BY RAMZY BAROUD – ROMANA RUBEO Photograph Source: alwatan_live – CC BY 3.0 On January 19, during one of its raids in the Occupied West Bank, the Israeli military arrested a Palestinian journalist, Abdul Muhsen Shalaldeh, near […]
BY HELEN YAFFE Photo by Ricardo IV Tamayo In 2022, an unprecedented number of Cubans arrived in the United States through irregular, or ‘illegal’ channels. Historically the United States has encouraged and weaponised Cuban emigration. Cuban migrants […]
BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photograph Source: Fric.matej – CC BY-SA 4.0 It seems to be a case of little provision for so much supposed effect. The debates, the squabbles, the to-and-fro about supplying Ukraine with tanks from Western […]
BY JACOB HORNBERGER Given President Biden’s decision to send 31 of its top-ranked M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, it is clear that the Pentagon has decided to escalate its war against Russia. Biden’s decision was followed […]
Israel’s Strange Ambivalence on Ukraine BY JOHN FEFFER There are currently only two Jewish heads of state in the world. The first, not surprisingly, leads Israel. The second is Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine. They […]
BY KAREN J. GREENBERG Photograph Source: Tyler Merbler – CC BY 2.0 Americans tuning into the television news on January 8th eyed a disturbingly recognizable scene. In an “eerily familiar” moment of “déjà vu,” just two years […]
BY LAWRENCE WITTNER Photograph Source: Dsns.gov.ua – CC BY 4.0 The Ukraine War has provided a challenging time for the nations of the world and, particularly, for international law. Since antiquity, far-sighted thinkers have worked on developing rules […]
An open letter to my MP, Rt Hon Alister Jack, Secretary of State for Scotland By Stuart Littlewood Dear Mr Jack, Have I missed something, or is our government investing billions of pounds of our money […]
By Stuart Littlewood The decision to slap mighty Russia with sanctions and effectively declare economic war on this key supplier of energy, foodstuffs and precious metals, among other things, then provide weapons and know-how to Russia’s […]
UK government minister ducks straight questions, serves up propaganda swill instead Stuart Littlewood writes: After five weeks I’ve finally received a reply (of sorts) to a letter to my MP which began: “Have I missed something, […]