Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years in prison for ‘support’ of women’s rights

NB: The Saudi regime and its brutal leadership believes advocacy for women’s equality to be equivalent to terrorism. The regime is a crucial ally of the USA and UK; and we do not find any instances of attempts at so-called ‘regime change’ being promoted over there by the (ha ha) ‘Free World’. PS – the… Read More Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years in prison for ‘support’ of women’s rights

In Gaza Protest, Columbia Students Occupy Hamilton Hall, Site of Historic 1968 Takeover

GAZA casualties, live statistics NB: Nothing is ever repeated with precision, but American imperialism and its proxies (to use a favourite phrase of their Orwellian media) has been rampaging through the world for many decades after the end of the World War. Vietnam, Chile, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the endless war on the Palestinian population, are… Read More In Gaza Protest, Columbia Students Occupy Hamilton Hall, Site of Historic 1968 Takeover

Daughter of prominent Palestinian poet killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Khuda Hafiz

NB: There are three kinds of wrongdoing: mistakes; crimes; and sins. Mistakes can be corrected, crimes may be punished; but for a sin, you can only repent: These lines are taken from the 1987 Georgian Soviet film Repentance, by Tengiz Abuladze. The American-backed Israeli Defence Forces call themselves the most moral army in the world. Their… Read More Daughter of prominent Palestinian poet killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza. Khuda Hafiz

The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom Must Go

GAZA casualties, live statistics NB: Last November, the Harvard Law Review refused to carry an already accepted piece on genocide in Gaza by a Palestinian scholar; without any explanation. The editor, HLR President Apsara Iyer, wrote to the author of the piece, that the decision was ‘not based on your identity or viewpoint.’ Perhaps it was… Read More The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom Must Go

UK and others cut funding to UNRWA but Israel gave NO EVIDENCE of terror links

Hoodwinked: The UK and others cut funding to UNRWA but Israel gave no evidence of terror links between that relief organisation and Hamas. An independent report has just exonerated the United Nations relief agency, which is the main channel of humanitarian support to Palestinians in Gaza and across the Middle East. In fact, the report… Read More UK and others cut funding to UNRWA but Israel gave NO EVIDENCE of terror links

The Gaza genocide as explicit policy: Michael Hudson names all names

GAZA casualties, live statistics The essential background to understand the unthinkable: a 21st century genocide broadcast live 24/7 to the whole planet In what can be considered the most crucial podcast of 2024 so far, Professor Michael Hudson – the author of seminal works such as Super-Imperialism and the recent The Collapse of Antiquity , among others – clinically lays down the… Read More The Gaza genocide as explicit policy: Michael Hudson names all names

Amal Clooney’s Silence on Gaza Shows the Limits of Liberalism

Despite calling Ukraine a “slaughterhouse” and calling for the prosecution of Russia for war crimes, the Clooney Foundation for Justice has remained completely silent on the ongoing genocide in Gaza. By Alan MaCleod / MintPressNews Amal Clooney, the internationally acclaimed lawyer, is a liberal icon. She and her organization, the Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ), never… Read More Amal Clooney’s Silence on Gaza Shows the Limits of Liberalism

‘Chronic traumatic stress disorder’: the Palestinian psychologist challenging western definitions of trauma

“Now, my son can even tell what types of explosives are falling” GAZA casualties, live statistics Bethan McKernan in Jerusalem Even before the war in Gaza broke out, people in the besieged Palestinian territory had some of the world’s worst rates of mental illness. Israel and Egypt’s blockade of the Mediterranean strip is now 17 years old; a… Read More ‘Chronic traumatic stress disorder’: the Palestinian psychologist challenging western definitions of trauma