Middle East 4 ChangeCalling on world conscience
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Hamza Abu Eltarabesh. Posted on Electronic Intifada April 7, 2108. Much has already been written and said about the bloody events of the first Great March of Return…
Bread, water and roses: The guerrillas of Shengal (Sinjar)
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Marcel Cartier. Posted on The Region on April 4, 2018. Powerful, sobering and heart-wrenching images are once again to be seen from the Yazidi heartland of Shengal, otherwise…
Survivors of the Syrian Wars
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Patrick Cockburn. Published in London Review of Books Volume 40 number 7 April 5, 2018. When I first visited Kurdish-held territory in northern Syria, early in 2015, it…
Jewish Voice for Peace Horrified By Israeli Response to the #GreatReturnMarch
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Posted Jewish Voice for Peace March 30, 2018 Jewish Voice for Peace is horrified by the Israeli response to the #GreatReturnMarch, in which tens of thousands of Palestinian…
Turkish War Planes Strike Northern Syria As Assad Continues Bombing South
Sunday, March 18, 2018
Ellen Frances. Posted on Huffington Post on March 17, 2018. BEIRUT, March 17 (Reuters) – Thousands of civilians streamed out of their towns on Saturday to escape battles…
The ‘New Anti-Semitism’
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
Neve Gordon. Posted on London Review of Books 4 January 2018. Not long after the eruption of the Second Intifada in September 2000, I became active in a…
The Ossington Circle Episode 16: The Destruction of Syria and Solidarity with Max Ajl
Friday, December 8, 2017
Max Ajl and Justine Podur. Interview transcript posted on podur.org on April 29, 2017. In this episode of The Ossington Circle, academic, activist, and editor at Jadaliyya Max…
How Israeli leftists trivialize the Palestinian cause
Sunday, December 3, 2017
Zena Tahhan. Posted on +972 on November 28, 2017. Ask any Palestinian on the street and they will tell you that the 1948 territories—those areas that now make…
A Visit to Heaven and Hell: Mapping Planet Earth: extracts
Monday, November 6, 2017
By Eduardo Galeano, Book extracts Published in TomDispatch, November 2, 2017 The following passages are excerpted from Hunter of Stories, the last book by Eduardo Galeano, who died…
Sketching war: the writer who depicts Middle East conflict – in watercolour
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Kilian Fox Posted on The Guardian/Observer on September 10, 2017 Guardian journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad’s drawings have helped him cope with reporting from the frontline. Now they will illustrate…
As Yemen Cholera Cases Reach 500,000, US and UK Condemned for Complicity
Saturday, August 19, 2017
Jake Johnson, Published by Common Dreams on August 14, 21 The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday announced that the number of cholera cases in Yemen had reached…
Endtimes in Mosul: eyewitness account of the costs of retaking of the city
Friday, August 18, 2017
Patrick Cockburn. Posted on London Review of Books vol 39 no 16, August 17, 2017 . On 22 May, Ahmed Mohsen, an unemployed taxi driver, left his house…
Mosul: Oppression from all sides
Monday, August 14, 2017
Haifa Zangana, First posted on Weekly Worker on 10th August 2017. Firstly, a few words about the recent history of Mosul, so we can understand the context of…
A Shameful Silence: Where is the Outrage Over the Slaughter of Civilians in Mosul?
Monday, July 31, 2017
Patrick Cockburn. First posted on Counterpunch on July 24, 2017. The catastrophic number of civilian casualties in Mosul is receiving little attention internationally from politicians and journalists. This is in…
Cholera in Yemen: war, hunger, disease…and heroics
Friday, July 21, 2017
Editorial, Lancet Infectious Diseases, August 2017. The harms done by war are many and complex. Death, injury, and displacement are the most obvious, but infection is also closely…
Refugees: Should we build a wall around North Wales? Book Review
Monday, July 10, 2017
Daniel Trilling. First published London Review of Books Vol. 39 No. 14 · 13 July 2017 Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones. Verso, 208 pp,…
World’s worst outbreak of Cholera in Yemen as cases reach 200,000
Sunday, July 2, 2017
Posted by Rudaw on June 26, 2017, Yemen is now experiencing the worst Cholera outbreak in the world as suspected cases exceed 200,000 with the number increasing at…
A 50-Year Occupation: Israel’s Six-Day War Started With a Lie
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept_. Fifty years ago, between June 5 and June 10, 1967, Israel invaded and occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the…
Marx on Immigration: Workers, Wages, and Legal Status
Friday, May 5, 2017
David Wilson. Posted on Monthly Review Volume 68 Number 9. On April 9, 1870, Karl Marx wrote a long letter to Sigfrid Meyer and August Vogt, two of…
Syrian People Betrayed By All Sides
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Mehdi Hasan, The Intercept. Where do you stand on the conflict in Syria? This question has become perhaps the ultimate political and sectarian Rorschach test of our time.Are…
What Trump’s Missile Strike Means for Syrians Like Me
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Loubna Mrie, Vice. Personal view: In the moments following Donald Trump’s missile strike on a Syrian government airbase in response to a chemical weapons attack on Thursday, voices…
Is Africa rising? A critical perspective (2) – “a makeover of the mechanisms of domination and social injustice”
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Jean Nanga, Europe Solidaire Sans Frontiers. The narrative about Africa in the international media, in particular the economic press, as well as in academic journals, is changing. It…
Aleppo
Friday, December 16, 2016
Craig Murray. The Morning Star has today come under massive criticism for hailing the near total recapture of Aleppo by pro-Government forces as a “liberation.” I would agree…
Our testimony to death
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Doha Hasan, Al-Jumhurya. Somewhere, there are scattered corpses along a road that looks completely destroyed, with blood around orange bags holding still bodies. You see destroyed buildings that…
Noam Chomsky on the crises of immigration
Monday, December 12, 2016
Links. Pope Francis captured the essence of the crisis of immigration: “Migrants are not the danger. They are in danger.” The implication is clear – the so called…
Turkey and the Road to Genocide
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Djene Bajalan, Jacobin. On Sunday, April 24, 1915, Ottoman minister of the interior, Talat Pasha, ordered the arrest and detention of Armenian community leaders residing within the empire….
Socialists and wars in the 21st century – The case of Syria
Saturday, December 3, 2016
Richard Fidler, Links. In Syria the rebel cities that rose up four years ago in revolt against the brutal Assad dictatorship are now under a genocidal siege, bombed…
Fight or Flight: The Desperate Plight of Iraq’s “Generation 2000”
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
International Crisis Group, Jadalyya. Beset by political dysfunction, endemic corruption and a jihadist threat, Iraq is squandering its greatest asset: its youth. By failing to provide a vision…
Immigration, racism and class
Sunday, September 18, 2016
Kevin Ovenden, Counterfire. While mainstream ideology repackages its old myths and lies, Kevin Ovenden argues for a radical re-assertion of class-based anti-racism. When people express “concerns” about immigration,…
Truth is always revolutionary
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Jurgen Balzan, Malta Today. Lebanese writer Elias Khoury is one of the leading lights of Arab literature and he says that the Israeli occupation is classical colonialism built…