Month: August 2024

PAL-Awda boycott against Citibank launched at Citi's World HQ
Domestic News

Global Week of Action for Palestine Against Citibank Kicks Off Summer of Heat

August 28, 2024 fwstaff
By Terri Kay On Monday, June 10th, PAL-Awda NY/NJ: Palestinian Assembly for Liberation announced a Global Week of Action against Citibank, from June 10th to June 14th, calling on people across the US and the […]
A Palestinian child is brought in for vaccinations at a health center in al-Zawaida, central Gaza Strip, on 25 July
International News

Ceasefire needed to avert mass polio outbreak in Gaza

August 28, 2024 fwstaff
By Maureen Clare Murphy, The Electronic Intifada Aid agencies and medical professionals are calling for a ceasefire to administer the polio vaccine to 640,000 children under the age of 10 in Gaza after a case […]
SADC 44th Summit logo in Harare
International News

SADC Holds 44th Annual Summit

August 27, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa of the Republic of Zimbabwe has emerged as the regional chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) 44th Annual Summit which was held in Harare on August 17. […]
Fighting continues in Kursk as Russians build up forces to drive back the Ukrainians and to defend the Kursk nuclear power plant
International News

Ukraine’s Kursk Incursion Militarily Insignificant

August 21, 2024 fwstaff
By David Sole The August 6 military incursion by Ukraine into the Kursk region of the Russian Federation is turning out to be militarily insignificant and perhaps even harmful to Ukraine’s overall battlefield position. First […]
Domestic News

AND THEN THERE CAME A DAYBREAK | THERE COMES A TIME WHEN TIME APPROACHES | WHERE DO UNSHED TEARS GO?

August 20, 2024 fwstaff
AND THEN THERE CAME A DAYBREAK To my departed sister, Rachel To Amilcar Cabral who taught us how to abolish the distance with our Dead To Thich Nhat Hanh who inspired both Martin Luther King […]
NetureiKarta Pro-Palestine anti-zionist orthodox Jews at protest against Stolen Land in Queens 071424
Domestic News

PAL-Awda NY/NJ Protests Stolen Land Real Estate Sales

August 20, 2024 fwstaff
By Terri Kay PAL-Awda NY/NJ held a rally protesting the illegal sale of stolen Palestinian real estate and land in a synagogue in Queens, NY on July 14. It was the latest in a series […]
Sheikh Hasina claims that had she given sovereignty of Saint Martin Island and allowed the US to hold sway over the Bay of Bengal, she would have remained in power
International News

Ex-Bangladesh PM says US behind her ouster to control crucial island

August 18, 2024 fwstaff
By Al Mayadeen English Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused the United States of orchestrating her overthrow after she refused to give up sovereignty over the key island of St. Martin. According to […]
Mali military leadership defies imperialist states
International News

Mali and Niger Break Diplomatic Relations with Ukraine

August 18, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Since the beginning of the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine in February 2022, the African continent has become a major battleground in the renewed Cold War between Moscow and Washington. In […]
President Nicolás Maduro
International News

Report from the Venezuelan Revolution

August 18, 2024 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff The United States government and its imperialist allies is doing all in its power to oust President Maduro following his election to a third term. CIA sponsored opposition forces have taken […]
US-backed opposition groups have ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
International News

What’s Behind Regime Change in Bangladesh

August 18, 2024 fwstaff
By Brian Berletic, New Eastern Outlook Violent regime change in the South Asian country of Bangladesh unfolded rapidly and mostly by stealth as the rest of the world focused on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, […]