By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* A little history will suffice to conclude that Germany has been a problem for Europe for more than a century. The greatest attacks on Europe’s peace have come from Germany.
By Michelle Buckley%Paula Chakravartty* – Boston Review In December, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a personal request from his friend and political ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: expedite the supply of Indian construction labor and other migrant…
By Daniel Trilling* – The Guardian The Oscar-nominated Io Capitano, now showing in cinemas, is a sensitive and moving portrait of the trials faced by two teenage boys as they attempt to reach Europe, via unofficial migration routes, from their homes in Senegal. The film is…
By Peter Beaumont and Emma Graham-Harrison* – The Guardian A war long fought through proxies, assassinations and strikes outside Israel has spilled into the open The large-scale attack by Iran on Israel may have passed with relatively little damage, but it marks a significant…
By Barbara Moens, Nicholas Vinocur an Jacopo Barigazzi – POLITICO The European Commission president is still the front-runner — but is increasingly coming under fire. A second coronation does not come guaranteed for Queen Ursula.
By Ariel Dorfman*- CounterPunch website As soon as I heard the news that Ecuadorian police had stormed the Mexican Embassy in Quito, arresting former vice president Jorge Glas, who had just been given diplomatic asylum, I was transported 50 years back in time. I myself had…
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Apr 2024 (IPS) – The award-winning Hollywood movie Oppenheimer portrays the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who helped create the atomic bomb, which claimed the lives of an estimated 140,000 to 226,000 people and devastated the two Japanese cities…
Editorial – The Guardian The seeds of a forever war are being planted in the coastal strip. They must not be allowed to take root Israel’s war turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape.
By Philippe Benoit and Anne-Sophie Corbeau (*) WASHINGTON DC, Apr 2024 (IPS) – Earlier this year, the Biden administration paused action on pending approvals for U.S. liquefied natural gas exports to countries without a U.S. free-trade agreement, with President Biden citing ”the…
By Giorgos Mitralias* – CounterPunch The revelation of the enormous ethical problem caused to the international left by the Russian war in Ukraine and the Israeli war in Gaza, is shaking it to such an extent that it is losing its internationalist and humanist compass, in…
