July, 2024

• 18 July

  Deadly strikes pound Gaza as Israel PM vows to ramp up pressure

  

  Israel kept up its air strikes on Gaza Wednesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to ramp up the pressure on Hamas as hopes faded for a US-announced ceasefire plan. Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh accused Israel of deliberately undermining negotiations for a truce and hostage release deal because it …

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• 18 July

  Are you gloating at the American political “turbulence” or ashamed?

  

  A London reporter writes in WSJ that the assassination attempt on Trump, coming after Biden’s “stumbles” during the recent presidential debate, has pushed the superpower to enter “an unusually turbulent and unpredictable period, prompting allies to question its reliability and foes to gloat.” As a foe of US imperialist foreign …

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• 18 July

  Sadistic Israeli torturing of Palestinians – Ignored by US led Europe and their Arab stooges

  

  Demonstrating its cruel and evil nature sadistic form of torturing Palestinians has been underway in Israeli prisons ever since the artificial state of Israel was established in Palestinian lands for Jewish migrants in 1948. However this cruelty intensified ever since Hamas attacked Southern Israel on 7 October 2023. Innocent Palestinians …

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• 18 July

  The European Green Deal: Consensus Or Conflict? – OpEd

  

  My previous article was about the potential impacts of the outcomes of the European Parliament elections, held in early June, on energy and climate policies on this continent. The results were seen as a new victory for the far-right, which has long been on the rise in Europe. Although centre-right …

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• 18 July

  Toll From Oman Mosque Attack Rises To Nine Including Three Gunmen

  

  The death toll from a shooting near a Shiite mosque in Oman’s capital has climbed to nine, police said Tuesday, adding that the three attackers were also killed. Earlier, Omani police issued a statement that said Monday’s shooting had resulted in the death of at least six individuals. It had …

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• 18 July

  Germany’s Closest Partner Slips Further Away – Analysis

  

  About a year ago, Germany’s first-ever National Security Strategy (NSS) was published after 18 months in the making. The lengthy paper is not really a strategy. Rather, it is a collection of all the things Berlin would like to do in an ideal world, describing Germany’s self-image as well as …

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• 18 July

  Biden says he is a Zionist who has done ‘more for the Palestinian community than anybody’

  In a new interview, US President Biden proclaimed that he is a ‘Zionist’ but claimed to have ‘done more for the Palestinian community than anybody’ United States President Joe Biden has asserted that he is a Zionist and has done “more for the Palestinian community than anybody” in a recent …

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• 18 July

  Iran Update, July 16, 2024

  

  Iranian President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian is articulating a foreign policy that is a continuation of the policies of his hardline predecessor even as Pezeshkian attempts to present himself to the West as a “reformist.” Pezeshkian penned an op-ed entitled “My Message to the World” in English-language, Foreign Ministry-affiliated outlet the Tehran …

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• 18 July

  Parliament’s Patriots slam MEPs prevention of far-right vice presidencies

  

  On Tuesday (16 July), the members of the European Parliament elected the institution’s vice-presidents, isolating the far-right political families from vice-president positions to secure the current state of the cordon sanitaire. Tuesday evening, newly elected members of the European Parliament (MEPs) voted for the 14 vice presidents of President Roberta …

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• 18 July

  ZELENSKY’S DISAPPOINTMENT AND THE WEST’S DISCONTENT. WHAT MODI BROUGHT TO RUSSIA

  

  Arriving in Moscow on July 8, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Russia India’s “all-weather friend” and praised Vladimir Putin’s leadership in strengthening bilateral ties over the past two decades. The prime minister also said that for a long time, the world had witnessed a “power-driven global order.” “But what …

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