EDITORIAL
The world is being pushed to the abyss of a Third World War, one that could bring the final destruction of the planet and humanity.
This week, the 79th General Assembly of the United Nations was held on the brink of world war. It should prompt pause and inquiry why an organization formed 79 years ago at the end of World War Two to prevent future wars is such a failure.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) and former US President Donald Trump met on September 27, 2024 in New YorkThe alignments of the endgame in the Ukraine conflict are surfacing as never before. If much remains in the realm of speculation still, that is largely due to the inflection point concerning the outcome of the US presidential election, which, orchestrated media propaganda against Donald Trump notwithstanding, is wide open.
The demand for reform is also supported by the Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and countries such as China which want greater representation from the developing countries in global decision making.
by Abdul Rahman
United Nations Security Council. Photo: UNSCIn the ongoing 79th session of the UN General Assembly, heads of state from African countries reiterated their demand for an urgent reform in global decision making and greater representation of their continent in the Security Council.
Benjamin Netanyahu brandishes two maps during his address at the UN General Assembly [Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images]
The appearance by Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the 79th annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly is a serious test of the world body’s fidelity to its original mission of pursuing global security and peace.
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Despite the Israel lobby, Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda won an Emmy for her documentary, “It’s Bisan from Gaza and I’m Still Alive.”
The documentary highlights her experiences as a survivor and journalist in Gaza, earning international recognition.
The Cautionary Tale of Angela Davis Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist There are very few true revolutionaries. Allowing ourselves to pretend that Angela Davis is among them is a grave mistake.
It is notable that, with the exception of Sarah Wilkinson, there is at least one connection between all the recent arrestees among journalists: They had all been guests on Palestine Declassified. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas.
The British state clearly wants to find a way to scare British citizens away from supporting the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to resist occupation by all available means, including by armed struggle. This is their right under international law.
| The escalation of the far right has exposed the urgent need to build solidarity with migrant and refugee communities. When we are united in broad coalitions and movements we have the power to address structural issues.
As we do this work, we also need to be there for each other – organising practical everyday support whilst keeping each other safe.That’s why, earlier this summer, we ran our fourth Migrants Organise Resilience Festival – our festival of solidarity and hope. (more…) |
Israel continued its aggression on Lebanon. (Photo: via social media)
There is no conceivable way that Israel’s recent attacks on Lebanon over the past week can be construed as self-defense unless you are being dishonest and are ideologically committed to defending Israel no matter what it does.
Why the rush and why not before? As any close observer already understood, or at least one that is worth his or her salt, the outcome of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict is not going to be in favor of Ukraine. All you have to do is tally the numbers in terms of men and equipment and then take a glimpse at Russian history for good measure. There is no step back now, as Stalin decreed in fighting fascist Germany.
Since its founding to the modern day, Israel has been shaped by a ‘gang state’ mentality, marked by unhinged violence and oppression that only deepens its cycle of instability – a history it seems unwilling to escape.
(Photo Credit: The Cradle)On 31 May 1948, a man born in Poland by the name of David Ben Gurion transformed the Zionist terrorist groups – Haganah, Stern, Irgun, and Palmach – into what would be called the “Israeli Defense Forces” (IDF). This man would go on to become Israel’s first prime minister, and his actions laid the foundation for what many describe as a settler-colonial state in Palestine.
Two key posts – in foreign and defense policy – reveal the militarist and anti-Russia direction of the European Union.
Ursula Von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission – which works as the executive branch of the European Union – announced her new team of commissioners for the next five years.
This month, we published a dispatch from Palestinian journalist Mujahed al-Saadi documenting the IDF’s siege of hospitals in Jenin. On Thursday, al-Saadi was violently dragged from his home and remains in Israeli captivity.
At around 2:30 a.m. on September 19, several Israeli military vehicles surrounded the home of Mujahed al-Saadi, a well-known Palestinian journalist in the West Bank.
On September 13th, an extraordinary document was released via litigation against the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is an August 2021 slide deck presentation by Britain’s shadowy, spook-infested Counter Disinformation Unit to the White House National Security Council’s Interagency Policy Committee, which regularly gathers Washington’s spying services together to coordinate on national security matters. The contents amply expose how London’s long-running use and abuse of security and intelligence agencies to warp online perceptions is, by design, spreading the world over.
Washington as a failing player in great-power-competition is trying to rig the context by acting as the umpire. It is caught in its old paradigm of competing by posturing, while the world has moved on to relations based on practical proposals and tangible results.
The Liberals are openly suppressing alternative views and escalating a war with a nuclear armed state. In recent days they’ve helped ban an anti-war film, labelled a media outlet foreign interference and sought to bomb deep inside Russia.
Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn deliver an anti-war letter to Downing Street in 2009. (Photo: PA / Alamy)
This book is about corporate power. The authors report back on their fearless investigations into the realities of the unstoppable rise of global corporations, which occupy the power vacuum left by the collapse of European empires and sabotage the growth of democracy. Vividly revealing the workings of these corporations, they do so in a way that demonstrates the corporations’ vulnerability when their activities are exposed.
The New Dark Age 
