Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman addressing the joint extraordinary leaders summit of Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Arab League, Riyadh, November 11, 2024
The election victory of Donald Trump in the November 5 election is being perceived in the West Asian region with growing anxiety as presaging the US aligning one hundred percent with the Zionist project for Greater Israel.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
While Donald Trump is frequently called a fascist and is even compared to Adolph Hitler, some angry democrats are engaging in their own racist and eliminationist rhetoric in the wake of his impending return to the presidency. Their reaction to Trump’s victory reveals that intolerance and bigotry are not unique to Trump and his followers.
In a speech to INTERPOL last week, as we report in our regular calendar of racism and resistance, the prime minister announced that he is doubling the funding of the Border Security Command (BSC) to £150m and giving it counter-terrorism powers to deal with what he described as the national security threat of cross-Channel people smugglers.
Russia has announced a $60 million diesel shipment to Cuba during bilateral meeting in Havana.The Russian assistance, authorized directly by President Vladimir Putin, represents an international effort to help stabilize Cuba’s energy sector.
Australia assumes command of the Operation Prosperity Guardian targeting Ansar Allah’s naval blockade of Israel. Photo: Australia Defense
Australia is one of the cornerstones of the US imperial project, with its mineral extraction, fortified military, and subservience to the British crown.
When Dante Alighieri and his guide reach the fifth circle of hell in Inferno’s Canto VII, they come across the River Styx, where people who could not contain their anger in life now wallow and fight each other on the surface of the turbulent, muddy water, and below them lie those who had been sullen in life, their frustrations coming to the surface as bubbles:
Israel, by brazenly stealing Palestinian property and driving its people out and creating the world’s largest open-air prison in Gaza, has made it clear that it is not going to compensate the refugees.
In April 2009, police brutally attacked G20 protesters in London. Ian Tomlinson was struck over the head by a police baton, and died from his injuries minutes later.
The massive policing operation that day was so violent that nearly 300 complaints were made against the police. Ian wasn’t a protester, he was a newspaper vendor who had been caught up in the chaos of a police riot. His family campaigned for justice for decades, before an inquest finally returned a verdict of unlawful killing by police.
Netpol was formed in the aftermath of this, when groups came together in November 2009 to resist violent and oppressive policing. For the last 15 years, we’ve worked alongside social movements to defend dissent.
We’ve covered the policing of the UK Black Lives Matter movement, supported the anti-fracking movement and we’re challenging the crackdown on climate protesters. In 2024 we released ‘In Our Millions’, Netpol’s report on the racist policing of pro-Palestine campaigners.
To mark 15 years of resisting police surveillance, intimidation and violence, we’re asking you to support our work by making a donation.
US entrepreneur and former Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy (L) and SpaceX, Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk (R) will lead a so-called Department of Government Efficiency in Trump administration
The Wall Street journal, which has a track record of spreading irascible scepticism over Donald Trump’s credentials for re-election as US president, has come out with yet another sensational story that Congressman Mike Waltz is going to be the White House National Security Advisor.
What happened in one Dutch city is the world since the Zionist regime began its limitlessly barbaric assault on Gaza: Western powers blessed it, and Western media determined to hide it from view.
Amsterdam’s Dam Square, site of the initial attacks. (Dragan Jankovic Faza, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)
In the weeks leading up to the 2024 US presidential election, Americans and many around the world invested hope that former-president and now President-elect Donald Trump would grind America’s wars abroad to a halt and instead invest in the United States itself.
Social media posts can result in anyone being arrested
A police officer has been arrested by counter-terrorism police in Gloucester over social media posts regarding Israel and Palestine. It’s no longer just journalists and social media users that police are targeting, it’s their own officers now.
Françafrique, this charming system of domination that has allowed France to plunder Africa with elegance and discretion for centuries.
A love relation, some will say. Of slavery, others will say. But what is Françafrique, really? A marriage contract between France and Africa, where the former takes everything and the latter gives everything? Or simply a love story that went wrong? Let’s discover together the secrets of this toxic relationship.
John Pilger is being honored this month by the British Film Institute for his more than 60 extraordinary documentaries. We present here one on Palestine followed by CN’s 2021 discussion with Pilger and historian Ilan Pappé.
Ever since Israel’s October 1st invasion of Lebanon, the Western media has been a witting, willing accomplice to the sadistic, criminal assault. Mainstream journalists have worked overtime to whitewash, distort, and conceal the Zionist entity’s murderous rampage, which has claimed thousands of civilian lives, and injured and displaced many more. Serving as Tel Aviv’s perpetual megaphone and apologist is a role for which major news outlets have eagerly volunteered for decades. Their crusade has only become turbocharged following the Gaza genocide erupting.
People walk along a street under a Cuban flag, in Havana, on October 14, 2021. (Photo by Yamil Lage / AFP via Getty Images)
Now is an historical moment for recognition of not what Cuba has failed to do, but for appreciation of how much it has achieved with so little and under such adverse circumstances not of its making.
The British media outlet Sky News has removed footage from its social media platforms showing Israeli fans chanting racist slogans before the UEFA Europa League match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv in Amsterdam. This action has led to accusations of censorship and bias.
The video, initially shared with the caption, “Israeli fans tearing down Palestinian flags and chanting anti-Arab racist slogans,” was taken down, sparking criticism. Some accused Sky News of self-censorship. In a subsequent post, the network stated: “Editor’s Note: This is a re-edit of a previous video which didn’t meet Sky News’ standards for balance and impartiality.”
Tensions escalated in Amsterdam late on Thursday as Israeli fans clashed with pro-Palestinian demonstrators around the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv match. Social media videos showed Maccabi supporters tearing down Palestinian flags and attacking Arab taxi drivers.
CNN’s article titled “He got out of Gaza, but Gaza did not get out of him” has sparked a storm of backlash on social media. The piece portrays Israeli occupation soldiers as victims of mental health struggles post-combat in Gaza, while conveniently glossing over the atrocities committed by these same soldiers against Palestinians.
The same soldiers whom CNN presents as “victims” have been instrumental in demolishing homes, burning people alive, imposing blockades, and creating mass graves. Yet the piece fails to mention any of this context, instead painting the occupiers as broken and misunderstood, struggling with the horrors of war—horrors they themselves inflicted on others. How is that okay?
Organizations across the UK are rallying behind #PalestineAction, condemning any attempts to silence the group. In a joint statement, they declared: ‘We are all Palestine Action!’ and urged broader support for their fight against injustice.