International News
Gaza: Stop the Genocide!
by New Worker correspondent
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched on the American embassy in London last weekend to demand justice for the Palestinian Arabs and an immediate end to Israeli aggression in Gaza.
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Ukraine: The blame game begins
by Ilya Tsukanov , Sputnik
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has accused his NATO sponsors of playing “internal political games” instead of providing critical arms assistance to Kiev, warning that “the world will remember” such a betrayal. Sputnik reached out to a pair of veteran US military experts for a read on the implications of Zelensky’s comments
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Pentagon’s ‘Ukrainian Fantasy’ Is Falling Apart
by Ian DeMartino, Sputnik
French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné met with his Baltic and Ukrainian counterparts in Lithuania last week. The visit came days after French President Emmanuel Macron raised the possibility of French troops being deployed to Ukraine, angering some of his more powerful allies in Europe. But the Pentagon’s fantasy in Ukraine is falling apart, says former UN weapons inspector and commentator Scott Ritter.
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Protests at Dutch Holocaust museum
by Ed Newman, Radio Havana Cuba
Israeli President Isaac Herzog attended the opening of the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam last weekend. But his presence prompted protests over Israel’s war in Gaza.
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Warmongers condemn Pope’s peace call
by Dimitri Babich , Sputnik
Pope Francis has come under fire from staunchly Catholic Poland for urging Ukraine to seek peace with Russia. His recent call for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine under the “white flag” was met with reproach and insults from Western politicians – especially in Germany and Poland
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Features
Hamas: We will definitely win!
Daria Aslamova, Pravda.Ru
In January Pravda.Ru special correspondent Daria Aslamova spoke with one of the leaders of Hamas movement who was in Moscow for talks with the Russian leadership and other Palestinian resistance movements. During the interview Dr Musa Abu Marzouk shared his views on the future of the Gaza Strip and why the Palestinians cannot lose this war.
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From Opium War to Electric Cars
by Ding Gang, Global Times
Last month a large ro-ro ship loaded with more than 5,000 electric vehicles (EVs) from a port in southern China arrived in ports in the Netherlands and Germany.
The 200-metre BYD Explorer No 1 crossed the Strait of Malacca, sailed across the Indian Ocean, rounded the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa, and finally entered European waters
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War of the worlds
by Alex Reeves, VNS
It’s said that HG Wells’s novel of the very same name as this article was a seminal piece of work in the niche area of sci-fi that is ‘invasion literature’. Reflective of Victorian era superstitions and prejudices and written as a commentary on the impacts of colonialism and the morality of imperialism in the waning of the 19th Century.
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