By Adam Garrie | EurasiaFuture | May 19, 2019 Like the Olympics, the Eurovision Song Contest has attempted to create national harmony through head-to-head competition on the basis of national demarcations. While singing or running around a track are vastly preferable expressions of nationalism than killing one another, it is nationalistic rivalry nevertheless and this […]
National Lawyers Guild International Committee | May 4, 2019 The National Lawyers Guild International Committee unequivocally condemns the threats posed by the government of the United States and Washington D.C. Police Department to the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. We also condemn the unilateral financial sanctions imposed by the U.S. government intended to […]
Palestine Information Center – May 12, 2019 LONDON – Thousands of people gathered on Saturday for a demonstration in London, called for by the Palestinian Forum in Britain (PFB) and allied organizations, especially Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), to mark the seventy first anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe), […]
Deputy Chief of Hezbollah Executive Council Sheikh Ali Daamoush Al-Manar | May 10, 2019 Deputy Chief of Hezbollah Executive Council Sheikh Ali Daamoush stressed that the silence of some Arab regimes about the Israeli aggression on Gaza was worse than the aggression itself, adding that they showed to be on the enemy’s side, just as […]
By Lawrence Wittner | CounterPunch | May 2, 2019 Vieques is a small Puerto Rican island with some 9,000 inhabitants. Fringed by palm trees and lovely beaches, it attracts substantial numbers of tourists. But, for about six decades, Vieques served as a bombing range, military training site, and storage depot for the U.S. Navy, until […]
Al-Manar | May 1, 2019 Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif called on Wednesday for a collective effort to deal with the alarming unilateralism of the current US administration, which is “quickly replacing the rule of law with the rule of the jungle.” In his address to Asia Cooperation Dialogue in Doha, the top Iranian diplomat said […]
teleSUR | April 28, 2019 The Israeli human rights group, Betzalmo, has called on Israel’s Attorney General and Minister of Interior to cancel BDS-founder Omar Al-Barghouti’s residency status, Arutz Sheva reported Sunday. According to a letter that was dated for April 24, 2019, the Israeli NGO argued how it was possible that Barghouthi could be […]
Press TV – April 28, 2019 The “yellow vest” protests in France have spread to Strasbourg, the seat of the European Parliament, on the 24th consecutive weekend of a revolt which shows no sign of abating. Thousands gathered near European Union institutions late Saturday, with organizers hoping to make the protest international a month ahead […]
Press TV – April 25, 2019 Twenty filmmakers, screenwriters, actors, and film critics have urged film theaters in the United Kingdom to boycott the Israeli film festival Seret, co-organized by the Tel Aviv government, in protest at the Zionist regime’s atrocities against Palestinians. “We’re shocked and dismayed to see how many mainstream cinemas … are […]
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network | April 16, 2019 Palestinian prisoners have reached an agreement with the Israeli prison administration to achieve their demands and suspend their hunger strike, the Battle of Dignity 2, on Monday, 15 April. The agreement came as hundreds of Palestinian prisoners were engaged in their eighth day of a collective […]
