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Hadjara Ali Soumaila, Confederation of Women Combatants and Pan-African Leaders (Niger). Photograph by Pedro Stropasolas for Peoples Dispatch.
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A cascade of anti-French sentiment continues to sweep across the belt of the Sahel in Africa: joining Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, Chad and Senegal demanded in November that the French government withdraw its military from their territories. From the western border of Sudan to the Atlantic Ocean, French armed forces, which have been in the area since 1659, will no longer have a base. The statement by the foreign minister of Chad, Abderaman Koulamallah, is exemplary: ‘France… must now also consider that Chad has grown up, matured, and that Chad is a sovereign state that is very jealous of its sovereignty’. The key term here is ‘sovereignty’. What Koulamallah signals is that the countries of the Sahel are no longer satisfied by the symbolic independence – or flag independence – critiqued by Frantz Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth (1961), what they want is genuine sovereignty.
Thursday, 5 December 2024
Originally published: Mondoweiss on December 1, 2024 by Anas Ambri
On 10 August 2017, pro-Israel advocacy group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) approached the Embassy of Israel in London with a “pitch for business”: a proposal to setup “a rapid response unit to correct false narratives” regarding Israel.
According to the proposal, human rights organizations “such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty, routinely publish material condemning Israeli government policy [in Palestine] as disproportionate and discriminatory”.
The Problem with Joe and Hunter
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The outrage surrounding President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter Biden is not just about clemency for the relatively minor charges he was facing. The younger Biden has lived a life of great privileges, all granted to him by his father, who is equally undeserving of his own success. Fortunately, the two mediocrities will soon fade away and the public will be spared from watching them fail upward.
[First published by Middle East Eye]
For more than a year, those calling for an end to Israel’s slaughter of civilians in Gaza have been relentlessly vilified: as apologists for Hamas, as antisemites, even as supporters of a genocide against Israel and the wider Jewish people.
Left-progressives writhe in agony when the usual suspects to the right of the ‘mainstream’ media ‘spectrum’ continue to pour bile and abuse on the likes of Howard Zinn, Edward Herman, Harold Pinter, Robert Fisk and John Pilger in the immediate aftermath of their deaths.
Joe Biden promised not to pardon his son Hunter Biden, and was subsequently celebrated by the media for being principled and standing up for the rule of law. However, in a not-so-surprising move, Joe Biden reversed his position and issued a sweeping pardon with an incredible legal breadth. The pardon protects Hunter Biden from any crimes he may have committed over the past decade, since January 2014. This date is no accident, as it marks the beginning of the Biden family’s seedy and likely criminal activities in Ukraine.
Back in October, an Israeli airstrike deliberately targeted and killed three journalists, including Al Mayadeen’s Ghassan Najjar and Mohammad Reda, in South Lebanon while they slept. A Guardian investigation reveals the use of US-made precision bombs and evidence pointing to a war crime, exposing “Israel’s” ongoing assault on press freedom and international law. The Guardian’s findings are corroborated by Human Rights Watch’s own investigation, which indicated that the aggression was most likely a deliberate attack on civilians and an apparent war crime.
The idea that the humble UK citizens would place their trust in the government to direct them on the validity of media’s offerings is beyond parody.
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Israel’s withholding of Palestinian clearance revenues is a longstanding practice, historically used to punish or manipulate the Palestinian Authority (PA). Since October 2023, the Israeli regime has only escalated its theft of Palestinian funds, bringing the PA to the verge of financial collapse. This policy memo argues that Israel’s weaponization of clearance revenues is not merely an extension of past measures but a reflection of a new, more radical agenda driven by the far-right. While the international community continues to play a moderating role, the memo argues that long-term prospects for the PA and the Palestinian economy remain deeply uncertain as Israel tightens its grip on key financial levers.
Israel’s army has suffered many defeats and a 2-month hiatus will serve many purposes as it never came close to succeeding in its tasks.
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The recent news of a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel should be welcomed, if it is real and the parties are sincere about their statements and intentions. But how much can we trust western media to guide us through the maize of the deal, even its minutia, when we have seen their absolute allegiance to Israel? A recent ‘explainer’ by the BBC laid out all the points. Israel and the Lebanese state will enforce the UN article 1701 for the first time since 2006. In a nutshell, it requires all Hezbollah fighters and their equipment to be shipped north of the Litani river, thus creating a 20 km buffer zone on Israel’s border. Lebanese armed forced are expected to move into this area and to ensure that no Hezbollah presence is ever there and to play the role of some sort of peacekeeper, western police force. You know the kind of thing.
On November 27th, ultra-extremist militants Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched a vast offensive in Syria. Within days, the Turkey-backed faction seized significant swaths of Aleppo, the country’s second-largest city, and advances elsewhere continue. While disinformation on the scale and success of HTS’ incursions abounds on social media, establishment news outlets remain the primary source of manipulation and deceit. No context to the current upsurge of violence is provided, although reference has been widely made to supposedly “peaceful” protests in 2011 that produced the decade-long Syrian civil war.
The New Dark Age 