MBDA’s Alabama factory makes components for Boeing’s GBU-39 bombs used to kill civilians in Gaza. Its profits flow through Stevenage to Paris — and it is one of the British government’s favourite firms, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
What will happen after the ICJ delegitimises Israel’s occupation of Palestine?
The world court is likely to rule that every Israeli action in Palestine since 1967 has been illegal – the strongest UN indictment yet. But don’t expect change under Israel’s new extreme-right government, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Palestinians in East Jerusalem stand watch at a weekly protest against forced expulsion from their homes by Israeli settlers
President Maduro mobilises the 4.5 million-strong Bolivarian National Militia in response to US ‘threats’, vowing to defend the country’s sovereignty and independence, DEVIN B MARTINEZ reports
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
For those in the West, hunger is often just the familiar feeling of a growling stomach between meals — in Gaza, it has become a strategic weapon of slow, systematic and deadly destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
After almost two decades of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism, once led by Evo Morales, right-wing parties have emerged in the lead after the first round of elections on August 17 and are now in control of the legislature, reports PABLO MERIGUET
DAVID MATTHEWS looks at what a collective future for welfare might have in store for us
ONCE more, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will offer a legal opinion on the consequences of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
A historic UN vote on December 31 called on the ICJ to look at the Israeli occupation in terms of legal consequences, the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the responsibility of all UN member states in bringing the protracted Israeli occupation to an end.
A special emphasis will be placed on the “demographic composition, character and status” of occupied Jerusalem.
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