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Director of the Sydney-based Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies.
While many in Washington welcomed a foreign state (Ukraine) fighting and dying in attempts to weaken Russia, seen as a global rival, in the Global South, disillusion with Western global governance drew attention to the counter-weight role of Russia and China and to the tyranny of the US dollar.
In this article, Tim Anderson completely scrutinizes Russia's Special Military Operation and analyzes it: what led to the Russian SMO? was it justified as a measure of self-defence? and, most importantly, was Russia’s SMO an imperial intervention?
We should beware the many fake claims of racism by colonists who have always been the worst purveyors of racism and its deadly consequences.
Given the inability of the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) to even slow down the pace of land theft and ethnic cleansing on the West Bank, or break the siege on Gaza, Palestinian public opinion has turned against the PA and has become more favourable to the Resistance.
Rather than get distracted by Lenin's railing against European bourgeois nationalism (which was often parochial, chauvinistic, and at times imperial) we should look at his support for the 1916 Easter uprising in Ireland.
Washington and the Israelis understand that the fig leaf of ‘two states’ hides apartheid and prevents the construction of a broad anti-apartheid movement.
There is no 'moral high ground' in trying to blame Palestinian Resistance groups while sheltering the apartheid regime, the root of the problem.
The ‘two states’ idea remains as a barrier to building an anti-apartheid movement, as is our duty under international law to dismantle a racist regime, just as was done in South Africa.
It is a defining feature of the contemporary era that the great power which has slaughtered millions in its invasions, proxy wars and sieges uses ‘human rights’ arguments as a weapon to advance or cover up its great crimes.
The UN rapporteur on the impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures, Ms Alena Douhan, has called for an end to US and EU UCMs which inhibit the rebuilding of Syria's civilian infrastructure, destroyed by the conflict.