Countercurrents
- Climate Emergency Includes the Threat of ‘Nuclear Winter’When world leaders gather in Scotland next week for the COP26 climate change conference, activists will be pushing for drastic action to end the world’s catastrophic reliance on fossil fuels. Consciousness about the climate emergency has skyrocketed in recent years, while government responses remain meager. But one aspect of extreme climate jeopardy—“nuclear winter”—has hardly reached the […]
- Assange in jeopardy: US extradition appeal hearing begins in LondonToday the UK High Court begins a two-day hearing of a United States government appeal aimed at securing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the US. The hearing is the culmination of a campaign of rampant criminality by American imperialism and its allies, stretching over a decade. Its character is summed up in revelations during […]
- Sudanese PM Returns Home Under Tight Security, says PM’s OfficeSudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has returned home with his wife under tight security, the prime minister’s office said on its Facebook account on Tuesday. Some ministers remain in detention and may be facing a trial. Since early Monday, Hamdok and some of his ministers were arrested with civilian members in the Sovereign Council. Earlier […]
- Taliban Government gains tractionAll indications are that the regional states are preparing to accord recognition to the Taliban government. The meeting of regional states and Taliban officials in the so-called Moscow Format last Wednesday signalled that the Taliban government is a compelling reality and constructive engagement is needed. read more A week is a long time in politics. The […]
- Congress, Skulduggery and the Assange CaseIs the imperium showing suspicions about its intended quarry? It is hard to believe it, but the US House Intelligence Committee is on a mission of discovery. Its subject: a Yahoo News report disclosing much material that was already in the public domain on the plot to kidnap or, failing that, poison Julian Assange. Given […]
- How U.S. Interference in Cuba Creates a False Picture of Its Societyby Manolo De Los Santos and Vijay Prashad U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) appears to be obsessed with Cuba. Every few days he takes to social media or makes remarks to the press about his desire to overthrow the Cuban Revolution. In recent months, Rubio has played a key role in drumming up support for anti-government protests in Cuba. […]
- Despite Cutbacks, ExxonMobil Continues to Fund Climate Science DenialExxonMobil has spent more than $39 million to manufacture doubt about climate science. In a secret video recording made public in late June, a top ExxonMobil lobbyist—Keith McCoy, who was fired soon afterward—not only conceded that the oil giant’s support for a carbon tax is a sham, but he also admitted that the company quietly financed climate […]
- A destroyed Afghanistan has been an imperialist priority for 200 yearsAs the British before them, US imperial propaganda treats itself as the victim and those they invaded and occupied as the criminal On August 18th, shortly after the Taliban took Kabul, former British Prime Minister Theresa May stood up in the British House of Commons and asked: “Where is global Britain on the streets of Kabul?” […]
- Nuclear War is Being Planned! Henry George & Thorstein Veblen Warned War Is Capitalism’s End GamePreparations for nuclear war have been in the news, even mainstream news, more than just occasionally: NATO unveils master plan to defeat Russia in nuclear war, Voice of London, UK., October 23, 2021 [1] America’s failed weapons test shows Washington is currently hopelessly outgunned by Beijing in the race for hypersonic supremacy International Journal, Oct. […]
- Canadian ImperialismCanada was born of empire and still thrives within that milieu. It is the progeny of French and British imperial quests in the ‘New’ World and is accompanied by its siblings within the Five Eyes, the most influential being the United States. Canada’s creation out of mostly British imperial interests carried all the factors of […]
Palestine Updates
- Why Israel is trying to criminalize Palestinian civil societyIsrael’s designation of six Palestinian NGOs as ‘terrorist organisations’ seeks to undermine the Palestinian struggle for freedom. On October 22, the Israeli defence ministry issued a military order designating six Palestinian NGOs as “terrorist organisations”. The six targeted organisations are: Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Al-Haq, Bisan Center for Research and Development, Defense […]
- Israel’s crimes mounts and chances for peace are minimializedPalestine Update 504 Comment Israel’s crimes mounts and chances for peace are minimialized A commandeer from the Irgun Zionist militia met death at age 94. The Deir Yassin massacre was a horrific massacre that killed over 100 prisoners. Ben-Zion Cohen died unrepentant. . Cruelty was his characteristic. He had famously said: “If there were another […]
- Israeli policies strike torment and swell Palestinian insecurityPalestine Update 503 Comment Israeli policies strike torment and swell Palestinian insecurity It is pertinent to ask racist media sources who the real terrorists in the West Bank are – The resistance fighters or the settlers? In a report by the media outlet ‘Ahlul Bayat News Agency’, we read that a group of Jewish settlers, […]
- Israel’s political ploys perpetually trigger Palestinian distressPalestine Update 502 Comment Israel’s political ploys perpetually trigger Palestinian distress Settlers employ every possible clandestine measure to burgle land and indulge in ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. The cynical subtlety with which this is done often means that they are fly-by-night operations that end being facts on-the-ground the next day. Patriarchs and Heads of Churches […]
- Palestine Update : In Support of Australia’s Cuisine & Culture Palestine Update : In Support of Australia’s Cuisine & Culture Cuisine & Culture in Conversation! PIEN Fundraiser Join Lama Qasem and Claudia Hyles on Zoom as they cook up a Palestinian storm whilst engaging in conversation around cuisine and culture. Learn to cook Kofta in Tahini sauce; Freekeh with chicken; Alayet Bandora (Braised Tomatoes) and Hareeseh […]
- GUARDIAN OP-ED SUGGESTS JEWS CRY ANTISEMITISM TO SILENCE CRITICISM OF ISRAELby Adam Levick “Why are Australia and its media so fearful of debate on Israel’s treatment of Palestinians?”, asks Australia-based journalist Louise Adler in her Oct. 9th Guardian op-ed. Her answer, surprising nobody, is the ‘Israel lobby’. Or, more specifically, as she clarifies later in the article, an orchestrated ‘attack’: It is clear that if one doesn’t want to endure the endless orchestrated letter […]
- The Strengthening of Palestinian Civil Society ActivismPalestine Update 500 The Strengthening of Palestinian Civil Society Activism Dr. Dana El Kurd —————————————————————————————————— Palestinians in Jerusalem, in Israel within the Green Line, and the territories occupied in the 1967 War have learned over time – and from each other – how to deal with Israel’s evolving methods of targeting activists and institutions for shutdowns. This will make it harder […]
- Perpetuating forms of Palestinian genocidePalestine Update 499 Comment Perpetuating forms of Palestinian genocide This article is by Lawrence Davidson, a retired professor of history from West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Islamic Fundamentalism, Cultural Genocide and has focused his academic research on American foreign relations with the Middle East. It is said that […]
- Hamas: Dismantling the dilemmas of governance and resistancePalestine Update 498 Hamas: Dismantling the dilemmas of governance and resistance by Belal Shobaki *Print With the end of the Second Palestinian Intifada, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, expressed its willingness to participate in the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) municipal and legislative elections, ultimately winning many electoral contests. Hamas viewed its participation in official electoral politics as a way […]
- Youth in the struggle for a new futurePalestine Update 497 Youth in the struggle for a new future Israel is making desperate moves to claim absolute dominance over Palestinian territories especially those of strategic importance to its military occupation. The escape of prisoners in a high security prison has shown their own system how vulnerable it can be against a resolute resistance. […]