As Jews, we condemn what Israel is doing in Gaza. Any mass slaughter will not just be on Israel’s hands, but on the hands of America. Ellen Brotsky and Ariel Koren It is now impossible for US politicians to ignore the slaughter in Gaza: more than 3,500 Palestinians have been killed in the 12-day barrage,… Read More We’re anti-Zionist Jews and we see genocide unfolding in Gaza
By Deepanshu Mohan There is a solar flare of deep inter-state conflict, conquest, and siege erupting all over the globe. Russia and Ukraine have been embroiled in a long drawn, painful war for over a year and a half. After a 10-month blockade, Azerbaijan launched an attack on Sept. 19, claiming the enclave in a day and causing nearly the entire… Read More On Justice and Sovereignty: The Limits of International Justice Architecture in a World Marred by Conflict and Conquest
First posted March 05, 2017 “A woman has the right to mount the scaffold. She must possess equally the right to mount the speaker’s platform“ Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791 Written by Olympe De Gouges Olympe de Gouges was a French feminist activist, advocate of complete equal rights for women, freedom of divorce, the abolition of slavery,… Read More Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791
Condemning the first information report (FIR) registered by the Delhi Police against online news portal NewsClick and journalists associated with it, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) on Sunday said the charges in the FIR that the farmers’ protests were held to “disrupt supplies and services essential to the life of community in India” were false and mischievous. The… Read More Samyukt Kisan Morcha condemns charges against farmer protests in NewsClick FIR
A prime minister indicted in three corruption cases cannot look after state affairs, as national interests will necessarily be subordinate to extricating him from a possible conviction and jail time. This was the reason for establishing this horrific coalition and the judicial coup advanced by Netanyahu, and for the enfeeblement of top army and intelligence… Read More Haaretz Editorial: Netanyahu Bears Responsibility for This Israel-Gaza War
One of Iran’s foremost public intellectuals and critics of the Iranian regime was taken to prison in handcuffs on Saturday to start serving a five-year sentence. Majid Tavakoli, who has a three-year-old child, was found guilty of spreading propaganda against the state. His dispatch to jail had been deferred for three weeks, but security officials… Read More Iranian intellectual calls on opposition to unite as he is again sent to prison
Her brave struggle has come with tremendous personal costs. Altogether, the regime has arrested her 13 times, convicted her five times, and sentenced her to a total of 31 years in prison, and 154 lashes The 2023 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi for “her fight against the oppression of women… Read More Nobel Peace Prize won by Narges Mohammadi for fight against the oppression of women in Iran
A New York judge has found Donald Trump and his adult sons liable for fraud and canceled the Trump Organization’s business certification, saying the Trumps provided false financial statements for roughly a decade. Judge Arthur Engoron’s ruling came days before the civil case involving the New York attorney general’s office and the former president was set to go to… Read More New York judge finds Donald Trump liable for fraud
India will have to withdraw from the schizophrenia of publicly denying while privately celebrating a muscular security policy Bharat Bhushan Murder allegations by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau threaten to erode India’s image. Attempts to profile India as a “rogue” nation will damage India’s ambitions as a world leader, so recently burnished by the G20… Read More India and Canada must step back from the abyss
Carole Cadwalladr The last time a journalist won a Nobel prize was 1935. The journalist who won it – Carl von Ossietzky – had revealed how Hitler was secretly rearming Germany. “And he couldn’t pick it up because he was languishing in a Nazi concentration camp,” says Maria Ressa over a video call from Manila. A Novaya… Read More Nobel Peace Laureate: ‘We journalists are the defence line between dictatorship and war’ (2021)
