Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
The US is on a warpath against China
FIONA EDWARDS assesses evidence that the United States has given up on peaceful economic competition – and is engaged in a drive to world war
HOT AIR: The US has created an international incident out of a Chineses weather balloon blown off course, which it shot down this week
The attacks on black academics are well-funded and relentless, writes DIANE ABBOTT, and they need to be fearlessly resisted by all concerned
Communists in Australia, Britain and the US outlined a joint state agreement against their governments’ militarist provocations.
Extreme hot weather resulting from environmental change needs to be tackled through greater firefighting investment instead of fewer jobs and less resources, writes COLIN BROWN
Faced with crises in every direction, Volodymr Zelensky is rewriting his country’s complex history by paying homage to the founding fathers of Ukrainian ultra-nationalism and courting their modern heirs, writes KENNY COYLE
There are many intricate details about the new Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani alliance we do not yet know, suggests ROGER McKENZIE, but its impact could be considerable
Whilst mainstream Western media has been focused on hyping up the alleged ‘threat’ posed by a solitary Chinese balloon which was blown off course into US airspace last week, officials in Washington have been concentrating on working with key US allies in the Pacific region to escalate the military encirclement of China in preparation for a potential hot war in Asia – the consequences of which would be truly devastating for humanity.
The furore over the balloon has sparked a diplomatic crisis leading to the cancellation of high level meetings scheduled to take place in Beijing between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang — meetings which could have been an opportunity for the US and China to explore ways of co-operating to tackle the seismic challenges facing humanity.
Instead of embarking on a policy of international co-operation to solve shared problems such as the deepening climate crisis and the prospect of a global economic downturn in 2023, the entire US political establishment is uniting around an extremely aggressive policy aimed at stopping the rise of China.
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