The Gaza Crisis and the End of Human Rights: The Failure of International Law
As the Israeli attacks against Gaza have continued to rage, now spilling into Lebanon, a year of unspeakable violence has raised persistent questions about the efficacy of international law and global...
View ArticleIsrael’s History of Attacking Lebanon & Gaza
In a report from Beirut, Rima Majed examines Israel’s escalating attacks on Lebanon and how Israel’s actions in the region have fueled resistance movements. “Since October last year, we’ve realized …...
View ArticleThe Global South’s Poor Should Not Be Subsidising the IMF
Today, the world is confronting a “polycrisis” – many dire crises occurring simultaneously, reinforcing and feeding into each other, that are inseparable. Global South countries are experiencing...
View ArticleWest Coast Climate Activists Battle the False ‘Solution’ of Forest Biomass
“Who will own the forests? Who will own the sky?” sang dozens of umbrella-wielding protesters as rain drizzled outside the World Forestry Center in Portland, Oregon on Sept. 25. Inside the building,...
View ArticleAn Insight Into Alliance of Sahel States: Challenges and Future Prospects
In this interview, Antoine SOMDAH, former ambassador of Burkina Faso to the Russian Federation, an expert in international law and nuclear law, and a member of the United Nations Security Council (2008...
View ArticleAs Israel Extends Its Genocide Into the West Bank, It Targets and Kills Children
The Israeli occupation forces have extended their genocidal campaign in Gaza to the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Using drone strikes, troops in armored vehicles and bulldozers, their...
View ArticleAI Is a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry — It’s Underpinned by an Invisible and...
In dusty factories, cramped internet cafes and makeshift home offices around the world, millions of people sit at computers tediously labelling data. These workers are the lifeblood of the burgeoning...
View ArticleSomalia Is Becoming Africa’s Lebanon
The Horn of Africa, a region once described by Jeffrey Lefebvre as one of the world’s most “highly penetrated regional subsystems”, is on the brink of a dangerous turn as the several actors intensify...
View ArticleDouble Standards and Distortion: How the NYT Misreports Sexual Violence in...
Corporate news media have consistently blundered through their coverage of the violence on October 7, with documented war crimes outshined by—and sometimes disbelieved because of—horrific claims that...
View ArticleInside the World of Fossil Fuel Philanthropy
For years, the fossil fuel industry has laundered false claims and junk science through allied think tanks and the media in an effort to slow public action on climate change. That scandal has attracted...
View ArticleBiden Officials Say Ceasefire Talks Are Suspended as Harris Names Iran Top Enemy
Biden officials have reportedly admitted that ceasefire negotiations amid Israel’s war on Lebanon and genocide in Gaza have been suspended, despite public insistence by high-powered figures within the...
View ArticleA Democratic Economy in a New Ireland
[This article is part of a series called Answering Ireland’s Call: Thoughts for a new republic (Freagairt ar Ghlaoch na hÉireann: Smaointe ar phoblacht nua). The series will publish articles discussing...
View ArticleCapitalism’s Attack on Time & Nature
It wasn’t the shock of learning that £22 billion had emerged – out of thin air – from Labour’s supposedly austere Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves. No, it was the time-span of the funding – a...
View Article“Balkan Union” and “Balkanoexit”
A “Balkan union” is not a novel idea. It has been proposed in various forms in response to imperial aspirations, as a way for the peoples of the Balkan region to secure a more independent and,...
View ArticleThe Carbon Coup Revisited
As theclimate crisis worsens, fossil fuel emissions continue to rise, and all the evidence screams that drastic action is needed now, the sight of the fossil fuel industry waving its golden ticket to...
View ArticleIn Praise of Civil Disobedience
Western governments are deeply involved, strongly against the will of the majority of their population, in committing a colonial genocide of indigenous people. This happens because the political class...
View ArticleIsrael After October 7: Between Decolonisation And Disintegration
A year has passed since October 7, 2023, and it is time to explore if we have a better understanding of this monumental event and everything that followed it. For historians like me, a year is usually...
View ArticleA Year of Genocide – Despite the Unbelievable Pain, Palestinians Emerge Stronger
No one had expected that one year would be enough to recenter the Palestinian cause as the world’s most pressing issue, and that millions of people across the globe, would, once again rally for...
View ArticleFrom 9/11 To Gaza: America’s Invisible Wars And The Death Of Democracy...
War is a daily fixture of American life—the US military occupies at least 750 overseas bases, and it has executed military operations in nations around the globe over the past 20 years. But most...
View ArticleBargaining Is an Organizing Opportunity
Service and maintenance workers at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, won a new contract that eliminates two-tier wages after a two-week strike that ended September 2. These workers first...
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