Hamas Statement on the 76th Anniversary of the Nakba

Al-Aqsa Flood is a natural extension of our people’s resistance and their legitimate right to defend their land and sanctities. It’s a strategic milestone that has restored the global presence of our cause, reinforced our national unity behind the resistance, shattered the enemy’s arrogance, and solidified our ongoing struggle for liberation and return, and the…

The Global South in the Arctic North: Indigenous Nations Struggle for Sovereignty

Renate Bridenthal Inuit protest Nunavut Canada free Palestine Indigenous nations fight for sovereignty in the Arctic regions of North America and Europe. Connecting their struggle to Palestine, they are resisting NATO militarization — as the US Army pledges to “regain Arctic dominance”. In January, three months into Israel’s attack on Gaza, a group people in…

ALBA: Future Proposal for Latin America and the Caribbean

Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein Two weeks ago, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA -TCP) held its XXIII summit in Caracas, Venezuela. Two readers wrote to me separately, asking if I wasn’t going to write about that event. Coincidentally, a few days later the General Secretariat of ALBA, which has its…

‘The Fourth Generation Remembers’: Nakba Commemorated in Shadow of Gaza War

Baker Zoubi and Ghousoon BisharatProtesters wave Palestinian flags during the 27th annual March of Return in the depopulated villages of Hawsha and Al-Kasair, northern Israel, May 14, 2024. (Ahmad Al-Bazz) Thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel joined the annual March of Return, with many making connections to the violent displacement in Gaza. In the shadow of what…

Libya: Tripoli Coordinates Politically with Russia, Prepares Militarily with the West

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov received a Libyan delegation that includes the representative of the Presidential Council, Abdullah Al-Lafi, the person in charge of managing the affairs of the office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Al-Taher Al-Baour, accompanied by the Chief of the General Staff of the Army, Lieutenant General Muhammad…

A Mirror of Our Immediate Future: Green Imperialism and Palestine

Erica Jung and Calvin Wu Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, an Israeli nuclear installation southeast of the city of Dimona. (Wikimedia Commons) The assassination of more than 14,000 Palestinian children in the span of mere months and the deliberate starvation of two million people by Zionist occupiers with the full support of western governments assault…

BRICS+: The Priority is Dedollarization

F.M. Shakil China, the second-largest global economy, is rapidly reducing its ownership of US Treasury bonds while simultaneously boosting its gold reserves. The upcoming BRICS meeting in Russia will give top priority to the dedollarization agenda and take steps to further decrease the dependence on the US currency in cross-border trade between the nations. BRICS…

Zwelivelile ‘Mandla’ Mandela: “The South African Government Needs to Do More”

Yunus Soner Zwelivelile ‘Mandla’ Mandela travels a lot. He is an ambassador for the global campaign to return to Palestine, a campaign that lays emphasis on the fact that millions of Palestinians were expelled during the last 75 years from their territories. Mandela recently visited Istanbul, Türkiye, to take part in the Conference of Parliamentarians…

Cambodia Doesn’t Owe Washington an Explanation Over China Ties

Brian Berletic Associated Press (AP) in a May 8, 2024 article titled, “Chinese warships have been docked in Cambodia for 5 months, but government says it’s not permanent,” attempts to depict the Southeast Asian country of Cambodia as covering up growing Chinese-Cambodian military cooperation. Satellite images of Chinese warships docked at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base for several…

The Sahel Seeks Sovereignty

No Cold War, West Africa Peoples’ OrganizationRepresentatives of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger at the formation of the Alliance of Sahel States. Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali The last year has seen tremendous transformations in the Sahel region with popularly-backed military coups calling for an end to French colonialism as well…

Palestine’s Case for Full UN Membership

Dr Binoy Kampmark The results of a vote on a resolution for the UN Security Council to reconsider and support the full membership of Palestine into the United Nations is displayed during a special session of the UN General Assembly, at UN headquarters in New York City on 10 May, 2024 [CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty…

The Coming of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem

Pepe Escobar UNIT ecosystem offers people around the world apolitical money that can be freely bought and sold or used as currency for payments via any open payment and clearing system. The process of de-dollarization is progressing steadily within BRICS countries and the global economy, but further efforts are necessary to speed up the transition,…

Sayyed Nasrallah: “Israel Faces Two Options – Defeat or the Abyss”

Al Manar “These theatrics that we are witnessing nowadays should not deceive anyone, as Washington stands with Israel [no matter what],” Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah on Monday stressed that the Israeli enemy is facing a historical dilemma in Gaza– if it halts the war, it will be a major defeat, and it will move…

US-China Rivalry Riles Tiny Solomon Islands

Mick Hall USS Sampson creates wakes while performing “S” turns off the coast of the Solomon Islands in December 2016. The missile destroyer was deployed to the Western Pacific as part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet-led initiative to extend the command and control functions of Third Fleet into the region. (U.S. Navy, Bryan Jackson) The Solomon…

Strategic Setbacks for US, Israel as the Resistance Axis Gains Ground in Syria

Khalil Nasrallah Recent resistance operations in eastern Syria have established new rules of engagement that constrain both Washington and Tel Aviv’s once-untethered freedom to operate in this strategic theater. For several years, the presence of the region’s Axis of Resistance forces in Syria has remained vulnerable to US and Israeli attacks across the country, from east…

Global Community and Shared Future

Bouthaina Shaaban Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Europe was a strong, timely, and wise statement amid the current world and regional chaos, a statement in favor of all of the people in the world who are looking for an alternative order in a global community, which at the moment stands orderless. The entire process…

On Fascism and Other Maladies: A Conversation with Luis Britto García

Cira Pascual Marquina Experimental writer and columnist Luis Britto Garcia is one of Venezuela’s best-known and most respected intellectuals. An avid supporter of the Bolivarian Process from the beginning, Britto Garcia is nevertheless an independent thinker who offers criticism the government when necessary. In this interview, he talks about fascism and corruption, as well as…

Israel’s War on Gaza is Destroying IMEC’s Viability

Mohamad Hasan Sweidan The Resistance Axis seeks not only to ‘boil the Israeli frog’ but also, incrementally, to unravel the US’ biggest geopolitical projects in West Asia, including the India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor. The Gaza war’s impact on Washington’s geopolitical agenda in West Asia is becoming starker each passing week. The region’s Axis of Resistance counter-offensives…