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Germany Pulls Legal Support for Israel in ICJ Gaza Genocide Case

by Brett Wilkins, published on Common Dreams, March 19, 2026 Berlin says it needs to focus on its defense in a separate ICJ case in which Nicaragua accuses Germany of supporting Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Germany said Wednesday that it will drop its planned intervention in the International Court of Justice genocide against Israel so that it can better[…]

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Surviving on Trump’s Dangerous Planet

by Bill McKibben, published on Substack, February 28, 2026 Editor’s Note: I don’t entirely agree with Mr. McKibben’s politics but he has a lot to say of interest in the newsletter below, starting with China’s provision of solar panels to Cuba in their moment of need. For what seems like the fiftieth time in my long life, the U.S., with[…]

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Trump Continues Disinformation Campaign Against South Africa

by Abiyome Azikiwe, published on Global Research, December 2, 2025 Donald Trump continues to punish South Africa for bringing the case against the Israeli genocide to the International Court of Justice. [JB] After boycotting the G20 Summit in Johannesburg, the United States administration is saying that President Cyril Ramaphosa is not welcome in Miami for next gathering of the economic[…]

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United States Secures Its National Security Interests in the Congo “Peace Deal”

by Maurice Carney, published on Socialist Action, December 10, 2025 SA Editors note: We reprint here Maurice Carney’s recent insightful article from Black Agenda Report describing President Trump’s December 4 meeting with the warring presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda. To date 700,000 Congolese people have been displaced and thousands more murdered by the ongoing[…]

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Lifting the Veil of International Human Rights Day

Lifting the Veil of International Human Rights Day: How Gaza Exposed the Oxymoron of Western Values and Human Rights by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, December 11, 2025 The genocide in Gaza has torn off the West’s human rights mask. This naked colonial violence demands a new path where rights are won through people’s struggle, not granted by[…]

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We Are All Somalia

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, December 11, 2025 Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African people are seen as suspects, as ungrateful criminals who are deserving of punishment and scorn. Trump is not alone in this thinking.  On two recent occasions, Donald Trump, president of the United States, engaged[…]

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A Tale of Two Ceasefires: Gaza and DRC

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, October 22, 2025 The US has negotiated ceasefires in Gaza and the DRC’s eastern Kivu Provinces, but the killing, displacement, and devastation in both continue.  Vice President JD Vance is in Israel, reportedly to see if he can salvage the ceasefire that began on October 10. Hamas has given Israel all 20[…]

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Following People Heading to Gaza with Adalah

Adalah is an Israeli non-sectarian legal center run by Palestinians, June 14, 15 2025 Israel’s “voluntary emigration” policy from the Gaza Strip constitutes the forced transfer of the civilian population – a war crime and crime against humanity Four Israel-based human rights organizations warn Israel’s Defense Minister, Attorney General, and Military Advocate General that Israel’s “voluntary emigration” policy from the[…]

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The Struggle for a Somali Nation

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, June 4, 2025 Despite shared language, culture, and religion, Somalis still struggle to become a cohesive nation. Somalia is a nation of roughly nineteen million people with territory roughly the size of Texas. Its highly geostrategic coastline is the longest in Africa, sitting at the intersection of the European, African, and Asian worlds. For centuries,[…]

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