The human rights and Palestine solidarity organization BDS South Africa welcomes the President of South Africa’s confirmation in Parliament that South Africa will not “turn back” on the downgrade of the SA Embassy in Israel. Ramaphosa, who referred to the downgrade as a form of “pressure on the government of …

Lucas Koerner warns that the Global North “left” critique of “authoritarianism” in Venezuela serves as ideological cover for the current coup and impending dirty war pushed by Washington. In a recent piece for Jacobin, Gabriel Hetland mapped out what he believes should be the “left” position vis-à-vis the ongoing US-led …

ISLAMABAD, February 23, 2019: PPP Parliamentary Leader in Senate, Senator Sherry Rehman criticized former President Pervez Musharraf over his statements regarding Pakistan’s ties with Israel – a state Pakistan has refused to recognize since its inception. Rehman said, “The entire country is shell-shocked over Pervez Musharraf’s pro-Israel statements in his …

Tamara Nassar Power Suits 25 February 2019. Electronic Intifada. Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, was key in facilitating covert relations between Gulf states and Israel in the early 2000s. Secret ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia accelerated in 2003, when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asked longtime Mossad chief Meir Dagan to reexamine relations with neighboring Gulf states, according to …

By Richard Greeman Global Research,  On Tuesday, February 5, as the government of Emmanuel Macron pushed harsh repressive laws against demonstrators through the National Assembly, the Yellow Vests joined with France’s unions for the first time in a day-long, nation-wide “General Strike.” At the very moment when in Paris the …

This article was originally published in 2016. Americans have been trained by decades of Cold War propaganda to look for any confirmation that ‘socialism means poverty.’ But in the case of Venezuela and other states not governed by the free market, this cliche simply doesn’t ring true. *** The political …

Maan al-Jaraba says that, in the days preceding Khashoggi’s assassination last October, he almost fell into a similar trap Maan al-Jaraba, the leader of Saudi opposition movement Harakat al-Karama (photo courtesy of Jaraba, via the Lebanon Debate) By Paul Khalifeh Published date: 28 January 2019 17:36 UTC | Last update: …

Hani Masri “Fatah’s Central Committee has recommended a freeze on the proposed Social Security Law to President Mahmoud ‘Abbas, which is a step in the right direction,” writes Hani al-Masri on Tuesday’s Palestinian news portal www.masarat.ps. The Central Committee also recommended the formation of a political government that includes PLO …

Tim Anderson Quite a number of people have asked me what is happening with the review of my ‘suspension pending expulsion’ from the University of Sydney, following managers’ attempts to censor some of my public comments. I give an update here, along with the discussion of one matter that emerged …

The late Amos Oz was right to say ‘even unavoidable occupation is a corrupting occupation’. Israeli voters should heed his words. In the last nine months of 2018, according to the United Nations, Palestinians – many of them children – were killed at the rate of around one a day …