By Tim Anderson, original post here: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/lebanon-and-syria-under-siege While the peoples of both countries have common origins, a key problem is, as many politically conscious Lebanese say: in Syria, there is a state, while in Lebanon there is a […]
From CNN. Normally we would not run anything from CNN, but this is a useful collection of observations on one aspect of the 20 year long criminal occupation of Afghanistan. Original post here: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/07/asia/us-afghanistan-spending-waste-intl-cmd/index.html Half a billion dollars […]
From the Ministry of Justice, Republic of Yemen
For generations, Australian soldiers have been sent to commit war crimes in multiple wars of aggression against other countries. Yet they are told they are defending Australia. By Tim Anderson. Original post here: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/australian-soldier-ben-roberts-smith:-hero-or-war-criminal When the Australian military’s Brereton […]
How Zionists dumb down western academia: The University of Bristol sacked pro-Palestine Professor David Miller following a sustained campaign from pro-Israel groups, even though they accepted that his anti Israel remarks did not constitute “unlawful speech.” Miller said […]
Tajammo3 objectives and rules in English, Spanish and French. The Arabic website is here: https://www.tajammo3.org English. Objectives of the Global Gathering to support the choice of resistance. 1 – Supporting the choice of resistance and spreading the culture […]
by Tim Anderson Full text below, first published here: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/federal-court-of-australia-exposes-the-deep-racism-of-the-is The Federal Court implicitly recognized the deceptive technique of the Israeli lobby: the use of contrived and trivial pretexts to suppress critical discussion of apartheid crimes in Palestine. […]
Presentation by Dr Tim AndersonDirector, Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies
by Firas al Shoufi, original post here: https://thecradle.co/Article/analysis/1669
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, original post here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-objectivity/
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]