Abdel Bari Atwan Millions of people around the world eagerly await the occasional televised appearances of Abu-Obaida, the official spokesman of Hamas’ military wing the Izzedin al-Qassam Brigades. There are several reasons for this. His speeches are short and to-the-point. He conveys morale-raising good news about the resistance’s achievements in confronting the occupation. And he…
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Venezuela: Open Science and Agroecology
Cira Pascual Marquina A Conversation with Miguel Ángel Núñez, an independent researcher who argues that Venezuela is undergoing an agroecological transition. Miguel Ángel Núñez has devoted much of his life to studying traditional agriculture methods, including the small-scale agricultural plots called “konucos” associated with traditional farming practices. Konucos are highly diversified, employ sustainable methods, and…
‘A Productive Language’: On Western Intellectual Paradigms and Refaat al-Areer
Ameed Faleh On the 6th of December 2023, Refaat Al-Areer was assassinated along with his brother, sister, and their children by an Israeli airstrike. Before his murder, Refaat had been contacted by an Israeli intelligence officer threatening to kill him. A literature professor at the Islamic University of Gaza and a refugee living in the al-Shuja’iyya…
Why Human Agency is Still Central to Israel’s AI-Powered Warfare
Sophia Goodfriend Israeli soldiers from the 8717 Battalion of the Givati Brigade operating in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, December 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) The destruction that Israel has ravaged upon Gaza evokes an analog era of warfare. Craters swallow residential complexes, whole streets have been reduced to rubble, and clouds of dust block…
Debt From Above: The Carbon Credit Coup
Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin Latin America is quietly being forced into a carbon market scheme through regional contractual obligations – enforced by the satellites of a US intelligence-linked firm – which seeks to create an inter-continental “smart grid,” erode national and local sovereignty, and link carbon-based life to the debt-based monetary system via a…
Weaponizing Reality: The Dawn of Neurowarfare
Stavroula Pabst Stavroula Pabst explores the race to apply emerging neurotechnologies, such as brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), in times of both war and peace, expanding conflicts into a new domain — the brain — while perhaps forever changing humans’ relationship with machines. Billionaire Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface (BCI) company Neuralink made headlines earlier this year for inserting its first brain…
Gaza, Hezbollah and the Decline of Zionism
Interview With Asad Abukhalil Richard Medhurst
Argentine Military Defenselessness
Guillermo Martín Caviasca In this interview with the Malvinas war veteran and Chief of Intelligence of the Argentine Navy from 2011 to 2015, Rear Admiral Guillermo Tomé, we look at the different stages of Argentine defense in the last 40 years until reaching the present day. You occupied a privileged position to observe the geopolitical,…
“Strategic Error” and “Surrendering Claims of Sovereignty Over the Malvinas”
Úrsula Asta Argentina, a member of NATO? These days, at the local level, Argentina exhibits some of the obscenest images. The president says, in a business forum held in the south, that those who hide money are heroes who have escaped the clutches of the State. Meanwhile, in terms of international relations, the country shows…
Palestinians ‘Buried Alive’ by Israeli Army in Nasser Hospital Mass Graves
The Cradle Hundreds of bodies have been discovered in mass graves at Gaza hospitals that were besieged for weeks by Israeli troops Officials from Gaza’s Civil Defense Department announced on 25 April that 392 bodies have been unearthed from three mass graves discovered at the Nasser Medical Complex in the city of Khan Yunis, with some showing…
How the CIA and US Special Forces Manufactured a Migrant Crisis and Orwellian Police State in Vietnam Before Going to the Americas
Cynthia Chung “Anyone who doubts that this nation building and police activity has not become real and very effective right here in the United States need only visit the area around Fort Bragg to find one of these early paramilitary CIA-oriented specialist, General Tolson, sending his American soldiers out into the countryside with nation-building programs…
Africa: A Captured Continent?
Muhammed Haron Looking back: Colonialism – a diabolical divisive force When reflecting upon Africa’s social history, all the evidence reveal that this continent was cautiously conquered and slowly subjugated by the (proverbial) West’s cunning colonial forces (that is: United Kingdom [UK], Portugal, France, Spain, Germany, and Italy). These treacherous imperialist armies, which emerged over time…
Asian ‘NATO’ Encircles China
Fiona Edwards Ships from the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and from the America Expeditionary Strike Group transit the South China Sea, 2020 The US-steered Aukus military alliance is cranking up hostilities by inviting Japan into the anti-China pact Major new announcements this month indicate that the U.S. is intent on escalating its military interference…
Ecuador: Presidential Runner-Up Exposes US Meddling, Election Assassinations
The Grayzone The gangland assassination of Fernando Villavicencio was a key factor in preventing socialist-oriented Citizens’ Revolution candidate Luisa González from winning the elections. We spoke with Luisa Gonzales about that disturbing intrigue and the malign activities of the US embassy inside her country. By Oscar Leon
The Captagon Act: ‘War on Drugs’ to Isolate Syria
Vanessa Beeley In this interview with Clayton Morris of Redacted we discuss the latest collective punishment Act that is being fast-tracked through the Senate – The Captagon Act that describes Syria as a “narco state”. Just as Nixon isolated Latin American countries in the early 70s, the friends of Israel in the US are trying…
A Soft-Power Haitian “Control Body” is Proposed to Exert “Influence” in the U.S.-Guided Transition
Travis Ross USAID headquarters in Washington, DC. : “USAID’s Civil Society Strengthening Program (CSSP) for Haiti, with a budget of $15 million, plans to fund 250 Haitian ‘civil society organizations’ or CSOs.” In Part One, Ross shows how United States Institute for Peace (USIP) writers like Keith Mines and Nicolás Devia-Valbuena telegraph Washington’s foreign policy months in advance,…
Why Israel Is Not Punished but Cuba Is
Marc VanderpitteSome believe and others like to proclaim that international politics is based on values and good intentions. The treatment of Israel and Cuba completely destroys that belief. Where is the logic? Cuba, a country that harms no one and sends more doctors around the world than the World Health Organization, has been harshly sanctioned…
The Magic Box with the Red Eye
Cynthia Chung The following is a short story written by Col. Fletcher Prouty describing true events that occurred in Vietnam during the war that sound like something out of a sci-fi dystopic movie. This is extremely useful for anyone who wishes to understand the techniques that are presently being waged against the American people and…
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