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The Year After Al Aqsa Flood

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, October 2, 2024 The maniacal alliance between the U.S. and Israel has exposed the sham of western democracy and the illusion of international law. Iran’s missile attacks on Israeli military targets were the result of a year of provocation. Months of restraint ended when Israel escalated its war on the rest of[…]

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Iran’s Retaliatory Strikes on Israel were Legal and in Self-Defense

UNAC Statement, October 3, 2024 Iran executed a legal and legitimate response to provocations by Israel following illegal terrorist attacks by the Zionist regime that targeted Iranian nationals and interests, infringing upon Iran’s sovereignty. In accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, Iran launched over 200 ballistic missiles at military targets in Israel on Tuesday. These strikes directly[…]

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From the Phony Debate on Gaza to the Uhuru 3: The US/EU Commitment to Human Rights Has Always Been Lie

Margaret Kimberley and Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, September 18, 2024 State repression increases as the so-called democracies continue in a state of crisis. Only a people-centered human rights struggle can bring true justice and peace. “Instead of prosecuting the Ku Klux Klan, the anti-Semites, and reactionaries, the government is arresting anti-fascists.”  (Claudia Jones) Margaret Kimberley: I’m joined[…]

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The Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance Met in Tehran to Honor the Achievements of the Martyr Qasem Soleimani

by Judith Bello, published on Syria Support Movement, January 22, 2024 I traveled to Tehran to meet with the Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance the first week in January this year.   The Gathering is an international organization based in Lebanon, but our meeting in Tehran at this time was an opportunity to attend memorial events for Qasem[…]

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Reviving ISIS: A US weapon against the Resistance Axis

by The Cradle’s Iraq Correspondent, published on The Cradle, January 17, 2024 Iraqi security sources are warning of an ISIS revival in the country, which coincides all too neatly with the spike in Iraqi resistance operations against US bases in Iraq and Syria, and with widening regional instability caused by Israel’s military assault on Gaza. More than six years after[…]

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Iran Accuses Israel Of Using ‘Blind Terrorism’ To Cover Up Its Failures

by  People’s Dispatch, published on Popular Resistance, January 22, 2024 Israel Has Been Carrying Out Air Strikes in Lebanon and Syria. Allegedly targeting Hezbollah and Iranian targets in clear attempts to provoke a regional war. Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian accused Israel of using “mindless terrorism” to cover up its losses in its war on Gaza. Abdollahian’s statement on[…]

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Did Israel Kill Iranian Commander to Provoke a Wider War?

by Trita Parsi, published on Responsible Statecraft, December 26, 2023 Iran’s top commander in Syria, Seyed Razi Mousavi, was assassinated Sunday by an Israeli airstrike in a Damascus neighborhood, according to Iran’s official news agency IRNA and Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. This has led Tehran to call for reprisals, ratcheting up fears that this[…]

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US And Israel Poised To Open Lebanon Front

by M.K. Bhadrakumar, published on Popular Resistance, November 10, 2023 An analysis of developments in the past few days. Including the U.S. announcement that it is deploying a huge nuclear submarine near the war zone. The announcement late Sunday night by the U.S. Central Command headquartered in Doha about the arrival of an Ohio-class U.S. nuclear submarine in its “area[…]

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Netanyahu is an Albatross Around India’s Neck

. . . .  and maybe some other countries neck’s as well!   Operation Al Aqsa Flood in an international context. by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, October 14, 2023 One week has passed since an explosive situation erupted in West Asia around Israel. India’s famously loquacious External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is maintaining deafening silence. That is not[…]

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The Geopolitics of Al-Aqsa Flood

by Pepe Escobar, published on The Cradle, October 12, 2023 Global focus just shifted from Ukraine to Palestine. This new arena of confrontation will ignite further competition between the Atlanticist and Eurasian blocs. These fights are increasingly zero-sum ones; as in Ukraine, only one pole can emerge strengthened and victorious. Hamas’ Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was meticulously planned. The launch date[…]

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