While the union government inexplicably finds it so difficult to agree to the simple, straightforward and well-justified demand of repeal of three controversial farm laws, social movements as well as public spirited intellectuals have been quickly reaching near consensus on supporting this most emphasized demand of the farmers’ movement. One point of consensus is that […]
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While Repeal of Three Controversial Farm Laws is a Must, A Wider Vision is Also Needed Urgently
Fines for lockdown violators and wider closures as COVID-19 surges in West Bank and Gaza
Palestinian doctors wearing PPE prepares to care for patients infected with the coronavirus, in the isolation department at al-Aqsa hospital, in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza on December 6, 2020. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images) The latest: 121,157 Palestinians who tested positive for COVID-19; 94,349 recoveries; 1,029 deaths Of those who tested positive, 79,188 are in […]
Workers Need Immediate Relief and Wider Role for Trade Unions
Workers in India have suffered a lot in recent Covid times, particularly all the workers, migrants or others, who do not have security of employment and a regular salary. Nutrition levels for most of them were inadequate earlier too, but now these have suffered a further steep decline. Access to all other basic needs has […]
LEBANON: A POWDER KEG THAT WILL IGNITE A WIDER REGIONAL CONFLICT
South Front 28.04.2018 Written by Peter Korzun; Originally appeared on strategic-culture.org On May 6, Lebanon will hold its first parliamentary election since 2009 to usher in a system of proportional representation. To be sure, it is a small country, but the event will have a very significant effect on the shape of the Middle East’s political and […]
Laurier University Tapes Signal a Much Wider Problem
Last week a troubling story was exposed about a grad student at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) facing censure from her own department and an HR official. Lindsay Shepherd, a Master’s student in Communications studies, was put through the ringer by Nathan Rambukkana, an assistant professor in the department and her supervisor. Her offence? Shepherd, in an […]
US moves against Iran raise spectre of wider regional conflict
By James M. Dorsey US President Donald J. Trump, in a step that could embolden Saudi Arabia to move ahead with plans to destabilise Iran, has instructed White House aides to give him the arguments for withholding certification in October that Iran has complied with its nuclear agreement with world powers. Trump, long critical of […]
Chicago Dyke March accuser A Wider Bridge has record of fabrications
Ali Abunimah Lobby Watch 26 June 2017 A delegation sponsored by the Israel lobby group A Wider Bridge poses outside Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, with a rainbow flag emblazoned with the Star of David, November 2016. (via Facebook) The pro-Israel group accusing Chicago’s Dyke March of anti-Semitism for asking several people, including its Midwest manager, […]
Iranian Defense Minister: Russian airstrikes in Syria have shifted the balance of power in the region
The Russian anti-terror campaign in Syria has shifted the balance of power in the region, the Iranian Defense Minister said while visiting Moscow, eager to purchase billions of dollars worth of “defensive” weapons to secure its own position in the region. “Russia’s presence in Syria, of course, changed the security atmosphere, [and] changed the […]
Iranian Defense Minister: Russian airstrikes in Syria have shifted the balance of power in the region
The Russian anti-terror campaign in Syria has shifted the balance of power in the region, the Iranian Defense Minister said while visiting Moscow, eager to purchase billions of dollars worth of “defensive” weapons to secure its own position in the region. “Russia’s presence in Syria, of course, changed the security atmosphere, [and] changed the […]
Low Intensity Conflict (LIC) and the Scourge of the “New Militarism”: Covert Ops, Proxy Armies, Air Raids, PR Campaigns, Economic Forms of Warfare
Next to secret warfare, new militarism has involved a selected range of major and overt “quickie” interventions… Western militarism constitutes, next to climate change and poverty, the world’s greatest scourge. As internationally acclaimed Canadian academic Michel Chossudovsky has pointed out, NATO’s aggressive expansion into Eurasia and the Middle East has brought about the possibility of […]