Nine hurdles to reviving the Iran nuclear deal
- Seyed Hossein Mousavian سید حسین موسویان
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on January 8 that Tehran was in no rush for the United States to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), but, he also said, sanctions on Iran ...
Why I, a Moroccan journalist, endured death threats to interview Bibi in Israel, decades before normalization
- Ali Lmrabet المرابط علي
In 1998, Ali Lmrabet endured vilification in his homeland after accepting an invitation to interview the Israeli prime minister. Now, he reflects on that historic visit, two decades and one peace agreement later.
Ali Lmrabet posing in front of ...
Still more BlackRock in the U.S. government
- Werner Rügemer
It began under Obama, and by no means stopped under Trump. And Biden has long been the unassuming lobbyist for the world’s largest financial haven. It’s “America First” by other means.
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Biosecurity and Politics
- Giorgio Agamben Τζόρτζιο Αγκάμπεν Джорджио Агамбен
What is striking about the reactions to the apparatuses of exception that have been put in place in our country (and not only in this one) is the inability to observe them beyond the immediate context in which they seem to operate. Rare are those ...
Baghdad on the Potomac: Welcome to the Blue Zone
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
The season opening of the Joe and Kammy Regime Change Show could not be a more appropriate roomful of mirrors reflecting the self-described US “political elite”.
The star of the Joe and Kammy Regime Change Show
During the 2000s, I came ...
Why did Israel’s Hebrew media ignore B’Tselem’s apartheid statement?
- Oren Persico אורן פרסיקו أورين ﭘـيرسيكو
If a human rights group declares that the state in which it operates is an apartheid regime, and no one reports on it — is that state still a democracy?
This week, B’Tselem, one of Israel’s oldest anti-occupation groups, published ...
Israel's education virus
- Amira Hass عميرة هاس עמירה הס
Four male and four female Palestinian students from Gaza pose a health risk to coronavirus-beleaguered Israel. Only thanks to the resolve of the Coordination and Liaison Office, which is preventing them from studying abroad, has Israel been saved from ...
Holocaust, militarism and Machiavelli's advice: how fear took over Israel
- Eva Illouz אווה אילוז إيفا إيلوز
Israel may be the best-defended state in the world, but its people's existence is based on an ethos of constant fear
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oldiers, near Kibbutz Be’eri, working to extinguish fires set off by incendiary balloons sent from Gaza last summer.Credit: ...
Trump’s not-so-secret art of containing China
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар پپه اِسکوبار
It was hardly a secret throughout the Trump administration. Now, dying embers within sight, and with minimum fanfare, comes the declassification – virtually the whole document, minus a few redactions – of the US Strategic Framework for the ...
Cuba leads race for Latin American coronavirus vaccine
- Sarah Marsh
HAVANA (Reuters) - As Latin American nations test experimental coronavirus vaccines from across the globe and economic heavyweights such as Brazil and Mexico jockey for supply deals with major drugmakers, Communist-run Cuba already has two of its own ...
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