Deutsche Welle (DW) * Iran and Saudi Arabia have held “positive” talks — the first since diplomatic ties were cut four years ago, the Financial Times reports. The regional rivals have been engaged in a proxy war in Yemen. Senior Saudi and Iranian officials have held direct talks…
By Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies (*) President Biden announced a removal of all U.S. troops by September 11, but he failed to include some important details An Afghan taxi-driver in Vancouver told one of us a decade ago that this day would come. “We defeated the…
By Tom Engelhardt – TomDispatch* By the time you read this piece, it will already be out of date. The reason’s simple enough.
By Vijay Prashad* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute On March 11, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Twitter that his government has “approved the Strategy for Deoccupation & Reintegration of Crimea.” What he referred to is a new…
Editorial – The Guardian Hundreds have died since February’s coup. Civilians are defiant – but while their resistance persists, so does the military’s bloody grip on power Eleven-year-old Aye Myat Thu was buried with her dolls at the weekend, hours after she was killed by…
By Mark Lowcock* UNITED NATIONS, Mar 30 2021 (IPS) – The conflict in Syria is now ten years old. A decade of death, destruction, displacement, disease, dread and despair.
Hartung – The Nation Biden must do more to force Saudi Arabia to end its cruel blockade On March 26, 2015, a coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates launched an ill-fated war on Houthi-led rebel forces in Yemen, inaugurating what the United Nations has…
By Anders Breidlid and Tomm Kristiansen (*) Norway is a new member of the UN Security Council from January 1 2021 and will, according to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “use the experience of decades of work for peace and reconciliation to be a bridge builder and seek…
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – Countercurrents On February 25th, President Biden ordered U.S. air forces to drop seven 500-pound bombs on Iraqi forces in Syria, reportedly killing 22 people.
By Ambassador Sidi Omar * NEW YORK, Feb 25 2021 (IPS) – The question of Western Sahara, known as Africa’s last colony, has recently gained great visibility in international media interestingly due to two drastic developments. The first occurred on 13 November 2020 when Moroccan…
