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Israel is relying on world sympathy fatigue and amnesia. They are biding their time for the world to look away so that they can finish the job they started back in 1948. That is, the elimination of the Palestinian people. With luck, they hope, the world will stop their bleeding-heart moaning about Gaza and the Continue reading »
John Howard took Australia into the devastating war of aggression in Iraq in March 2003 but has still not been held accountable. Recently released archives show the then prime minister did not even bother to prepare a written cabinet submission setting out the case for the invasion. Yet there was no plausible evidence available to Continue reading »
“… but they can be sure that they won’t be recorded for their crimes in history — because there won’t be any history” (Noam Chomsky, 2023) The macabre criminality of world so-called ”leaders”, coupled with the ignorant compliance of a majority of victims of global heating and nuclear annihilation, belong to the inconceivable. It is Continue reading »
Israel has just defended the indefensible in the International Court of Justice, in its quest to have the case brought by South Africa against it thrown out. At the historic ICJ hearing on Thursday, South Africa – itself a past victim of murderous colonialism and apartheid for almost half a century – made an impassioned Continue reading »
The attacks against the Iran-backed Houthis stoked fears of U.S. involvement in a regional conflagration.
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As South Africa presents its case against Israel to the International Court of Justice, even Genocide Joe might hesitate to defy a “binding” order of the world’s highest judicial authority by continuing to support, militarily, financially and diplomatically, Israel’s genocidal assault against the people of Gaza. The three hours of oral arguments by the six Continue reading »
The term terrorism has become a fighting word in the arsenal of a declining world empire known as the United States of America. Its leaders’ endless talk of terrorism is in reality a desperate swansong, an indicator of the downfall of the United States as a global empire, its slow but irreversible disappearance from the Continue reading »
The US and UK have reportedly struck over a dozen sites in Yemen using Tomahawk missiles and fighter jets, backed by logistical support from Australia, Canada, Bahrain and the Netherlands. A statement from President Biden asserts that the strikes against “targets in Yemen used by Houthi rebels” are a “direct response to unprecedented Houthi attacks Continue reading »
If the countries in the East Asian region allied to the United States think that the US has their back and therefore they are safe, think again. While the naive take the promise by the US to have their back as an inviolate commitment, the reality of such a relationship is reflected in President Biden’s Continue reading »