Do we need a new Chernobyl?
– Andrey Allakhverdov Андрей Аллахвердов
Thirty-five years on, while scientists are still studying the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster, governments and companies are laying foundations for new nuclear accidents.
Ranked as the worst nuclear disaster to date, Chernobyl is a quarter …
Was justice really served? Lessons learned from the Chauvin trial that relate to Palestine, Turtle Island*
– Benay Blend
* Turtle Island is a name for the Earth or for North America, used by some Indigenous Peoples in the United States and First Nations people and by some Indigenous rights activists. The name is based on a common North American Indigenous creation story. …
The Big Green Lie
– Survival International جنبش حامی ملل بومی
At the next Convention on Biological Diversity summit, world leaders plan to agree turning 30% of the Earth into “Protected Areas” by 2030.
Big conservation NGOs say this will mitigate climate change, reduce wildlife loss, enhance biodiversity …
It started with a Palestinian woman’s arrest. It ended with Israeli officers investigated for rape
– Josh Breiner ג’וש בריינר جوش برينر
Shin Bet personnel, IDF officers and an army medic and a clerk undertook a highly invasive search of a Palestinian detainee. She didn’t pose clear and present danger. Intelligence did not justify such an extreme act. Last week, the investigation on suspicion …
The Palestinians: “We Shall Not Be Moved”
– Daniel E. Beaumont
In the Civil Rights movement of the Fifties and Sixties, a gospel song “I Shall Not Be Moved” became popular as “We Shall Not Be Moved”. The songs were based on Jeremiah 17:7-8, “…he shall be as a tree planted …
Japan to release Fukushima’s radioactive water into Pacific
– Andrew Salmon
IAEA and Washington approve the move but Tokyo faces toxic political fallout from Beijing, Seoul and Greenpeace
In a long-anticipated decision, Japan announced Tuesday that starting two years hence it will release into the sea radioactive water held …
Afghanistan, Biden’s Vietnam
– Abdelbari Atwan عبد الباري عطوان
The US exit from Afghanistan is an admission of defeat in an unwinnable war
At last, after waging war in Afghanistan for 20 years, the US has raised the white flag of surrender stained with the blood of its 2,400 dead and 21,000 injured troops. …
A Middle East in motion
– Alastair Crooke
U.S. sanctions are easily done, but not easily undone – even temporarily. Lifting them completely is institutionally almost impossible.
If we view the Middle East as a complex network system, it is possible to discern a number of dynamics …
The forgotten history of the purging of Chinese from America
– Michael Luo 罗明瀚
The surge in violence against Asian-Americans is a reminder that America’s present reality reflects its exclusionary past.
Illustration by Valerie Chiang; Source text from PBS; Library of Congress; Source photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston …
Fascist pogroms in Jerusalem
– Nir Hasson نير حسون ניר חסון
Hundreds of Jewish far-right activists from Jerusalem’s Zion Square on Thursday night toward the Old City, where attendees were shouting ‘death to Arabs’
Clashes and disruptions in Jerusalem, earlier this evening. Photo Emil Salman
Over 80 Palestinians …
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