By Evan Reif – April 21, 2023, full article below, original post here: https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/04/21/the-atrocity-mill-how-the-west-conjures-up-atrocities-overseas-to-cover-for-its-own/ Recently, American doctor and ex-Marine Pete Reed was killed near the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine. Since his death, Reed has been lionized as […]
Full September 2022 address below, original post here: http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69390 President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Friends, The subject of this address is the situation in Donbass and the course of the special military operation to liberate it from the neo-Nazi regime, which seized power in Ukraine in 2014 as the result of an armed state coup. Today […]
by Karen Middleton, 8 April 2023, The Saturday paper, full article below, original post here: https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2023/04/08/exclusive-government-tried-suppress-timor-ruling#hrd Citing fear of upsetting Indonesia, the government has unsuccessfully attempted to suppress reasons for sealing documents related to Timor Gap negotiations. The […]
by Jamal Kanj, first published at Al Mayadeen English, 7 Apr 2023, here: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/blog/political-zionism:-history-of-embracing-anti-semites Full article here: From its inception, long before the Holocaust, the consequentialist political Zionist movement followed a teleological worldview in which the rightness of […]
Full text below. First published on Published April 15, 2022, here: https://thechinaproject.com/2022/04/15/fortitude-resilience-and-ability-how-private-chinese-companies-are-winning-in-africa/ Africa-China economic relations are dominated by state-to-state interactions, but Chinese private companies are making a unique impact on the continent’s economic transformation. Here’s how. Economic relations […]
Full article from China Daily below, original post here https://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202302/16/WS63eda864a31057c47ebaf292.html By Wang Lei | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2023-02-16 Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s visit to China from Tuesday to Thursday shows Beijing and Teheran are committed to deepening political […]
By Sharmine Narwani. Full article below,original post here: https://thecradle.co/article-view/19259/iran-to-veil-or-not-to-veil Iran: To veil or not to veil During a two-week visit to Iran in November, I witnessed women of all ages walking freely on the streets without the hijab. […]
Unilateral coercive measures (UCMs: wrongly called ‘sanctions’) from the US and EU have kept the Syrian people under siege for more than a decade. UN chief Antonio Guterres recognises that 90% of Syrians live in poverty. But the […]
Article by Aaron Mate, 3 Feb 2023, full article below, original post here: https://thegrayzone.com/2023/02/03/opcw-smoking-gun-backfires/
By Mathew Ehret, 2 jan 2023, full article as PDF below, original post here: https://thecradle.co/Article/Analysis/19949
Essay by Alexander Nepogodin, Odessa-born political journalist, expert on Russia and the USSR. Gorbachev advisor, Georgy Shakhnazarov (October 1991): “If Ukraine announces its withdrawal from the [Soviet] Union, Crimea will secede from Ukraine and become a part of […]
“There was a very serious famine in the USSR, including (but not limited to) the Ukrainian SSR, in 1932-33. But there has never been any evidence of a “Holodomor” or “deliberate famine” “ by Grover Furr. Full article […]
Presentation by the Countess of Baghdad, Condoleezza Rice, and The Cradle https://thecradle.co
By Deborah Brautigam and Meg Rithmire at The Atlantic, source here: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/china-debt-trap-diplomacy/617953/ The narrative wrongfully portrays both Beijing and the developing countries it deals with. China, we are told, inveigles poorer countries into taking out loan after loan to build expensive […]
In the wake of unpredicted sanctions levied against Russia, will China be able to advance its own efforts to challenge US dollar dominance and promote alternatives to SWIFT? While its progress has been limited to date, how might dynamics […]
“A decolonisation approach is central to the present report, which situates apartheid within the broader context of Zionist settler colonialism.” From 29 November 2022 original post here: https://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/20931.html Full report as PDF below: Leading Palestinian civil society organisations, […]
Joe Macaron in The New Arab, 23 May 2022. Original post here: https://www.newarab.com/analysis/did-hezbollah-suffer-setback-lebanons-election Analysis: Hezbollah’s electoral power has diminished nationally but the group’s influence remains entrenched in every aspect of the Lebanese system. Western and Arab media are […]
Excerpt from Rania Khalek’s interview with UN expert Alena Douhan. Full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_W6Z8Q77kA
By Mnar Adley and Alan McLeod, first published here: https://www.mintpressnews.com/peter-beinart-leads-charge-cancel-palestinian-american-journalist-mnar-adley/282695/ The latest victim of cancel culture wave is MintPress News founder and editor-in-chief Mnar Adley. Adley had been booked to host and moderate an event discussing anti-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions […]
by Paul Gregoire, Sydney Criminal Lawyers, first published here: https://www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/dr-tim-anderson-on-his-intellectual-freedom-court-victory-and-slow-genocide-in-palestine/ Dr Tim Anderson was victorious on 27 October, after having raised multiple court challenges, which appealed the decision to dismiss him from his position of Sydney University senior lecturer […]
CCHS, 28 October 2021 Following the full bench decision of the Australian Federal Court (2021), Justice Tom Thawley has found on every count for the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and Dr Tim Anderson in their case against […]
The Government of Iran defends its record on advances in the status of women and the family The UNDP backs some of this, having charted (in 2013 and 2018) superior human development (income, education and health) advances in […]
by Grover Furr, first published in 2017 here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/the-holodomor-and-the-film-bitter-harvest-are-fascist-lies/ Author’s note: In this article I rely heavily on the evidence cited in the research of Mark Tauger of West Virginia University. Tauger has spent his professional life studying […]
The resolution below, the NTEU website is here: https://www.nteu.au Some reactions:
by Janna al Kadri, first published at Al Maydeen, here: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/the-iranian-hijab:-a-working-class-symbol-in-an-anti-imperia The manipulation of human rights in Western media has long been used to push for an agenda of regime change. This article explains why Iran’s revolution constitutes […]