After months in a kind of stand-off, the Catalan independence movement will return to the streets this Friday. The holding of a Spanish cabinet meeting in Barcelona – planned weeks ago – comes at a new moment of tension between the independence movement and the Spanish government.
Geopolitics
The Electronic Intifada: Israeli Army was ordered to kill Israelis on 7 October, defense minister confirms
Israeli troops were ordered to shoot and kill captive Israeli civilians on 7 October 2023, Israel’s then defence minister admitted this week. The order to carry out Israel’s so-called Hannibal Directive was issued “tactically” and […]
EU politics
Amnesty International – Libya: European governments complicit in horrific abuse of refugees and migrants
European governments are knowingly complicit in the torture and abuse of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants detained by Libyan immigration authorities in appalling conditions in Libya, said Amnesty International in a report published […]
Geopolitics
Vladimir Bortun – How Academia Failed the Test of the War in Gaza
‘Faced with the genocide in Gaza, most Western universities have responded with cowardly silence. Academia’s dependence on political sponsorship and weapons firms has muzzled its critical spirit and created a dismal culture of self-censorship.’ In […]
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