2015 onwards marks the start of a ‘losing gambit’ for Washington’s New Middle East .. now ‘on the back foot’ it has had to resort to direct interventions in Syria and Iraq, to provide safe haven for its […]
By Danny Haiphong, Black Agenda Report – “One cannot logically support the liberation of Palestine while simultaneously advocating regime change in Syria and Venezuela and obscene funding for the US military.” Full PDF below and original post here: […]
In recent years Washington has run a fake ‘Uyghur Genocide’ campaign, based on hopeless sources, to help demonise China. This is simply part of the ‘US in decline’ rivalry. However to understand the issue in more depth, below […]
By Tim Anderson, 31 May 2021 Suzanne Rutland, the woman who told Australian television that her son’s dog was terrified by Palestinian rockets from Gaza, has been a conduit of secret Israeli money to Australia’s oldest university, the […]
Implications of the Canadian Association of University Teachers’ (CAUT) censure of the University of Toronto, following the university’s failed efforts to dissipate the months-long hiring scandal at the Faculty of Law’s International Human Rights Program (IHRP). Full PDF […]
This article provides a cursory perusal of some of the arguments that have been used to discredit the ‘spread by the sword’ narrative and examines three cases of forced conversion to Islam in history: the spread of Islam […]
Explains the basic principles of crypto currency ‘mining’, as a reward for ‘auditing’ the ledger or blockchain. https://sectigostore.com/blog/what-is-crypto-mining-how-cryptocurrency-mining-works/ Although crypto mining has only been around since Bitcoin was first mined in 2009, it’s made quite a splash with […]
Pew Research Centre: “Eight-in-ten U.S. Jews say caring about Israel is an essential or important part of what being Jewish means to them. Nearly six-in-ten say they personally feel an emotional attachment to Israel .. [but the 2020 […]
“Despite its limited material resources, Cuba is responsible for developing two of only 23 coronavirus vaccines to have entered phase III trials anywhere in the world – and it has another three on the way. Helen Yaffe (University […]
NOT a resistance text, but a useful critique of ‘liberal zionism’ and ‘post zionism’. Full text below and original post here: https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/28784 Review of: Tikva Honig-Parnass, False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine. Chicago: […]
Good explanation of why the USA Federal Reserve will NOT take the lead in CBDCs and why China’s Digital Yuan will become important. From NYT, April 26, 2021, full text below and link here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/business/economy/fed-digital-currency.html America’s Federal Reserve […]
Former Indian diplomat B.D. Bhadrakumar looks at the Saudi, UAE and Israeli backers of the recent coup attempt in Jordan. Full article below, the original post of 7 April 2021 is here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/08/coup-attempt-in-jordan-leaves-a-trail/ A coup attempt is an […]
Diana Johnstone responds to complaints by some exile Syrians and their western supporters over the failure of the alleged ‘Syrian Revolution’, Full article below, original 7 April 2021 post here: https://consortiumnews.com/2021/04/07/diana-johnstone-the-imperialism-of-foolery/ No promising event has more fully failed […]
A West Asian perspective by Amir Mohammad Esmaeili, April 2021, full text below, original post here: https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/459505/Strategic-cooperation-of-emerging-powers-Beyond-regional-instability Homme Malade de l’Europe was eventually divided by the Allied Powers at the end of World War I. The Ottoman Empire, […]
A warning against ‘left zionist’ infiltration of Palestine solidarity, 9 April 2021 Dear APAN, We the undersigned supporters of Palestine are alarmed by your choice of former ABC journalist Sophie McNeill as the main speaker for your 23 […]
by Tim Anderson, Director CCHS The JCPOA, an ugly creature conceived in peculiar circumstances, lies dead in the morgue. But no-one is ready yet to collect the corpse and give it a proper burial. As the US and […]
First posted 30 March 2021 at Counter Punch, here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/03/30/cuba-libre-to-be-covid-libre-five-vaccines-and-counting/ On 23 March 2021, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told a group of Conservative Party backbenchers: ‘The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism, because […]
by Dr Tim Anderson, Director of the CCHS and favourite target of the Murdoch media In some ways I should be flattered by repeated front page smears from the Murdoch media. After all, this appalling media monopoly has […]
By Tim Anderson, Director of the CCHS Nearly six months after the Brereton Report found that Australian soldiers had murdered at least 39 Afghan civilians and prisoners, between 2005 and 2016, the Morrison Government is showing strong determination […]
by Tim Anderson Zionists have trolled the University of Sydney student newspaper Honi Soit with misinformation, in attempts to cover up secret Israeli funding for Australia’s oldest University. I have previously written about private Israeli donations to the […]
Translation (by MEO) of Anis Naqqash speaking to his proposal for a Levantine Confederation. In a recent conference held on Zoom and published on YouTube, senior Middle East political analyst Anees Naqqash spoke about his 2014 book titled […]
Some troubling connections contradict Amnesty’s image as a benevolent defender of human rights and reveal key figures at the organization during its early years to be less concerned with human dignity and more concerned with the dignity of […]
Report by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal in September 2015 documents the widespread and growing suppression of Palestinian human rights advocacy in the United States. 2015. Full PDF below, original post here: https://ccrjustice.org/the-palestine-exception
Full PDF below, original post here: https://www.palestinechronicle.com/on-btselems-declaration-israeli-apartheid-from-the-river-to-the-sea/
Oxfam’s 25 Jan 2021 report ‘The Inequality Virus’ on inequality rising rapidly under the COVID-19 pandemic. PDF below, online here: https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/mega-rich-recoup-covid-losses-record-time-yet-billions-will-live-poverty-least