The July riots in South Africa remind Ryan Brunette of those by the Peronists in Argentina in December 2001. But Zuma’s people are moving from a much weaker position.
No Two Elephants Are Alike
Category: Until This Day–Historical Perspectives on the News
Impunity for Killings in Service of the State
Anne Cadwallader reports on the U.K. government’s proposals to end prosecutions for killings during the conflict in Northern Ireland.
COVID-19 & Israel’s Strangulation of Palestinian Workers
Among other recommendations, Ihab Maharmeh says the BDS movement should further center the violation of Palestinian workers’ rights in its call for boycotts of Israeli companies.
Migration Is Not the Crisis
Aviva Chomsky says the recycled policies of Biden and Harris are destined to spark yet more crimes in Central America such as Berta Cáceres’ murder.
AFGHANISTAN: Goodbye for Good to a War That Shouldn’t Have Been Fought
Danny Sjursen takes aim at powerful Washingtonian hawks who are trying to push the U.S. back for a third time into Afghanistan.
THE ANGRY ARAB: From a Lost Generation of Palestinian Resistance — the Life of Ahmad Jibril
As`ad AbuKhalil looks back on a Palestinian who was among a group of leaders to emerge after 1948 and dedicate themselves to liberating their homeland.
US Wars Come Home to Roost
The Drugging of American Politics
Alfred McCoy rounds up 50 years of racist U.S. policymaking on drug abuse, first by Republicans Nixon and Reagan and then by Democrat Bill Clinton.
How to Destroy a Nation in 10 Years
Danny Sjursen offers a U.S. case study in Burkina Faso on how to destroy a country in a decade.
THE ANGRY ARAB: How the US Controls Lebanon
The “war on terror” is even more convenient for Washington’s dreams of hegemony and domination than the previous war on communism, writes As`ad AbuKhalil.