By Boaventura De Sousa Santos* – Meer How targeted elimination has become a normalized instrument of contemporary power and violence. Israel, in particular, but also the United States, has been breathing new life into the concept of decapitation as a weapon of political violence.
By Alon Ben Meir* – https://alonben-meir.com/ By reinforcing Israel’s hardline positions and narrowing the scope of American diplomacy, AIPAC’s advocacy has done enduring harm to Israel’s prospects for peace and to the United States’ global credibility and moral standing. The…
By Denis Chabrol – Demerara Waves Extensive historical research, including the Slave Voyages Database, estimates that approximately 30, 745 slave vessels transported shackled enslaved Africans to the Caribbean and the Americas over the four centuries long Atlantic slave trade…
By Bamo Nouri* and Inderjeet Parmar* – The Conversation The language of power often reveals more than it intends. In a rare moment of candour on March 7, the US president, Donald Trump, described the confrontation with Iran as “a big chess game at a very high level … I’m dealing…
By Medea Benjamin* and Nicolas J.S. Davies* – Common Dreams What was once covert, controversial, and constrained is now overt, normalized, and defended. For decades, the United States moved from covert assassination plots to openly embracing assassination or “targeted killing”…
By Sondos Asem* – Middle East Eye (MEE) UN special rapporteur accuses Ben Gvir, Smotrich and Katz of responsibility for the ‘systematic torture’ of Palestinians. The UN’s special rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to…
By Asoka Bandarage* – Inter Press Service (IPS) Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter prohibits member states from using threats or force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state. Violating international law, the United States and Israel…
By Gellert Tamas* – The Guardian The PM is figurehead of the international rightwing movement but that has alienated his most loyal voter base. “Viktor Orbán is a true friend, fighter, and WINNER, and has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election as Prime Minister of…
By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com The UN is sidelined as U.S.-backed Israel strikes deep into Iran. Wars no longer announce themselves with official proclamations. They creep forward, strike by strike, each retaliation erasing another line once thought uncrossable.
By Emma Graham-Harrison* – The Guardian With a 7 October inquiry looming, the Israeli PM’s political career, legacy and personal freedom may all be on the line. Over three weeks of war, Iranian missiles have killed at least 15 people inside Israel, and injured many more…
