South African activist: “Palestine casts light on our own history”

Israel was declared an apartheid state during a session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine in Cape Town on 7 November. Among those following the tribunal’s deliberations was a group of young South Africans, including Mbuyiseni Ndlozi of BDS South Africa, a group campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, and Joni Barnard of [...]

Interview with Judge Essa Moosa written by Adri Nieuwhof

Essa Moosa’s legal career developed from licking postage stamps and being a messenger boy as an articled clerk to a Judge. He was admitted as an Attorney in 1962. After the security police hounded his legal practice out of District six in 1969, he set up his office in Athlone. In 1994, Moosa acted as [...]

“Trying to combat drugs with violence is turning Mexico into a graveyard”: Julian LeBaron

He tells us his story simply, but not without emotion. Julian Le Barón marches in the front of the March for Peace with Justice and Dignity, the section for family members of drug war victims. Tall and fair-skinned, Le Barón lives in the Mormon community of Galeana, Chihuahua. A group of pecan farmers, relatively wealthy [...]

Israeli leaders understand the futility of military adventure against Iran: Interview with Abolghasem Bayyenat

Abolghasem Bayyenat is an independent political analyst writing mainly on Iran’s foreign policy developments. Over the past decade, his political commentaries and articles have appeared in numerous popular media and online journals, including Foreign Policy Journal, Foreign Policy In Focus, Monthly Review, Eurasia Review, AntiWar.com, Tehran Times, Middle East Online, San Francisco Chronicle, Online Opinion, [...]

Countering Iran the major factor behind US support for Bahrain: Deepak Tripathi

Deepak Tripathi is a British historian, journalist and researcher who specializes in South and West Asia affairs, terrorism and the United States foreign policy. He was born into a political family in Unnao, the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. His grandfather, Pandit Vishwambhar Dayal Tripathi, was a prominent leader in the Indian independence movement and [...]

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