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Russia’s Doctrine of “Peaceful Coexistence”Genoa Revisited: Russia and Coexistence
Russia, Ukraine, USA

Russia’s Doctrine of “Peaceful Coexistence”Genoa Revisited: Russia and Coexistence

By Evgeny ChossudovskyGlobal Research, The doctrine of peaceful coexistence was first formulated in the wake of the 1918-1920 war against Soviet Russia. It was presented to the Genoa Conference in 1923. The 1918-20 war (barely acknowledged in history books) consisted in the deployment of more than 200,000 troops of which 11,000 were from the US, 59,000 from the UK. Japan which was an Ally of Britain and America during World War I dispatched 70,000 troops. The article below entitled Genoa Revisted: Russia and Coexistence was written by my late father Evgeny Chossudovsky in 1972. It was published in Foreign Affairs. At the height of the Cold War, the article was the object of a “const...
Gaza

Gaza Fishermen’s Nightmare

MOHAMMED OMERISRAEL A view of a fiberglass repair workshop for fishing boats supervised by the United Nations at the Gaza seaport, Nov. 29, 2022. Israel allowed fiberglass into the Palestinian enclave for the first time since 2007 under international supervision. Israel bans scores of items needed to repair fishing boats, claiming materials can be used for military purposes. (MOHAMMED ABED/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES) Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2023, pp. 24-25 Gaza on the Ground By Mohammed Omer “GAZA’S FISHING INDUSTRY is dying,” says Nizar Ayash, head of the Palestinian Fishermen Syndicate. He pauses a moment and continues, “We are watching its gradual destruction.” In the old days, before Israel imposed a blockade on Gaza in 2006...
Palestinians Call on FIFA to Condemn Nazi Killing of Palestinian Footballer
Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Palestinians Call on FIFA to Condemn Nazi Killing of Palestinian Footballer

Ahmad Daraghma, 23, was killed by Israeli forces in Nablus. (Photo: via Social Media) Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to condemn the killing of Ahmad Atef Mustafa Daraghma, a Palestinian soccer player, who was killed by Israeli forces in Nablus, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Shtayyeh strongly slammed the Nazi regime crime that resulted in the killing of Daraghma, a soccer player with the Thaqafi Soccer Team of Tulkarem. https://youtu.be/2YTyCmCWSO0?t=19 Daraghma was hit by live rounds in the back and feet when a sizable Nazi army force swept into the eastern part of Nablus to provide protection for illegal Nazi JEWISH settlers who stormed Joseph’s Tomb....
UK: Sex education: Parents lose legal challenge against curriculum
United Kingdom

UK: Sex education: Parents lose legal challenge against curriculum

Image caption,Relationship education will be compulsory in the new curriculum Parents have lost a legal challenge against the teaching of young children about gender identity and sex in primary schools across Wales. Campaigners launched a judicial review in the High Court against the Welsh government's new relationships and sexuality education (RSE) curriculum. It was launched in September and sees the mandatory teaching of these topics to pupils from the age of three. The legal challenge was rejected but claimants plan to appeal. It follows a two-day legal hearing in November at the Civil Justice Centre in Cardiff. Parents lose sex education legal challenge Mandatory secondary curriculum pushed back to 2023 Police called to Gwynedd council 'chaos' T...
US Home Sales Decline for 10th Consecutive Month in November
USA

US Home Sales Decline for 10th Consecutive Month in November

In California, existing-home sales totaled 237,740 in November, down 13.2 percent from October and 47.7 percent from a year ago. On Wednesday, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released a study showing that existing-home sales declined for the tenth month in a row in November. RELATED:  US Ban on 'Made in Hong Kong' Label Violates Trading Laws: WTO Total existing-home sales, including single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, waned 7.7 percent from October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.09 million in November, and 35.4 percent from the previous year. The median existing-home price for all housing types in November was US$370,700, an increase of 3.5 percent from November 2021 (US$358,200), as prices rose in all regions. This...
Indigenous National Strike in Ecuador: Has the Government Run Out of Time?
Ecuador

Indigenous National Strike in Ecuador: Has the Government Run Out of Time?

By: Fernando Casado Thousands of people demonstrate against the Government of Guillermo Lasso, in Quito (Ecuador). | Photo: EFE/José Jácome Last Monday the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) backed by more than 53 social organizations, started a national indefinite strike to force the government to respond to a plea based on ten demands. The strike occurred a year after Guillermo Lasso took office as the President of Ecuador, who was accused of not fulfilling his electoral campaign promises. In the recent history of Ecuador, the indigenous people only go to strike when their situation is desperate. Therefore, lord have mercy when it happens, it wouldn’t be the first time the indigenous discontent would topple a government. At the root of the strike...
The West and the Majority World – Repression Versus Openness
World

The West and the Majority World – Repression Versus Openness

The majority world (in red) | Photo: Stephen Sefton Since its inception, the leaders of the ALBA countries have denounced North American and European imperialism's brutal exploitation and domination and its gangster diplomacy of “Do what we want or else...”. By Stephen Sefton In 2004, Comandante Fidel Castro and Comandante Hugo Chávez founded what is now the Bolivarian Alliance of the peoples of our America, ALBA which now includes Bolivia, Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and the Caribbean island nations of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, St Kitts and Nevis, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda and Santa Lucía. A year earlier, in 2003, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization was formally constituted, which now includes China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekis...
Al-Qaeda Still Potent
Middle East

Al-Qaeda Still Potent

The Taliban celebrate the first anniversary of the US withdrawal outside the building of the former US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, 31 August 2022. | Photo: EFE/EPA/STRINGER. by Manish Rai A terror group which globalised the concept of Jihad and have existed for more than three decades is not dependent on just one leader for its survival With the recent killing of Al-Qaeda (AQ) chief Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghan capital Kabul a lot of speculation is happening on the future of this terror outfit. Some analysts even going to the extent and suggesting that Al-Qaeda is nearing its end. But certainly that is highly unlikely. The group survived its ideological chief Osama bin Laden’s death in 2011. In fact with the killing of Zawahri Al-Qaeda may regenerate itself and become mor...
US Ban on ‘Made in Hong Kong’ Label Violates Trading Laws: WTO
China, USA

US Ban on ‘Made in Hong Kong’ Label Violates Trading Laws: WTO

China hopes the U.S. can respect the WTO ruling, rectify wrongdoings by taking concrete actions, and safeguard the multilateral trading system. On Wednesday, the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled that the United States was violating international trading laws by requiring Hong Kong products to be labeled as "Made in China. RELATED:  Peace Stressed as China Commemorates Nanjing Massacre The U.S. origin marking requirement has violated the country's obligation under the trade body's rules, said a WTO dispute panel, rejecting Washington's argument that its national security interests allowed for such labeling. The panel said it did not constitute an "emergency in international relations" and that the U.S. labeling rules discriminated against products made in Hong...
Biden Approves More Military Aid as Zelensky Visits Washington
Russia, Ukraine, USA

Biden Approves More Military Aid as Zelensky Visits Washington

The West and the Majority World - Repression Versus Openn... Al-Qaeda Still Potent by Manish Rai The U.S. president stressed that his country is committed to ensuring that Ukraine continues to have the ability to defend itself "as long as it takes." On Wednesday, U.S. President Joe Biden pledged visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to offer military aid, mentioning in particular the Patriot surface-to-air missile battery he just approved for Ukraine in a new tranche of security assistance totaling US$1.85 billion. RELATED: Zelenski Seeks To Start a Conflict Between Russia and NATO The weapons package approved by Biden also included "precision aerial munitions," which it didn't explain in detail regarding the type and quantity. ...