News Desk, The Cradle. New satellite images show that the barrier has allowed occupation forces to now control 65 percent of the strip. According to satellite imagery released on 21 July, the Israeli army is constructing a ground barrier extending hundreds of meters beyond the so-called “Yellow Line” in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, effectively […]
Dania Akkad Declassified UK Late last July, as a famine unfolded in Gaza and Israeli settler attacks intensified in the West Bank, Wes Streeting texted a friend shortly before midnight. “Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes,” the then health secretary told Peter Mandelson over WhatsApp. “Their government talks the languages of ethnic cleansing and I […]
Vijay Prashad, BreakThrough News. The young people in the streets are not asking merely to survive inside the cracks of a decaying system. They want to live, to work, to use what they have learned, and to contribute to society with dignity. On July 20, thousands of young people attempted to march from Jantar Mantar to […]
Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. There has been an abundance of information around China’s oil strategy of recent, some of it sensible, most of it unremarkably a part of the western led China-bashing package, and as a whole, the glut of analysis has all been quite confusing. That confusion should not be surprising considering our political climate. […]
Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright, Popular Resistance Save Your Soul, Your Conscience and Your Sanity. Stop the bombings! Nineteen years ago in February 2007 during the Bush administration’s Axis of Evil regime and calls for attacks on Iran from members of Congress including “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran (to the tune of Beachboys song Barbara Ann)” recitation […]
Juan Cole Informed Comment The Iran War will erode the purchasing power of American consumers this summer, according to CNBC, especially because of high diesel prices. That projection helps explain Trump’s cratering numbers on his mind-bogglingly stupid Iran War. Even in his MAGA base, support for the war was only about 50% last May. It is now […]
The order pauses what threatened to be a damaging political spectacle over the theft of $580,000 in cash from Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala private game farm.