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LONDON / PNN — Report by Roddy Keenan More than 250,000 people marched through London on Saturday in support of Palestinians, calling for an end to Israel’s war in Gaza and urging the British government to halt its…
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LONDON / PNN - Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through central London and Berlin on Saturday, demanding an end to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Protesters carried signs reading “Stop the…
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RAMALLAH / PNN / Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for presidential and legislative elections to be held simultaneously on Sept. 11, 2027, postponing legislative polls previously scheduled for Nov. 28, as…
Austerity
Iran war could turn rising oil and food costs into a debt crisis, forcing countries to put their populations before creditors. Energy prices and the risk of a world depression Robinson Erhardt: Michael, I woke up to a…
Geopolitics
Israel was forged out of ethnic cleansing and apartheid. The Greens have very belatedly recognised what should have been obvious all along Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…
Guest Contributor
What would the world look like if the nations of the world decided to allow everyone to thrive in peaceful coexistence? — Why doesn’t that seem to work? Which troublesome elements would need to be neutralized? By Peter…
Geopolitics
Thoughts on Gaza, China, and Afghan drug lords. Matthew Hoh is the Associate Director of the Eisenhower Media Network. A former Marine and State Department official who resigned in protest over the wars in Iraq and…
Larry C. Johnson
On the morning of September 30, flydubai flight FZ1073, a Boeing 737 MAX 8, left Dubai for Tel Aviv with 174 passengers aboard, 27 of them children. About two and a half hours into the flight, the first officer attacked…
Geopolitics
Three years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the consequences of a decision driven by siege, settlement expansion and assaults on Al-Aqsa are still unfolding Sami Al-Arian is the Director of the Center for Islam and…
AMMAN, Jordan / JERUSALEM — Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, warned Wednesday that Israel is progressively restricting the space available to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip while conditions needed…
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Britain launched a “world wide lobbying exercise” to overturn a landmark United Nations (UN) resolution which recognised Zionism as racism, declassified files reveal. The information is in a private exchange between John…
Geopolitics
The notion that a two-state solution is the ‘viable’ option completely ignores the present and history of Israeli politics. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and…
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The Conservative Party took £1.3m in donations from a business linked to the destruction of Palestinian villages – before opposing new sanctions on Israeli settlements last month. The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, spoke…
JERUSALEM / PNN/ Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Minister of National Security in the Israeli occupation government, participated this Tuesday morning in a raid on the town of Al-Tur, east of occupied Jerusalem. This coincided with…
Israel-palestine
Just three weeks after American hip-hop artist Macklemore was kicked off megastar Ed Sheeran’s tour over the rapper’s “Free Palestine” messaging, it looks increasingly obvious that Sheeran overestimated the power of…
Israel-palestine
Just three weeks after American hip-hop artist Macklemore was kicked off megastar Ed Sheeran’s tour over the rapper’s “Free Palestine” messaging, it looks increasingly obvious that Sheeran overestimated the power of…
Bethlehem / PNN / Between October 3 and 4, Israel deported four solidarity activists, three from the United States and one from Germany.They were supporting the community of Jamma’in at the start of the olive harvest…
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The majority of people on the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI) board are not Labour party members, it has emerged. This means the group does not have to tell the Electoral Commission who has donated to the organisation…
Geopolitics
Trump, nosediving in the polls and bristling over a disastrous war on Iran, needs a scapegoat – and the Israeli prime minister best fits the bill Jonathan Cook is the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian…
Geopolitics
All those institutions we were told were integral to democracy and world peace turn out to be the greatest threats. Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and…
Media
When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state Jonathan Cook is the author of…
Democracy & Governance
This is the second article in a two-part series. The first part, First Principles for a New Progressive Foreign Policy, can be found here . In this run-up to the 2026 mid-term elections, progressive movements and…
Active Citizens
Media personnel watch a digital screen showing leaders of member states gather for a family photograph during the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on 13 September 2026. Credit: Arun Sankar/AFP By Samuel King and Inés M…
Congress
Every Senate Democrat but one voted to advance a resolution that would have forced the State Department to produce a report regarding violence against American citizens, as well as other Israeli violations of human…
LONDON /PNN / The British government has revealed that it has suspended or rejected more than 80 export licenses to Israel for items that could be used by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip. This move represents a…
GAZA / PNN / By Farah Samer Zaina Saadeddin “My injury wasn’t in my control. The changes in my appearance weren’t in my control. The lack of accessible language tests in Gaza is out of my control. Having my passport kept…
Geopolitics
The reaction in Israel to a new documentary about the Zionist regime’s crimes in Gaza shows just how dedicated the political class is to genocide. Antony Loewenstein is an independent journalist, best–selling author…
BETHLEHEM /PNN/ Christian religious, civic and academic figures in Bethlehem have rejected remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly, in which he said Christian…
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Earlier this month, the UK government announced plans to cut off trade with Israel’s illegal settlements in the West Bank—including weapons shipments. But according to new disclosures made to Parliament, reported…
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Declassified journalists have been banned from the Labour Party’s annual conference for the third year in a row. The event in Liverpool next week is the first under new prime minister Andy Burnham and is traditionally an…
Human Rights
Earlier this month, Britain, France, and Canada announced a coordinated round of sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank: an import ban on settlement goods, measures against the firms that sustain…
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The UK government’s new sanctions on Israel have resulted in zero arms export licences being revoked or suspended, it can be revealed. Earlier this month, Ed Miliband announced a fresh range of measures against Israel…
Geopolitics
Is the era of nuclear weapons coming to an end? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” [Table] | [/Table] Nuclear weapons have been much talked about recently. The interest comes in waves…
Political Rights
In a huge victory for the Palestine solidarity movement and the mass civil, political and legal campaign against Israel Bonds, the Development Corporation for Israel (DCI) has been unable to get authorisation to sell its…
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Camden Council’s investments in Palantir, the controversial AI company with ties to the Israeli military, have increased by over 1,200% since October 2023. The council’s overall holdings in companies complicit in…
Aid
A street market in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city. Residents are anxious about high inflation and also fear recent floods will drive food prices higher. Credit: Ant/IPS By Guy Dinmore, and a reporter in Yangon YANGON…
Geopolitics
The Ed Sheeran-Macklemore episode has exposed who has the real power in the music industry and why so many musicians are silent on the Gaza genocide. Robin Andersen is professor emerita of media studies at Fordham…
Cultural Boycott
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) is proud to announce that our ‘Irish Artists’ Pledge to Boycott Israel’ has just passed the 2,500 signatory mark, a hugely significant milestone in support for the…
The Israeli documentary Naza attracted considerable international media and political attention after winning the Venice Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize, despite not yet having reached the wider public. Following its…
Democracy & Governance
This is the first article in a two-part series. For many years, progressive movements and activists have longed for the moment when we could imagine a real foreign policy rooted in true internationalism and solidarity…
Geopolitics
This time, Europe seems serious about holding Israel accountable – or at least that is what 11 European countries, together with Canada, want us to believe. Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and the Editor of the Palestine…
Israel
In recent years pro-Israel advocates have aggressively sought to censor and control speech surrounding the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, particularly in the United States, and often with considerable success . This…
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BANGKOK – Authorities exhumed four human corpses on September 16 buried in an illegal “Jewish Cemetery” amid escalating investigations into Israelis allegedly breaking the law by deceptive real estate deals and lucrative…
Geopolitics
We must keep prising the fingers of the billionaire class off our throats until it is only the discredited, and morally bankrupt, who refuse to speak loudly in opposition to genocide Jonathan Cook is the author of three…
Foreign Affairs
The world of pop culture is ablaze with fury, as billionaire plutocrat Robert Kraft successfully pressured Ed Sheeran into dropping Macklemore from his North American tour over the rapper’s pro-Palestine statements. The…
Geopolitics
Our imperial overreach began 25 years ago with the War on Terror. It is being brought to a grim conclusion by Donald Trump’s war on Iran Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent…
Activism
Fifteen years ago, during President Barack Obama’s first term, we co-founded RootsAction as an online progressive group challenging not only Republicans, but also the corporatism and militarism of the Democratic Party…
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Six registered British charities are openly fundraising for activities and infrastructure in illegal Israeli settlements, a Declassified investigation has found. Two of the charities explicitly state in their publicly…