Carnage in Gaza and Global 195
Even by Israel's brutal, barbaric standards, the cruel, callous carnage carried out by its military in Gaza has come as a shock to the world. The carnage which occurred on…
Dr Chandra Muzaffar
Francis Boyle: A Tribute
The late Professor Francis Boyle, the outstanding International Law expert, was a member of JUST's International Advisory Panel (IAP). His death on 30 January 2025 at the age of 74…
What is Trump’s Real Role?
Since returning to the White House in 2025, Donald Trump has pursued aggressive policies in three key areas: Tariffs, Territory, and Transfers (of People). Tariffs: He raised tariffs on multiple…
Prisoner Release is welcome but Israel should commit to peace
The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) shares the joy expressed by many Palestinians over the release from Israeli jails of 90 Palestinian prisoners. The release is part of…
Palestine: Why Context Is Important
The genocide in Gaza has entered its 15th month. More than 44,000 Palestinians have been killed so far by Israel. 17,000 of them are children. This is the largest number…
Solidarity With Imran Khan
The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) expresses total solidarity with detained former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan who has been imprisoned since August 2023 by a military regime…
The Gaza Catastrophe-Checking Israeli And Western Elites
Israel is determined to take over North Gaza. This explains its destruction of residential areas in the region. Schools and hospitals have also been targeted. People have been forced to…
Palestine And The People Of The World
Israel’s wanton aggression against Lebanon has overshadowed an important decision made by the UN General Assembly linked to the violence and wars that mark our present moment in history. On…
Israeli Terror in Lebanon
What the Israeli government had purportedly done to civilians in Lebanon on the 16th of September 2024 was a blatant, dastardly act of terrorism. Detonating bombs placed in pagers and…
Blackrock: No Compromise With Evil
The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) empathizes with the concerns expressed by several NGOs and public figures in Malaysia over the involvement of the fund manager, BlackRock, in…
Kudos to Journalists Who Tell the Truth
UNESCO should be congratulated for awarding the Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for 2024 to Palestinian journalists covering Gaza. The prize this year was announced in Santiago, Chile in…
ICJ on Gaza: Acting Against Israel
Five days after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced various interim measures aimed at preventing the State of Israel from committing acts in Gaza which come within the scope…
Gaza: South Africa Seeks Justice
The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) commends the Government of South Africa for requesting the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue an urgent order declaring that Israel…
Genocide Resumes
After an uneasy seven day truce, Israel and Hamas are now once again locked in a violent combat. Each side has accused the other of violating the truce. What is…
Is it possible to stop Israel from pursuing its brutal oppression of the people of Gaza?
This video was produced by the International Movement for a Just World (www.just-international.org). In this video, the organization's president, Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, offers valuable insights into the following questions: 1)…
BRICS: The Quest for a Just Multi-Polar World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBkBYw3XDlA The BRICS Summit that concluded on the 24th of August 2023 in Johannesburg is a significant milestone in the journey towards a multi-polar world. From 5 members, Brazil, Russia,…
Niger: A Coup Against French Control And Dominance
The situation in Niger is still in flux. On 26 July 2023 a military coup took place in that West African state that led to the ouster of its elected…
Desecration of yet another Ahmadi Mosque in Pakistan
The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) is shocked and saddened by the news of the desecration of yet another Ahmadi mosque in the Milpur Khas District of Pakistan…
Reconciling Saudi Arabia and Iran: The significance of the China effort
It would be wrong to view the restoration of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran as something that happened suddenly. Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979, ties between the two…
Lift sanctions against Syria to lessen sufferings of the people caused by the earthquake
The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) urges the American, British, Australian, Canadian, Swiss and some European Union and Arab League governments to lift the unjust, immoral sanctions against…
The UN General Assembly Drags Israel To The World Court
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted last week to refer Israel to the International Court of Justice (World Court) for its on-going violation of the right of the Palestinian…
Looking Back On 2022: Ukraine And The Rest Of The Story
As 2022 draws to a close, the world bears the tragic burden of the war in Ukraine. The war began on the 24th of February of this year with the…
Postpone Enforcement Of CPTPP
Malaysia ratified the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) on 30th September 2022. It comes into force on 30th November 2022.One hopes that the new Malaysian government will…
Myanmar: Executing Dissent
The execution of four well-known democracy activists by the military junta in Myanmar in June 2022 has angered and incensed those who cherish freedom and justice all over the world. …
Ukraine: End War, Lift Sanctions
The war in Ukraine is dragging on. Today, the 11th of July 2022 is the 138th day of an armed conflict that began on the 24th of February when Russian…
Nakba-To strive for justice till liberation
Today is Nakba day---- the day that Palestinians throughout the world remember as the great catastrophe. For it was on the 14th of May 1948 that the illegitimate entity called…
Ukraine: Understanding The Concern Of The Other
The mainstream Western media is almost unanimous in demanding that Russia and Vladimir Putin stop their military operation in Ukraine immediately. This in their opinion is the only solution to…
Goading China To Go To War
A number of defence analysts are convinced that the United States of America, supported by Britain and Australia, is goading China to go to war over Taiwan. They point to…
Humiliating Defeat In Afghanistan
The mainstream Western media is full of news these days about people fleeing Kabul in the wake of the Taliban victory. Dramatic pictures of young and old scrambling to get…
COVID19 Crisis In Malaysia: Questions And Motives
The significant increase in Covid 19 infections in our country in the last one week has prompted concerned Malaysians to ask the authorities to re-strategize their approach towards the fight…
Our Humanity; Our Identity
Identity politics has been on the ascendancy in many parts of the world in the last few decades. Its relationship to ethnicity, culture and religion is what concerns us at…
Ramsey Clark: One of the Greatest
On the 9th of April 2021, Ramsey Clark passed away in the States. He was ninety four. The former US Attorney-General had spent decades in the struggle for human rights…
Syria: The Price Of Resistance
Few nations in recent decades have been targeted by a superpower the way the United States of America has subjected Syria to various forms of attack. Apart from military assaults…
Winning Votes Through Identity Politics
According to official estimates, Donald J. Trump obtained a little more than 74 million votes in the November 2020 presidential election losing to Joseph Biden who secured a little more…
RCEP Augurs Hope
In the mist of the gloom generated by the twin health and economic crises, the birth of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a ray of light auguring hope.…
Déjà Vu In France: Change Attitudes
As events unfold in France centring around Islamophobia, there is a feeling of déjà vu. We have witnessed a few times before this sequence of events. There is some provocation…
Malaysia: A Clear Direction For The Present
Malaysians at this moment are concerned about two different types of numbers. The overwhelming majority are worried about the recent spike in Covid 19 infections and the increase in the…
Swami Agnivesh: A Tribute
Swami Agnivesh has left us. And yet he is still with us. He was undoubtedly one of the most courageous fighters against religious fanaticism and religious bigotry of our time.…
China And The Decline Of US Power
Constant attacks by some US elites on China will, according to some observers, diminish and disappear once the US presidential election is over in November 2020. This is unlikely to…
Beirut Blast
Four days after the Beirut Blast of 4th August 2020, the Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, has attempted to explain what caused the largest explosion since the end of the Second…
A Superpower In Chaos
Minneapolis could not have happened at a worse time for the US elites. While violence perpetrated against African Americans by White police officers has happened a number of times before,…
An Invasion In The Midst Of A Pandemic
In the midst of a massive global pandemic that has killed tens of thousands of people and wrecked economies all over the world leaving millions jobless, some terrorists and mercenaries…
The Coronavirus Crisis: A Plea To Pause And Power
Dr Chandra Muzaffar, President of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST), Malaysia makes a presentation on COVID-19 pandemic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucEWLn7y-7M&feature=youtu.be SIGN UP FOR COUNTERCURRENTS DAILY NEWS LETTER
Coronavirus:Sanctions And Suffering
In the midst of the most horrendous crisis to confront the entire human family in recent decades, the Unite States elite, it appears, is hell-bent on perpetuating massive sanctions against…
Curbing The Coronavirus – While Targetting China
We are inundated with an avalanche of information on the novel coronavirus infection. Within this avalanche, there is a lot of “news” that is clearly false. Those responsible for such…
The International Court Of Justice (ICJ) And The Rohingyas
The International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) Order to the Government of the Republic of Myanmar to adopt various provisional measures to protect the Rohingya community from “physical destruction” and to…
On The Brink Of War?
Are we on the brink of a Third World War? There are signs that demand that we ask this question. Three clusters of signs compel us to probe a question…
The Coup That Ousted Morales
Any human being who values justice and freedom would condemn the coup that ousted the Bolivian president Evo Morales on the 10th of November 2019. Morales obtained 47.08 % of…
Kashmir: Self-Determination Is The Solution
It is a pity that some groups and individuals are urging palm oil importers in India to refrain from buying the commodity from Malaysia. The Solvent Extractors Association of India,…
Iran: Neither Military Action Nor Economic Sanctions
It would be utterly immoral of the United States to launch a military attack upon Iran if it is true that one of the missiles that destroyed an oil refinery…
Concealing The Truth
Concealing the truth from the people is not unusual in politics. It is perhaps more pronounced in global politics partly because it is more difficult to hold powerful global…
Paul Findley: A Man of Courage
Paul Findley one of the most remarkable Congressmen that the US House of Representatives had produced since the Second World War passed away on the 9th of August 2019. He…
White Supremacy
A number of commentators have linked the killing of 20 people at a Walmart store in El Paso in the United States of America on Saturday 3rd August 2019 to…
Stifling The Amman Message
In any civilised society no one will resort to violence, or the threat of violence, to stifle the voices that one does not want to hear. Unfortunately, this is what…
Investigate Morsi’s Death
Immediately after Dr Mohammed Morsi’s death on the 17th of June 2019, a number of organisations and individuals had called for a thorough, independent investigation into the cause of his…
MH 17: Charging Individuals on the basis of a deeply flawed Investigation
Co-Written by Dr. Chandra Muzaffar & Tan Sri Norian Mai The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) and the Perdana Global Peace Foundation (PGPF) share Prime Minister Tun Dr…
Tightening The Noose On Cuba
On the 2nd of May 2019, the Trump Administration decided to enforce Title 111 of the Helms-Burton Act. Title 111 authorises US nationals with claims to confiscated properties in Cuba…
Targeting Iran
A dangerous flashpoint has emerged in world politics at the moment. There is widespread fear that the United States and its allies might launch a military operation…
OBOR – Towards A Just World? | Chandra Muzaffar
The Belt Road Initiative (BRI) also known as the One Belt One Road ( OBOR) project could well emerge as the obor ( the flame in Indonesian or Malay) that…
Chandra Muzaffar: Sri Lanka And New Zealand: The Real Link
The carnage in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday has been condemned by people everywhere. Individuals and groups from different faith traditions have not ceased to emphasise that the mass slaughter…
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