Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., is the first candidate to win an endorsement from Justice Democrats for the 2024 cycle.
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The Biden administration is due in federal court later this month, while Israel faces charges of genocide at The Hague this week.
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"They don’t particularly like being answerable to the media and they like even less the scrutiny that comes with public office."
Summary: the distinguished historian Avi Shlaim argues that in its war with Gaza, Israel openly displays its true colours as a Eurocentric settler-colonialist and apartheid state. Today’s newsletter is a transcript of our 6 December podcast with Avi Shlaim the historian and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. In June his Continue reading »
Prime Minister Albanese, “don’t wait 200 years to apologise for the brutality of a coloniser, be on the right side of history now, today.” I am not in the habit of publishing or forwarding work by other writers, but in this case I am making an exception. This is not written by a journalist, but Continue reading »
It is time for Albanese to take the public into his confidence. He has an instinct for secretiveness that almost matches that of Scott Morrison. If the sacked secretary of Home Affairs, Mike Pezzullo, had planned to appeal or seek judicial review of his sacking, he has probably now run out of time. That deprives Continue reading »
Myanmar’s situation is complex: since February 2021, there is a multi-party civil war between the military coup government, the NUG (National Unity Government; successor of the Bamar-majority civil government) and its People’s defense forces, and over 30 different ethnic armed organisations (EAO’s) with shifting alliances/coalitions/loyalties, intersecting with a variety of criminal enterprises that are opportunistic Continue reading »
“If current conditions persist,” said Israeli group B’Tselem, “there is significant risk that famine will be declared throughout the entire Gaza Strip within six months.” The Israeli government “can, if it chooses to,” save more than 2 million people who are starving in Gaza by ending its blockade on aid, an Israel-based human rights group Continue reading »
Between years 2000 and 2018 the North Korea and South Korea governments issued three joint declarations all promising South Korean economic aid to North Korea and North Korean moves to denuclearisation. Year 2002 saw the Japanese-inspired Pyongyang Declaration promising even more of the same. But each time subsequent conservative governments made sure the promises remained Continue reading »