California: the Summit of the Americas hosted by the US State Department and the Peoples Summit hosted by US and international activist organizations. The two summits were held in the same city at the same...