By Binoy Kampmark*- CounterPunch website For years, John J. Mearsheimer, that seemingly ageless, if somewhat chilly presence at the University of Chicago, has been a thorn of irritation to certain establishment ideas.
By Prof.Dr Jan Pronk* The right to have rights Cees Hamelink has written a stimulating study on human rights, taking communication processes between people in a society as his starting point. The book begins with a description of the history of human rights, their significance…
By Owen Jones *- The Guardian Simply opposing violence against civilians is to risk career and reputation. Where are the defenders of ‘free speech’ now? What exactly was the offence of computational biologist Michael Eisen that led to him being sacked as editor of…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. Davies (*) – CODEPINK On Friday, October 27, the nations of the world voted in the UN General Assembly, by a vote of 120 to 14, for an “immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce leading to a cessation of hostilities” in Gaza.
Chowdhury* NEW YORK, Oct 2023 (IPS) – I thank the United Nations Asia Network for Diversity and Inclusion (UN-ANDI) for inviting me to present the keynote speech on this special occasion for the observance of the United Nations Day. I commend wholeheartedly the…
Taishi Sakura CEO Nippon Ichi Co., Ltd. Hamas Attack Stops Normalization of Diplomatic Relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia The Wall Street Journal reported that members of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, which reports directly to Iran’s Supreme Leader, and senior officials…
By Norman Solomon SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Oct 31 2023 (IPS) – For three weeks, President Biden has played a key role in backing Israel’s war crimes while touting himself as a compassionate advocate of restraint. That pretense is lethal nonsense as Israel persists with mass killing…
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…
