May 23, 2017
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine organized a mass march and rally in Gaza City on Tuesday, May 23, from Palestine Square to the prisoners’ support tent for the hunger strike, in rejection of the visit of the war criminal, US President Donald Trump, in our occupied homeland Palestine. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on May 27, 2017
The American war in Afghanistan will soon enter its 16th year. Over this period, the United States and its allies have lost close to 3,000 soldiers, while an unknown number of Afghans have died. (more…)
May 27, 2017
On the occasion of the victory of the Strike of Freedom and Dignity, the valiant battle of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails, confronting the occupier with their bodies and their lives, we salute the Palestinian prisoners on achieving their victory, not only for themselves and their families, but for the entire Palestinian people and global movement for justice and liberation. (more…)
April 27, 2017
Telesur: Thank you for receiving us, Mr President. Bashar al-Assad: I welcome your team and Channel Telesur to Syria. Telesur: Let me get straight to the most recent event.
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May 19, 2017
On Friday, 19 May, Palestinian prisoners entered their 33rd day of the collective hunger strike launched by 1500 Palestinian prisoners – out of a total of over 6300 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails – on 17 April 2017, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. (more…)
By Jonathan Cook on May 15, 2017
Bombing of SS Patria in 1940
Jonathan Cook’s article here is important background to the ongoing concerted effort to label any support for the Palestinian struggle for self determination as being anti-Semitic. Huge sums of money are flooding onto college campuses in the U.S. to undermine the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and to pressure state legislatures to oppose it. Seventeen states have passed laws against any boycott of Israel. If there is one thing that the U.S. Congress agrees on it is its unanimous support of the Zionist state of Israel; the most loyal outpost in the Middle East for U.S. Imperialism that they have armed to the teeth with conventional and nuclear weapons. – Resumen editorial (more…)
Presentation at the 5th International Seminar for Peace and the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases in Guantanamo Cuba
*By Bassel Ismail Salem on May 6, 2017
Bassel Ismail Salem, Photo: Bill Hackwell
The illegal and deceitful Balfour Declaration will soon be 100 years old. This imperial agreement made by the British government ceded Palestine to become a Jewish national homeland with total disregard to the will of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living there. (more…)
May 15, 2017
Calling the situation “catastrophic,” Dominik Stillhart, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Director of Operations, told RT from Yemen that with 11,000 confirmed cases the hospitals he personally visited in the capital, (more…)