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
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An error occurred while searching, try again later.Codir joins calls for the release of incarcerated opposition leaders in Iran
Freedom now for former PM Mir-Hossein Mousavi and other political prisoners
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
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ROGER McKENZIE looks back 60 years to the assassination of Malcolm X, whose message that black people have worth resonated so strongly with him growing up in Walsall in the 1980s
COMMITTEE for Defence of Iranian Peoples Rights (Codir) has been following, with growing concern, the developments under way inside Iran pertaining to protests and rallies that have been ongoing since Friday February 14.
This date marks the 14th anniversary of the incarceration under house arrest of three of the country’s major opposition figures: former prime minister and presidential candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi; his wife, prominent academic Dr Zahra Rahnavard; as well as senior reformist clergyman and another former presidential candidate, Mehdi Karroubi.
On Thursday, February 13, a large protest in front of the University of Tehran was broken up by regime security forces and dozens were detained. Security forces and agents from the Islamic Republic’s Ministry of Intelligence had already moved to arrest several figures, all central members of the Campaign to Lift the House Arrest, a reference to the continuing detention of Mousavi, Rahnavard, Karroubi and his wife, Fatemeh Karroubi.
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