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What the BRICS plus Germany are really up to?

By Pepe Escobar (RT | Op-Edge) Winston Churchill once said, “I feel lonely without a war.” He also badly missed the loss of empire. Churchill’s successor – the ‘Empire of Chaos’ – now faces the same quandary. Some wars – as in Ukraine, by proxy – are not going so well. And the loss of empire increasingly manifests itself in […]
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Israel’s new law anti-democratic

Image: Sheldon Adelson, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo by Tess Scheflan   

Multi-billionaire and casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson was forthright when he said recently ‘(God) didn’t talk about Israel remaining as a democratic state … Israel isn’t going to be a democratic state … so what?’

 
 

After Gaza: Europe scrambles to end its complicity

Image: Winter has arrived in Gaza
 
 

This growth of the BDS movement is starting to turn the tide against Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid, even among decision makers. Israel may soon be facing its South Africa moment.

 

by Omar Barghouti

The international surge in condemnation of Israel’s treatment of Palestine, and Gaza in particular, underlines the growing impact of BDS

Kissinger Planned Attacks on Cuba

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. (Photo: Gerald Ford Library) National Security Archive | October 1, 2014 Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ordered a series of secret contingency plans that included airstrikes and mining of Cuban harbors in the aftermath of Fidel Castro’s decision to send Cuban forces into Angola in late 1975, according to declassified […]

Johannesburg university issues ban on Israeli students and academics

By Tarek Sarad | Falastin News | September 12, 2014 Palestinian ambassador to South Africa Abdul-Hafid Nofal said that Johannesburg university decided not to accept any student or deal with any academic or lecturer from Israel. In a press release on Wednesday, Nofal said that the academic council of the university issued a decision prohibiting […]