Tag: Europe/United Kingdom
Released for Syndication:
10/27/2025
On 26 October, Caroline Willemen of Médecins Sans Frontières stated that Israel continues to use the need for humanitarian aid in Gaza as “means of pressure”. “The humanitarian situation in Gaza has not improved significantly”, she told the press, “as water and shelter shortages...
Released for Syndication:
05/27/2025
Macedonia’s state leadership seems to embody Hegel’s bitter wisdom: the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from it. Thus, the Macedonian state marches blindly from one strategic blunder to the next, without a compass, without knowledge, and without the slightest...
Released for Syndication:
04/24/2025
After a White House meeting between Trump and Netanyahu, Netanyahu said, ‘We’re both united in the goal that Iran does not get nuclear weapons’. He added, ‘If it can be done diplomatically, in a full way, the way it was done in Libya, I...
Released for Syndication:
11/27/2024
At 10 p.m. on the night of October 28, 2024, the Israeli air force struck a five-story building in Beit Lahiya, in the northern area of Gaza. Northern Gaza has been pummeled by the Israelis since October 8, 2023. There has been no respite...
Released for Syndication:
11/13/2024
If you go to the bluff at Kings Park in Perth, Australia, you can overlook the Swan River and enjoy a remarkable view. Across the bay, there is a phalanx of steel and glass buildings that rise to the skies. Each of these buildings carries...
Released for Syndication:
09/27/2024
September 15 marked the third anniversary of the announcement of the AUKUS (Australia, the UK, the U.S.) agreement. The purpose of this agreement is for Australia to buy nuclear-powered submarines from the UK and the U.S. This increases interoperability with U.S. forces that are projecting...
Released for Syndication:
03/04/2024
A group of young people in Paris are enjoying a drink in a café on an unseasonably warm evening. The conversation drifts into politics, but—as one young woman says—“Let’s not talk about France.” The others nod their assent. They focus on the U.S. presidential election,...
Released for Syndication:
01/12/2024
Hundreds of millions of people across the world have been deeply moved by the atrocity of the Israeli war on Palestine. Millions have attended marches and protests, many of them participating in such demonstrations for the first time in their lives. Social media, in almost...
Released for Syndication:
10/18/2023
Israeli flags are flying over all government buildings in the United Kingdom currently, but this isn’t the first time the former imperial hegemon has put its weight behind Zionism. In 1917, the British government issued the infamous Balfour Declaration.
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Released for Syndication:
06/22/2023
De-dollarization is apparently here, “like it or not,” as a May 2023 video by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, a peace-oriented think tank based in Washington, D.C., states. Quincy is not alone in discussing de-dollarization: political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson outlined...