Geopolitics

We said on 18 January in our article “The Arab Spring of Democracy” that all Arab states share the same characteristics, and from this deduction that the same conditions will produce the same results. On 25 January, following the Tunisian revolution, the Egyptian uprising began. Since then, popular uprisings are spreading like wildfire in the […]

The Tunisian uprising is nothing but the natural result of the failure of the globalisation model and the impasse affecting the entire world. Indeed, as soon as an economy opens up to foreign capital and one gives the local economy and services over to market forces, the state’s role is automatically undermined and remains only […]

PRESS RELEASE For immediate distribution Date: 12 October 2010 PARTITION BY CENSUS We, the undersigned, defending the right of Iraq to independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, rejecting the attempts of Iraqi puppets promoted by the US occupation to trade the national rights of Iraqis and to institutionalise via census the criminal demographic engineering they […]

PRESS RELEASE For immediate distribution Date: 14 February 2010 WHY JUDICIAL ACTION? IRAQ: 19 YEARS OF INTENDED DESTRUCTION Having supported and participated with others in reviving the efficacy of people’s tribunals as a moral response to imperial war, we turned to — and encourage others to move towards — legal and judicial action. Why? 1. […]

The UN Security Council has failed to stop massive Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Urgent action by the UN General Assembly is warranted and possible. Israeli impunity must be ended by the collective action of the world community After almost two weeks of impotence, during which an estimated 790 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, […]

Demand for the immediate release of Muntadhar Al-Zaidi In one magnificent act, Muntadhar Al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist with Al-Baghdadiya television, epitomized the truth of the defeat of the United States in Iraq and lifted the spirit of resistance within the hearts of all Arabs, matching that of the Iraqi people who continue to resist imperialism […]