In Israel, Sinwar’s killing brings catharsis, if not clarity On Thursday afternoon on the beach in Tel Aviv, a lifeguard made an announcement through the broadcast system. “Attention all bathers,” he said. “It is not yet 100% confirmed … but the chances are very high that the rat from the tunnels known as Yahya Sinwar… Read More ‘We have paid the price’: Gazans say Sinwar’s death will not change anything
By its actions, Canada seems to have definitively shut the door on back-channel communication on the Nijjar issue. Up till now, they were talking to Indian officials in a bid to improve the relationship between the two countries. That attempt is now over.. In August 2023, the Union Home Ministry promulgated a unique order under Section 268… Read More Fallout of a transborder assassination
The UK plans to hand some remote islands back to Mauritius, and relocate the Sri Lankan asylum seekers stuck there Three years ago, 89 Tamil asylum seekers left Sri Lanka via southern India to escape persecution. Their aim was to reach Canada in an unseaworthy boat, as others had attempted before them. They expected the… Read More Why is the UK sending Tamil refugees to Romania?
New book exposes the power of oil – from colonialism, to post-Soviet Russia, to the current climate crisis Adam Hanieh Nearly four decades ago, a large team of scientists from around the world launched a major global research programme called the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). Their goal was to study the connection between human activities and… Read More Crude capitalism: How oil greases the wheels of the world market
A new generation across the UK is demanding political representation. But this unstoppable force is meeting an immovable object, the Labour Party… The real politics happens outside parliament. We’ve already witnessed huge protests take shape against the massacre in Gaza, and the coming years could see mass movements and industrial unrest over cuts and living… Read More Forget Corbynism 2.0. Something bigger is happening on the British left
With myriad crimes committed against those invaded and occupied in the Middle East, those spied upon everywhere, and those trying to expose these abuses, not a single perpetrator has ever been prosecuted or even investigated… If the impunity of genocidal Israel on its current rampage through the Middle East puzzles you, keep in mind that… Read More Julian Assange again risks his life defying the CIA and Pentagon to testify against them to a 46-nation gathering in Europe
UK Antarctic Heritage Trust fills vacancy at world’s most southerly post office, as well as recruiting team to monitor wildlife and carry out building repairs Esther Addley As a professional “tent master”, whose work involves building big tops at music festivals, George Clarke has never run a post office – and certainly never counted penguins… Read More ‘Coolest job on Earth’: Antarctica welcomes new postmaster
By Betsey Piette On May 10, Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed Congress and lied. He said: “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance.” This is despite an explosive report given to Blinken in April 2024, from the State Department’s Refugees… Read More The billionaire companies behind Israel’s bombs
History did not start on 7 October 2023. While that date may mark a tragedy for Israel, every single day for the last 76 years has marked some sort of catastrophe for Palestinians. My paternal grandparents originally lived in Haifa; in 1948, during the Nakba, they were among the 700,000 Palestinians forced to flee or expelled… Read More As a Palestinian living in the US, I have lost friends, job opportunities – and my faith in humanity
according to the Costs of War Project, the USA ended up spending at least $8 trillion on those wars. According to that project, an estimated 940,000 people died directly thanks to America’s war on terror (almost half of them civilians) and 3.6 to 3.8 million indirectly in its war zones, bringing the total to nearly five million dead…. that group has estimated that… Read More Karen Greenberg, The Forever Prison and the Forever Wars
