Artikelen van International Viewpoint

Election and Widening War

1 day 21 hours ago

With war and genocide spreading from Palestine to Lebanon and Iran, with Florida and southern states inundated by the twin biggest climate-change flood disasters in U.S. history, and people's general insecurity about their own and the country's future, the United States lurches toward what's called “the most consequential election in our lifetime” that may resolve little or nothing.

- IV597 - October 2024 / United States (USA)
Against the Current Editors

Elections smelling of gas in Mozambique!

5 days 4 hours ago

As the results of Mozambique's presidential election approach, tension is mounting and the ruling FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front) party is not about to relinquish power, hoping to benefit from the gas windfall. Nearly 17 million voters were expected in Mozambique for the parliamentary, provincial and presidential elections on 9 October.

- IV597 - October 2024 / Ecology and the Environment, Mozambique
Paul Martial

Hezbollah's Dilemma

1 week 2 days ago

Lebanon's Hezbollah is a unique phenomenon, and any attempt to reduce it to one of its facets would be either unfair or excessive in sanctification. The party's complex and intricate nature is evident in the very circumstances of its birth. It started as a Khomeinist splinter group coming out of the Amal movement, seeking to establish an ideologically committed “Islamic resistance” against the Israeli occupation of Lebanon in 1982 as an alternative to the “Lebanese resistance” that Amal upheld (the latter's name itself is the Arab acronym of “Lebanese Resistance Brigades”). The motive for the rift that led to the party's foundation was twofold: on the one hand, ideological loyalty to the regime instituted by the 1979 “Islamic Revolution” in Iran, but also, on the other hand, an aspiration to a resolute and radical position against the Zionist occupation, unlike the ambiguous position that Amal had taken towards it, especially in southern Lebanon.

- IV597 - October 2024 / Iran, Lebanon
Gilbert Achcar

Accusations of “Fascism” - Confusing for American Voters

1 week 3 days ago

Fascism has now become a central issue in the U.S. presidential election largely as a result of recent statements by Donald Trump that he would use the military to suppress “the enemy within” made up of “radical left lunatics.” He is referring here to his rival Kamala Harris whom he has on several occasions called a “radical left lunatic.” He also named Democratic Party Congressman Adam Schiff, who led the first impeachment trial of Trump and is now a candidate for Senate as ‘the enemy within.”

- IV597 - October 2024 / United States (USA)
Dan La Botz

The U.S. Election Too Close to Call and too Strange for Words

2 weeks 4 days ago

With just a little more than two weeks until the November 5 U.S. presidential election that pits vice-president Kamala Harris against former president Donald Trump, the contest remains too close to call. A variety of issues, from conspiracy theories to assassination attempts complicate the campaign and sometimes confuse and mislead both voters and poll-takers.

- IV597 - October 2024 / United States (USA)
Dan La Botz
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