JERUSALEM and south LEBANON – Christian-Muslim tensions in Lebanon have erupted after the murder of well-known Christian politician Pascal Sleiman. Given his fierce opposition to Hezbollah, Lebanese Christians are worried for their safety as the terror group's intimidation grows. A Syrian gang is believed to have kidnapped and murdered Sleiman, a strong believer and senior member of the Christian Lebanese Forces Party. Experts here see it as a political assassination linked to Hezbollah, meant...
In a meeting organised by People Before Profit, the activist and author will deliver his talk at 7pm in St Columb’s Hall. Allen is the author of several books on US politics, foreign policy and Labour relations. These include, Vietnam the Last War the US lost, and his most recent book on the struggle for Trade Union rights within United Parcel Service. Allen has been active in radical politics for over four decades. Speaking ahead of the event on Wednesday evening in Derry, a spokesperson for...
Dozens of protesters lay on a busy CBD intersection, fake bodies were put outside offices and a factory was disabled in a nationwide protest against the war in Gaza. Pro-Palestine group A15 Action called on supporters to blockade “the arteries of capitalism” as part of Monday’s action, saying “the global economy is complicit in genocide”. […]
Washington, D.C., April 18, 2024—Canadian authorities must allow journalists to do their jobs and cover protests without fear of being detained or arrested and make public whether journalist Savanna Craig is facing charges following her arrest, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Thursday. Craig, a reporter with the Montreal news program Local 514, was
More than a dozen people have been arrested after train stations, ports and parts of Australia’s biggest cities were disrupted by protestors against the war in Gaza. Pro-Palestine group A15 Action called on supporters to blockade “the arteries of capitalism” as part of Monday’s extensive action, saying “the global economy is complicit in genocide”. An […]
Train stations, ports and parts of Australia’s biggest cities could be blockaded by widespread planned protests against the war in Gaza. Pro-Palestine group A15 Action have called on supporters to block “the arteries of capitalism” as part of Monday’s planned extensive action. “In each city, we will identify and blockade major choke points in the […]
The arrestees were booked at the Sunnyvale Police Department Tuesday night and released on a citation.
Authorities used heavy equipment to free protesters who chained themselves to 55-gallon drums filled with cement.
The leader of the left-wing alliance GroenLinks-PvdA, Frans Timmermans, has called on people not to stage protests relating to the conflict in Gaza during the national war commemorations on May 4. “On May 4 we remember the dead and we do it in silence,” Timmermans wrote in an essay for Vrij Nederland. “Save your protests for another time.” Timmermans’s concerns follow the disruption of the opening of the national Holocaust museum in Amsterdam last month, when protesters demonstrated against the
Director Alex Garland is out to prove that you can make a movie about a modern American civil war without getting political. And he wants to do it in an election year. The question is: Why? His new film “Civil War,” which opened Friday, follows an unlikely group of journalists as they make their way from New York to Washington, D.C., as the rebel "Western Forces," made up of California and Texas, close in on the capital. Two of those journalists — Lee (Kirsten Dunst), a legendary conflict...
About 50 activists calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Gaza war were
Last week, a group of Iranian military leaders in Damascus became the trend’s latest victimsIn today’s lawless world, political assassination is the new growth industry – and anyone, famous or not, is a potential victim. Government-sanctioned killings are proliferating, with Russia, Israel, Iran and India leading the pack. While lone gunmen and crazed zealots still pose random threats, state-organised, premeditated assassination plots are being normalised and popularised. Murder Inc is going...