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Palestinians are the only people deprived of Security Council protection

23 January 2020

In the course of the past 19 years - from 29 September 2000 (A / 55/432-S / 2000/921) to 11 December 2019 (A / ES-10/831-S / 2019/937) - the Palestinian Authority lodged 678 complaints with the Security Council against further illegal acts perpetrated by the State of Israel.
Despite the (...)

Who is violating Resolution 1701? Israel or Lebanon?

7 December 2018

This photo was taken on 4 December in Kfar Kila (Lebanon). To the right you’ll see several vehicles of the Blue Helmets of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFL). To the left, between the Palestine flags and the flags of Resistance, you see a placard that pays homage to a young Hezbollah (...)

Some US sanctions against Iran suspended by ICJ Pending Final Decision

3 October 2018

In a judgment delivered on 3 October 2018, the International Court of Justice (the ICJ) annulled, on an interim basis, several sanctions that the United States had unilaterally adopted against Iran.
The ICJ is the judicial arm of the UN. The Islamic Republic of Iran brought an action (...)

Journal of the change of world order #10

«Economic sanctions» or the white-collar war

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 17 October 2016

The United States and the European Union have launched an undeclared war against Syria, Iran and Russia – it is known by the alias «economic sanctions». This appalling tactic killed more than a million Iraqis during the 1990’s, without arousing any suspicion in Western public opinion. It is (...)

The Israëli-Saudi-Egyptian agreement on the islands of Tiran and Sanafir

3 May 2016

Since the 11th April 2016, date at which the islands of Tiran and Sanafir were given by Egypt to Saudi Arabia, the two governments have been multiplying their declarations affirming that they had always been Saudi, in an attempt to soothe the anger of Egyptian nationalists [2].
The two (...)

War crimes in Syria

17 January 2014

Two Turkish groups have released a report on the war crimes perpetrated against the Syrian people. According to them, the events started in Deraa on the “Day of Wrath” against the neoliberal policies of the Assad administration. However, the revolt lost its meaning after the constitutional (...)

25 truths about the Evo Morales/Edward Snowden case

by Salim Lamrani

Paris (France) | 5 July 2013

Unprecedented in the history of international relations, the governments of four European countries - France, Spain, Italy and Portugal - have closed off their airspace this week to the Bolivian president’s airplane. Is this a case of strict compliance with international laws or further proof (...)

21st century Pirates, Privateers and Filibusters

by Thierry Meyssan

Beirut (Lebanon) | 25 June 2010

Piracy off the coast of Somalia triggers a significant risk to ships sailing between the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. Officially, this phenomenon escapes all control and the Great Powers have been forced to dispatch their war navies into the zone to escort their trading ships. However, (...)

The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and International Law

by Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights

London (United Kingdom) | 6 June 2010

The Turkish Ministry of Justice has been carefully examining a memorandum from the British association "Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights", according to which the attack on the Mavi Marmara by Israeli forces violates several international treaties to which Israel is party. Moreover, Israel (...)

The U.S. army uses chemical weapons against the Iraqi population

by Arthur Lepic

22 November 2005

Last year, after the Coalition’s attack against Fallujah, independent journalist Dahr Jamail published photos of civilian bodies whose wounds were similar to the ones caused by white phosphorus (deep burns in the skin, even melted skin), a chemical weapon which falls under the category of (...)

“Was Newsweek Really Wrong?”

by Linda S. Heard

20 May 2005

The entire Muslim world rebelled after Newsweek published an article affirming that interrogators at Guantanamo, the most famous of American gulags, had flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet. There were violent demonstrations in Afghanistan in which Muslims leaders demanded the culprits be (...)