Let Them In: Opening Gaza to the Foreign Press Corps. IDF Slaughter of Journalists

 

Let Them In: Opening Gaza to the Foreign Press Corps. IDF Slaughter of Journalists. Binoy Kampmark By Dr. Binoy Kampmark The Gaza campaign is proving frustratingly long for the Netanyahu government. During this time the Israeli Defense Forces have become routine killers of journalists. Given the international press ban, the number of those slain by the IDF are overwhelmingly Palestinian. Read here

US Escalates Its Crawling Aggression on Venezuela as Caracas Prepares Defenses By Drago Bosnic The United States Navy (USN) and Marine Corps (USMC) keep increasing their military presence in the Southern Caribbean, more specifically in the vicinity of Venezuela’s coast. The last days of August saw a significant uptick in their activity, including American warships in eastbound transit through the Panama Canal. Read here

How the UN Can Act Decisively to End Genocide in Gaza By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies What is urgently needed is for the General Assembly to hold an Emergency Special Session to vote on a UN protection force, as well as a UN-led arms embargo, trade boycott and divestment from Israel, conditioned on ending the genocide in Gaza and the post-1967 occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Read here

Top US Officials Shared Ridiculous Reasons for Their Country’s Punitive Tariffs on India By Andrew Korybko The US punished India for its energy imports from Russia by imposing additional 25% tariffs on it, thus bringing their total tariffs to 50%, despite China and the EU being the largest respective importers of Russian oil and LNG according to Minister of External Affairs Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. Read here

Zionism Beyond Judaism: Christian Theologies, Jewish Dissent, and the Silencing of Palestinian Christians By Prof. Ruel F. Pepa Zionism is often understood in overly simplistic terms as a Jewish nationalist ideology intended solely to establish and preserve a Jewish state, and therefore exclusive to Jews. Yet this reductionist view obscures a far more complex and contested history. The roots of Zionist thought stretch beyond Jewish communities themselves. Read here

The Silent Singing Bird of Flamboyant Plumage. Edward Curtin By Edward Curtin Silence. Without it, we are bereft of meaningful words and end up talking repetitive gibberish, small talk. There are many people who can’t shut up; their jabbering is a disease. Tranquilized with trivia, they lose their ability to communicate. Read here

SCO+ Summit 2025 – Towards a New Global Reality. Towards a Multipolar World Order? By Dr. F. Andrew Wolf, Jr. The SCO’s burgeoning role as a critical player in the development of a multipolar world was demonstrated this week. It illustrated the Global South’s solidarity with its defining principles: the recognition of sovereignty, non-interference and a rebuttal to the West’s hegemonic model of globalization under the guise of ‘liberal democracy’. Read here