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Why is Israel bombing Syria? – ‘because it can get away with it’, says Bishara

Asia Pacific Report Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, has condemned Israel’s extensive airstrikes on Syrian installations — reportedly almost 500 times in 72 hours, comparing them to historic...

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...

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...

‘Politics is finally possible’: After surprise fall of Syria’s Assad in protracted civil war, what’s next?

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show with Syria and the aftermath of the historic collapse of the...

The ceasefire in Lebanon paused the war but not the struggle against genocide

As the world focuses on post-Assad Syria, this article reflects on Lebanon after the "ceasefire". A country with...

The ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu is also an indictment of US policy and complicity

ANALYSIS: By Jeffrey D. Sachs It’s official now. America’s closest ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the one accorded more than 50 standing ovations in...

ICC issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu over alleged war crimes

ANALYSIS: By Catherine Gegout The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, his former Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant,...

NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill ‘inviting civil war’, says former PM Shipley

RNZ Saturday Morning A former New Zealand prime minister, Dame Jenny Shipley, has warned the ACT Party is “inviting civil war” with its attempt to...

Rising Tide climate crisis ‘Protestival’ to go ahead despite court ruling

The NSW Supreme Court has issued orders prohibiting a major climate protest that would blockade ships entering the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle...

Caitlin Johnstone: The mainstream Western worldview pretends the Global South doesn’t exist

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone Mainstream Western politics and culture pretend the rest of the world does not exist. The mainstream Western worldview shrinks the earth...

Jonathan Cook: Israeli torture chambers aren’t new. They are what provoked the violence of October 7

Those who can’t connect barbaric abuses of Palestinians by Israelis — generation after generation — and the crimes of October 7, have little understanding...