Netanyahu needs to be stopped Just in case the Biden administration somehow fails to start Word War III in Ukraine or Taiwan, Netanyahu is doing his utmost to start it in the Middle East and he might have the best chance of succeeding. Not content with bombing five countries at the same time, Netanyahu has stepped up his attacks, breaking every diplomatic norm, including destroying hospitals and blowing up aid workers to deter aid agencies from operating in Gaza, and bombing the Iranian consulate in Damascus, and committing so many other crimes against humanity, it’s impossible to count. The bombing of the Iranian…

MOSCOW, March 28 (Reuters) - Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies F-16 fighters to Ukraine then they will be shot down by Russian forces, President Vladimir Putin said late on Wednesday. Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has triggered the deepest crisis in Russia's relations with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Speaking to Russian air force pilots, Putin said the U.S.-led military alliance had expanded eastwards towards Russia since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union but…

There was a furore on the internet yesterday as all the people who love to tell us how irrelevant Owen Jones is, wouldn’t stop talking about Owen Jones. This was because he dared walk away from the monstrosity that calls itself the Labour Party to support alternatives. Jones might have made this decision a few years after the rest of us, but he got there in the end. He posted on Twitter: “I just quit Labour after 24 years. We deserve better than the race to the bottom between Labour and the Tories. Labour want you to think there's no…

The end of Sweden’s drawn-out accession to NATO signifies the completion of the Baltic region’s political transformation and strategic reconfiguration. Both processes were accelerated by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, which has recently crossed the two-year mark, and in both transitions, Russia loses. The value of Russia’s longstanding economic ties and political influence in the region is lost entirely, and its capacity to project military poion is in the making, and the Russian army’s offensive capabilities continue to be diminished on the Ukrainian battlefields. These shifts in European security may appear to make the Northern European political and military leaders’ persistent…

Israel, like all settler colonial projects, is built on lies – the lie that the land historically belongs to the colonizers, the lie that Palestinians have no national identity, the lie that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, the lie that a peaceful settlement is thwarted by the Palestinians rather than the Israelis. This mendacity is especially prevalent when Israel carries out its murderous assaults against the Palestinians, including the current genocide in Gaza. The Hebrew word for this propaganda is “hasbara” or “explanation.” Hasbara is a combination of agitprop, propaganda and censorship. It is designed to…