By Alon Ben-Meir* IDN-InDepthNews NEW YORK, 3 April 2023 (IDN) — Repulsive statements recently made by Israel’s finance minister demonstrate how corrupt and irresponsible the Netanyahu government is and the damage that it has inflicted on Israel. This damage will endure as long…
Whitney Jr* – The CounterPunch website The U.S. government has long intervened in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Now the U.S. military is paying attention to China’s economic activities there.
By Ned Temko* – The Christian Science Monitor There was a time, not long ago, when Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, could confidently bask in supporters’ chants of “melech Yisrael” – king of Israel. Yet this week, facing protests unprecedented in the country’s…
By Thomas Ferguson* – Naked Capitalism Not even ChatGPT could dream this up: Fifteen years after the whole world financial system collapsed and barely a decade since we were told the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill fixed the problems in the US system, two major regional banks…
Hamdi Firat Buyuk – Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee says in latest report that inhuman treatment of migrants continues on Europe’s borders, violating European laws and conventions. The European Committee for the Prevention…
By Amer Ababakr* – Modern Diplomacy The Middle East and the Gulf regions are experiencing a political and diplomatic movement that they have not witnessed in the last three or four decades. Behind this movement are the influential states such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran…
by Bethan McKernan – The Guardian Israeli prime minister looks out of touch in his handling of response to the country’s latest political crisis The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, kept the country waiting all day, but in the end, when he finally announced a…
By Caitlin Johnstone* – Consortium News The facts are in and the case is closed: U.S. unipolar hegemony is unsustainable. The problem is that the U.S. empire itself does not know this.
By Nathan Akehurst* – Progressive International A special EU summit in Brussels last month committed to increasing funds for border surveillance and the deportation of refugees. It’s the latest in Europe’s ongoing project of hardening its borders in flagrant disregard for human…
By Haviv Rettig Gur* – The Times of Israel The firing of Defense Minister Gallant brings to a climax an astonishingly fast and wholly self-inflicted collapse of the Israeli right The Israeli right is gripped in a deep malaise. It has its argument about the over-powerful High…
