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Discover how South Africa’s leadership in the Hague Group is forging a powerful transnational alliance to uphold international law and challenge Western impunity. By Vashna Jagannath South Africa’s position on the human catastrophe in Gaza has been consistent, lawful and morally serious. It has insisted that international law must be applied equally to all countries, regardless of their power or alliances. This has included the referral of Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on charges of genocide. While Pretoria has won international respect in many quarters, the price has been steep. It has come under immense pressure from…

By Caitlin Johnstone Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The US has removed Syria’s Al Qaeda franchise from its list of designated terrorist organizations just days after the UK added nonviolent activist group Palestine Action to its own list of banned terrorist groups. The western empire will surely find ways to be even more hypocritical and ridiculous about its “terrorism” designations in the future, but at this point it’s hard to imagine how it will manage to do so. Antiwar’s Dave DeCamp writes the following: “Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Monday that the Trump…

By Sõzarn Barday South Africa is the most unequal society in the world. In one suburb, rows of tidy houses with manicured lawns, white picket fences, and sparkling blue swimming pools portray a life of comfort and affluence. Yet just a short distance away, sprawling informal settlements tell a starkly different story—clusters of makeshift shelters cobbled together from corrugated iron, plastic sheeting, and cardboard. These fragile structures offer little protection against the Cape’s harsh winters. For thousands of South Africans, however, this is the daily reality—marked by inadequate access to clean water, electricity, and sanitation. Under apartheid, Black South Africans…

By WILLIAM D. HARTUNG Photo by Michael Afonso The Senate is on the verge of passing the distinctly misnamed “big beautiful bill.” It is, in fact, one of the ugliest pieces of legislation to come out of Congress in living memory. The version that passed the House recently would cut $1.7 trillion, mostly in domestic spending, while providing the top 5% of taxpayers with roughly $1.5 trillion in tax breaks. Over the next few years, the same bill will add another $150 billion to a Pentagon budget already soaring towards a record $1 trillion. In short, as of now, in the battle between welfare and warfare,…

By Iqbal Suleman Today justice seekers the world over are commemorating the day of Ashura. The committed cadres of the Islamic Movement have sacrificed their greatest leaders and courageous foot soldiers in resistance to Israeli Zionist and American Imperial military aggression. Millions are in mourning because the Islamic Movement has sacrificed the cream of its crop for freedom and justice. There is an outpouring of tears, a tightness of throat and a heaviness in the heart on the day of Ashura in this year 2025. But there is also a celebration of Resistance. Resistance that will not bow, will not…

United States President Donald Trump speaks at the White House Press Briefing room in Washington DC., United States on June 27, 2025. [Celal Güneş – Anadolu Agency] by Manoug Antaby With Syria entering a new phase under the leadership of Ahmad Al-Sharaa, the new government has faced several barriers, notably the sanctions imposed by the United States (US) on Syria. In response, on 13 May, 2025, the new US President Donald Trump announced that his administration would lift the sanctions on Syria, expressing the need to give the new Syrian government a chance to revive the country. Following this announcement, Trump signed an executive order…

in Palestine by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor Occupied Palestinian Territory – Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor stated that Israel’s ban on fuel entry to hospitals in the Gaza Strip constitutes a tool of direct killing and a means of forcibly displacing civilians, as it paralyzes medical facilities and turns them into death zones. In a press release today, Euro-Med Monitor explained that the shutdown of generators and vital medical equipment puts the lives of thousands of patients—including newborns, ICU patients, and those with kidney failure—at immediate risk of death. It also forces their families to flee in search of alternative healthcare or energy sources…

In the killing fields In the killing fields of Gaza they manufactured a genocide Killing UNRWA And all those who it served in the killing fields of Gaza Orwellian tongues wag with bravado as tattooed operatives in GHF T-shirts celebrate their name – Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) they are doing their job But for whom? Under their armed regime food is scarce And the truth even more so Impunity reigns /Morality and justice /the mirror of hunger and thirst/ In the killing fields of Gaza the higher the death toll the lower the morality poll the world’s leaders keep looking…

By Hatem Bazian In the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s historic primary victory in the Democratic race for New York City mayor, the familiar contours of the American Islamophobic imaginary have re-emerged with a vengeance. A progressive Muslim candidate of South Asian descent, Mamdani’s victory symbolizes both the possibility of a radically inclusive politics and the persistence of the racialized boundaries of belonging in U.S. public life. His candidacy and stunning victory have reignited debates not only about representation and ideology but also about the deep structures of fear, suspicion, and cultural anxiety that have long animated Islamophobic discourse in America,…

Iranians pose for a picture during an anti-Israeli rally in Tehran on 20 June, 2025 (AFP) By Soumaya Ghannoushi Trump’s proclamation of victory and partnership with Netanyahu belongs in the archive of imperial delusion that has long haunted this region The 12-day war on Iran was unprecedented, unique in scope and seismic in implications. For the first time, Israel launched a war – not merely a limited operation – against a country it shares no border with, separated by at least 1,500 kilometres. More crucially, it marked the first time in history that the United States openly fought alongside Israel in a direct military assault. A…