Dispatches from the West Bank
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….
Conflict
Western Media’s Islamophobic Rhetoric
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…
Fear In Newsrooms Silences Pro-Palestine Voices
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…
US Asks Qatar to Censor Al Jazeera News
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…
Colombian Indigenous March
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…
Haiti Isn’t Asking for US Intervention
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…
Silencing the Lambs: How Propaganda Works
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…
What’s Behind Libya’s Floods
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” –…
Niger’s Crisis Began in Libya
By Branko Marcetic The events in Niger over the past few months have been alarming to watch. What began as a military coup now risks spiraling into a wider war in West Africa, with a…
Self-Defense or State Terror?
Commentary by Rev. J Mark Davidson This has been the worst summer in decades for the Palestinian refugees barely surviving in the Jenin refugee camp. In June and July, Israel unleashed devastating military strikes, terrorizing…