BRICS in Global Governance:
A Gradual but Steady Expansion
By Rajan Kumar and Biju Thomas, Governance and Politics 2022, Vol 1 No 1.
State failure, Sovereign Equality and Non-Intervention
By Hannah Woolaver, original post here: https://wilj.law.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1270/2019/10/Woolaver-Final.pdf .
How Winston Churchill engineered the holocaust of three million Bengalis
Original post here: https://newint.org/features/2021/12/07/feature-how-british-colonizers-caused-bengal-famine The mass starvation that killed three million Indians during the closing years of the Second World War was no act of nature; it was engineered. Britain must face up to this crime, says Jason Hickel. […]
Study: Israeli lobby sponsors most overseas junkets for Australian politicians
How Apartheid Israel buys silence in Canberra, mostly through AIJAC https://aijac.org.au From APAN. Original post here: https://apan.org.au/learn-more/israeli-junkets/#resources
China’s long war on poverty
By Carlos Martinez, Co-Editor at Friends of Socialist China. Original post here: https://socialistchina.org/2022/06/19/chinas-long-war-on-poverty/ This article by Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos Martinez provides a detailed analysis of China’s ongoing war against poverty. In addition to discussing the […]
Lavrov: on Ukraine and the US-UK desire for a ‘real war’ between Russia and the E.U.
In depth RT interview, 22 July. Video and original post here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeXDvF0J5Ac Backup copy of video is here: https://vk.com/timand2037?z=video404210594_456240809%2F0d94510fcbeeeeb4ef%2Fpl_wall_404210594 Full transcript: Question: You just returned from a trip and are about to leave again soon. This “international isolation” […]
How the Pentagon uses a secretive program to wage proxy wars
Original post: Nick Turse, Alice Speri, The Intercept, 1 July, online: https://theintercept.com/2022/07/01/pentagon-127e-proxy-wars/ “In total, between 2017 and 2020, U.S. commandos conducted at least 23 separate 127e programs [proxy wars] across the world .. [said to be extremely effective […]
Cuban economy, under blockade, is slowly recovering after the COVID recession.
COMPORTAMIENTO DE LA ECONOMÍA, CIERRE DEL 2021 Y I SEMESTRE 2022Noveno Período Ordinario de Sesiones de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular, IX LegislaturaJulio de 2022 Full report here:
Ruins of Azov Steel Factory Display Nazi Insignia and Signs of NATO Support
By Sonja Van den Ende – July 8, 2022. Original post here: https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/07/08/ruins-of-azov-steel-factory-display-nazi-insignia-and-signs-of-nato-support/ Owner of plant, Rinat Akhmetov, is allegedly connected to organized crime [This article is written by a reporter embedded in Ukraine with the Russian army. […]
The Decadent Empire
By Randy Alonso Falcón on July 4, 2022 from Havana. First posted here: https://www.resumen-english.org/2022/07/the-decadent-empire/ With a stroke of a pen the majority of the US Supreme Court has just set women’s rights in the United States back 50 […]
78 Days of Fear: Remembering NATO’s Bombing of Yugoslavia — and how the U.N. sided with NATO
By Maja Zivanovic and Serbeze Haxhiaj, Belgrade, Pristina, March 22, 2019. Original post here: https://balkaninsight.com/2019/03/22/78-days-of-fear-remembering-natos-bombing-of-yugoslavia/ Twenty years after the start of NATO’s air strikes to force Slobodan Milosevic’s troops to withdraw from Kosovo, reporters who covered the bombing […]
ICJ 1986: Nicaragua vs USA, judgement
CASE CONCERNING MILITARY AND PARAMILITARY ACTIVITIES IN AND AGAINST NICARAGUA (NICARAGUA v. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA), 1986. Original post here: https://www.icj-cij.org/public/files/case-related/70/070-19860627-JUD-01-00-EN.pdf Summary of the case by LegalBites Original post here: https://legal60.com/case-study-republic-of-nicaragua-v-united-states-of-america-1986/ Case Study: Republic of Nicaragua v United […]
Mexico’s AMLO calls for end to blockade, urges Latin American unity amid “US economic decline”
by Benjamin Norton, original post here: https://multipolarista.com/2022/05/10/cuba-mexico-amlo-us-blockade/ Mexican President López Obrador took a historic trip to Cuba, where he called for an end to the US blockade and criticized right-wing “coup-plotters.” He said Latin America should form a […]
The deep roots of resistance in Palestine
by Jeremy Salt, original post here: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/blog/the-deeply-buried-roots-of-resistance Would they have attacked them had they been of a different ethno-religious background but were still occupiers? Most certainly yes. These young men had no other motive to do what they […]
Washington’s failure in Afghanistan: you can’t ‘moralize with bullets and bombs’
By Dr F. Haider Alvi, Athabasca University, original post here: https://theconversation.com/the-u-s-failed-in-afghanistan-by-trying-to-moralize-with-bullets-and-bombs-174033 Last August, the world watched the chaotic and painful American departure from Afghanistan. It led to a profound reckoning: how could two decades of war end in such […]
Max Lesnik: the Cuban dissident who stayed loyal to the revolution
By Salim Lamrani, August 15, 2021, translated by Walter Lippmann for Cuba News, original post here: https://walterlippmann.com/conversations-with-max-lesnik/ “In reality, the United States expects a total and definitive surrender from the Cuban people.” Born in 1930 in Cuba, in […]
Azovstal Worker: Russia’s Special Op Was the Only Way to End Azov’s Hellish Reign Over Mariupol
From Sputnik, original version here: https://sputniknews.com/20220430/azovstal-worker-russias-special-op-was-the-only-way-to-end-azovs-hellish-reign-over-mariupol-1095169980.html Evgeny Davidyuk has worked on the Azovstal steel plant for 45 years, but he considers it a God’s miracle that he has escaped to Russia’s Sevastopol, safe and sound shortly after fleeing […]
The foundation of historical revisionism in the 20th century and its continuation in 21st century
By Costas Isychos, original version in Russian here: https://expert.ru/expert/2020/18/istoricheskij-revizionizm-v-xx-i-xxi-vekah/ “Historical revision unfortunately started on the first day the second world war ended. Itwas not a “freak of nature” but a constant strategy utilizing, devising and using a largenumber […]
NATO’s fascist history
By Tim Anderson, First published here: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/natos-fascist-history NATO’s fascist history Tim Anderson In recent years NATO – essentially the USA and Western Europe – has bared its fascist roots through multiple interventions across four continents. The NATO states […]
The Haavara/Transfer Agreement and the Boycott Movement in Nazi Germany
Research article by Yf’aat Weiss, originally published by Yad Vashem, the Shoah Research Centre. The author discusses tensions between the German Jewish boycott movement of the 1930s and the German Zionists, with special reference to the Haavara agreement […]
Henry Cavill: “you’re using Wikipedia as your source of information?!”
Actor Henry Cavill (Superman, The Witcher) reminds viewers what all academics tell their students: never rely on Wikipedia as your source of information. Why? 1. anonymous open source method allows lobbyists, bias and random misinformation to overwhelm the […]
THE UNTOLD TRUTH ABOUT VENEZUELA
by: Chief Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh. Freetown, Sierra Leone. West Africa The war against the Venezuelan people began since the demise of the fascist enclave in 1999, when Hugo Chavez was sworn as President after winning the 1998 elections […]
Israelis use drone gas bomb attacks against al-Aqsa Mosque worshippers
by Maureen Clare Murphy 22 April 2022, original post: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-deploys-tear-gas-drones-against-al-aqsa-worshippers Palestinian civilians attacked from the sky. ————– Rocket fire from Gaza was reported late Friday after Israeli police used violent force against Palestinian worshippers following prayers at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque […]
20th C Fascism in Ukraine: the OUN, the UPA and the Holocaust
By Per A. Rudling, The Carl beck papers, Russian & East European Studies, Number 2107, Center for Russian & East European Studies, University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh. Original post here: https://carlbeckpapers.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cbp/article/view/164/160
By using Ukraine to fight Russia, the US provoked Putin’s war
By Aaron Mate, 6 March, original post here: https://mate.substack.com/p/by-using-ukraine-to-fight-russia The same people who backed Jabhat al Nusra and ISIS in Libya and Syria have been supporting fascism in Ukraine. Aaron Mate’s article uses mainly US sources and is […]