The Guardian • Middle East
Issue #2095
Israel, Palestine, and the world
The US is putting pressure on Israel to open up more corridors to allow aid in. At the same time, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin...
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Issue #2113
Gaza: talks, hopes, threats
Every day seems to bring an announcement about ‘peace’ talks in Gaza and the broader Middle East. White House spokesperson John Kirby has said that...
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Issue #2142
Israel’s policy: fascist genocide
An address by Vinnie Molina, president of the Communist Party of Australia, to the 2025 International Anti-Fascist Forum Distinguished delegates, I would like to begin...
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Issue #2073
‘The Fate of Food’ by Amanda Little
Is new technology the solution to feeding the world? In The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World Amanda Little...
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Issue #2066
GLOBAL BRIEFS
YEMEN: Five United Nations officials who were kidnapped in the country 18 months ago have walked free, the UN said last week. In a brief...
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Issue #2124
GLOBAL BRIEFS
LEBANON: Israeli war crimes have taken new dimensions over the past year. In Lebanon alone, Israeli forces killed 173 health workers, injured 277 medical team...
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Issue #2184
GLOBAL BRIEFS
INDIA: India’s anti-terror agency has arrested seven people for allegedly training and supplying weapons to insurgents in Myanmar. Six Ukrainians and a US citizen were...
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Issue #2093
GLOBAL BRIEFS
MIDDLE EAST: Members of Yemen’s Houthi movement have attacked a total of 86 vessels in the Red Sea, the Arab Sea and the Indian Ocean...
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Issue #2118
In gold we trust
In July 2024 Reuters reported an increasing number of countries were repatriating their gold reserves from the US and UK as protection against possible sanctions....
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Issue #2121
Israel: failed state
Israel is in the news every day, and seems to be a Middle East nuclear superpower. In reality it is a failed Zionist state. It...
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Issue #2196
A Short History of the Gaza Strip
This book is a good introductory study, that is concise and well researched. It provides a solid introduction to understanding why the Gaza Strip became...
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Issue #2136
PEACE NOTES
Thanks to AUKUS I&A Strategic Communications, we’ve learned that the USS Minnesota arrived in Western Australia on 25 February 2025. AUKUS I&A says the visit...
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Issue #2184
Letters
Humpty Dumpty Hegemony The hegemonic nature of capitalism being unleashed in the Middle East is not new and has been analysed relentlessly. Antonio Gramsci had...
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Issue #2076
GLOBAL BRIEFS
ARGENTINA: Argentina’s Economy Minister Segio Massa and the leader of the far-right Liberty Advances party, Javier Milei have advanced to the 2nd round of the...
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Issue #2209
Palestine and Marxism
This book is worth a look, and a good place to start, but it’s also in danger of being done for deceptive packaging. Joseph Daher...
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Issue #2121
Sleepwalking into War?
With the clouds of war building over the Middle East between Israel and the many enemies it is making in the region, the intractable war...
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Issue #2184
Pharmaceuticals, fertiliser at risk
Dr Vinh Thai professor of logistics and supply chain management at RMIT University says, “While sustainability efforts often focus on reducing reliance on fossil fuels,...
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Issue #2185
PEACE NOTES
The War in the Middle East The extent and brutality of the war just continue to mount with very little protest from the Australian government...
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Issue #2123
PEACE NOTES
“on the other side of the planet” That’s how a ‘political and international editor’ for Nine Entertainment described Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians recently. He...
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Issue #2109
DINGO
This week’s target of US aggression since the end of WW2 is the Middle East 1956-58: The Eisenhower Doctrine stated that the United States was...
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Issue #2077
Risks of wider Middle-East conflict
Israel is pounding southern Lebanon and Syria, in what can only be described as provocation. The west misleadingly mentions Iran in the same breath as...
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Issue #2199
PEACE NOTES
Peace work – right next door to you It’s easy to look at missiles going off in the Middle East on your TV or the...
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Issue #2119
DINGO
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres has vented his frustration at the security council’s failure to end wars in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, and the Middle East....
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Issue #2207
DINGO
Leaders of the BRICS group of nations met in New Delhi last week with wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and United States trade...
Read moreMarxism-Leninism missing in Gen Z uprisings
In recent years the world has seen Gen Z protests across Asia, Middle East, and Latin America. Armed with smartphones they are globally connected. They...
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Issue #2150
Hands off Iran, sanction Israel
The Communist Party of Australia condemns in the strongest possible terms the Zionist pre-emptive strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran. The attacks on military...
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Issue #2134
Labor’s big fail
Labor has been in office for almost three years. It has introduced a number of progressive reforms, but in the lead-up to the federal elections...
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Issue #2186
In solidarity with the people of the Middle East
The Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA) condemns in the strongest terms the escalating war being waged by the United States...
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Issue #2185
Workers pay war costs
Australian workers and their families, like workers around the world, played no part in the illegal US-Israeli war in the Middle East, yet they are...
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Issue #2196
EDITORIAL
There’s an El Niño on the way. It will push global heat higher. It’s impossible to say exactly what will happen where, but next year...
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