Give Over hosted a panel discussion in London about Palestinian journalists left to die in the dark. Maryam Jameela /Now Then* This panel was organised to discuss the conditional solidarity which has meant that Western journalists have been a complicit audience watching Israel target and kill Palestinian journalists […]
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The battle among colonial powers to divide up the world
After the First World War, the League of Nations was created as a forum for resolving conflicts between the powers of the time. The idea was that from then on competition to divide the planet up between the colonial powers would be managed peacefully. But it was not and is […]
There is no solidarity or altruism in capitalism
Mansour Mohammadian is the founder of Economics of the Third Way, a model which proposes a replacement to the current economic system after the financial collapse. The theory is based on forgotten principles for regulating the economy, such as solidarity and trust. Miriam Valero In the 1980s Mansour […]
Jihad: the spiritual struggle and the war
The term Jihad has catapulted into the public consciousness, instigating feelings of fear, violence and above all holy war. Sofia Ahmad Islamic Fundamentalists have popularised the idea of Jihad as simply unrestrained indiscriminate warfare against those who they perceive to be the enemies of Islam, when in fact […]
When genocide becomes entertainment
Has Israel’s national psyche abandoned morality and turned genocide into entertainment? Sul Nowroz / Real Media* It is rare for a state to lose its mind, to lose the ability to discern right from wrong, good from bad, righteousness from wickedness, but that condition appears to have taken […]