By Michael von der Schulenburg* – MEER The disastrous derailment of early peace efforts to end the war in Ukraine This is a detailed reconstruction of the Ukrainian-Russian peace negotiations in March 2022 and the associated mediation attempts by the then Israeli Prime Minister…
By Thaslima Begum* – The Guardian Security Force Monitor finds 64% of senior army officers led units allegedly committing killings, rapes, torture and disappearances New research into alleged war crimes in Myanmar has concluded that the majority of senior commanders in…
By Carla Del Ponte and Graham Blewitt (*) – POLITICO When it comes to Palestine, the International Criminal Court’s potential is yet to be realized The unfolding situation in the Middle East is a human tragedy. Thousands of lives have already been lost, and many more have been…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Europe is a small corner of a vast continent called Eurasia stretching from Cape Roca to Cape Dezhnyov – a vast continent with a very rich history. In that small corner, what we call the Iberian Peninsula is even smaller.
Isaac* – Common dreams We must be as clear as possible about what is anti-Semitism and what it is not, so that real political differences are not transformed into existential confrontations. This is not always easy to do, but it is necessary nonetheless.
By Karena Avedissian* – Newsweek For months, Western mediators seemed satisfied to sponsor sham “peace talks” between Armenia and Azerbaijan—while on the ground, ethnic Armenians in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh were being starved by an Azerbaijani blockade. In…
By Norman Solomon – RootsAction (*) The governments of Israel and the United States are now in disagreement over how many Palestinian civilians it’s okay to kill. Last week — as the death toll from massive Israeli bombardment of Gaza neared 10,000 people, including several…
Lauren Gambino* – The Guardian Polls continue to show both presidential frontrunners ‘as tied as tied can be’, with third-party candidates tying for a distant third Washington – Americans are one year away from a presidential election that’s shaping up to be a historically…
By Ivo Daalder* – POLITICO Biden and his senior national security aides have been urging restraint in daily, sometimes hourly, phone calls with their Israeli counterparts. Talking to senior officials in Washington last week, I got the sense of an administration helplessly…
By Jonathan-Cook*- Consortium News As a classic settler-colonial state, Israel is doing the only thing it knows how to do, writes Jonathan Cook. So long as the West keeps cheerleading, that includes genocide.
