Death duties – Withhold your tax ethically!

Death duties – Withhold your tax ethically!

Suzie Halewood April 15, 2024 “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime”Ernest Hemingway, 1946 This tax year, the so-called Ministry of Defence will be given £69BN of taxpayers’ money, to effectively subsidise the arms industry and fund more wars of aggression while offering little or nothing in […]

The banality of evil redux

The banality of evil redux

Daryl Guppy April 11, 2024 This article, first published by Pearls & Irritations on April 4, 2024, focuses on Australia but there is no reason that you could not insert any Western country in its place. Hannah Arendt’s BANALITY OF EVIL report on the Eichmann trial failed to adequately address a key question. How could […]

Three Avoidable Catastrophes

Three Avoidable Catastrophes

Farhang Jahanpour Professor emeritus & TFF Associate* April 10, 2024 The world is in turmoil and perhaps closer to the possibility of a devastating nuclear war than at any time since the Second World War. There are at least three ongoing conflicts that have the potential of expanding into something much more serious that will […]

A regional strategy for sustainable peace for Israel & Palestine: [1]-[2]-[6]-[20]

A regional strategy for sustainable peace for Israel & Palestine: [1]-[2]-[6]-[20]

Cole Keister on Unsplash Johan Galtung (1930-2024) February 20, 2024 IntroJohan Galtung published a comprehensive peace plan for the Middle East as early as 1971 – in the Journal of Peace Research (JPR). However, today SAGE Publications seems not ashamed to charge you £ 29 to download single articles. So here is a 2015 short […]

The consequences of apartheid in Israel and of US government support for such apartheid – Part 1.

The consequences of apartheid in Israel and of US government support for such apartheid – Part 1.

Photo: Ash Hayes on Unsplash Tending the fronts of conflict Kristin ChristmanTFF Associate February 15, 2024 On Wednesday, October 25, 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated, “Our war against Hamas is a test for all of humanity. It is a fight between the Iran-Hezbollah-Hamas axis of evil and the forces of freedom and progress. . . […]

Saudi Arabia fumes at the United States.

Saudi Arabia fumes at the United States.

Saudis Contradict Blinken: Want Actual Palestinian State now, not a Vague ‘Peace Process’ Farhang Jahanpour TFF Associate February 10, 2024 On Tuesday afternoon (6 February 2024), U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took part in a joint press conference with Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Doha. […]

Progress Report: Global Conscience Concerning the Gaza Genocide

Progress Report: Global Conscience Concerning the Gaza Genocide

Action Committee For Call to Conscience About Gaza February 5, 2024 To be updated As mentioned earlier here on The Transnational, the “Emergency London Conference of Global Intellectuals of Conscience Concerning the Genocide in Gaza”, arranged by Turkey’s former PM and former foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu and Richard Falk, professor emeritus at Princeton University and […]

The most controversial criticism of the Israel lobby influence in the United States

The most controversial criticism of the Israel lobby influence in the United States

John Mearsheimer and Lex Friedman January 31, 2024 This goes a long way to explain just how close Israel and the US are to each other – and, in the Gaza genocide context, why the US supports Israel no matter what it does.

Biden’s illegal bombing of Yemen intensifies the risk of regional war

Biden’s illegal bombing of Yemen intensifies the risk of regional war

Marjorie Cohn* January 24, 2023 The Houthis say their attacks in the Red Sea will continue until there is a ceasefire in Gaza In response to Israel’s assault on the people of Gaza in early October, Yemen’s Houthi movement, Ansar Allah, began mounting attacks on commercial ships in and around the Red Sea. The Houthis […]

Genocide in Gaza

Genocide in Gaza

Photo The New York Times John Mearsheimer analyses the South African “application” to the International Court of Justice, ICJ, and explains why he now thinks it is genocide. John Mearsheimer January 5, 2024 Professor John Mearsheimer is one of the world’s leading analytical minds, lately and particularly on both the NATO-Russia conflict in Ukraine and […]