Editorial – The Guardian Rishi Sunak’s weak leadership has given a small, hardline faction too much purchase on the national debate Amid the parliamentary theatrics surrounding the Rwanda safety bill in recent days, it has been easy to lose sight of the absurdity at…
By Binoy Kampmark* – CounterPunch website Israel’s relationship with the United Nations, international institutions and international law has at times bristled with suspicion and blatant hostility. In a famous cabinet meeting in 1955, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion…
By Francesco Martone* Pavlov’s experiment: “By associating the presentation of meat to a dog with a bell sound for a certain number of times, eventually the bell sound alone will determine salivation in the dog. ” There is much neuropolitics in the unraveling of the most recent…
Sachs * – Common Dreams Only an exceptional president could resist the endless war-profiteering of this mammoth war machine; alas, Biden doesn’t even try. When it comes to foreign policy, the president of the United States has two essential roles.
By Sarah Neumann*- ModernDiplomacy The West is losing ground to its rivals as time passes. This is the reality that the US and Europe are facing more than ever.
Stokes (*) The World Sustainability Forum calls for the international community to act now through all legal and diplomatic means to: bring an immediate and lasting ceasefire in the occupied Palestinian territories and in Israel to allow for unimpeded life-saving aid…
By Peter Rodgers* – Modern Diplomacy The war in Gaza has been raging for nearly three months, and there seems to be no end in sight. The war in Gaza has been raging for nearly three months, and there seems to be no end in sight.
By Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon* – ADN SAN FRANCISCO | January 2024 (IDN) — An avalanche of polling shows Joe Biden with abysmal approval ratings and grim re-election prospects, but Democratic leaders keep spinning away in dreamland. Even before the…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK On January 11th, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague is holding its first hearing in South Africa’s case against Israel under the Genocide Convention. The first provisional measure South Africa has asked of…
by Roy Eidelson* – CounterPunch website The infamous U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay turns 22 this month. Its ugly history now spans an entire generation. For those who might not remember, on January 11, 2002, General Richard Myers described Guantanamo’s first…
