
If Hamas are terrorists, what does that make our ally Israel? Genocide is the highest level of state terrorism. Read on.
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If we wish to live in a world where international law is applied fairly and is not simply a sham tool deployed by the powerful to bludgeon the weak then we must address the inconsistency of calling Israel (a state committing genocide) our ally whilst banning Hamas.
All over the world more and more people are taking direct action, stepping in because of the criminal failure of governments to fulfil their legal obligations under the Genocide Convention to “prevent and punish the crime of genocide”.
Leaders like Macron, Merz, Kallas, von der Leyen and Starmer have abandoned diplomacy, so vital in dealing with your adversaries – even hated ones – and spend their time grandstanding, insulting adversaries, and endlessly hugging each other. How long this can go on for is uncertain because they are simultaneously kicking down the pillars of their own economies and democracies.
Is the future of Australia and New Zealand really as NATO forts, armed to the teeth glaring menacingly at an ever-rising China? Are we risking what we cannot afford to lose by failing to see the world around us is changing rapidly and that we may be backing the wrong horse? Our instinctive allegiance to a US hell-bent on escalation to maintain primacy risks the people of Down Under getting a Come Uppance of terrible proportions.
War crimes tribunals on the Palestine Genocide will be essential to restore international law. War criminals whether in Tel Aviv, London, Canberra or Wellington must one day face justice.
The world’s most important hostage – must be released. The powerful Western countries have signalled that in the face of the genocide they may recognise the state of Palestine. States need leaders. That’s why Marwan Barghouti – often dubbed the Palestinian Mandela – must be freed.
Israel’s key enablers, the G7, plus Australia and New Zealand, have succeeded in muscling Israel back onto the invite list for the commemorations in Nagasaki on 9 August. Last year Israel was excluded, triggering a refusal by these countries to attend in 2024. Does the ‘personal’ invitation that Nagasaki has just sent to Israel represent a triumph of Western diplomacy or a sick joke?
The British government has proscribed the non-violent direct action group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. Do they really bear resemblance to Al Qaeda or ISIS, or Israel’s Stern Gang or the IDF? Or, like the French Resistance, will they eventually be recognized as heroes of our time? Will Hollywood romanticize them in their usual tardy way in 50 years time?
In conversatoin with Eugene Doyle, the Palestinian writer Yousef Aljamal says: “I see writing as an act of resistance, because in times of oppression and injustice, writing is a means of fighting back and resisting, but also documenting and remembering and healing.“
Stockholm. Benjamin Netanyahu’s nomination of Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize means that for the first time in history a political figure involved in a genocide will be nominated for the prestigious award by a leader who has an arrest warrant out for him for the crime of genocide. Netanyahu’s move, however, has triggered a flood of nominations from across the globe.
Within a year of the US assuming trusteeship of the islands another pillar of international law came into effect: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) – which affirms the inherent dignity and equal rights of all humans. Exposing colonised peoples to extreme radiation for weapons testing is a racist affront to this.
Immediately after murdering Fernando Pereira and blowing up Greenpeace’s ship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, several of the French agents went on a ski holiday in New Zealand’s South Island to celebrate. Such was the contempt the French had for the Kiwis and the abilities of our police to pursue them. How wrong they were.
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The United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has released a new report mapping the corporations aiding Israel in the displacement of Palestinians and its genocidal war on Gaza, in breach of international law. Read on.
When future historians look back on our age, they will almost certainly mark ‘Liberation Day’ as the end of the American Century. That was the day on which Donald Trump put an end to 80 years of global economic leadership, accelerated US relative economic decline and irreparably diminished the US’ international standing and soft power, bringing to a close the most prosperous and, for the most part, peaceful period in history thus far.
Not all of Mamdani’s policies could be/should be adopted here intact. But they go to show that politicians on the left can lead and provide positive solutions that – if anything – are less expensive, once all of the longer term socio-environmental costs of mainstream centre-right policies are factored into the equation.
The Israeli genocide in Gaza, along with the escalating regional wars it has ignited, has brought two chilling truths into our focus: first, Israel is deliberately and aggressively undermining the security and stability of the entire Middle East and, second, Israel is utterly incapable of surviving on its own. Dr Ramzy Baroud Read on.
They are part of a countercultural movement intent of calling out what is and what ought to be, in the tradition of those who’ve used their art to critique society.
Britain’s Labour government has secretly allowed at least three Israeli Air Force (IAF) planes involved in the bombing of Gaza to land in the UK since it took office, according to flight data reviewed by Drop Site News. Read on.
Guardian: The campaign group Defend Our Juries, which organised the demonstration, said “a priest, an emeritus professor and a number of health professionals” were among those arrested.
To wage war on Iran, Trump and his allies have employed the traditional Iraq WMD playbook of ignoring or manipulating the available evidence to fear-monger about a foreign state marked for regime change.
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