Category: Opinion
The latest opinion from those committed to making our region fair, just and democratic.
The “White Settler” State Mentality Destroying the World for Everyone
The idea that the white settler can do anything with what is found on "their" land has today resulted in planetary climatic consequences. There must be a fundamental re-evaluation of core American values to dismantle the systematic grip of white settlerism in the United States.
Amid their liberation struggle, Arakan Army (AA) of Myanmar tout Israel as their role model while breaching International Court of Justice Provisional Measures Order #1
Myanmar’s future remains extremely bleak as the Arakan Army perpetrates international crimes while the rest of the anti-junta armed resistance organizations look the other way.
Under the Shadow of Violence: Are the Banyamulenge Experiencing a Slow Genocide?
Because of colonial legacies and misrepresentations, members of this community are categorized as “foreigners and invaders”. Targeted by state actors, militias, and local and foreign armed groups, violence against the Banyamulenge has led to forced displacement, destruction of their economy and livelihoods and widespread killings.
Hebron’s Palestinians Resist Israel’s “Evil” Occupation, Violent Settlers & Daily Humiliations A dialogue with Issa Amro, Winner of 2024 Right Livelihood Award
“Israel is the only apartheid in the Middle East, defending its occupation (not its existence),” said the 45-years old Issa Amro, an engineer by training but creative non-violence resister in the Old City of Hebron.
Munther Isaac: “Israel is a terrorist entity built on the Palestinian land by ethnic cleansing of the indigenous populations”
In early January, at his theology college in his native Beit Sahour (Shepherd’s Fields), adjacent to Bethlehem, the renowned Palestinian theologian and activist Dr Munther Issac met with a group of solidarity visitors, from six different countries, including FORSEA’s Dr Maung Zarni, and shared his frank thoughts on both the 76-years of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the grave dangers which Israel’s western imperialist patrons pose to humanity at...
Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America? Why History Should Count
The Trump Administration changing the Gulf’s indigenous name demonstrates the continuing control over political institutions by the descendants of European settler populations – illegal migrants, in today’s western parlance – who continue to seek to erase the actual crimes of their Euro-supremacist ancestors’ genocidal theft of that extra-European land – and sea.
Black Poet-Scholar El Jones Reads Her Poetry of Resisters’ Solidarity at the Ramallah Cultural Palace, The West Bank
For Palestinians, “history” began in November 1917, not 7 October 2023, as the White Supremacist genocidal ruling classes and cultural and intellectual elite of the West prefer.
Myanmar’s 77th Independence Anniversary Amid Political Tensions and Armed Conflicts
On the 77th anniversary of its independence from Britain, Myanmar, under military rule, continues to face political tensions, instability, and armed conflicts.
Kurds: Building an Alternative Justice System in Eastern Turkey
The following are the notes of a discussion between Professor Gill H. Boehringer and two persons, SD and FV, who are familiar with the system being developed by Kurdish communities within the framework of their program of “democratic confederalism”.
World Renowned Scholar of Education Michael Apple on Fifty Years of Scholarship-Activism
A member of the Jewish Voice for Peace and a Jewish American scholar, the UW-Madison sociologist condemns Israel’s Genocide in Palestine.