Only three percent of UN emergency food aid getting to desperate Gazans
Since October, when Israeli forces launched a ground offensive in northern Gaza, only three percent of food and water deliveries organized by the UN World Food Program (WFP) have been permitted to enter areas in northern Gaza. At the end of December, a joint UN convoy of nine trucks successfully reached people in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza, who had been cut...
China slams Pentagon report, slams U.S. as ‘war-addicted’ threat to global security
The Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson has censured the Pentagon’s recent report on Beijing’s military and security developments, emphasizing that the United States’ addiction to war makes it the biggest threat to global security. According to Zhang Xiaogang, the 182-page report by the U.S. Department of Defense misrepresented China’s defense policies and speculated about the country’s military capacity development. Zhang added that the report...
Amazon Indigenous community wins latest stage of court battle for lost territory
An Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon is celebrating a legal victory in the latest stage of its attempt to take back claimed ancestral rainforests. The Puerto Franco community of the Kichwa tribe say their territory was stolen to form the Cordillera Azul National Park in 2001. Companies such as Shell and TotalEnergies spent tens of millions of dollars on carbon credits...
U.S.-sanctioned state to become BRICS partner
Uganda will officially become a BRICS partner state on January 1, Yury Ushakov, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, told reporters on Dec. 23. He said the East African nation is one of nine countries that have confirmed their readiness to receive the status. In November last year, U.S. President Joe Biden expelled Uganda, along with the Central African Republic, Gabon,...
British economy flatlines in 3rd quarter in another blow to new Labor government
LONDON—The British economy flatlined in the third quarter of the year, according to downwardly revised official figures Dec. 23, in another blow to the new Labor government that has made growth its number one mission. In its latest revision of the July to September period, the Office for National Statistics said the British economy showed no growth against the previous estimate of 0.1...
Senior Iranian diplomat warns of Syria’s disintegration, spread of insecurity to Iraq
A high-ranking Iranian diplomat says destruction of Syria and rendering it weak in the face of the Israeli regime’s aggression have always formed part of the United States and the regime’s agenda, warning that the Arab country could fall apart amid the conflicting foreign interests that have come to affect it. Kamal Kharrazi, head of the Islamic Republic’s Strategic Council...
DR Congo sues Apple over ‘blood minerals’
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) has filed criminal complaints in France and Belgium against subsidiaries of the American tech giant Apple for allegedly using minerals “looted” from the country’s conflict regions in its supply chain. International lawyers representing the Central African nation announced the move on Dec. 17, arguing that Apple is complicit in crimes committed by armed groups controlling...
20 years of ALBA-TCP
ALBA-TCP was founded in 2004 in an attempt to counter the U.S. proposal of creating a ‘free trade zone of the Americas’ by Pablo Meriguet - The Peoples Dispatch December 14 marked the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-People’s-Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América – Tratado de Comercio...
Western powers renew their scramble for Africa’s mineral resources
Economic, political and social developments in Africa in 2024 were extensions of previous years. “The Scramble for Africa,” was a period in which nearly all of the continent was brought under the control of European powers. Today, there has been a change in how the European powers seek to exploit the continent of Africa. Today, with the alleged decrease of Africa’s...
Lawsuit claims State Department illegally arming Israel via Leahy Law ‘Loophole’
by Brett Wilkins - CommonDreams.org Palestinians and Palestinian Americans on Dec. 17 filed a lawsuit accusing the U.S. State Department of creating a “loophole” allowing Israel to skirt federal legislation barring American military aid to foreign militaries that violate human rights law. The lawsuit, which was filed by five individuals and supported by the group Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), accuses the...