Middle East

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa team up to resist Western financial domination, reports Lasanda Kurukulasuriya.

Filed in: Brazil China Finance India Iran Russia South Africa United States World Bank

So why do foreign governments continue to turn a blind eye? wonders Noreen Sadik.

Filed in: Housing Israel Palestine

Khader Adnan has ended his 66-day hunger strike and will be released on April 17. But hundreds more Palestinians are still being held.

Filed in: Human Rights Israel Palestine Prisons

Rupert Read argues that some ‘internationalists’ are failing to see the real revolution.

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How has the corporate press reacted to the fighting in Syria?

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Why haven’t our leaders, itching to get the UN security council to act on Syria, learnt the lessons of UN intervention in Libya?

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Dependent on oil from Iran, but with the US its largest trading partner, Sri Lanka is stuck between a rock and a hard place, reports Lasanda Kurukulasuriya.

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When is a US troop pullout not a pullout? asks Felicity Arbuthnot.

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More than 30,000 Bedouin, which the Israeli government call ‘squatters’, face eviction to make way for settlements, reports Libby Powell.

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Iraq is planning to close the camp at the end of 2011 – but the fate of its inhabitants is far from secure.

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It’s not a court; it has no legal status. Yet, argues Frank Barat, the Russell Tribunal is a powerful tool for recognition and to internationalize the Palestinian struggle.

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