By Jonathan Cook on February 7, 2017
The Israeli parliament passed legalisation law on Monday night – a piece of legislation every bit as suspect as its title suggests. The law widens the powers of Israeli officials to seize the last fragments of Palestinian land in the West Bank that were supposed to be off-limits. (more…)
By Rick Sterling on February 11, 2017
After the liberation of East Aleppo. Photo: Vanessa Beeley
Amnesty International (AI) has done some good investigations and reports over the years, which has won the group widespread support. (more…)
By Glenn Greenwald on January 30, 2017
January 30 2017,
In 2010, President Obama directed the CIA to assassinate an American citizen in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, despite the fact that he had never been charged with (let alone convicted of) any crime, and the agency successfully carried out that order a year later with a September 2011 drone strike. While that assassination created widespread debate — (more…)
January 25, 2017
An article by Haaretz accounts the methods that interrogators describe and brings light to torture practices that are known to be routinely and systematically used against Palestinian detainees. (more…)
By Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. Congresswoman from Hawaii, on January 24, 2017
As much of Washington prepared for the inauguration of President Donald Trump, I spent last week on a fact-finding mission in Syria and Lebanon to see and hear directly from the Syrian people. (more…)
January 18, 2017
A UN envoy held talks with Yemen’s President Abd Rabbuh Hadi on Monday as the United Nations said the death toll from the war had reached 10,000. (more…)
By Daniel Lazare on January 23, 2017
Last week as Donald Trump was preparing to take office, The New York Times — reeling from Trump’s interview in which he said he didn’t “really care” if the European Union holds together and described NATO as “obsolete” — declared that “the big winner” of the change in U.S. presidents was Vladimir Putin. (more…)
By Jonathan Cook on January 16, 2017
Forget the empty posturing of world leaders in Paris yesterday. This photo tells us what the Israel-Palestine “conflict” is really about. (more…)