Andrew Feinstein, Paul Holden and Jack Cinamon challenge why Israel’s largest arms firm and a company mired in a corruption scandal are even being considered for training British troops.
Labour & Elbit’s £2 Billion Military Deal
Tag: South Africa
Chris Hedges: Israel’s Assassination of Memory
The razing of Gaza is not a crime only against the Palestinian people but against our cultural and historical heritage. We can’t understand the present, especially when reporting on Palestine and Israel, if we don’t understand the past.
US Citizens Push Embassies to Back SA’s Genocide Charge
A coalition of ‘grassroots diplomats’ are taking the lead on international solidarity with South Africa in the absence of diplomacy and accountability from U.S. officials, writes Melissa Garriga.
Billions of Swedish Krona Supported Anti-Apartheid Struggle
Birgitta Karlström Dorph was on a secret mission in South Africa between 1982 and 1988, writes Ida Karlsson.
Taking Away the Ladder
Industrialized countries advanced by means that have been impermissible to the developing world, write Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram.
Might Israel Ever Surrender Its Nukes?
Just as apartheid South Africa once secretly possessed nuclear weapons and vowed to hold down its black majority forever, Israel is approaching a crossroads where it must decide if it will accept Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza as…
How Mandela and S. Africa Were Freed
From the Archive: One of the great battles of Danny Schechter’s life was the fight to end apartheid in South Africa, but he never soft-pedaled the challenges the country continued to face nor did he accept the revisionist history minimizing the role of millions…
Eroding Principles of Human Rights
After World War II, there was hope that core principles of international law and human rights would become universal, but increasingly these standards have suffered from selective application and propagandistic manipulation, causing a loss of credibility in these key precepts, as Lawrence…
How Mandela and S. Africa Were Freed
History often recounts events through the tales of “great men,” but that is rarely the complete story. South Africa’s overturning of white supremacy is a case in point, not just the personal triumph of Nelson Mandela but the victory of a…
South Africa’s Murder Trial Distraction
Despite South Africa’s transition into a multiracial democracy, profound economic inequality remains, a backdrop to both the high-profile murder trial of athlete Oscar Pistorius and the splintering of Nelson Mandela’s ANC, as Danny Schechter notes.