By Néstor Prieto Amador on September 6, 2025, from the flotilla
One of the ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Photo: Eva Manez, Reuters
The Global Sumud Flotilla is advancing towards Gaza and is already sailing towards Tunisia, divided into two large groups. Both expeditions will meet in Tunisia at the end of the week, when they will be joined by another twenty boats in what the organizers consider to be the “largest humanitarian mission in solidarity with Palestine.” (more…)
September 5, 2025
One day after Genoa dockworkers threatened to paralyze European ports if Israel touches the Gaza flotilla, Brazilian oil workers demanded the protection of all crew members. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on September 4, 2025
At eighty, the United Nations is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more clearly than in the Gaza genocide.
Per Krohg (Norway), Untitled (Mural for Peace), 1952.
There is only one treaty in the world that, despite its limitations, binds nations together: the United Nations Charter. Representatives of fifty nations wrote and ratified the UN Charter in 1945, with others joining in the years that followed. The charter itself only sets the terms for the behaviour of nations. It does not and cannot create a new world. It depends on individual nations to either live by the charter or die without it. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on July 31, 2025
Cover of the book “The tyranny of screen nations”. Akal Publishing
In The Tyranny of Screen Nations (Akal, 2025), Andalusian journalist Juan Carlos Blanco issues a warning that is as lucid as it is disturbing: we are no longer governed by states, but by digital platforms that have concentrated economic, cultural, and political power that eclipses that of many nations and transforms citizens into pieces of a social experiment on a planetary scale. (more…)
July 14, 2025
Residente concert in Valencia
On Sunday, Puerto Rican singer Rene Perez Joglar, known as Residente, once again brought attention to the Palestinian cause on the international stage. “Palestine will overcome!” he shouted alongside thousands of attendees at the Pirata Festival in Gandia, Valencia, held from July 9 to 12. (more…)
July 12, 2025
Photo Credit: Presidencia de Colombia
More than 20 states will gather in Bogota on 15–16 July to declare “concrete measures” against Israel’s violations of international law, according to diplomats speaking to Middle East Eye. (more…)
By José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez on July 10, 2025
photograph with Members, Partners and Outreach invitees of the 17th BRICS Summit at Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil on July 7, 2025.
From July 6 to 7, 2025, the 17th annual meeting of the group of countries known as BRICS took place in Rio de Janeiro. The meeting was attended by the founding members, new members, and associate members, for a total of 21 delegations, in addition to special guests. Together, these countries represent 51% of the world’s population and 40% of global annual production of goods and services, depending on the source consulted. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti on July 7, 2025
Gerardo Hernandez, photo: Bill Hackwell
A meeting in Rome with Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Cuban Five Heroes who spent 16 years in US federal prisons for monitoring the activities of anti Cuban terrorists operating freely in Southern Florida. (more…)