Nicaragua Takes Germany to the World Court for Facilitating Israel’s Genocide
As Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians in Gaza — which has killed more than 33,000 Gazans — enters its seventh month, Nicaragua sued Germany in the International Court of Justice (ICJ,...
View ArticleNetanyahu, Empowered by Biden’s Grant of Impunity, Baits Iran Into His...
Despite all the hype about Iran’s largely symbolic barrage of over 200 drones and cruise and ballistic missiles, unleashed on the thinly populated Negev Desert (where it was mainly Palestinian Bedouin...
View ArticleIs Regional War at Stake as Israel Weighs Response to Iran? Roundtable from...
The Middle East is bracing for the possibility of regional war after Iran responded to Israel’s bombing of the Iranian Consulate in Damascus with a major drone and missile attack Saturday. The attack...
View ArticleInterview With Asad Abukhalil on Gaza, Hezbollah and the Decline of Zionism
Joining me on today’s program, Professor Asad Abukhalil grew up and studied political science in Beirut and later received his Doctorate in the United States. He’s taught at multiple US universities...
View ArticleBipartisan Lawmakers Rush to Battle Stations After Iran Attack
Members of Congress who have said little to nothing about the over 33,000 Palestinians dead amid Israeli bombs and artillery — two-thirds deemed innocent civilians — in retaliation for the Oct. 7 Hamas...
View ArticleIsrael Conflict Spreads to 16 Nations as Biden Admin Says There’s No War
The regional war in the Middle East now involves at least 16 different countries and includes the first strikes from Iranian territory on Israel, but the United States continues to insist that there is...
View ArticleCalls for De-Escalation Mount as Israel Plans to ‘Exact a Price From Iran’
Since Iran on Saturday sent hundreds of drones and missiles—which were mostly shot down—toward Israel to retaliate for an Israeli bombing of the Iranian consulate in Syria, anti-war voices around the...
View ArticleIsrael and Israel Alone Kicked Off This Escalation — In a Bid to Drag U.S....
The Israeli bombing of an Iranian consular office in Damascus on April 1 was the first salvo in a new phase of a regional conflict between the two countries. The attack, which killed several senior...
View ArticleThe Ghosts of Germany
A little history will suffice to conclude that Germany has been a problem for Europe for more than a century. The greatest attacks on Europe’s peace have come from Germany. Let us not forget that NATO...
View ArticleI Stand in Blackburn
I shall be standing for election to Parliament as the member for Blackburn. This unexpected turn of events requires an honest declaration. 1) I am standing because of the Genocide in Gaza.2) I am...
View ArticleIran Doesn’t Want Larger War with Israel But is Ready For It
What is Iran’s military and political strategy now that it has struck back against Israel’s illegal bombing of its embassy, and with another cycle of escalation looming? Israel’s strikes killed over a...
View ArticleYanis Varoufakis Banned from Germany as Berlin Police Raid & Shut Down...
As Germany intensifies its crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices, we speak with Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis, one of the planned speakers at a conference in Berlin last weekend that...
View ArticleA Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender
The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to target thousands of Palestinian men in its bombing...
View ArticleNo Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B...
Democracy Now! speaks with two of the Google employees who were arrested staging sit-ins on Tuesday at the company’s offices in New York City and in Sunnyvale, California, to protest the tech giant’s...
View ArticlePivot to Iran? Decoding April 1st
[Prefatory Note: This is a revised text of an opinion piece published in Turkish, a contribution invited by Semin Gumusel on April 14, 2024; developments arising from the convergent incidents on April...
View ArticleThe West Now Wants ‘Restraint’- After Months Of Fuelling A Genocide In Gaza
The Middle East is on the brink of war precisely because western politicians indulged for decades every military excess by Israel. Suddenly, western politicians from US President Joe Biden to British...
View Article‘Brutal’ Is a Word Mostly Reserved for Palestinian Violence
A FAIR study finds that since October 7, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal have overwhelmingly applied the term “brutal” to violence committed by Palestinians rather...
View ArticleThe Coming Israeli Attack On Iran (Plus: ‘Tehran Found Itself Backed Into A...
There is little doubt that Israel will respond to Iran’s launch of three hundred and twenty drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles on its territory with a major attack on Iran, and this for...
View ArticleWhen Namibia Stands Up to Germany: How Gaza Revolutionized the Global South
The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometers. But the historical distance is much closer. This is precisely why Namibia was one of the first countries to take a...
View ArticleCruelty of Language: Leaked NY Times Memo Reveals Moral Depravity of US Media
The New York Times coverage of the Israeli carnage in Gaza, like that of other mainstream US media, is a disgrace to journalism. This assertion should not surprise anyone. US media is driven neither...
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