The end of the United Nations at a League of Nations moment ?

Daniel Warner CounterPunch  /  February 7, 2025 “The League is dead,” Robert Cecil solemnly declared on April 18, 1946, addressing delegates from 34 countries at the...

A sales pitch for ethnic cleansing

Stanley L. Cohen CounterPunch  /  February 7, 2025 Across the Arab world, ordinary citizens stand and watch the United States sliding into the abyss and wonder,...

Hundreds in Chicago protest Israel’s Gallant, wanted for crimes against humanity

Sharon Zhang Truthout  /  February 7, 2025 Former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is wanted by international authorities for crimes against humanity. Hundreds in Chicago protested against...

Egypt lobbies against Trump plan to empty Gaza of Palestinians as Israel prepares for...

Samy Magdy AP  /  February 7, 2025 CAIRO – Israel says it has begun preparations for the departure of Palestinians from Gaza despite international rejection of...

The right to remain in the face of genocide

Naama Blatman & Neve Gordon CounterPunch  /  February 7, 2025 Ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House, US President Donald Trump said...

Trump and ethnic cleansing of Gaza

David Schultz CounterPunch  /  February 7, 2025 US President Donald Trump’s declaration to remove the Palestinians from Gaza reveals the two truths. First, history repeats itself,...

US draws ‘red line’ over including Hezbollah in Lebanon’s government, new envoy says

Sally Abou Aljoud AP  /  February 7, 2025 BEIRUT – A newly appointed U.S. envoy said Friday that she hoped Lebanese authorities were committed to making...

What is the International Criminal Court and how will Trump’s sanctions impact it ?...

Molly Quell AP  /  February 7, 2025 THE HAGUE, Netherlands – U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court could jeopardize...

Trump’s Gaza plan suggests his pro-settler advisers are in the ascendant

Andrew Roth The Guardian  /  February 7, 2025 Idea of US occupying Gaza and pushing out the Palestinians delights Israel’s pro-settler movement and its US allies. Washington...

Violence in its natural state: Palestine’s moment

Ron Jacobs CounterPunch  /  February 7, 2025 There’s a section titled “Concerning Violence” in Frantz Fanon’s anti-colonial masterwork The Wretched of the Earth where he writes...