By Michael Merryman-Lotze On Oct. 7, Palestinians from Gaza carried out attacks in Israel that killed at least 1,200 Israelis, injured thousands more, and took an estimated 200 hostages. Israel immediately launched attacks on Gaza….
By K.R. Kamphoefner Some people think the easy solution of Israel bombing 2.3 million civilians in Gaza is to simply open the Rafah checkpoint, which leads to Egypt. But like most “easy solutions,” it won’t…
By Mustafa, Luna, Mariam, Ghassan Najjar, and Sabri As told to Maya Rosen, Amos, and Shira Wolkenfeld For Palestinians living in the West Bank, settler violence has long been a relentless facet of everyday life….
Commentary, by Andrew Mitrovica Israel has waged war on Palestinians for decades. That fact may come, I suspect, as a surprise to many people whose grasp of the world is shaped by their exclusive consumption…
Commentary by Rami G Khouri The Palestinian-Israeli conflict that now enters its second century is fought on two parallel battlefields. The first comprises the violence on the ground which has reached new heights in recent…
By Robert Tait The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has reportedly asked Qatar to moderate Al Jazeera’s coverage of Israel’s war against Hamas, amid concerns within the Biden administration that the channel is inflaming…
Indigenous and social organizations march against violence in Bogotá by Peoples Dispatch Over 15,000 Indigenous people from 10 departments of Colombia arrived in the capital Bogotá between September 25 and 27 to draw the national…
By Jane Regan EDITOR’S NOTE: on October 2nd, the UN Security Council adopted resolution 2699 authorizing a security mission to Haiti. Military intervention into Haiti is in the air again. And the East Coast establishment…
Address to the Trondheim World Festival in Norway By John Pilger In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at…
The media aren’t telling the whole story By Jonathan Cook The reality of the West’s trademark current foreign policy – marketed for the past two decades under the principle of a “Responsibility to Protect” –…