By Marjorie Cohn* – Truthout On January 24, 2022, the British High Court of Justice allowed WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to ask the U.K. Supreme Court to hear his appeal of the extradition order.
AN INTERVIEW WITH HELEN LACKNER – Jacobin Yemen’s rich and complex history was upended by its catastrophic civil war beginning in 2014. A peace agreement could help Yemenis recover the frustrated hopes of the 2011 uprising — if Saudi Arabia stops demanding victory for its allies.
by Fumiyasu Akegawa – Chair & CEO DEVNET INTERNATIONAL Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said in a radio program on January 1 that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and China. He continued, “It may seem like…
By John Scales Avery* – TRANSCEND Media Service Do our “Defense Departments” really defend us? Their very title is a lie.
By Harrison Mwilima* – Deutsche Welle (DW) Africa’s cultural contributions have long been documented from a Eurocentric perspective. It’s time for Africans to empower themselves by writing about their own culture Africans are increasingly publishing literature on African…
By Neil Clark* – RT news network “The UK High Court will deliver its decision on Monday morning [January 24] about whether to permit Julian Assange to appeal the US extradition decision to UK Supreme Court,” WikiLeaks tweeted on Friday. The December court ruling…
Introduction, by Tom Engelhardt * Who even remembers when President Bush — no, not George W. but his father! — exclaimed, “By God, we’ve kicked the Vietnam Syndrome!” That was in the wake of Operation Desert Storm (aka the First Gulf War of 1991) and it was indeed true that…
By Yanis Varoufakis * – Project Syndicate When eurozone finance ministers recently issued a joint paean to the single currency on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the introduction of euro banknotes and coins, something remarkable happened: Nothing. No one…
Edward Paice* – The Guardian Africa’s unprecedented population growth will impact geopolitics, global trade, migration and almost every aspect of life. It’s time for a reimagining of the continent ‘Africa’s demography will be one of the principal determinants of whether the…
By Owen Jones* – The Guardian For seven years, the Yemeni people have been pummelled with Saudi bombs, many from Britain. Yet Westminster is silent This is a far greater scandal than the parties in Downing Street. In a just world, it would prove the downfall of our prime…
