Moscow’s military campaign under Putin’s leadership has focused on avoiding escalation, says John Wight. But Ukraine’s drone strike deep into Russian territory is a gauntlet thrown down.
Russia at a Crossroads
Author: corinna barnard
Gaza Freedom Flotilla Sails to Break Illegal Israeli Siege
The ship symbolizes the spirit of Palestinian resilience and the growing global resistance to Israel’s collective punishment and starvation policies, says Ann Wright.
Chris Hedges Report: The Shared Mythology of Israel & the US
In the face of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians, Prof. Joan Scott discusses the relevance of the late Amy Kaplan’s Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance.
Vijay Prashad: Meanwhile, 100s of Millions of People Die of Hunger
Enough food is produced to meet the needs of 11 billion people. Why do so many of the 8 billion people on the planet go hungry?
Craig Murray: UK Hypocrisy on Its Arrests of Journalists
By rebuking the U.N. for its legitimate interest in cases involving U.K. citizens while throwing open the door to Israel, the Starmer regime has gone beyond Orwell or Kafka.
US Veterans Fast Against Israel’s Starvation of Gaza
Fasters are demanding full humanitarian aid to Gaza under U.N. authority and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel, Marjorie Cohn reports.
Jonathan Cook: How to Starve a Population to Death
In Five Easy Steps: The danger in an age of social media is that images of starving babies will make you look very bad. Hold firm. The Western media will come to the rescue.
Chris Hedges: Trump’s Useful Idiots
By refusing to acknowledge or name the genocide in Gaza, and persecuting those who do, the liberal class in the U.S. provided the bullets to their executioners.
Israel Is off the Leash
Des Freedman on the dramatic change that a plethora of editorials in the broadsheet U.K. press have taken on Israel’s assault on Gaza.
Jonathan Cook: Israel Is Lying About ‘Hamas Stealing Aid’
Western journalists — having promoted Israel’s claims for more than a year and half — have grown entirely insensible to their active collusion in genocide.