South Africa

Rejecting the Bantustan ‘Two-state Solution’, Mandla Mandela Calls for a Single Democratic State in Palestine

January 29, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Rights of Opressed Peoples, South Africa, South Africa, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy

by Tim Anderson, published on One Democratic State of Palestine , January 29, 2024 Washington and the Israelis understand that the fig leaf of ‘two states’ hides apartheid and prevents the construction of a broad anti-apartheid movement. The popular but fallacious touchstone of a political resolution in Palestine has been a ‘two-state solution’. Washington constantly reverts to this and, more[…]

Murder Is Justice and Danger Is Safety

January 19, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, American Exceptionalism, Anti-War, Genocide, Imperial Wars, Israel, Palestine, Racism, Russia, Ukraine, US Government Action

by David Swanson, published on World Beyond War, January 14, 2024 What are we to say about a U.S. culture in which people can openly admire Germany for backing yet another genocide, and condemn warning of World War III as reckless endangerment? Germany has formally endorsed Israel’s defense of its genocide in Gaza, while Namibia has publicly denounced Germany’s longstanding[…]

Israel on Trial: Historic days in The Hague

January 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Middle East Wars, Occupation, Political Analysis, South Africa, US Foreign Policy, US Hypocrisy, Zionism

by Mahmoud Elenani, published on Peoples Dispatch, January 17, 2024 Egyptian journalist Mahmoud Elenani was in The Hague when South Africa presented its case against Israel to the ICJ, this is his account of those days when history was made With legal precision, South African legal team presented the grounds and evidence for their accusation that Israel is committing genocide[…]

Israel Is Terrified the World Court Will Decide It’s Committing Genocide

January 9, 2024 UNAC Editor Genocide, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Occupation, Palestine, South Africa

by Marjorie Cohn, published on Truthout.org, January 6, 2023 For nearly three months, Israel has enjoyed virtual impunity for its atrocious crimes against the Palestinian people. That changed on December 29 when South Africa, a state party to the Genocide Convention, filed an 84-page application in the International Court of Justice (ICJ, or World Court) alleging that Israel is committing[…]

Coalition of “Grassroots Diplomats” Take the Lead on International Solidarity with South Africa in the Absence of Diplomacy and Accountability from U.S. Officials

January 9, 2024 UNAC Editor Citizen Diplomacy, Diplomacy, Genocide, International Law, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Legal Struggles, Middle East Wars, Palestine

by Melissa Garriga, January 8, 2023 Peace activists across the country have embarked on a campaign to mobilize global support for South Africa’s charge of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The campaign, spearheaded by CODEPINK, World Beyond War, and RootsAction, aims to rally nations to submit a “Declaration of Intervention” supporting South Africa’s case at[…]

Top Ten Reasons to Dismiss the COP28 Conference of Polluters 28

December 20, 2023 UNAC Editor BRICS, Capitalism, Climate Change, Environment, petroleum

by Patrick Bond and Desmond D’Sa, published on Socialist Action, December 18, 2023 The most publicized sentence from the final COP28 [Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change] document – the first ‘Global Stocktake’ (GST), presided over by United Arab Emirates oil man Sultan Al-Jaber and co-managed by South Africa’s environment minister Barbara Creecy – is this[…]

Shame on the US Ambassador to the UN: She Has Forgotten Her Roots

November 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Diplomacy, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, United Nations, US Hypocrisy

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, November 21, 2023 Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, has refused to ask for a ceasefire in Gaza to save lives, after more than 12,000 civilians have died, and half are children. Thomas-Greenfield’s policy statements suggest Israelis are deserving of human rights, while Palestinians are not. In 2015, Thomas-Greenfield received[…]

Putin, South Africa and the International Criminal Court

June 8, 2023 UNAC Editor International Law, Lawfare, Russia

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, May 31, 2023 The West has deployed the International Criminal Court in the US/NATO proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. On March 17, the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted and issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova. They are the first and[…]

The War in Ukraine and How Africa Surprised the West

April 4, 2023 UNAC Editor Africa, Colonialism, Political Analysis, South Africa

by Ted Snyder, published on Antiwar.com, April 3, 2023 On March 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Moscow. The meeting, at which the two leaders “reaffirm[ed] the special nature of the Russia-China partnership” may be a crucial moment in the emergence of the new multipolar world that is challenging US hegemony. But while the[…]

U.S. Shoots Itself in the Foot in Africa

March 9, 2023 UNAC Editor Africa, China, Ethiopia, Global Trade, International Aid and Debt, South Africa, United Nations

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, March 8, 2023 In Africa as in the rest of the world, US machinations undermine its goals and bring other nations together as they seek to protect themselves from a desperate empire. The US can’t seem to understand that the rest of the world, including Africa, doesn’t like to be pushed around. African nations’ refusal[…]