Analysis

Climate justice victory at the ICJ – the student journey from USP lectures to The Hague

By Vahefonua Tupola in Suva The University of the South Pacific (USP) is at the heart of a global legal victory with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivering a...

How Pacific students took their climate fight to the world’s highest court. And won

Last week, the UN’s highest court issued a stinging ruling that countries have a legal obligation to limit...

Caitlin Johnstone: It shouldn’t have taken this much for mainstream voices to start speaking up about Gaza

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Israel’s top human rights group B’Tselem has finally declared that Israel is committing genocide, as...

Caitlin Johnstone: It’s a genocide, but it’s also so much more than that

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The mass atrocity in Gaza is a genocide, obviously, and is an undisguised ethnic cleansing...

Eugene Doyle: Nagasaki now a celebration of Israeli genocide

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Israel’s key enablers, the G7, plus Australia and New Zealand, have succeeded in muscling Israel...

The closest thing Australian cartooning had to a prophet: the sometimes celebrated, sometimes controversial Michael Leunig

ANALYSIS: By Richard Scully, Robert Phiddian and Stephanie Brookes Michael Leunig — who died in the early hours of Thursday December 19, surrounded by “his...

Caitlin Johnstone: Where does the aggression really begin?

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone New York prosecutors have charged Luigi Mangione with “murder as an act of terrorism” in his alleged shooting of health insurance...

Israel a ‘lawless, rogue state’ over bombing Syria 800 times and expanding occupation of Golan Heights

Democracy Now! JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Israel is continuing to bomb Syria a week after Syria’s longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power. On Sunday night,...

‘With words they try to jail us’: US universities are not citadels of freedom

COMMENTARY: By Donald Earl Collins Universities in the United States have been especially repressive over the past year. Several like Columbia University and New York University have redefined...

Damascus and Gaza prisoners: Syrians and Palestinians search for ‘disappeared’ loved ones

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show in Syria, where tens of thousands of people gathered at the Great Mosque of Damascus for the...

Eugene Doyle: The dismemberment of Syria is a crime

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle What we are witnessing is not just the end of a regime but quite possibly the destruction of the Syrian state. We...