Arab states edge closer to reconciliation with Syria
by Firas al Shoufi, original post here: https://thecradle.co/Article/analysis/1669
The elusive, often misunderstood concept of ‘objectivity’
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, original post here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-objectivity/
Washington’s strategic retreat
by Tim Anderson, first published here: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/1557539/washingtons-strategic-retreat While many have suspected ulterior motives in the Biden regime’s pull-out from Afghanistan, I suggest it is just the first move in a wider strategic retreat by Washington, not only from […]
Intellectual freedom case: Federal Court overturns ruling in NTEU & Anderson vs. University of Sydney
by Tim Anderson The full bench of the Federal Court of Australia (Justice Jagot, Justice Rangiah and Chief Justice Allsop) has unanimously found that there was a miscarriage in the lower court, in the 2019 unfair dismissal case […]
Nasrallah: the Lebanese crisis is part of the economic war
Lebanese resistance leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses monopolies and fuel smuggling in Lebanon, as well as the United States role in the economic war on Lebanon. Full text below, original post here: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/sayyed-hassan-nasrallah:-lebanese-situation-is-part-of-econo Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah […]
Russia: Human Rights Situation in Australia
Russian Foreign Affairs has followed the US and China in issuing human rights reports on other countries. The report on Australia is below, as a PDF. It has a focus on indigenous, migrant and children’s rights. The full […]
The Nuclear Power Debate Revisited
The terms of the nuclear power debate seemed to have been settled in the Cold War 1980s: the green argument was against it and the corporate war mongers were for it. However with renewed debate on climate change […]
The Axis of Resistance road from Tehran to Beirut
From Tehran to Beirut, the Axis of Resistance has opened and secured a land route for their transport of military, commercial and consumer supplies. Neither US sanctions nor Israeli air raids can alter this course today. From Elijah […]
Richard Falk: On Jewish Identity
From Richard’s site here: https://richardfalk.org/2011/01/15/on-jewish-identity/ As someone who is both Jewish and supportive of the Palestinian struggle for a just and sustainable peace, I am often asked about my identity. The harshest critics of my understanding of the Israel/Palestine […]
Nasrallah: Resistance Capabilities Have Grown
Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Nasrallah, in a speech on the occasion of the July 2006 Victory, addresses local as well as regional issues – from the southern border retaliations to military equations. From al Mayadeen 6 August 2021, original […]
Lebanese Army official: “the current command is giving the Americans many prerogatives”
By Radwan Mortada, August 02 2021, from The Cradle, original post here: https://thecradle.co/Article/interviews/473 Editor’s note: We have elected to publish an interview with an anonymous senior Lebanese army official, an extremely unconventional journalism practice. This is because serving […]
2021, the year of Israeli apartheid, by Ahmed Abbes and Jonathan Rosenhead
JULY 27, 2021, at Mondoweiss, original post here: https://mondoweiss.net/2021/07/2021-the-year-of-israeli-apartheid/ More than 1000 academics, artists and intellectuals have signed a “Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine,” in a sign of the […]
Riots in Cuba: What’s going on?
by Helen Yaffe, 20 July 21021, original post here: https://novaramedia.com/2021/07/20/whats-actually-going-on-in-cuba/ On Sunday 11 July, dozens of anti-government protests, apparently coordinated via social media, took place simultaneously throughout Cuba. In several places, including in San Antonio on the outskirts […]
Day Zero in Cuba: eliminating the dual currency system, by Helen Yaffe
Full article below. Original post at NLR here: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/day-zero-in-cuba HELEN YAFFE02 FEBRUARY 2021ECONOMICS The first of January 2021 was known as ‘Day Zero’ in Cuba. After almost three decades of operating with a dual currency, Cuba’s national peso […]
José Martí: Our America (1891)
A Cuban classic. English translation from this site: https://writing.upenn.edu/library/Marti_Jose_Our-America.html The conceited villager believes the entire world to be his village. Provided that be can be mayor, humiliate the rival who stole his sweetheart, or add to the savings […]
Why Cuba is a democracy and the US is not
by Tim Anderson, 2007, first post here: https://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=5609 In an age of propaganda and pseudo-democracy, the strongest opponents of imperial power are subject to the most ferocious attacks. One result of this is that many of the firmly […]
Demonize then kill: the role of media and social networks in imperialist domination
By Atilio Boron, first published at Al Maydeen: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/1491397/demonize-first-then-kill:-a-note-on-the-role-of-media-and-so “Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to dictatorship” – Noam Chomsky The sentence of the great American linguist offers a good starting point for these reflections that we […]
Australia Moves Towards an Unprovoked Aggression against Lebanon
By Tim Anderson, first post at Al Mayadeen here: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/1494367/australia-moves-towards-an-unprovoked-aggression-against-leb Pushed by the Israeli lobby, the Australian government is steadily moving towards an unprovoked aggression against Lebanon, without even an informed public debate. The move will make use […]
Global Resistance network Tajammo updates its brief and name
The Beirut based ‘Global Gathering to support the choice of Resistance’ (Tajammo) has its official website here: https://www.tajammo3.org The Tajammo Resistance Network is a non party international group, with representatives in more than 40 countries. The name change […]
Soleimani interview: Hezbollah’s 2006 victory over Israel
October 2019 post from Iran documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWV9ar7ayyk Iran Documentary. After 20 years, for the first time since being appointed as the Chief Commander of Quds brigade, General Soleimani was interviewed
Masseer Journal: Interview with Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (Part Five)
In an extensive interview with Masseer Especial Journal–which belongs to Khamenei.ir– Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah pointed out formerly undisclosed facts regarding relations between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as Imam Khamenei’s command of international […]
Masseer Journal: Interview with Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (Part Four)
In an extensive interview with Masseer Especial Journal–which belongs to Khamenei.ir– Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah pointed out formerly undisclosed facts regarding relations between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as Imam Khamenei’s command of international […]
Masseer Journal: Interview with Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (Part Three)
In an extensive interview with Masseer Especial Journal–which belongs to Khamenei.ir– Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah pointed out formerly undisclosed facts regarding relations between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as Imam Khamenei’s command of international […]
Masseer Journal: Interview with Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (Part Two)
One of the important events that took place in the region at that time was the formation of a process of reconciliation through Arab-Israeli negotiations, which is referred to as the “peace process”. This trend was shaped after […]
Masseer Journal: Interview with Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah (Part One)
Masseer Especial Journal, which belongs to Khamenei.ir, has conducted an interview with Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which is published for the first time. The following is part one of the interview: I would like […]