Tag Archives: Human Rights
The UK’s hidden hand in Julian Assange’s detention
Nazareth-based Jonathan Cook writes:
It Read more [...]
Israel dumps young Palestinian girl in Gaza where she knows no one
Jonathan Cook describes how Israelis have sunk into the “darkness of a banal evil”, dumping a 14-year-old girl in a place she does not know, and an MP saying he would kick 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi who slapped a soldier desecrating her home. Read more [...]
Ending pollution requires a change of attitudes
Graham Peebles says while governments need to take a leading role to stop the pollution that is poisoning our environment, we all need to change the way we think and how we live, if our planet is to survive. Read more [...]
Contextualising sexual harassment
Lawrence Davidson examines the psychological, biological and cultural contexts of sexual harassment and argues that it is time to take on men’s primitive instincts and thoughtfully develop better, non-doctrinaire cultural ways to manage them. Read more [...]
A moment of significance and opportunity for Ethiopia
Graham Peebles says the Ethiopian government’s “half-baked move to release a few political leaders… should embolden many” and “reveals a crack in the democratic facade presented by the regime, which must be split open under the force of sustained political activism”. Read more [...]
How Israel allows private US institutions to abuse and drug Israeli children
Marianne Azizi writes:
Private American Read more [...]
The Trump administration’s “Seven Forbidden Words”
Lawrence Davidson examines the implications of the Trump administration’s ban on seven words – “diversity”, “vulnerable”, “entitlement”, “transgender”, “evidence-based”, “science-based” and “fetus” – in official budgetary bids. Read more [...]
The need for cooperation and unity
Graham Peebles examines the destructive effects of competition – the guiding principle of our time – and argues that “cooperation needs to replace competition in all areas, tolerance substituted for prejudice and hate, sufficiency and sharing encouraged in place of excess and greed”. Read more [...]
Netanyahu ditches US Jews for alliance with Christian evangelicals and the alt-right
Jonathan Cook argues that the government of Israeli Prime Minster Binyamin Netanyahu seems to prefer as allies Christian evangelicals and white US supremacists, who love Israel as much as they appear to despise Jews, than US Jews. Read more [...]
Balfour Declaration: Britain broke its feeble promise to the Palestinians
On the centenary of the infamous Balfour Declaration, Jonathan Cook argues that while Britain fulfilled its promise to the Zionists in full, it broke even its feeble commitment to the Palestinians to protect their civil and religious rights. Read more [...]
