Bye Bye Bibi, Bye Bye MICHAEL MOORE Dear Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: In a few minutes you will enter our United States Congress to give a rare speech by a foreign leader to a joint session of Senators and Members of our House of Representatives. As you approach the podium, you might notice that the President of the Senate will not be seated there above you presiding, as per tradition, over the chamber. That’s because the President of the Senate is Vice President Kamala Harris. She has decided not to attend. It is extremely rare for the President of the Senate to skip a big event like this. She will not be there to applaud you or stand with you. She’s decided instead

Kamala Harris’ Presidential Ambition Receives Major Boost As She Leads Trump By 2% In Latest Poll By: The New Diplomat United States Vice-President Kamala Harris and Democratic presidential hopeful’s bid in the coming American presidential elections has received an upward boost as latest opinion poll suggests that she has been able to overturn a deficit margin between Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump. This is as the Vice President now has a 2 percentage point lead over Trump after President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign and passed the torch to her. According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, several Americans have accepted the candidacy of Harris. The poll which was conducted on July 22 and 23, came after the July 18 Republican National Convention where Trump formally

TipRanks. U.S.-Saudi Petrodollar Pact Ends after 50 Years. June 11, 2024. By Paul Hoffman The 50-year-old petrodollar agreement between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia was just allowed to expire. The term “petrodollar” refers to the U.S. dollar’s role as the currency used for crude oil transactions on the world market. This arrangement has its roots in the 1970s when the United States and Saudi Arabia struck a deal shortly after the U.S. went off the gold standard that would go on to have far-reaching consequences for the global economy. In the history of global finance, few agreements have wielded as many benefits as the petrodollar pact did for the U.S. economy. A Boon to U.S. Bonds The petrodollar agreement, formalized after the 1973 oil crisis, stipulated

The International Court of Justice at The Hague ordered Israel to halt its military operation in Rafah on Friday, saying it was "not convinced" that Israel was doing enough to evacuate Palestinian civilians from the southern Gaza city where more than a million people are sheltering. The ICJ, colloquially known as the World Court, issued several directives to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government: reopen the Rafah border crossing with Egypt to allow large-scale humanitarian aid, grant access to Gaza for investigators and fact-finding missions, and provide a progress report to the court within a month on implementing these measures. Rulings from the court are considered binding, but there is no mechanism of enforcing them. A Palestinian man and his children sit in a destroyed

Police charged Prabir and NewsClick with colluding with foreign powers to sabotage India on the basis of a New York Times “hit piece” published in August 2023 which targeted several other anti-war organizations in the US as well May 15, 2024 by Peoples Dispatch Prabir Purkayastha outside his home in February 2021 after the first raid by the Enforcement Directorate. Photo: ICF The Indian Supreme Court ordered the immediate release of author and journalist Prabir Purkayastha on Wednesday, May 15 terming his arrest by the Delhi Police in October last year, illegal. The Court questioned the haste with which police executed the NewsClick founder’s arrest, noting that they did not even follow the basic procedures. The court noted that, in complete violation of the principles of

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Bolivia’s leftwing government cuts diplomatic ties with Israel, alleging crimes and human rights abuses in Gaza, as Chile and Colombia recall ambassadors Israel and Hamas at war – live updates The decision for Bolivia to cut ties with Israel over its attacks on Gaza was announced by a minister in President Luis Arce’s administration. Photograph: Sérgio Lima/AFP/Getty Images Israel-Hamas wa Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent A number of South American countries have registered diplomatic protests against Israel, in response to its latest conflict with Hamas, with Bolivia’s leftwing government cutting ties entirely and attributing its decision to alleged war crimes and human rights abuses being committed in the Gaza Strip. The decision by Bolivia was announced at a press conference on Tuesday afternoon by María Nela Prada, a