Oil shipments to Cuba have virtually stopped, writes Marjorie Cohn. Lack of electricity has led to widespread blackouts, impacting hospitals and essential services. Cuba’s oil reserves could be totally depleted by March.
After the Bondi massacre and new hate laws, a visit to Australia beginning Monday by the Israeli president — named in the ICJ genocide case — is raising tensions, as Herzog seals Israel’s victory in Oz, writes Joe Lauria.
Years of dedicated work by the Israel lobby has ensured the mass murder of Palestinians is viewed by governments, the media and parts of the Jewish community as entirely legitimate.
Zionists have wasted little time blaming anti-genocide activists for the horrendous attack on innocent people in Sydney, Australia on Sunday, in order to obscure Israel’s ongoing crimes in Gaza, writes Joe Lauria.
The Lemkin Institute this week denounced the former secretary of state for trivializing young Americans’ opposition to Israel’s U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza.
U.N. Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese discusses why, in her most recent report, she called out more than 60 nations for their collective-crime roles in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The international court said Israel had “not substantiated its allegations that a significant number of UNRWA employees were members of Hamas.”
The General Assembly is not powerless in the face of genocide. It can recommend one or more of six concrete measures based on the GA’s own precedents, writes Mona Ali Khalil.
The Starmer regime’s failure to defend the Handala along with the mistreatment of the Leonardo 3 in Scotland are both examples of a diseased doctrine of unquestioning U.K. support of Israel.
The U.S. is now expected to pressure other countries not to sign on to the joint action plan announced by the 12 countries in Bogota, Mick Hall reports.