The proxy war in Ukraine is heading to a denouement with the US and Russia dividing the spoils while the European powers stand bewildered by events they have been wilfully blind to, says KEVIN OVENDEN
Every place in Gaza – including schools – is a target
The massacre at al-Taba’een is the 21st attack on a school that has been serving as a shelter since July 4, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
One can only imagine what would happen if 2.2 million Palestinian refugees were pushed into Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries, per Trump’s proposal, writes RAMZY BAROUD
This is the most anti-migrant government in decades, argues RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH
VICTOR GROSSMAN reports, with a little chuckle, on how US readiness to work with Russia, not just on peace for Ukraine, has thrown a spanner into the German electoral machine
SOLOMON HUGHES probes the finances of a phoney ‘charity’ pushing the free schools and academies agenda
Freedom now for former PM Mir-Hossein Mousavi and other political prisoners
VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
IT IS almost as if the Israeli army is trying to gather as many Palestinians as possible in one place and then kill them all.
Ahmed Abed and his family fled the Dalal al-Maghribi school in early August after an Israeli air strike displaced them. That air strike killed 15 Palestinians who had taken refuge there after Israel had bombed their homes in the Ash Shujaiyeh neighbourhood of Gaza City.
The family arrived at the al-Taba’een school, a private school with an attached mosque, that sheltered 2,500 people.
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