Walden Bello
Photograph Source: Marcin Monko – CC BY 2.0
When the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001, it was meant as a counterpoint to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Davos was the...
Israel has outlined plans for the post-Hamas Gaza Strip Administration. It wants total security to be ensured. Israel in this plan has proposed the Palestinian Authority to take charge of the territory with a multinational force to rebuild the...
IN 1948, the Lebanese historian Constantin Zurayak used the Arabic word Nakba (catastrophe) to refer to the forced removal of Palestinians from their lands and homes by the newly formed Israeli state (in his August 1948 book, Ma’na al-Nakba...
A recent wave of violence on both sides of Israel and Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip resulted in more than 17000 deaths of Palestinians and 1200 Israelis. The world witnessed a pleasant moment when a seven-day truce released hostages and prisoners...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair
If ever there were a need for immediate cease-fires, it is the wars between Russia and Ukraine and between Israel and Hamas. The Ukrainian counter-offensive over the past six months has led to a Ukrainian...
Words matter. No more so than in legal settings.
Genocide is the word most associated with Israel's more than one-month-long assault on Gaza.
In response to the October 7 Hamas attack against Israel, in which at least 1,200, mostly civilian, Israelis...
THE eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had witnessed the emergence of two different paradigms of colonialism: the first, of which India was the classic example, involved the conquest of countries which had had a history of established central administrations that...
Hamas, the Islamist militia that controls Gaza, will likely emerge a victor regardless of how the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting ends.Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel, described by some analysts as the Jewish state’s 9/11, changes the dynamics of...
by Ramzy BaroudPhotograph Source: Marcin Monko – CC BY 2.0A friend, a young journalist in Gaza, Mohammed Rafik Mhawesh, told me that food prices in the besieged Strip have skyrocketed in recent weeks and that many already impoverished families...
By Ramzy Baroud
Image: Members of General Industrial Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA), civil associations and political parties march in Sandton, Johannesburg as they hold anti-Israel banners during a pro-Palestine demonstration, on 27 January 2022....
