Veteran journalist Peter M. Johansen appeals for urgent international action to free three Kurdish women activists sentenced to death in Iran. Drawing on powerful testimonies and Nobel laureates’ interventions, Johansen highlights how Iran’s gender apartheid and ethnic persecution converge in a wider campaign against dissent.
(Originally published in Medya News 3.4.2025)
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Going Solo in the New World Order
How Europe squandered China and the Global South
China believes there is an opening for peace negotiations on Ukraine. On February 24, 2023, President Xi Jinping presented a Twelve-point proposal for a ceasefire and negotiations. It included the lifting of the sanctions against Russia and developing a plan for the reconstruction of Ukraine after the war.
USA and NATO rejected China’s proposal just as quickly as they dismissed Russia’s proposal for a new European security order for Europe put forward on December 2021, a good two months before Russia started its “full-scale war” against Ukraine.
Trumps goes solo in Ukraine
Disconnecting Ukraine from Europe
During the election campaign, Donald Trump claimed that he could stop the war in Ukraine within 24 hours, and that was before he took office as president on January 20 2025. As we all know, it did not happen. Nevertheless, it seems as if his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin came as a surprise to those around him, both in NATO, in the EU and EUs surroundings.
Escalating technology Warfare
China responds by banning minerals export
China is responding to the latest batch of export restrictions from the Biden administration by banning the export of rare minerals and metals to the United States. These are crucial for high-tech development, and China has large quantities of them. The response escalates the tech war just before US President Donald Trump takes office, with the multibillionaire Elon Musk on his staff.
Sanctions, a Surrogate for Warfare
Dramatic Increase in US Use of Sanctions
The US has dramatically increased its use of unilateral and secondary sanctions as a foreign policy weapon over the past twenty years. And more to come with President Donald J. Trump back in the White House. Also, the EU is following suit. These sanctions violate the UN Charter and international human rights conventions, international law and humanitarian law – and is defended by showing to “our values”.
– I would have beaten Muhammed Ali
by Peter M. Johansen, Havana, December 1993.
Teofilo Stevenson thinks that he would have won the fight the whole world of boxing
was deprived of.
This is the first time Teofilo Stevenson goes public – and he goes public in Klassekampen, a newspaper that isn’t exactly well renowned for its sports pages.
The meaning of October 7
The narrative of the Hamas attack one year on
By Peter M Johansen
On October 7, it was one year since the Hamas attack on military positions and well-armed kibbutzim and settlements in the southern part of Israel bordering the Gaza Strip. The attack did not happen in a vacuum, as the name Hamas gave to the operation: “Tha Al-Aqsa flood” implies. Fortsett å lese «The meaning of October 7»
On the Trail of a New World
The United States’ unipolar world is crumbling. The change is happening faster than expected for Washington. And in connection with this, the white West’s dominance which has lasted over 500 years, is disappearing. This dominance is based on genocide across multiple continents, racist and imperialist colonialism and neo-colonialism.
Simultaneously, our planet is hurtling towards a climate crisis where we face mass migration and displacement on a scale never before experienced. We risk becoming the dinosaurs of our time, without exiting with a bang. More than ever, the slogan applies: “Black and white, organise, unite and fight.”