By Ramona Wadi | MEMO | October 4, 2018 In its annual report to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People recommended that Israel acknowledges the Palestinian Nakba. The backdrop for such an acknowledgement remains the two-state compromise, which defeats the purpose of the […]
Palestine Information Center – October 7, 2018 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – Israel’s war minister Avigdor Lieberman sent a letter to eight European ambassadors in Israel slamming them for a joint statement signed by their countries in which they criticized the Israeli government’s plan to demolish a Palestinian Bedouin village. The ambassadors from Belgium, France, the Netherlands, […]
By Max Forte | Zero Anthropology | October 6, 2018 SYRIA, seat of an Islamic Caliphate. Syria, site of the Middle East’s newest liberal democracy. Syria, socialist paradise. Syria, a corrupt and murderous dictatorship that practices genocide. Syria, a failed state. Syria a state that is too strong. Syria, soon to be partitioned into ethnic […]
© REUTERS / Ammar Awad Sputnik – 06.10.2018 Gathering along a fence separating them from the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan Heights, Druze commemorated the anniversary of the start of the 1973 Arab Israeli War while celebrating Syria’s successes in its recent war against the terrorists. Carrying Syrian flags, portraits of President Bashar Assad, binoculars […]
MEMO | October 4, 2018 Israeli settlers have occupied two Palestinian buildings near Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. In the early hours of this morning, Israeli settlers stormed a building in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City. According to Wafa, the “settlers moved into the building owned by the Joudeh family, which was […]
Sic Semper Tyrannus | October 3, 2018 The reconciliation process initiated by the Russians in Syria has saved countless lives of soldiers, civilians and even jihadists. It also preserved SAA fighting strength, brought a lot of Syrian territory back under the control of Damascus. It brought former jihadists back into the fight on the side […]
By Vijay Prashad | Asia Times | October 3, 2018 In June this year in Itoman, a city in Okinawa prefecture, Japan, a 14-year-old girl named Rinko Sagara read out of a poem based on her great-grandmother’s experience of World War II. Rinko’s great-grandmother reminded her of the cruelty of war. She had seen her […]
Press TV – October 1, 2018 British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson says UK forces stationed in Germany will continue to stay in the country after Britain’s pending exit from the European Union (EU). “We are increasing our British points of presence across the world,” Williamson told the Telegraph on Sunday as he announced the UK’s […]
RT | September 30, 2018 A staunch opponent of the planned relocation of a US military base within Okinawa Island, where the issue sparked major public protests, has beaten a government-backed competitor in the local governor elections. Denny Tamaki, a former opposition lawmaker and the son of a US marine, has got a win against […]
teleSUR | September 29, 2018 Bolivia’s President Evo Morales hopes to start a “new era” in his nation’s relationship with Chile once the International Court of Justice rules on Bolivia’s demand for sea access on Monday. The new age will take “advantage of our potentialities, promoting integration for the well being of our peoples,” Morales […]
