How Israelis Live So Easily With Occupation – Gideon Levy

How Israelis Live So Easily With Occupation – Gideon Levy

December 3, 2023 Here is a very eloquent explanation of three underlying, non-material factors that explain how the occupier has built a mental self-defence that makes everything look normal and fine. Note Levy’s three very substantial points. More about Gideon Levy “Is Gideon Levy the most hated man in Israel or just the most heroic?” […]

Slaughter in Gaza: The Failures of International law and Responsible Statecraft

Slaughter in Gaza: The Failures of International law and Responsible Statecraft

Richard Falk TFF Associate November 10, 2023 [Prefatory Note: A slightly updated and modified interview on Gaza with Zeynep Busra Conkar, an Associate Producer of TRT World, published October 30, 2023, an important Turkish media platform. A link to a short audio excerpt: https://twitter.com/trtworld/status/1719078356577075573%5D TRT: Israel’s bloodlust shows international law is ‘a manipulated series of […]

Israel’s Chance to Turn Carnage into Peace

Israel’s Chance to Turn Carnage into Peace

Friends do not let friends commit crimes against humanity. Jeffrey Sachs November 10, 2023 Israel is running out of time to save itself—not from Hamas, which lacks the means to defeat Israel militarily, but from itself. Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, verging on the crime of genocide according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, threaten […]

NATO/EU heading for another kakistocratic politico-moral disaster

NATO/EU heading for another kakistocratic politico-moral disaster

Palestinians search the rubble of destroyed buildings following an Israeli strike, as battles between Israel and the Hamas movement continue for the sixth consecutive day in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on October 12, 2023.© Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images Jan Oberg October 12, 2023 This is the text of TFF […]

Support Julian Assange before it’s too late

Support Julian Assange before it’s too late

Deeply moving and concise statement by Yanis Varoufakis October 8, 2023 The Nobel “Peace” Committee should have rewarded Julian Assange for his long service in fighting wars – by revealing how they are master-minded and fought with no connection to official explanations and narratives. It would then also have done something for the freedom of […]

Retrogression in Human Rights

Retrogression in Human Rights

Alfred de Zayas, world reknown huma rights expert in Geneva, summarises it all.

War crimes tribunal going after Putin, but ignoring bigger war criminals

War crimes tribunal going after Putin, but ignoring bigger war criminals

This whole affair – this sad weaponisation of law in favour of the exceptionalist Western exceptional war criminals – can be debunked in about 4 minutes. See how below! That did not influence thousands of Western mainstream journalists, editors and what they call experts from talking at length about how important it would be to […]

The State of Ukrainian Democracy Is Not Strong

The State of Ukrainian Democracy Is Not Strong

Well over a year after Russia’s invasion, Ukraine is backsliding away from democratic freedoms and liberal pluralism. And US and European taxpayers are unwittingly being made complicit in Ukraine’s backsliding away from democratic freedoms and liberal pluralism. Below, see also the US State Department’s quite critical report on human rights in Ukraine. Branko Marcetic March […]

It’s your human right: Access Russian news and analyses sites in English if you want

It’s your human right: Access Russian news and analyses sites in English if you want

Collage © Jan Oberg 2023 A list to be updated if and when Jan Oberg March 16, 2023 The human right to freely seek information is laid down in the American Convention on Human Rights from 1968. Article 13 states that “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought and expression. This right includes freedom […]

Baher Kamal: Forget About All This Humanitarian Blah Blah (And Buy More Weapons)

Baher Kamal: Forget About All This Humanitarian Blah Blah (And Buy More Weapons)

The estimated cost of the humanitarian response going into 2023 is US$ 51.5 billion, a 25% increase compared to the beginning of 2022. That is less than one-tenth of the total sales of weapons which reached 592 billion US dollars just in one year: 2021. Baher Kamal January 30, 2023 MADRID, Dec 22, 2022 (IPS) […]