When deranged leaders invoke divine catastrophe as a political instrument, it is not only their enemies who are consumed. Unless they are stopped, we will all be victims of these two psychopaths.
What has lately transpired in the New York of Zohran Mamdani is a very direct extension of the impunity that encourages and protects the Israeli terror machine in Gaza and the West Bank.
In her forthcoming report, U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese will detail how Palestine has been exploited by global capitalism and explain the role certain corporations have played in the genocide.
Criticism of the film after it was aired by the BBC is not because the director got it wrong. It’s because the extremist settlers in the film, along with Israel’s state terrorism, “are us.”
After the Israeli attacks this week on the Jenin refugee camp, Maha Nassar focuses on why the camp is a common target of Israeli offensives and a center of Palestinian militant resistance.
Israel plays a cynical game. It makes phased agreements with the Palestinians that ensure it immediately gets what it wants. It then violates every subsequent phase and reignites its military assault.
Syria’s future under al-Qaeda spin-off HTS will come in two flavours only, writes Jonathan Cook. Either submit and collude like the West Bank, or end up wrecked like Gaza.