In just two years, China has facilitated a breakthrough deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran; and Fatah and Hamas. Over time, that could pave the way to peace in the Middle East, after decades of unwarranted violence – including the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail...
BBC coverage of the attack on a football pitch in the Golan Heights on Saturday has been intentionally misleading. The BBC’s evening news entirely ignored the fact that those killed by the blast are a dozen Syrians, not Israeli citizens, and that for decades the...
You couldn’t make these things up. I’m thinking about Oxfam’s recent 66-page report on Israel’s devastation of Gaza’s water supplies. As Julia Conley of Common Dreams reported, “Israel has systematically reduced the water available in Gaza by 94%, with just 4.74...
In a shameful moment for U.S. history, an accused war criminal addressed Congress on July 24. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to plead for more arms for his war on Gaza, where the International Court of Justice has found it “plausible” that Israel is...
Why are many amongst us still tiptoeing around language when it comes to the horrific Israeli genocide in Gaza? Layers of censorship imposed on Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices in corporate and social media seem to have ...
Here’s a strange thing to even begin to grasp. In all these years, at least in Washington, the heartland of American power, it hasn’t been understood, not even faintly. In — yes! — all these years, including significant parts of the last century and this one, this...
Sixty percent of low-income countries have been economically punished by the US, an in-depth report by the Washington Post has claimed. More than a third of the world’s nations are feeling the adverse effects of some form of US sanctions. Furthermore, the burden has...
There is only one country in the world right now, in the midst of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is guaranteed dozens of standing ovations from the vast majority of its elected representatives. That country is not Israel, where he...
