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Who controls whom, between Israel and the United States?

In a recent article, Gilbert Doctorow asks the question about Israel and the Middle East ( “More on tails wagging dogs and vice versa”) Which of the United States or Israel uses the other for its foreign policy? Is Israel…

From Israeli-Palestinian pacifism an exciting injection of hope

They were on the road for an entire day because of flights blocked by Amman and Tel Aviv due to the war now raging in Lebanon as well as in Gaza. A very difficult journey that saw them land at…

Does Your Feminism Include Palestine?

Women’s Marches are being planned across the country ahead of Election Day to “show the strength of our feminist movement.” However, curiously missing from the talking points around the strength of the feminist movement is the women of Palestine –…

Open letter from Brian Eno and Yanis Varoufakis to the judges of the International Criminal Court

On October 7, Brian Eno and Yanis Varoufakis appealed to the International Criminal Court to do its duty. To uphold international law by prosecuting self-evident war crimes in Israel-Palestine, lest genocide becomes normalised across the world. Dear judges of the…

A Year Of Reckoning

The year since Hamas’ attack on October 7, 2023, and Israel’s retaliation have demonstrated once again that neither has learned anything from decades of horrific violence as they continue to miscalculate each other’s intentions and resolve By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir…

Undercounting Deaths in Gaza While Claiming It’s the Worst War Ever

We generally accept that if you do a census and only count the people who answer their doors you miss some people, and that you can calculate an estimate that reliably gets closer to reality than the list of people…

AUNOHR announces new partnership with Pressenza

The Academic University for Nonviolence and Human Rights – AUNOHR and Pressenza have just signed a new partnership with very distinct objectives. The university also took part in the ceremony to launch the Arabic version of Pressenza, congratulating its team…

Reporting for Pressenza, Anthony Donovan met with the newly elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in NYC

On September 25th, during President Masoud Pezeshkian’s visit to the United Nations, Anthony Donovan, along with several others, had the opportunity to sit down with him for a meaningful hour and a half. The meeting was informal and personal, and…

Provocations and Escalation

Iran now finds itself facing Israel in 2024 in exactly the same position as the one Russia found itself toward the United States in 2021. Provocations are multiplying to make Iranian intervention sooner or later inevitable, which will then justify…

Middle East: Serious possibility of an escalation of the war after the assassination of Nasrallah

The situation in the Middle East is heading towards an escalation rather than a peaceful solution, following the announcement of the assassination of Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah by Israeli air strikes. The assassination was confirmed a few hours ago…

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