By Jeffrey Sachs* Israel is running out of time to save itself — not from Hamas, which lacks the means to defeat Israel militarily, but from itself. Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, verging on the crime of genocide according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, threaten…
By: Newsroom – Modern Diplomacy Speaking from the Oval Office, President Biden tied American support for Ukraine and Israel together, describing both nations as democracies fighting enemies determined to “completely annihilate” them. But Israel’s counterattack on Gaza, its…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* It is nowadays pretty much consensual in the social sciences that colonialism did not end with the political independence of the European colonies that took place between the beginning of the 19th century and the end of the 20th. What came to…
By Clarence Lusane* – TomDispatch The Coming Crisis of 2025 If he becomes the official nominee of the Republican Party in next year’s presidential race, Donald Trump will receive tens of millions of votes in the general election. He may get less than the presumptive Democratic…
By Ishaan Tharoor with Sammy Westfall – The Washington Post Amid close to three weeks punishing Israeli airstrikes, a bleak practice has emerged in Gaza. Some parents in the embattled, besieged territory are scrawling the names of their children on the limbs of the little ones.
By Magdalena Kirchner* AMMAN, Jordan, Oct 26 2023 (IPS) – For the first time since the beginning of a war that claimed the lives of over 220,000 people, a senior Houthi delegation travelled from Yemen to Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh in mid-September. The timing of…
By Gideon Levy* – Haaretz, Israel And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Upon the face of the abyss of the massacre in the south, darkness is taking hold of Israel.
By David Rothkopf* – Haaretz, Israel Of all the mistakes made by Netanyahu before Hamas’ despicable assault, from attacking Israeli democracy to personal corruption, from embracing Putin to promoting extremists, his strategy of shunting the Palestinians aside has been a…
By Pedro Tadeu, columnist of the Diario de Noticias, Lisbon Many of the readers of this text have already read the news: the Israeli Foreign Minister asked the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, “what world do you live in?” and the country’s ambassador to the United Nations…
By Mujtaba Rahman* – POLITICO The outlook for Europe is only going to get tougher — not only because of events unfolding in the Middle East but also the prospect of a second Donald Trump presidency. The feverish pitch of international diplomacy since the terrorist attacks…
