Simon Tisdall Is that it? Is that the best western leaders can do as the midnight hour approaches? Kindly Joe Biden doled out sympathy and dollars in a seven-hour visit to Israel. Tiny amounts of aid are dribbling into Gaza. Two hostages out of 200 have been released. But there is no ceasefire, no “humanitarian… Read More Toxic Netanyahu could drag Biden down in his fight for political survival
Turnout in this election was 74.3%, a record that exceeded even the turnout of 1989, a vote that triggered the collapse of the Soviet-backed communist system. Key to that was the mobilisation of youth The last time anyone other than the Law and Justice party (PiS) ruled Poland, Aleksandra, a sociology student in Warsaw, was 10.… Read More ‘We have a chance to change Poland’: how young voters shaped the election result
Raz Segal, an Israeli expert in modern genocide, calls Israel’s assault on Gaza a textbook case of “intent to commit genocide” and its rationalization of its violence a “shameful use” of the lessons of the Holocaust. Israeli state exceptionalism and comparisons of its Palestinians victims to “Nazis” are used to “justify, rationalize, deny, distort, disavow… Read More ‘A textbook case of genocide’: Israeli Holocaust scholar Raz Segal decries Israel’s assault on Gaza
Only a man who attributes mythic dimensions to himself would be capable of dragging Israel into five elections, political chaos, social disintegration and a loss of trust by masses of people in the law enforcement system, in other words, in the state itself, responsible for a collapse of Israel’s deterrence and a blood-soaked war. Gidi… Read More The Shame That Will Follow Netanyahu Will Be Far Greater Than the One He Attempted to Escape
JUAN COLE Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Biden administration’s foreign policy is a mess and lacks any real consistency. This messiness was on full display in the president’s brief address on Thursday evening, a plea for Congressional funding of both the US struggle to get Russia back out of Ukraine and of support for the extremist… Read More Biden’s Historically Illiterate and Hypocritical Speech on Ukraine and Gaza
The Palestinians in Gaza are bearing the brunt of the Colonial Revenge Genocide. Half of Gaza consists of children, most born after 2006 when Hamas came to power in the Strip through elections insisted upon by George W. Bush. Large numbers of these children are set to be killed, and several hundred already have been,… Read More Israel’s Colonial Revenge Genocide in Gaza is the latest in a Long History of such Massacres
‘The most successful land-grab strategy since 1967’ as settlers push Bedouins off West Bank territoryHerders report violence driving them from their homes in accelerating, aggressive and highly effective campaign The tiny settlement overlooking the Bedouin village of Ein Rashash is named “Angels of Peace”, but, says Sliman al-Zawahri, its residents have visited only violence, fear… Read More ‘The most successful land-grab strategy since 1967’ as Israeli settlers push Bedouins off West Bank territory
U. S. consumer watchdog Public Citizen on Thursday excoriated Pfizer after the pharmaceutical giant announced it would more than double the price of a lifesaving Covid-19 treatment, which will soon sell for an estimated 100 times the cost of production. Pfizer said Wednesday that it will price its patented Covid treatment nirmatrelvir-ritonavir—sold under the brand name Paxlovid—at $1,390 for… Read More Pfizer to Charge $1,390 for Lifesaving Covid Drug That Costs Just $13
The Biden administration also bears a wider responsibility for the deterioration in Gaza and the extinguishing of Palestinian political aspirations Mohamad Bazzi oe Biden flew to Israel on Wednesday to prove how deeply he and the US political establishment support Israel, even as it intensifies its indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, demands the forced displacement of… Read More Biden’s Israel trip reflects a flawed and hypocritical policy / State Department official resigns over Biden’s handling of conflict
A Delhi Court has dismissed a plea moved by the Delhi Police against a magisterial court’s order which ordered the release of the electronic devices seized from editors of “The Wire” during searches conducted in October last year in relation to an FIR lodged against them by BJP leader Amit Malviya. The judge added that… Read More Delhi Court Upholds Release Of Electronics Devices Seized From Editors Of ‘The Wire’, Says Police Causing Undue Hardship To Them
