“Despite the pressure from the hawks, Biden actually appears to be ending this war.” JAKE JOHNSON President Joe Biden reportedly intends to stick with his self-imposed August 31 deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from […]
Human Rights Watch: Israel Bombing of Gaza High-Rises Are Possible ‘War Crimes’ “The crushing closure of the Gaza Strip needs to end, along with the impunity that fuels ongoing serious abuses.” ANDREA GERMANOS Human Rights […]
By Ramzy Baroud The decision by the African Union Commission, on July 22, to grant Israel observer status membership in the AU was the culmination of years of relentless Israeli efforts aimed at co-opting Africa’s […]
Nazi forces Tuesday dawn killed a Palestinian teen in Balata refugee camp, east of the Nazi occupied West Bank city of Nablus, medical sources confirmed. Director of the Emergency Unit at the Palestinian Red Crescent […]
PA Arrests Civil Rights Advocates in Ramallah The Palestinian Authority’s security forces have been arresting civil rights activists in Ramallah for the third consecutive day, Lawyers for Justice announced yesterday. “Among those arrested were the […]
BY EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS Photograph Source: Ivan Radic – CC BY 2.0 I like to believe that a few powerful persons in the United States, including President Joe Biden, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Senator Bernie […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: The U.S. Army – CC BY 2.0 America’s 20-year misadventure in Afghanistan is finally over. The original purpose of our use of force, to destroy al-Qaeda after September 11, was legitimate. Our […]
Graham Peebles writes: Once upon a time nationalism was an ideology reserved for extremists. But inrecent years it has moved from the irrelevant, fractious fringes to become a central movement in Western politics. Rooted in fear, […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Michael Evans – Public Domain In 2001 the Taliban blew up the giant 1,500-year-old Buddhist statues in Bamiyan, central Afghanistan to show their defiance of the world and their contempt for all religious beliefs aside […]
BY RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph Source: urban-museum – CC BY 2.0 Now that so many people have realized that the capitalist system is riddled with problems, they want a clear explanation about the functioning of the system. […]