Almost half the world’s population now lives in countries that spend more on debt servicing than on basic social welfare, a situation being described as “the worst debt crisis since global records began”.
The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification analysis warns that famine is imminent in Gaza’s northern governorates and will soon engulf the south of the Strip as well.
The Australian capitalist class is doubling down on the alliance with the US that has served its interests well for decades. In doing so, it risks dragging us all into a deadly confrontation between nuclear-armed rivals.
To drive a whole people out of their land—to turn it into something akin to the Zionist myth of Palestine, supposedly “a land without a people for a people without a land”—requires many things. Most obviously, it requires the killing and terrorising of Palestinian people on a colossal scale.