By Al Jazeera UN says people fleeing military’s ‘brutal, indiscriminate attacks’ in eastern Kayah are in dire need of food and water. A United Nations rights expert has warned of “mass deaths from starvation, disease and exposure” in eastern Myanmar… Continue Reading
Editorial The ousting of Benjamin Netanyahu, if it occurs, will be an opportunity. But Naftali Bennett’s government will struggle to build the new politics the nation badly needs There were 38 minutes left when eight very disparate Israeli opposition parties… Continue Reading
By ReliefWeb* Download document (PDF | 785.39 KB) Summary The recent violent end of the ceasefire in Western Sahara means the EU and the UN should pay renewed attention to resolving the longstanding conflict between the native Sahrawis and Morocco.… Continue Reading
By Journalists from The Guardian* Dozens of grassroots people’s defence forces have emerged to take on brutal military Myanmar is on the verge of a new civil war, a spokesperson for the country’s parallel government has warned, as communities increasingly… Continue Reading
By Maryam Jamshidi* – Boston Review The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine. Legal scholars must face this fact head on In an article published last winter in the Harvard International Law Journal, legal scholar… Continue Reading
By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat * – The Washington Post The past few weeks have left us more hopeless than ever Over the past two weeks, watching the escalation of violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories from my home in… Continue Reading
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies (*) – CODEPINK The world is reeling in horror at the latest Israeli massacre of hundreds of men, women and children in Gaza. Much of the world is also shocked by the… Continue Reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute. What else could billions of American tax dollars buy instead of innocent deaths? At the end of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was continuing to ravage the populations of many nations, Israel… Continue Reading
Opinion, by Jonathan Freedland* – The Guardian Thanks in part to a global focus more intense than on any other conflict, western attitudes to the Middle East may be shifting It’s not over, because it’s never over. But there is… Continue Reading
Opinion, by Alon Ben-Meir * NEW YORK, May 20 2021 (IPS) – Regardless of how the current and future violent conflicts between Israel and the Palestinians in Jerusalem will end, there will be no Israeli-Palestinian peace unless East Jerusalem becomes… Continue Reading
By Paul Rogers* – OpenDemocracy Israel is the most powerful state in the Middle East. Its military forces may not match the likes of Egypt or Turkey in numbers, but the might of its training, equipment, technologies and nuclear weapons… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* Escalated hostilities in the Gaza Strip have resulted in heavy casualties and large-scale displacement. More than 50 children have been killed in the current crisis in the Middle East, a senior UN official, said May 16. UNITED… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, May 14 2021 (IPS) – The UN Security Council (UNSC), the most powerful political body at the United Nations, has largely remained silent or ineffective in resolving one of the longstanding military conflicts in the… Continue Reading
By Julie M Norman* – The Conversation The deadly escalation of violence across Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, in which at least 40 people have been killed and hundreds injured, has demonstrated how the core fault-lines of the conflict… Continue Reading
Editorial The new outbreak is the predictable result both of recent grievances and accumulated injustices Ten children were among 28 killed in Gaza in the Holy month of Ramadan, while two Israeli women were killed as Israeli air strikes pounded… Continue Reading
By Carlo Aldrovandi* – The Conversation The recent violence at the al-Aqsa mosque/Temple Mount area and in the Old City of Jerusalem has spiralled into something bigger and more dangerous. Clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters at the… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Hundreds of Palestinians have been wounded after Israeli forces raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque for the second time in four days, with reports showing police fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas at Palestinian… Continue Reading
By Michael von der Schulenburg* – Wall Street International Magazine Afghanistan is a geopolitical game changer for the West In the remote mountains of the Hindu Kush not only Soviet attempts to install a pro-communist regime but also Western efforts… Continue Reading
By Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad (*) – Independent Media Institute The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 was criminal. It was criminal because of the immense force used to demolish Afghanistan’s physical infrastructure and to break open its… Continue Reading
Deutsche Welle (DW) * The Burmese military regime has routinely arrested journalists and banned independent media. But reporters continue to work underground — under pressure from the ruling junta, but also from the opposition. Myanmar’s military government, which overthrew the… Continue Reading
