Analysis

By Uri Avnery

One can look at events in Gaza through the left or through the right eye. One can condemn them as inhuman, cruel and mistaken, or justify them as necessary and unavoidable.

Read more: The March of Folly

By Sheldon Richman

The United States and Russia remained at odds, continuing military exercises along the borders of NATO, undermining the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), upgrading their nuclear arsenals, and eschewing arms control negotiations.

—“It’s Two Minutes to Midnight,” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Read more: Trump and Putin – How about Getting Rid of Your Nukes?

By MWC News

Ramzan Mengal’s candidacy highlights Pakistan’s convoluted relationship to Islamic militants at a time that the country risks being blacklisted by an international anti-money laundering and terrorism finance watchdog.

Read more: Pakistani elections spotlight the country’s contradictory policies

By Gideon Polya

Zionist-subverted America is presently obsessed with alleged interference in its elections by Russians but resolutely ignores US interference in all countries of every country on earth, variously through political subversion, backing coups or outright invasion. Similarly, US lackey Australia is indulging in extraordinary xenophobia and China-bashing over alleged Chinese subversion of Australia but utterly ignores massive US interference in Australia.

Read more: American subversion of Australia

By Uri Avnery

The State of Israel has no oil wells. It has no gold mines. What has it got? It has the ownership of the remembrance of the Holocaust.

Read more: ‘Not Enough!’