This statement on the Middle East was dated 31st January, 1970, and was read on 3rd February,the day after Bertrand Russell’s death, to an International Conference of Parliamentariansmeeting in Cairo. See/hear on YouTube. The latest phase of the undeclared war in the Middle East is based upon a profoundmiscalculation. The bombing raids deep into Egyptian… Read More Bertrand Russell’s Last Message on Israel and Palestine
Gaza has become a graveyard. A graveyard for children and for mothers. But Gaza has also become a place where the conscience of the world is being buried, alongside the failure of the world’s institutions to protect civilians. Gaza is the graveyard of human rights. Ghada Ageel Over the past week, I attempted to reach… Read More Messages arrive from Gaza with news of dead children. It has become a graveyard for humanity’s conscience
Israel’s genocidal attacks, which are killing hundreds of Palestinians a day, including some 160 children, have expanded to shelling the remaining hospitals in Gaza… There are no words to express what we are witnessing. In the five weeks of horror this is one of the pinnacles of horror. The indifference of Europe is bad enough. The active complicity… Read More Chris Hedges: The Horror, The Horror
NB: Delhi police have warned imams in mosques not to pray for Palestine. Not only are they ill-informed (they think Palestine = Hamas); they also have no idea Gaza and the West Bank are occupied territories. And they now have the license to enter our consciences. Our prayers are now state property. DS There can’t… Read More We are Spartacus
While the IDF and the Shin Bet are busy in the Gaza Strip, West Bank settlers are exploiting the war to invade private lands, attack Palestinians and arm themselves with military weapons Yaniv Kubovich While public attention in Israel is gripped by the fighting in the Gaza Strip and the rising tensions along the Lebanese… Read More As Gaza War Wages On, Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians and Create a New Reality in the West Bank
When his 13-year-old daughter stumbled home six years ago and told her father that she had been gang-raped, Ranjit embarked on a mission to get justice in a manner that is almost unheard of in rural India. Going against the wishes of the entire village in the eastern state of Jharkhand, and challenging India’s highly patriarchal culture,… Read More How a father’s love for his daughter challenged India’s ‘rape culture’
Hani Almadhoun I keep waiting for someone to wake me up. As I witness the surreal and staggering devastation on the streets of Gaza, where my parents live, and the tragic loss of more than 10,000 Palestinian lives unfolding in real time, my heart keeps sinking. I hold on to the hope that something, or someone, can… Read More Do Palestinian lives matter to the world?
There is a time for judgment, a time for love, and even a time for silence. Livatino knew when and how to practice each… he saw the duty to promote justice as a personal call. A visible sign of this call was the acronym used by Livatino in many of his texts: S.T.D, standing for… Read More Rosario Livatino: the judge killed by mobsters who is on his way to sainthood
Amrit Dhillon in New Delhi Mahua Moitra is a misfit in Indian politics. She rejects the notion that a woman must ideally be married, and if she happens to be divorced, single or widowed, should not openly date or be seen to be in a relationship. Nor should she drink or smoke in public or be… Read More Grit and glamour: how Mahua Moitra shook up the misogyny and hypocrisy of Indian politics
Pension fund managers, private equity firms and other financial players are moving aggressively to snatch up lands around the world with access to water for irrigation. Their strategy is to pump as much water as they can and as fast as they can into the production of crops, like fruits and nuts, that reap high… Read More Squeezing communities dry: water grabbing by the global food industry
After the truth-shower 