Trump’s wizards of Armageddon have uprooted a nuclear taboo, declaring a newfound readiness to use nuclear weapons first and early in a confrontation. In a departure from previous presidents, Trump expands the circumstances in which nuclear weapons could be used to include as a response to “significant non-nuclear strategic attacks,” such as attacks on “civilian […]
The letter has been signed by 67 retired civil servants belonging to a range of services, many of whom had reached the pinnacle of their careers during their working lives. ……………….. The Open Letter expresses deep concern at the continuing brutal violence and widespread discrimination targeting minorities as also the wholly lackadaisical response of
Egypt’s former top auditor and a leading member of an opposition campaign against President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was seriously injured during a suspected kidnapping attempt, lawyers said. Ali Taha and Tareq el-Awady, lawyers of Hesham Genena, told the Associated Press that three men with knives jumped out of two cars that blocked the path of Genena’s
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A few days before Ahmed Shafiq announced his short-lived run for the Egyptian presidency, a meeting was held in Cairo to decide who should mount a serious campaign to unseat the incumbent, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. A number of former senior army generals and civil society figures were present, including Sami Anan, the former chief of
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An Oxfam report released on the eve of the World Economic Forum at Davos underscores the dramatic increase in wealth inequality in India in recent years. In 2017 alone, the top 1 percent of the population owned 73 percent of the addition to wealth that occurred. A year ago, the top 1 percent owned 58 percent of
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If you believed that the Indian people universally welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to India, then you were misled. The corporate media – both in India and in Israel – concentrated on the press releases from the offices of the prime ministers and bought hook, line and sinker into their well-orchestrated propaganda. There were
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Human rights abuses by their government have so outraged prominent liberal Israelis that, in an unprecedented move, they have launched a campaign of civil disobedience. Many hundreds have responded to a call by rabbis, pledging to hide victims in their own homes to protect them from Israel’s security services. Moral concern With the mood rapidly
In the coming week, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will tour different cities of India along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This visit comes at the beginning of a year that sees Israel globally ever more isolated and ever more aggressively advancing its ethnic cleansing and annexation of Palestinian land. To invite the leader of
The European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine (ECCP) is one of 20organisations from around the world that fight for Palestinian rights whose members have been banned from entering Palestine by the government of the state of Israel due to their defence of Palestinian human rights and their support of the Boycott, Divestment and
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When I left Israel, 10 years ago, the media was not yet saturated with unapologetic aggression towards everything Palestinian. One could still hear, here and there, some voices of dissent. Today, the task of watching or listening to a news programme has become excruciating. Israeli journalists, almost without exception, have all taken on the role of defending the homeland,
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