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Even in Palestine, the birds shall return: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2024)
As the situation in Gaza worsens, Netanyahu was applauded for demanding more arms in Congress. In contrast, Beijing hosted Palestinian factions, pushing for unity and peace.
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French workers seize the torch
French workers are taking advantage of the spotlight due to the Olympics, and the left victory in the elections, to strike and gain important demands, reports Jamal Elaheebocus.
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‘The Home and the Reproduction of Society: On Work, Rent and the Reach of Capital’
The early twentieth century saw a wave of anti-colonial struggles that took the form of the labour strike.
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Lost in translation: Outcry over the ‘Last Supper’
A series of serious misunderstandings has led to an uninformed outcry in the Christian West over a short scene in the Opening Ceremony at the Paris Olympics, writes Cathy Vogan.
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Don’t believe the hype: Venezuela is a democracy
Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report editor and columnist, discusses observing the recent elections in Venezuela and why the U.S. still seeks to undermine that democracy.
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Delusions and paranoia in NATOland
It remains difficult to portray Canada’s increasingly assertive global deployments as a matter of national defence.
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Sonya Massey: Another tragic murder in the cops’ war on Black America
On July 6, Sonya Massey was brutally murdered by a Sangamon County, Illinois, sheriff’s deputy after she called the police to ask for assistance with a potential intruder. Like Breonna Taylor, Charleena Lyles and Atatiana Jefferson, Massey was a Black woman tragically murdered by police in her own home.
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China: The global trading giant
An extraordinary chart from ‘The Pioneer’ below compares nations whose largest trading partner was either the USA or China in the year 2000 and the year 2020. Over one short decade, it is a powerful visualization of how the world’s economic centre shifted.
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Winds of change in India-China relations
There is an expectation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would prioritise a historic turnaround in India’s relations with China as a legacy of his 15 years in power. Things are indeed moving in such a direction.
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Canada must comply with ICJ advisory opinion on Israel’s occupation
I am writing on behalf of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) to request that the Canadian government immediately take steps to align its policy with the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), titled the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.
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China’s Third Plenum
The Third Plenum is a meeting of China’s Communist Party Central Committee composed of 364 members which discusses China’s economic policy for the next several years.
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Decolonisation, dependency and disengagement—the challenge of Ireland’s degrowth transition
Advancing degrowth in Ireland requires an understanding of, and a reckoning with, the economic legacy of its colonised past, CUSP researcher Seán Fearon writes. A post-colonial economy within planetary boundaries must break with relationships of dependency and structures of unsustainability.
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National Lawyers Guild electoral observers praise Venezuelan election process
National Lawyers Guild electoral observers praise fairness, transparency of Venezuelan election process; condemn the U.S. backed opposition’s refusal to accept the outcome of democratic election.
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Nicolás Maduro wins the presidential elections in Venezuela
As predicted, the right-wing opposition has refused to recognize the results and affirms that they won “with 70% of the vote”, the U.S. government meanwhile has called for a recount.
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Beware of flying on commercial airlines in racist USA
On July 15, in an Instagram post, Terrell Davis spoke out after he was handcuffed and escorted off a United Airlines plane by the FBI and law enforcement.
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Global South sees U.S. Congress hail Israeli killer of 39,000 of their people mostly women and kids
The Health Ministry in Gaza reports that as of the end of July, 2024, more than 39,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been slaughtered in Gaza by the Israeli military using hegemon U.S.A.’s mighty weapons of mass destruction.
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Sending unarmed responders instead of police: What we’ve learned
There are more than 100 response teams nationwide, but experts say more research on their impact is needed.
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Majdal Shams residents mourn martyrs, reject any Israeli presence
The Israeli news website Walla says Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich was met with rejection and protests upon his arrival in the town.
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The spy who kept notes
Pulling back the Cold War curtain on Canada’s ignominious history of anti-communism.
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This is the Haitian people’s chance to break their chains again
After connivance in the brutal assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse three years ago and then imposing its first feckless de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry and now his equally subservient successor, Garry Conille, U.S. imperialism in cahoots with the Haitian oligarchy is presently working to set in place a Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) with the same actors and sectors from Haiti’s political landscape that it has been using for decades.