La dynastie Ortega-Murillo rend service à l'extrême droite et à l'impérialisme. Copyright facebook.com/embacubanicara/photos L'annonce faite le 19 juillet dernier par le dictateur Daniel Ortega, selon laquelle « il n'y aura plus d'élections pour qu'ils (l'opposition) ne puissent pas tenter de s'emparer du gouvernement et du pouvoir », est l'aveu le plus cynique que son gouvernement s'apprête à instaurer un régime de type monarchique, en collaboration avec son épouse Rosario Murillo. (…)

Settler incursions, expanding outposts and the military's response have created conditions in which confrontation, as seen in the deadly clashes over the weekend, was increasingly inevitable Palestinians face IDF soldiers as they try to return to their homes in the West Bank town of Tarqumiyah, last year. Credit : Itai Ron Palestinians in the West Bank have shown and still exercise impressive restraint given the increasing number of attacks and provocative « hikes » by settlers into (…)

The fragile ceasefire that took effect on 18 June, following the memorandum of understanding signed between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, has once again revealed its limits. This agreement, which opened a 60-day negotiating period, was subject to conflicting interpretations from the outset. The principal sticking point concerns control of the Strait of Hormuz, through which around 20% of the world's oil transits. Tehran intends to impose a right of passage there, (…)