May 29, 2025
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Jeremy Scahill on the ceasefire negotiations
Thursday, 29 May 2025 — The Electronic Intifada Join us for the EI livestream, starting now. Asa Winstanley It’s day 601 of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Join us at 5 pm UK time for the weekly livestream from The Electronic Intifada. Joining us first will be EI contributor Donya Abu Sitta, live from Gaza. Veteran Continue reading
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New IRR study – Paramilitary policing against the people
Thursday, 29 May 2025 — Institute of Race Relations Last week we published a major study by IRR director Liz Fekete, on Paramilitary policing against the people: Colonial continuities and the challenge from below, which outlines Europe’s growing use of dangerous crowd control weaponry against racialised minorities. Continue reading
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Hundreds of Millions Are Dying of Hunger: The Twenty-Second Newsletter (2025)
I have written this newsletter before. In fact, I could write this newsletter every year when a new Global Report on Food Crises is published. The report rests on four points: Continue reading
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The Ukraine war and Europe’s deepening march of folly
Monday, 24 March 2025 — Thomas Palley In her book The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, the historian Barbara Tuchman explores the perplexing question of why countries sometimes pursue policies that are fundamentally contrary to their own interests. That question has acquired renewed relevance as Europe has now enlisted in a deepening march Continue reading
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SAFTU condemns imperialist blackmail disguised as diplomacy in Ramaphosa’s secret deal with Trump
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) condemns in the strongest terms the disgraceful deception of the South African public by President Cyril Ramaphosa and his delegation during their recent meeting with Donald Trump in Washington. What was presented as a diplomatic engagement has now been unmasked as a covert operation to surrender South… Continue reading
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