Month: January 2024

As the power of the so-called “unipolar world” wanes, and the rules of the “rules-based order” cease to function, the propaganda machine in NATO countries is churning out warnings of imminent threats from supposed “enemies” out to destroy democracy and freedom. The overriding “danger”, this narrative would have us believe, remains Russia, but China and Iran must also be dealt […]

A special guest at the International Peace Coalition’s meeting on Jan. 19, was Francis Boyle, an American human rights lawyer, and Professor of international law at the Illinois University’s College of Law, who discussed the South African filing against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague (cf. SAS, 2,3/24). Professor Boyle served as counsel for Bosnia […]

Defying the world, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has maintained his hard-line position insisting there can be no Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip, and not even a two-state solution as was (timidly) proposed by U.S. Secretary of State Blinken last week. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Israeli President Herzog stated categorically before that distinguished audience that there will […]

The mass protests and tractorcades by German farmers will continue as a daily pattern, until the government shows a real commitment to discuss constructive changes in agricultural policy, instead of playing them down. As earlier attempts by the government and mainstream media to discredit the farmers as right-wingers failed, another approach has been taken to try and undermine the impact […]

The farmer protest movement has expanded from Germany to France, the largest agricultural producer in the EU, and to Italy, the third largest. Demands in all three countries are similar: a reduction of taxes on farm fuel, fewer regulations and, in general, a reversal of the “Green Deal”. For over a week now, farmers in southwest France, near Toulouse, have […]

“Italy wake up!” is the message sent out from the event devoted to the BRICS and the New Silk Road, organized by the newly created “Independence” political movement in Italy January 18. Before a packed room at the Rome Chamber of Commerce, international guests invited by the movement’s foreign policy speaker Michele Geraci, offered a comprehensive picture of why it […]

An extraordinary international dialogue with youth under the above title was organized on Jan. 20 by the Schiller Institute. The three-hour discussion was held with a live audience in New York City together with online participants, many of them in groups, from around the world. At least 20 countries, representing all continents, were represented, from China to Afghanistan to Chile. […]

As the power structures of the West and of NATO are increasingly discredited and rejected throughout the world, these same forces are attempting to save their system by maintaining and escalating tensions. Although all honest observers recognize that Ukraine cannot win the war against Russia, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made a PR trip to Kyiv last week, to promise […]

On Jan. 11 at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, South Africa presented a blistering case documenting the violations by the State of Israel of the Genocide Convention, and demanding a response from that Court, and from the world. It represents an historic day, marking a change in world paradigm, as a nation of the Global South has […]

Middle East Eye reported last weeked that opposition among members of the White House staff and staffers in Congress to the Biden Administration’s Palestine policy has reached “the boiling point”. That assessment is based on discussions with protesters in both the Republican and Democratic parties. There have been few resignations until now, as most feel they will have more influence […]