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I titoli: Soluzione politica per la Siria e pace per i territori feriti dalle guerre. Nuovo appello del Papa all'Udienza generale di ieri. E in Siria primi passi per la formazione del nuovo governo ad interim guidato dal premier Al – Bashir. Nel paese nuovi raid aerei israeliani. L'Onu: violato il diritto internazionale. Riconosciuto il 71.mo Miracolo della Madonna di Lourdes. Avvenne nel 1923. Protagonista un inglese guarito da paralisi ed epilessia. Conduce: Paola Simonetti
Il nuovo premier siriano Al Bashir: “I profughi tornino, garantiremo i diritti di tutti i popoli”. Ci colleghiamo con Andrea Nicastro, inviato del Corriere della Sera a Damasco. Uber aderisce alla protesta Ncc di domani contro i decreti Salvini. Sentiamo Andrea Giuricin, docente di economia dei trasporti all’Università di Milano Bicocca. Le multe stradali restano non pagate per il 28,4%. Lo rivela un’indagine Anci-Sole 24 Ore. Con noi Andrea Ferri, responsabile della finanza locale per l'Anci e direttore del dipartimento finanza locale dell'IFEL (Istituto per la finanza e l'economia locale).
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Mohammed al-Bashir è il capo del governo dei ribelli siriani. Il nuovo uomo forte di Damasco si chiama Mohammed al-Bashir. Sarà il leader del “Governo di salvezza siriano” ora al potere nella regione di Idlib: i ribelli lo hanno incaricato di formare un nuovo governo per gestire la complessa e delicata transizione politica in Siria. Tutto è nato dopo il decisivo incontro tra Ahmed al-Shara, meglio noto con il suo precedente nome di battaglia Al-Jolani, e Muhammad al-Jalali, già primo ministro sotto il regime precedente. La nomina di al-Bashir segna una nuova fase nella dinamica politica siriana. Resta da vedere se il nuovo governo riuscirà a navigare le tensioni interne e le pressioni internazionali per una soluzione duratura alla crisi che affligge il paese da oltre un decennio. Chi è Mohammed al-Bashir? Nasce nel 1983 nella provincia settentrionale di Idlib, si è laureato in ingegneria elettrica ed elettronica presso l'Università di Aleppo nel 2007. Ha lavorato per la Syrian Gas Company come dirigente di un impianto fino al 2011, quando la guerra civile ha trasformato la sua carriera e il contesto politico. Nel 2021 ha conseguito una laurea in Sharia e Giurisprudenza presso l'Università di Idlib, consolidando il suo profilo tecnico e giuridico. Poi, tra il 2022 e il 2023, è stato ministro dello Sviluppo e degli Affari umanitari nel governo guidato da Ali Abdulrahman Keda. La sua agenda politica si è distinta per l'impegno verso la modernizzazione amministrativa, con un focus sull'e-government e sull'automazione dei servizi pubblici. Ha anche promosso una politica fiscale favorevole, riducendo le tasse immobiliari, riformando le normative urbanistiche e avviando un ampliamento del piano regolatore della città di Idlib. "Il Corsivo" a cura di Daniele Biacchessi non è un editoriale, ma un approfondimento sui fatti di maggiore interesse che i quotidiani spesso non raccontano. Un servizio in punta di penna che analizza con un occhio esperto quell'angolo nascosto delle notizie di politica, economia e cronaca. ___________________________________________________ Ascolta altre produzioni di Giornale Radio sul sito: https://www.giornaleradio.fm oppure scarica la nostra App gratuita: iOS - App Store - https://apple.co/2uW01yA Android - Google Play - http://bit.ly/2vCjiW3 Resta connesso e segui i canali social di Giornale Radio: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/giornaleradio.fm/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giornale_radio_fm/?hl=it
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Israël heeft met luchtaanvallen meer dan honderd doelen in Syrië geraakt, meldt een Syrische mensenrechtenorganisatie. En de Syrische rebellen hebben een nieuwe regeringsleider aangewezen: Mohammed al-Bashir van het streng Islamitische Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), meldt Bloomberg op basis van de de Syrische TV. Al-Bashir moet een overgangsregering vormen en Syrië opnieuw verbinden. Tara Kenkhuis bericht. Veel werkgevers worstelen met het risico op schijnzelfstandigheid nu de belastingdienst vanaf 1 januari gaat handhaven, blijkt uit onderzoek van de ABN-AMRO. Zo'n 250-duizend zzp'ers zijn mogelijk een schijnzelfstandige. Vooral in risicovolle sectoren zoals het onderwijs is de kans op boetes en naheffingen hoog, zegt Mario Bersem, sectoreconoom Zakelijke Dienstverlening en Technologie, Media & Telecom. De korting op de accijns op benzine, die twee jaar geleden werd ingevoerd, geldt nog steeds – deels dan – en dat is onterecht. Die korting werd destijds ingesteld vanwege extreem hoge brandstofprijzen, maar dat is nu niet meer het geval. En ook op basis van een langjarig gemiddelde is de huidige literprijs niet hoog. Daarmee is een korting op de accijns overbodig. Dat stelt econoom Daan Hulshof, universitair docent aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, in economenvakblad ESB. Over deze podcast In Ochtendnieuws hoor je in 20 minuten het belangrijkste nieuws van de dag. Abonneer je op de podcast via bnr.nl/ochtendnieuws, de BNR-app, Spotify en Apple Podcasts. Of luister elke dag live via bnr.nl/live.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On today's episode, we discuss the ways our faith has changed as we've grown in discipleship and justice work. Our spiritual practices, as well as our relationships with church, God, and the non-Christian world have all transformed over time, sometimes in surprising ways that would have made us uncomfortable in our earlier years as followers of Jesus. It's a personal and instructive conversation on how to grow up with Jesus that we know will be helpful for a lot of people. Plus, after that conversation we get into the war in Sudan and why it's an important topic for us to learn about and engage with.Mentioned in the episode:- The episode of the Movement Memos podcast about the war in Sudan- The link to donate to the Sudan Solidarity Collective via PayPalCredits- Follow KTF Press on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Subscribe to get our bonus episodes and other benefits at KTFPress.com.- Follow host Jonathan Walton on Facebook Instagram, and Threads.- Follow host Sy Hoekstra on Mastodon.- Our theme song is “Citizens” by Jon Guerra – listen to the whole song on Spotify.- Our podcast art is by Robyn Burgess – follow her and see her other work on Instagram.- Editing by Multitude Productions- Transcripts by Joyce Ambale and Sy Hoekstra.- Production by Sy Hoekstra and our incredible subscribersTranscript[An acoustic guitar softly plays six notes in a major scale, the first three ascending and the last three descending, with a keyboard pad playing the tonic in the background. Both fade out as Jonathan Walton says “This is a KTF Press podcast.”]Jonathan Walton: I'm trying to live in the reality that God actually loves me and he actually loves other people, and that's just true. And to live in that quote- unquote, belovedness is really, really, really difficult in a extractivist, culturally colonized, post-plantation, capitalistic society.Sy Hoekstra: [laughs].Jonathan Walton: It's really, really hard when every single thing that I was raised to do goes against, just receiving anything.[The song “Citizens” by Jon Guerra fades in. Lyrics: “I need to know there is justice/ That it will roll in abundance/ And that you're building a city/ Where we arrive as immigrants/ And you call us citizens/ And you welcome us as children home.” The song fades out.]Sy Hoekstra: Welcome to Shake the Dust, seeking Jesus, confronting injustice. I'm Sy Hoekstra.Jonathan Walton: And I'm Jonathan Walton.Sy Hoekstra: This week we have a great conversation. There's no guest this week, it's just Jonathan and I. And we are actually going to be talking about something that we originally were gonna talk to Lisa about in the last episode, but we ran out of time [laughter]. And we thought it would be, actually it was worth taking the time to talk about this in a full episode format. And the topic is basically this, as people grow not just normally in their faith, but also in the kind of work that we're doing, resisting the idols of America and confronting injustice and that sort of thing in their faith, your personal spiritual life tends to change [laughter], to put it mildly. And we wanted to talk about that.It's something that we don't necessarily hear a lot of people talking about as much and I think it's something that people are kind of concerned about. Like it's in the back of people's heads when they start to dive into these justice issues. It's something that I think conservative Christianity has put in the back of your heads [laughs], like your personal walk with Jesus, or your something like that is going to falter if you stray down this road. And so we wanna talk about how things have changed with us, and be as open and honest about that as possible, with our spiritual practices, with our relationship with God, with our relationship with church and kind of the world outside.And then we're gonna get into our segment Which Tab Is Still Open, where we dive a little bit deeper into one of the recommendations from our newsletter. This week, we will be talking about a really fascinating and informative podcast on the war that is currently happening in Sudan that has been going on for about a year and a half. If you don't know a lot about that war, or if you just want some more insight into what's going on there, please stay tuned for that. It'll be an interesting conversation, for sure. So we're going to get into all of that in a minute. I think this is gonna be a really fruitful and helpful conversation for a lot of people. Before we jump in though, Jonathan,Jonathan Walton: Hey friends, remember to go to KTFPress.com and become a paid subscriber to support this show and everything we do at KTF Press. We're creating media that centers personal and informed discussions on faith, politics and culture and help you seek Jesus and confront injustice, that's so desperately needed today. We're resisting the idols of the American church by elevating marginalized voices and taking the entirety of Jesus' gospel more seriously than those who might narrow it to sin and salvation or some other small, little box. Jesus' gospel is bigger than that. The two of us have a lot of experience [laughs] doing this in community and individually.We've been friends for a good long time, and so I hope that you can come to us and trust us for good conversation, dialogue and prayerful, deliberate action. So become a paid subscriber, and get all the bonus episodes to this show, access to our monthly subscriber Zoom chats. You can comment on posts and a lot more. So again, go to KTFPress.com, join us and become a paid subscriber. And if you really wanna double down, become a founding member. Thanks, y'all.Sy Hoekstra: You get a free book if you're a founding member. So that's…Jonathan Walton: You do get a free book.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. Because we publish books too. I guess we didn't… we have to tell people that.Jonathan Walton: That's true.Sy Hoekstra: If you're listening, if this is your first episode, you didn't know that. We've published a couple of books.Jonathan Walton: [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: Alright Jonathan, let's dive in. Let's talk about, as you have grown over the past however many years since you've been doing this kind of work, which for you is what now, 15? No, almost 15.Jonathan Walton: Yeah.Sy Hoekstra: More than 15. It's more than 15 years.Jonathan Walton: It's more than 15. It'd probably be like… I was trying to reflect on this. I think I seriously stepped into this stuff in 2005 when I wrote that first poem about child soldiers and sex trafficking victims and was like, “I wanna do this, because Jesus loves me, and Jesus loves all people.” And so yeah, almost 20 years.Sy Hoekstra: Was that “Decisions?” Is that the poem?Jonathan Walton: I think it was actually “Invisible Children.” That poem.Sy Hoekstra: Okay. Literally because of the documentary Invisible Children.Jonathan Walton: Yes. That was the first advocacy poem that I wrote.Sy Hoekstra: So since then, how have your individual spiritual practices changed your scripture reading, that sort of thing? The kind of thing that at one point we might have called our quiet time, or our daily whatever. Where are you at?Jonathan Walton: [laughs] Absolutely. So I do not have daily quiet times. How do I explain this? When the Psalms say, “write the words of God on your hearts that you might not sin against him,” I think with all of us, it's kind of like building a habit. So I read a lot of scripture when I was a kid. I read a lot of scripture when I was a college student. And I think it was because I literally needed flesh and bones on just the air of my faith. And I think literally sitting there and listening to sermons for hours as I go about my day in my room and not study in college, or me and my brother would do [laughs] these weird things because we lived in the South and had nothing to do on this 30-acre farm, is we memorized the entire Charlton Heston film, The Ten Commandments.So me and my brother literally memorized the entire six hour epic that is The Ten Commandments. And so I just had this desire, and I think habit of just like memorizing and learning about God because the context that you're in. And so I think that there was a season in my life where sitting in the word of God was just a regular practice. And now I would say, just to overtake scripture, scripture is for me a process of recall and reflection. Like I have to give a talk next week on racism and racial reconciliation and justice. And if you had said to me, “Jonathan, what passage are you gonna speak from?” Like, because I've studied Genesis 1, because I've studied Isaiah 61, because I've studied Isaiah 58, because I've leaned into John 4, because I'm leaning in to Luke 4, I can grab from any of these places because it's almost like riding a bike in that way. I don't have to ride a bike every day to know how to ride a bike.And so I think if you're sitting there thinking to yourself, “I don't do a daily quiet time,” I don't know that you are negatively impacted. I know that you may be shaped differently, but we don't lose God, just like we don't lose the knowledge of something in that way. So I think Scripture for me has become more of a remembering and reflective process, rather than an active like, “Oh man, I need to know more.” And I think if we do scripture prayer, so let's talk about prayer, liturgy has taken on a more significant part of my life.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: Partially because I've stepped out of the, “let's prioritize this as better” box. So when I grew up in the South, I was like, oh, I go to a Black southern Baptist church, not a Southern Baptist Church. Let's be clear about that.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Spontaneous worship was quote- unquote, the best in my mind. Then I come to InterVarsity and more quote- unquote, evangelical spaces, and then it's like, well, popcorn prayer. Every single person goes individually and we all listen and try not to fall asleep.Sy Hoekstra: [laughs].Jonathan Walton: And then I go to another place and it's like the quote- unquote, warrior prayer. Like this lion's war prayer. Everybody's praying at once. And that was amazing.Sy Hoekstra: Charismatic.Jonathan Walton: Yeah. And it was amazing, but overwhelming. And I would go to these places and say, oh, one is better than the other, when in reality, these are just expressions of God's faithfulness to different parts of his body. And so I think the season I'm in now, I've leaned into the prayer without ceasing, where it's like I am in conversation with God. I can be in prayer just going about my every day, similar to scripture with the riding the bike thing. These are things that I've marinated in, and so I'm riding the bike all day. I might get on the bike in the morning, I might not, but God is an active part of my day. And so I think the last thing just about church and preaching. This is hard [laughter].And some people might get upset with this, but church has taken, the institution; going to, sitting in. That's probably the last thing that I'm still processing. My children don't want to go to church some days, and I have a high value for that. And I have to ask myself, why do I have that high of a value? And Maia asked me, because she was crying, she didn't wanna go to church. She said, “Why do you wanna go?” And I told her, I said, “Maia, sometimes I have a really hard week, and I go to hang out with other believers because they encourage me that God is faithful and I can make it through.” And I said, “Some weeks are good for me, and then I go to church, and someone may be having a poor week, and then I'm able to encourage them to make it through and center ourselves on Jesus.”And I said, “In that way…” I didn't say this this way, but we bear one another's burdens with love. We are able to come alongside each other. And she didn't get it, and that's fine, she's eight.Sy Hoekstra: [laughter].Jonathan Walton: But I recognize that that's actually what I'm looking for when I go to church. And so if that's what I'm looking for, how can I have that in other spaces that my family also feels closer to God as well, so that we can grow together in that way? So I've stopped expecting the pastor to serve me a platter of spiritual goodies every week. [laughter] I've stop expecting this community in some way to be the buffet from which I gather my spiritual authority and intimacy with God. And that didn't used to be the case. It was like, “I got to go to church or I'm wrong. I got to be in the building, or something's messed up with my faith. I might be falling away.” And that's just not true, because I don't forget how to ride a bike. Like it's just not a thing.So, yeah, I would say those big three things of prayer, scripture and going to church have changed. And later we could talk about justice stuff, but those things around just our relationship with God have changed for me.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. It's funny you said the thing that was a big deal to you, the second one was about like the spontaneous worship is the best, or this kind of prayer is the best or whatever. And that it's just so cultural and stuff because I never had any of those.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: I was like it's whatever. Nobody taught me that one… maybe somebody tried to, but it never got really inculcated in me that one kind of prayer or something was better than the other. But the daily scripture reading thing was so… Like you saying, “I don't read scripture every day,” there's still some little part of me that feels like, “Ooh, should he say that?” [laughter]Jonathan Walton: Right. Right, right, right.Sy Hoekstra: And it really just depends on where you grow up. Because a funny thing, like part of the scripture thing for me is, at some point I realized, I was like, “Hey, wait a minute [laughs], for the overwhelming majority of Christians who have ever lived, they A, could not read…”Jonathan Walton: [laughter] Right.Sy Hoekstra: “…and B, did not have access to the printed word.” The only time they were getting scripture was at mass on Sunday. And it's just one of those things where it's an enormous privilege, and we should, I'm not saying take it for granted, but it's something that has not only been not necessary for discipleship, but literally impossible for [laughter] most Christians who have ever lived. It's just an enormous privilege that we treat like a necessity or we treat like an imperative. And the distinction between those two things can be subtle, but it's real. They're not the same thing [laughter].Jonathan Walton: True.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah, so for me, I've talked about this in one of the bonus episodes we did, but I'll make a slightly different point about it, which is, I used to, like you sort of alluded to, I used to come at daily scripture reading and prayer and everything from a place of deep anxiety. Constantly trying to stay up on whatever I had decided was the requirement for the day, and then falling behind and becoming anxious about it, and just getting on this treadmill of trying to catch up and then being anxious again. And a funny thing happened when I got into, as we were talking about on our recent subscriber call, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality [laughs] and learned about that anxiety and where it was coming from, and tried to change my relationship to it, and it decreased a lot, I realized when the anxiety went away I started to feel like my love for or even just my care for God, was going away.Jonathan Walton: Huh.Sy Hoekstra: Like if I wasn't anxious that I was reading scripture every day, it's kind of like what I just said, like there's still some part of me that feels like ugh [laughter]. If I wasn't anxious, then I didn't love God, which is kind of dark.Jonathan Walton: It is. Yes.Sy Hoekstra: You know what I mean? It's like putting yourself in a sort of abusive relationship with God and saying, “If you don't keep up with me, then I'm gonna punish you in some way,” or something negative is gonna happen. It was never entirely clear what negative thing was gonna happen to me.Jonathan Walton: Just a threat. Just a threat.Sy Hoekstra: That something was bad. I was gonna backslide in some way. So, yeah, but the amount of time, like on a daily basis, that I spend praying or reading scripture has also decreased, and then anxiety went away. And then I had to get used to the anxiety not being there and being like, “Hey, that's okay. This is actually a reflection of the fact that I now on a much more embodied level, understand that God loves and accepts me.” [laughter] That's a good thing.Jonathan Walton: That is a great thing. Yes, for sure.Sy Hoekstra: Another big thing for me was, this is my change with regard to scripture, is letting the Bible be what the Bible says that it is, as opposed to what the spiritual authorities in my life told me that it was supposed to be. And so that's things like, I had a really interesting experience where I went through this thing called the Academy of Christian Thought. There was this three-year read-through-the-Bible program. It was run by this scholar named Ron Choong, a Malaysian guy who's really incredible. But one of the things he talked about was the idea that every word of the Bible is literally true. And he would go through it and he would say, “Okay, so there are these stories that Jesus tells, that when he tells them, like the parables.Like say, The Good Samaritan or whatever. We understand that Jesus is telling a story here, and whether or not the story itself is true doesn't matter. He's making a point.” It's a sermon illustration, effectively. And Jesus never claims that the stories are true. We're all fine with that. We're not saying if the guy didn't actually get beat up on the road to Jericho, then the Bible's integrity is in question. And he was like, “Okay, so how about the book of Jonah?” He's like, Take the whole thing with the fish and the spending three days in the belly of a fish, which seems scientifically impossible, and then you get… like without dying, whatever. It could be a miracle. But does the Bible ever actually say, does the book of Jonah ever actually say, “The following is a true story?” The answer is, no, it doesn't [laughter].And can you still learn all the same lessons about faith and everything from the book of Jonah if it's not true, like the parable of The Good Samaritan or any other parables Jesus tells? Yes, you can.Jonathan Walton: Right. Right, right.Sy Hoekstra: So does it really matter [laughs] whether the story in the book of Jonah is true? No, it does not. It affects nothing [laughter]. And by acknowledging that, you're just letting the Bible be what it is, which is, it's here's a story. It just told you a story, and whether or not it was true or not is not a point that the Bible makes, and therefore is not a point that matters.Jonathan Walton: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.Sy Hoekstra: [laughs] And so there were a lot of just simple things like that. He was like, The book of Revelation, you do not have to have a perfect understanding of what every twist and turn in that bizarre apocalyptic dream meant. You don't. You don't you don't have to have it. Because the Bible never tells you that you had to have it [laughter]. It just says, “Here's a dream from John,” and then it tells you a bunch of stuff that happened [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Yeah. It's true.Sy Hoekstra: And so it's like there was a lot of that that I thought was extremely helpful and allowed me to then use my mind. And then people would come back with the verse in 2 Timothy, “All scripture is God breathed,” and et cetera, et cetera. And [laughs] Ron would just be like, “That was literally written at a time when the New Testament was not canonized, and half of it was not even written yet.” [laughs] So it's like, what scripture is God breathed, you know what I mean? [laughter And also, does God breathed or trustworthy for instruction, does that mean the book of Jonah's literally true? No. [laughter] Like letting the Bible be what the Bible is was important to me, and understanding…We talked in that episode with Mako Nagasawa about how sometimes translations of the Bible differ from each other in significant ways, and we picked which one we followed, and that's just a reality [laughs]. And you can still have a very high view of the authority of Scripture, it can still guide your life, it can still be an authority, it can be all those things, and you can acknowledge realities, and your faith doesn't fall apart. That was a big one for me [laughs]. A lot of that also has to do with letting go of the need to have everything under control in a perfect little box.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: Which is a very… was just a real White way of thinking about it to be frank [laughs]. We must have our systematic theology, and everything must be clear and tied up neatly. So the last thing for me, I think, is just knowing that the way that God speaks to people changes over time. And so like I know there are ways that I could be going back and trying to find the things about my early faith that were really exciting and new and gave me these big spiritual highs, and a lot of those things just don't happen anymore. And I see that as I get older, there are so many people I know like that. And there are so many, there's such a range of reactions to that from people who are like, some people are totally comfortable with the fact that God changes how he talks to people over time.And that even happens in the Bible. People hear from God in different ways, in new ways. And there are some people who are like, can lose their faith over that. They can panic, and it's like, “I'm not hearing God the way that I heard got at one point,” and I guess the possibility of change is not there [laughs]. And so it's like, if I'm not getting that same experience, then something has gone terribly wrong or whatever, and I need to get back there. I would just really encourage people to drop that way of thinking [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Yes, absolutely.Sy Hoekstra: It is okay if your relationship with God changes, the way that you communicate with God changes.Jonathan Walton: There's nothing healthy about a plant that stays the same size over year's time.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah, exactly.Jonathan Walton: Man.Sy Hoekstra: Alright, Jonathan, you talked about this one a little bit already, but I wanted to talk about our relationships with churches and the institutions of churches. Did you have more to say on that, or was…?Jonathan Walton: Well, yeah. I think something that is intriguing to me, and I dabble in thread and Facebook debates sometimes just to ask questions.Sy Hoekstra: [laughs].Jonathan Walton: And just as an example, and friends, I again, in the just modeling the growth and change and willingness to ponder in a way that doesn't shake my salvation, I'm gonna try to model that. And so a question that came up for me yesterday while I was on threads, there's a man named Eugene Kim, who I've just followed for a little while.Sy Hoekstra: He's a pastor, right?Jonathan Walton: He was a pastor, and he is a pastor now, but they just launched this thing called the Wild Fig organization. And so essentially, they're trying to decentralize the church and say, there are lots of people who follow Jesus and wanna organize in ways that are transformative and help for them in their walks with God. And we just need to figure out a different way of credentialing people than getting folks organized around this man who we believe is God named Jesus.” And there's another thing like this out in Seattle called Dinner Church, where a church sold their building, and they have 25 dinner churches where people come to church to have dinner, and they just eat and talk about God, almost like they did in Acts. Whoopitty.Sy Hoekstra: [laughs].Jonathan Walton: And so that's what they're doing, and they're actually putting pastors in these house churches just to be present at these dinner churches. And so there are people who would say, “No, we cannot do that.” Like, I remember sitting down with a pastor in New York City who was just like, “Jonathan, I don't think that you should do campus ministry, because it should be done in the church.” And I was like, “Oh, well, I think this meeting is over.”Sy Hoekstra: [laughs].Jonathan Walton: “And I hope you pay for this food.” But all that to say it's like, that was one conversation. Another conversation was like, “If you do that, what about the traditions of the church?” All of these things. And I'm like, I hear you on the tradition, but why are we choosing to model some things from Acts and then saying other things we can't do anymore? Seems like the Great Commission commissioned all people to baptize. Seems like the Great Commission commissioned all people to… like 2 Corinthians and the model about how to take communion. I don't see where that says I can't do that at home, because they were done in homes. So all of this. Some people say that's great, some people say you can't do that.But when I was specifically looking at the Wild Fig network yesterday in this threads conversation, someone said, “You're doing a heretical thing, you're breaking off. And if you wanna join anything, just go back to the Catholic Church, because that is where it all began.” And I thought to myself, and this is a genuine question, and I haven't seen his response yet, but I said, “Did Jesus come to build the Catholic Church?” There may be, very well be an argument for that that I'm not aware of because I'm not Catholic. Right?Sy Hoekstra: Yeah, there definitely is [laughs].Jonathan Walton: There definitely is [laughter]. And so I am wondering what that means, as someone downstream of colonization, abuse, violence and oppression, coupled with the Catholic Church, the Episcopal Church, and every other Western faith, political faction that decided to join themselves on the colonialist project, I wonder if Jesus came to build the Catholic Church. And there's 1500 years of arguing about that and making that case to be true. At the same time, I'm like, 1 Corinthians one, when Paul is writing to the church at Corinth, he says, “Some might be for Paul, some might be for Cephas, which is Peter. Some might be for Apollos, but the reality is, we all need to be for Jesus.”So if this person is making an argument against pastor Eugene Kim, I'm like, “Why are you saying he can't go do that? What's the goal?” Because if Eugene goes and baptizes a thousand people, and all these people come to faith and it's an amazing thing, what is the loss for the kingdom? You know what I mean?Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. Well, so here's the loss. I still don't think this is correct, but the loss from the Catholic perspective is you only can experience the fullness of the revelation of the Spirit of God within the Catholic Church. That is where it happens, and it happens nowhere else, and it cannot happen anywhere else.Jonathan Walton: Now see, okay, this is where I would push back ridiculously hard.Sy Hoekstra: I mean, me too, but yeah [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Yeah, and using Peter, Peter in Acts chapter 10 has a very specific way that he thinks the Spirit of God is being revealed. And God blows that wide open first with a vision for him. The sheet comes down, look at this three times, three times, three times. Then the same thing for Cornelius. And so if we try to limit the spirit or movement of God, we will fail. So why do that [laughs]? There's so many points in scripture where God is breaking through in ways that we cannot fathom or recognize.Sy Hoekstra: Amen to that.Jonathan Walton: And so, I think the thing about the church, I'm like, it's evolving for me, not in the Darwin way, but just like a development. Because to be like, “Oh, evolution,” because we have these wrong conflations in our brain. But my faith is evolving, but I'm not moving farther away from Jesus, and that includes the church. Because similar to you, I would say I am closer to Jesus than I was when I was 17 years old… 16 when I got thrown across the parking lot on a motorcycle, or 19 years old when Ashley told me to follow… Ashley Byrd, me and Sy's staff worker for InterVarsity, invited me to follow Jesus. I'm still close, I'm closer to Jesus than I was then, and I've been a part of very different churches and all those things.So my relationship with God is predicated on my adoption into the capital “C” Church, not the specific church on my block in my neighborhood, or where I gather with folks. And so I'm grateful that the rapture catches all of us and not just insert your denomination here.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. So for me, I am less engaged than I used to be, but that's because what I used to do was let Christian community and Christian programming activity take up the vast majority of my free time, because I thought we had something to prove as a community. You know what I mean? Like, I thought you had to be, it's a little bit vague what I thought I think, or a little bit blurry to me now. But it was something along the lines of, some interpretation of the idea that we're the hands and feet of Jesus, or we are here to testify to him and his goodness as a community. That meant that you had to be super involved in your community. You had to be something to prove the worthiness of God, basically.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: Which is completely the opposite of what I now think, which is that no matter what your community is, the fact that God loves you is the proof of the worthiness of God [laughter].Jonathan Walton: Amen.Sy Hoekstra: You don't have to prove nothing. Similar to my quiet times and everything, it took a lot of the pressure off of my need to be involved in religious activity, and therefore it decreased, but not in like a I'm leaving the church way, just in what I think is a healthy way [laughs]. I am now very suspicious if I go to a church and the consistent thing that they are telling people to do in terms of discipleship is just get more involved in that church's programming. As opposed to being something in their neighborhood, or trying to turn outwards in some significant way. That, to me, is a big ol' red flag. I'm constantly now thinking about what is reasonable to expect of a church, versus what I would have want a church to ideally be.I think this happens to everyone as they grow up a little bit, is you start to see the inner workings of a church and how just very ordinary and sometimes petty and gross, it can be.Jonathan Walton: [laughter] Ordinary, petty and gross.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. It's just another fallen institution [laughs]. And people have all their own little individual problems, and some of those problems are big and some of them are small. And it's just not that different than any other organization. And that is disappointing if you think it's supposed to be this shining beacon on a hill, which is actually a metaphor for the kingdom of God, and not your individual neighborhood's church [laughter].Jonathan Walton: Yes, yes, yes.Sy Hoekstra: Scripturally speaking. I think about that balance more, like what can I reasonably expect versus what would I ideally want this institution to be? And from what I've talked to, like Christians who are much older than me, that never changes. That's the mature way to go about [laughter] looking at a church. You just, you have to do it that way, and not just think of the church as this thing that needs to be something that is like this shining example to the entire world of how to do or be something. And this is especially true in a context where we have the idols of empire built in. I have to go to my church in New York City in 2024 and I have to recognize this is a culture that is filled with greed and self-interest.And so odds are, this church is also going to be filled with greed and self-interest. So what can I reasonably expect from this church [laughter]? That's part of it. And again, it's just reality. It's sad. It's a thing that I had to work through emotionally. But it is also a reality that you have to come to terms with.Jonathan Walton: Amen.Sy Hoekstra: I'm much more ready to walk out of a church when I hear nonsense than I used to be [laughter].Jonathan Walton: I'm just willing to go. Thanks.Sy Hoekstra: Which I don't necessarily… that doesn't even mean like leave the community and turn my back on everyone. I just mean if I hear some nonsense from the pastor, I can go home, and that's okay [laughter]. And I've done that a few times. I had this one pastor a while back who just got on a streak. I don't know what happened, man, but it was this one month where at maybe two or three of the sermons he just said some stuff that was super ableist. I don't know what happened. He never even talked about people with disabilities before, and all of a sudden it's like, got to bring disabled people up all the time. You got to say really nonsense, insensitive, ridiculous stuff.And there was one time I just left. I was like, “I'm gonna go to the bathroom.” And then I came out of the bathroom and I was like, “Actually, I'm not going back in there.”Jonathan Walton: [laughter] Right. Yes.Sy Hoekstra: I just remember looking at the door back into the service and the door to leave the building, and the choice could not have been clearer [laughter]. It was like a hundred percent of me wants to go this way, zero percent of me wants to go that way.Jonathan Walton: Brunch with Jesus. I'm gonna leave now. Yeah, that makes sense.Sy Hoekstra: Alright, Jonathan. Last question. How have things changed between you and the rest of the world [laughs]? The people outside of the church? How are you thinking differently? I'm sure there's a lot to say here, but…Jonathan Walton: Lord have mercy. Okay, so I can be friends with non-Christians…Sy Hoekstra: [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Not every woman in the world, their primary relationship to me is I shouldn't sleep with them.Sy Hoekstra: Oh, I see.Jonathan Walton: So either this woman is my wife or a temptation. Like that…Sy Hoekstra: Oh, I got you.Jonathan Walton: This is a human being made in the image of God that I am incomplete without on this side of heaven [laughs]. Like God desires shalom between me and her or them. It's a group. Also, it's very possible to be generous to people, and if it doesn't go against my taxes, it's still a great thing to give to. Friends, there's so much crap in that, and I wanted to say the other word.Sy Hoekstra: Churches make a big deal out of that your gift here will be tax deductible or whatever [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: And institutional giving or whatever, and you're just like, “No, actually, I can tithe to the guy on the corner who needs a sandwich.”Jonathan Walton: Yes, absolutely. I also think that, along with the every, I can be friends with non-Christians, and this is still actually hard for me, is I can learn from people that don't believe in Jesus the same way I do.Sy Hoekstra: Is it hard for you? Because I think sometimes, like we were talking about Valarie Kaur the other day, the seek prophet who says amazing things and you were…Jonathan Walton: Yes, yes, yes. So here's what I mean by that. And I think my wife is the one who challenges me on this.Sy Hoekstra: Okay.Jonathan Walton: It's very different to learn from someone online and through their books, but she said, “Jonathan, when you have relationships with people, intimate relationships with them,” she said, “It doesn't register for me as you're talking with them, Jonathan, that you want to learn from them.” And I'll also be really honest, my pastor told me this. When I first met him, he invited one of his friends over, and we wanted to have this conversation. And I asked him, I said, “What was that like for you?” And he said, “Well, it seemed like you were not interested in getting to know us. You just wanted to know what we thought about these things.” And that to me, is something that I'm like, oh.I believed, past tense, and I'm still working through that, I think my relationship with God is based upon my utility to people around me, and if I'm not useful, then I'm not valuable. And if I believe it about myself, I'm gonna reflect that outwards.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: And so, something that bothers me that I'm still working through is, how can I be in relationships with people and learn from them, and not require them to change or grow in some way or become or believe like me, those things would probably be the biggest, but that last one is probably… I mean, all of those I'm still working through, but that last one is the most potent right now as I try to make friends and be in community with people. What about you? Sy Hoekstra: Yeah, the friends with non-Christians thing is funny to me. The specific thing for me is that I'm not trying to, it's similar, I'm not trying to convert and change everybody. There was a while when I was young kind of late teens or early 20s, where I literally thought just every interaction I had with a non-Christian had to be toward the end of making them a Christian at some point.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: And I now realize that ensuring the salvation of anyone, including myself, not my job [laughs]. No one ever said that was my job in the Bible, at least. And my job is to talk about the truth, like talk about what has happened in my life, but that's all I got to do. Just talk about it [laughs]. I got to testify to the truth, and that does not mean that I need any individual person ever changes as a result [laughter]. That is not part of my job. I want people to know Jesus, but that's different than thinking that everything I do must be toward some end of like, honestly kind of manipulating people into [laughs] that, which is the constant evangelical tendency, hell being the biggest manipulator. “Do this or you will be tortured forever,” and framing it that way.We're constantly framing things in terms of manipulating people to just be one of us. I don't do that anymore. Thank goodness [laughs]. And stuff like that that makes me, I look back and I'm always like, I don't think that anything I was involved in actually meets the definition of a cult. But there was some cult-y aspects of it, for sure [laughs]. There was some stuff in there that was [laughs]9 weird in terms of how you related to other people. I'm much less suspicious to the rest of the world. I don't think the rest of the world, kind of like you said about women, just anybody in general, isn't trying to tempt me out of something or send me down a wrong road, which then allows me to enjoy, not just learning from people like you said, but also just beauty and joy in places that I couldn't, I wasn't allowed to find it before.A result of all that is people are no longer projects to me. This is all very similar to what you said, actually. So I think those are my main ones. And I said the last thing was the last question, but I actually did have one more question written down here. Do you wanna [laughter] go through that one too, or no?Jonathan Walton: I mean, I think we've talked about this a lot where it's like, your last question being, how has my relationship and view of God changed?Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: And what I would say is… and you said this way back in the podcast already. I'm trying to live in the reality that God actually loves me and he actually loves other people, and that's just true. And that can be my posture bent orientation to the world at all times. And to live in that quote- unquote, belovedness is really, really, really difficult in a extractivist, culturally colonized, post-plantation, capitalistic society.Sy Hoekstra: [laughs].Jonathan Walton: It's really, really hard when every single thing that I was raised to do goes against just receiving anything.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: [laughs] I mean, that's why the grace of God is confounding. But all that to say, I think I'm trying to live in that. And I think teaching my children that has taught me that more than anything.Sy Hoekstra: Early on in my faith, one of the seeds that I think God planted really early on was, and I've talked about this before. I had a lot of trouble with the idea of hell when I was considering following Jesus. And the way that that got resolved for me was to stop, I stopped asking questions about the unfairness of the idea of hell, because I came to trust Jesus as a person and say, “Whatever thing is going on there with these problems, with the unfairness of hell that I have, Jesus did something to himself. God did something to himself in the form of the cross that was also extremely unfair [laughs], actively harmed himself in order to get us to trust him.” You know what I mean?Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: Actively harmed himself, is maybe a weird way to put it. Like, lived in such solidarity with us as humans, and especially as oppressed and vulnerable humans, that he died and had some terrible spiritual fate that people characterize in different ways, depending on what denomination you're from or whatever, happened to him [laughs]. And that then makes me trust him and ask questions about, why would God do this to God's self?Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: Why would God do this to himself, as opposed to, why would God do this to us? And I decided to follow and trust Jesus before I really had answers, or had passed through all the different theologies of hell or any of that stuff. And so the seed there is talking about truth and talking about faith as trust in a person, and not as belief in specific doctrines or trust in specific doctrines. And I've leaned way into that. That's the thing that has grown over time and has replaced a lot of the anxiety and trust that I was putting in other things that were either of my own effort, or what other people told me I had to believe or whatever, is trust in God the being, like the spiritual entity with which I have actually interacted and I know and I love.And that part of my faith has just grown, I think, exponentially, and has allowed me to be okay with things I don't understand. And I have long term things that I don't understand, that I do not have answers to that make me uncomfortable. And still be okay with that [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Yes, because it's about a relationship, not perfect understanding at all times.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah.Jonathan Walton: And if you trust God, you don't have to understand all things, just like we trust people, even though we don't understand every single thing about them.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah, which is different than trusting God as a replacement for understanding [laughs].Jonathan Walton: Yeah. So let's get into our segment Which Tab Is Still Open, where we dive a little deeper into one of the recommendations from our newsletters. And remember, you can get our newsletter for free just by going to KTFPress.com, and signing up for our mailing list. You'll get recommendations on articles, podcasts and other media from both of us on things that will help you in your political education and discipleship. Plus you'll get reflections to keep you grounded and hopeful as we engage in this challenging work together, news about what's going on with KTF and a lot more. So go get that free subscription, and if you want to, you should become a paid subscriber at KTFPress.com.So this week, Sy, we're gonna be talking about the war in Sudan. Can you summarize the main points for us?Sy Hoekstra: Yeah, sure. And I know there are some people who know nothing about this war, so I will give kind of all the basics here. Basically, Sudan has been at war for about a year and a half, since April of 2023. And it's between two state-armed factions, one is the regular military, and the other is kind of a paramilitary force that was set up at one point that were supposed to kind of integrate into each other, and instead they were fighting over power. But what they had done previously together was to suppress the popular uprising that began in 2018 and it was to oust the longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir, and it had started as these organizations called neighborhood resistance committees all over the country.It's a little bit tough to document how many of them there are, but they're these highly localized, very fluid groups that don't have a single leader who are doing all kinds of political organizing at a local level all around the country, coordinating with each other incredibly well, and also providing mutual aid and humanitarian aid as this war goes on. They basically organized these sit ins where they had, I mean, I don't remember the numbers, a ton of people in Khartoum trying to get rid of, Khartoum is the capital, trying to get rid of al-Bashir, and they successfully did it. And then they had a whole plan to transition to an actually civilian-led democratic government, but they were sort of beaten back by military and this other paramilitary group in a coup in 2021.So there was an attempt for a couple of years to really transition Sudan to a democracy government accountable to the people, and it did not work because of this counter revolutionary coup. And so the resource that I had was this podcast from Truthout that's called Movement Memos, and they were talking to two members of the Sudanese diaspora in Canada who, one of the main points they were trying to make was that this is a counter revolutionary war. A lot of the media will portray it as a civil war, and really it is forces fighting over who gets power after basically pushing people down. Racism is a big part of the context of this too, because a lot of the elites, the military and the paramilitary elites, and everybody who's in charge of the country are Arabic. Like ethnically or racially Arabic. And a lot of the people from the South and from the resistance committees who are part of the revolutionary groups are Black.So I think a lot of the reason that we haven't talked about this is the US is not directly involved. There are things that the US does that create some problems, like the sanctions that we still have on Sudan. But the reason everyone needs to care about this is, first of all, about fifteen or sixteen thousand people have died, which is not on the same scale of death as Palestine exactly or whatever, not to minimize those deaths or anything, but they have created the largest displacement crisis anywhere in the world. There are more than eight million people who have been displaced by this war. There's famine and starvation happening. Surrounding countries are refusing refugees. In some cases, Egypt has been doing this for some time.The guests of the podcast are really saying that these neighborhood committees are the people who need outside support the most, because there's, a lot of the NGOs and everybody have fled. So amidst this humanitarian crisis, these people on the ground doing this mutual aid are the only people keeping people alive. And they actually gave a link, which I will provide, to an organization called the Sudan Solidarity Committee I believe. I can't remember the last word. Sudan Solidarity something, where you can just donate money directly to these resistance committees. They're getting it to them via PayPal, and people are just dispersing it as needed. And it's direct giving. It's nothing paternalistic.You're just giving them money, and they're doing with it what they need. And apparently a lot of the Sudanese diaspora is trying to support this group, but they can't do it on their own, and a lot of them are struggling with their own, all the financial issues that come around immigrating to other parts of the world. So yeah, we'll have the link for that in the show notes. Jonathan, that's a lot of information I just gave. I just kind of wanna know what it is that you think about this whole situation, your reaction to it, anything about the podcast that you thought was interesting.Jonathan Walton: So one thing that's really important to me is history. And fortunately, whether we're talking about Gaza, whether we're talking about Haiti, whether we're talking about Hawaii, whether we're talking about any of these places, really anywhere that colonization has touched, there's a history.Sy Hoekstra: Yes. They get into that in the podcast too.Jonathan Walton: They do. They get into it in the podcast, because history, we need to understand how we got here to be able to make something different. And what I thought was normal and revolutionary is what the scholars who are participating and being interviewed and things like that, have done with their education. So the folks they're interviewing got their education here in the West with a mind for liberation of their own people, but not their own people, understanding how this racially assigned group downstream of colonialism called Black is basically undergirding the entire economy in the world for the last 350 years. We have to engage with that as a reality, that Africa as a continent can hold the United States, China, Russia and Europe in it with room to spare. The second largest rainforest in the world is in the Congo.We've got these huge, massive amounts of resources in Africa, not just but also including its people who have been enslaved in various ways by various groups for the last 400 years. So it's helpful just that background that was provided, and then how that trickles down into then conflict in Sudan.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. Can I just note one interesting fact that they've mentioned?Jonathan Walton: Absolutely.Sy Hoekstra: That I don't think we think about a lot, is when the colonial government left Sudan, they just vacated 800 government administrative positions or something. I can't remember what the exact number was. It was hundreds. They just vacated them. They did nothing to transition them. They didn't find people to fill them. They just left them empty [laughs]. And what do you think is gonna happen when you just create a massive power vacuum like that, with no transitional plan? You get a dictator, shocking. You know what I mean [laughs]? You get a dictator doing the exact same thing that the colonialist government that came before it did, which was effectively be a dictator.Jonathan Walton: Absolutely. Because whoever had access to power post the colony is the people that colonizers empowered the majority of the time. Those educated folks, those are the people with power and resources. And so what do they do? We do what's been taught to us because we're hundreds of years removed from our own ways of leadership, our own matrilineal, patrilineal, or communal ways of governing and dividing ourselves and working together. And so all we have is the master's tools, as Audre Lorde would say. And so I think that connection to history, the connection to globalized blackness, and then just the ridiculous amount of coordination that I think, in the United States and in more resource places gets minimized, but in order, and this is where I might, “Oh, Jonathan, you're a Marxist,” and da da da.But let's lean on the reality that something Ta-Nehisi Coates said, and something will come up in the newsletter is, the way that we organize ourselves and the way that we exist together in the world is not inherent. We need to have nations that do X, Y and Z. That's a young system. Sharing is as old as we are, and so could we as followers of Jesus, as people who want to see beauty, love, justice and all these things flow in the world, just connect with our neighbors in ways that are transformative and helpful to say, “You are going through something, let me leverage my creative capacity and imagination to create ways that you can get what you need?” And I shared a video on Instagram today of a young woman named Taylor was sharing from North Carolina.She said, “If we can precision bomb people in a building a world away, we can precision guide food to people who need it.” We can do that. And so what I am empowered by, Munther Isaac said this similarly with what's happening in Gaza, when you are forced to be creative, that is where Jesus is, and that's where we can learn. And I think followers of Jesus like me in Bayside, I'm like, “Oh it's so hard for me to buy nothing and figure out this free thing and do this and do that.” And it's because I could just go to Target. I could just order on Amazon, but we don't have to do that. And I was emboldened and encouraged and empowered by the creativity, because I wonder what would happen if we learned from these people.Instead of creating a new way to do things when there's a crisis, we could actually create new ways to do things before the world is just destitute. And so I'm praying for the folks of Sudan. I wanna share [laughs] the ways to give. I'll probably sign up to give myself and then just would God move in us the way he has moved in them to mutually help and care for one another amid such destitution.Sy Hoekstra: Yeah. One of the things that the guests said about the neighborhood resistance committees, that I thought was really interesting was, they were like, these committees are running services. Like they're providing food. In a couple cases, they actually took over abandoned hospitals and reopened them, found doctors and staffed them and get supplies there, whatever. They are running the country in a way that these paramilitary organizations are not. And they are out there actively proving we don't need these people [laughs]. We don't need these people, we can run the garment ourselves[laughs]. We can run the country ourselves. We have the energy to do it. We need the resources to do it. We could do so much more if there wasn't so much violence and displacement and poverty and famine.But yeah, that kind of imagination, that kind of, you're right. That kind of necessity has created in them just an incredible capacity to share and to love each other, frankly. And I also hope that we learn from that. But at the same time, that's why they've seen so much violence and repression, is because they are threatening the power structure. And not only that, but when they were doing the sit ins a few years ago, and they ousted Al-Bashir, there were other countries starting to look to them for similar resistance. There are people in, like they mentioned specifically in the podcast, there're people in Lebanon looking at Hezbollah and going, “Could we do something about this?” [laughs]People in other countries are actually looking to these Sudanese organizations. And so the ruling power structures have to shut that down. And it means that there are other countries involved in helping them shut it down. So it's like the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia and Egypt and other countries that are not interested in seeing revolutions like this [laughs] are involved, are providing weapons, are doing all kinds of things and just interfering in a regional way, in the way that we as the US are used to doing globally all the time.Jonathan Walton: Right.Sy Hoekstra: This particular conflict, the US doesn't see as being as closely aligned with its interests as say, defending Israel, or now empowering Israel to go invade other countries.Jonathan Walton: Yes [laughs].Sy Hoekstra: Which is what has just started as we are recording this. I'm sure we'll have more to say about that.Jonathan Walton: Yes.Sy Hoekstra: So go listen to this podcast. Go read more about this conflict in the media. The reason we wanted to bring it up is, I didn't wanna become the thing I'm critiquing and not talk about Sudan just because it doesn't affect the US. But man, the media is not talking about Sudan when we should be. So please go listen to this podcast. The link will be in the show notes, please just go learn more. Give if you can. They're asking for 10 Canadian dollars a month, which is like 7.50 US [laughs]. So please, if you have some money to spare, there are people in desperate need of it who are doing very good things with it. Alright, I'm gonna wrap us up there. Thank you so much for listening today. Jonathan, thank you for a great conversation, as always.Jonathan Walton: Absolutely.Sy Hoekstra: Our theme song is “Citizens” by Jon Guerra. Our podcast art is by Robyn Burgess. Transcripts by Joyce Ambale. Editing by Multitude Productions. And the producers of this show are the lovely paid subscribers. Again, please consider becoming a paid subscriber at KTFPress.com, get all the bonus episodes of this show, join our monthly Zoom calls, comment on our blog, on our Substack, and more. Thank you so much for listening, and we will see you in a couple of weeks for what I think will be the… yeah, will be the last show that we do before the election. So we'll be talking more about some current affairs then, and doing a great interview. So we will see you in two weeks.Jonathan Walton: Stay blessed y'all.[The song “Citizens” by Jon Guerra fades in. Lyrics: “I need to know there is justice/ That it will roll in abundance/ And that you're building a city/ Where we arrive as immigrants/ And you call us citizens/ And you welcome us as children home.” The song fades out.] Jonathan Walton: That was the first advo—like [sound of something repeatedly hitting the mic hard]whoa, hit the mic [laughter]. My first quote- unquote, advocacy poem that I wrote, for sure.Sy Hoekstra: But can you say that again, just without laughing or hitting the mic [laughs]?Jonathan Walton: Yeah, and slapping the mic? Yeah. This is a public episode. 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Em 2003, quando estava em seu primeiro mandato, Lula atuou para Sylvia Steiner ser eleita a primeira brasileira juíza no Tribunal Penal Internacional (TPI). Agora, 20 anos depois, o presidente deu recentes declarações desmerecendo a Corte, ao afirmar que o presidente russo Vladimir Putin poderia vir ao Brasil sem risco de ser preso – mesmo tendo contra ele um pedido de prisão por deportação ilegal de crianças ucranianas. Depois, Lula questionou o fato de o Brasil ser signatário do Tribunal - presença prevista na Constituição Brasileira. Para discutir a mudança de posição do presidente brasileiro e do próprio governo em relação à Corte, e entender as funções e desafios do Tribunal Penal Internacional, Natuza Nery conversa com Sylvia Steiner, única brasileira a atuar no TPI, entre 2003 e 2016. Neste episódio: - Sylvia explica como o Tribunal funciona: “a Corte Internacional de Justiça é o órgão judicial da ONU e julga as disputas entre estados”, diz, diferente do Penal Internacional que arbitra sobre "indivíduos que cometeram crimes”. Ela diz que o TPI julga os chamados crimes contra a paz: genocídio, contra a humanidade, crimes de guerra e de agressão; - A jurista entende que as falas de Lula e, principalmente, do ministro da Justiça, Flávio Dino, são preocupantes, já que considera o Tribunal “uma conquista da humanidade”, um “instrumento a mais na luta contra a impunidade das violações massivas de direitos fundamentais”; - “Todo o procedimento do Tribunal depende de cooperação internacional. Qualquer estado que ratifique o Estatuto de Roma assume a obrigação de cooperar com o Tribunal sempre que for solicitado. É uma obrigação internacional”, explica sobre a forma como as prisões determinadas pelo TPI são feitas, uma vez que a Corte não tem polícia própria, nem pode invadir um país para prender condenados; - Sylvia relembra que, por vezes, ordens do TPI foram ignoradas por signatários do Tratado de Roma, “como as relacionadas aos mandados de prisão contra o presidente Al Bashir, do Sudão, pelo genocídio de Darfur”. E que, contra esses países, é expedida uma decisão de caráter declaratório de descumprimento de obrigação internacional, remetendo essa decisão para a assembleia dos países signatários, que “estuda possíveis sanções a serem aplicadas”.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has told the High Court in Gauteng that arresting Russian President Vladamir Putin, if he travels to South Africa for the Brics summit in August, would be a declaration of war against Russia. And the president did not want the public to know that. However, the court ruled on Tuesday that Ramaphosa and his government's response to the Democratic Alliance's (DA's) legal attempt to force the government to arrest Putin should be made public. "It would be a reckless, unconstitutional and unlawful exercise of the powers conferred upon the government to declare war with Russia by arresting President Putin," Ramaphosa told the court in his affidavit, which he argued should be kept a secret. The court disagreed with the Presidency's assertions that Ramaphosa wanted to keep his affidavit secret "to keep the interactions with the ICC [International Criminal Court] on the warrant of arrest against President Putin confidential". In the affidavit, which has since been made public, Ramaphosa said he did not want to risk waging war with Russia. "It would be inconsistent with our Constitution to risk engaging in war with Russia. I have constitutional obligations to protect the national sovereignty, peace and security of the republic, and to respect, protect, promote and fulfil the rights of the people of the republic to life, safety and security, among other rights in the Bill of Rights," he said. In arguing for confidentiality, Ramaphosa quoted a Rome Statute article which states that a requested country "shall keep confidential a request for co-operation and any documents supporting the request confidential, except to the extent that the disclosure is necessary to the execution of the request". South Africa is a signatory to the Rome Statute, which governs the ICC. Following Tuesday's judgment, the Presidency said that Ramaphosa "was never opposed to making the affidavits public; it was only in compliance with the ICC directive that the Presidency sought to maintain confidentiality on the affidavit". The High Court order came in response to the DA's application that the government must "take all necessary steps to arrest and detain President Putin for surrender to the ICC" should he arrive for the Brics summit, expected to run from 22 to 24 August in Johannesburg. The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin in March, accusing him of war crimes relating to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine since February last year. The DA is relying on the Supreme Court of Appeal's (SCA) 2015 judgment that it was unlawful for the government not to have arrested Sudan's former president Omar al-Bashir when he attended the African Union summit in June of that year. The ICC had also issued an arrest warrant for Al-Bashir for alleged war crimes he committed during his 26-year reign before being ousted by a 2019 military coup. Ramaphosa said in his affidavit that the DA's demand for the government to arrest Putin was "incompetent" because "the government of South Africa is not cited as a party to the application, and no relief can therefore be granted against it". The DA has cited government ministries such as justice, police, international relations and cooperation, as well as the national police commissioner. The DA disputed Ramaphosa's arguments in its replying affidavit, saying the 2015 SCA Al-Bashir judgment "referred to the cited state functionary as the government". "For this reason alone, the respondents' complainant is baseless," said Elzanne Jonker, the DA's attorney of record. She added that Ramaphosa, in his papers, had not claimed that Putin was entitled to immunity from arrest and surrender to the ICC, either internationally or domestically. "All defences seek to poke holes in the way the DA has brought the case, rather than to assert that, if President Putin arrives, the government is entitled to arrest him. Yet at the same time, the president never clearly states that, he will be arrested," she said. "Instead, he [Ram...
In Arabia Saudita salta il tavolo per la tregua in Sudan, tra propaganda e accuse incrociate, mentre emerge l'ombra dell'ex dittatore al-Bashir dietro l'esercito regolare sudanese. La lotta per la spartizione del potere tra i due eserciti mette fuori gioco la società civile. Ascolta gli aggiornamenti e l'analisi di Bruna SironiIl Sudan e l'Europa che scelse il partner sbagliato. Ascolta l'editoriale del nuovo numero di giugno di Nigrizia, dal direttore Giuseppe CavalliniNel centenario della nascita di don Milani, vi racconto come l'ho conosciuto. Di Elio Boscaini
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The Democratic Alliance has launched a court application to force the South African Government to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin should he set foot in South Africa for the BRICS summit in August. In an interview with BizNews, DA Shadow Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Glynnis Breytenbach said that the DA is taking pre-emptive action to avoid a repeat of the Al-Bashir saga. She said the South African government is playing a dangerous game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It's an EmMajority Report Thursday! She hosts David Allen, historian of U.S. foreign relations, to discuss his recent book Every Citizen a Statesman: The Dream of a Democratic Foreign Policy in the American Century. Then, Emma talks to Joshua Craze, writer and researcher specializing in Sudan, to discuss the recent civil conflict that's broken out in the region over the past few weeks. First, Emma runs through updates on a brand new Clarence Thomas corruption reveal, the FED getting back into their attacks on the working class, the murders of Jordan Neely and Tyre Nichols, the anniversary of the IDF's murder of Shireen Abu Akleh, McDonald's child labor fiasco, and Montana Gov. Gianforte signing off on his state's fascist legislation, also diving into the heartless and incoherent responses from Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul to the killing of Jordan Neely on the New York subway. David Allen then joins as he dives right into the rise of undemocratic control over the US National Security State, and how it became so normalized after decades of debate. Allen first steps back to parse through the state of US Foreign Policy at the beginning of the 20th Century, with the First World War finally putting the US in an important position on the world stage, in an era with an incredibly small State Department with a much more direct relationship to Democracy, as represented by the forming of the Foreign Policy Association, an organization made up by myriad progressive activists and suffragettes, in 1918, as well as attempts to educate the American public on issues of foreign policy and collective participation. However, as the US moved out of the Second World War with a massively expanded government and State Department, as well as growing tensions (both Nuclear and otherwise) with the emergence of the Cold War, the government began to detach the public from the processes of state-making and foreign policy, establishing agencies like the National Security Council and the Department of Defense. Wrapping up, Allen walks Emma through the cementing of the exclusive nature of US Foreign Policy, the role of think tanks and elite participation, and whether any optimism is held for the future of democratic participation in USFP. Joshua Craze then joins as he parses through the rise and fall of Omar Al Bashir's rule over Sudan, the civilian transition in the wake of the 2019 ousting, and the ongoing competition between military, paramilitary, and civilian-driven groups. Next, they dive into the role of US support for military control, both in bolstering Al Bashir's neoliberal regime, and in actively pushing out civilian resistance committees in the rebuilding process due to their opposition to neoliberal economics. Wrapping up, Craze tackles the particular roles that the capital city of Khartoum and the region of Darfur play as the center stage of the warfare, the impact of the devastation in Khartoum on greater humanitarian issues, and why the most discussed solutions all involve an unpopular and impotent military gaining full power, likely starting a process of civilian transition all over again. And in the Fun Half: Emma is joined by Brandon Sutton and Matt Binder as they cover the coverage from Fox and Friends, and others, on the killing of Jordan Neely, and the updates on Crowder's workplace abuses. Dave from Jamaica dives a little deeper into the deeply upsetting response to the killing of Jordan Neely, and the fascism of the US police state, and Matt Walsh leaps to the defense of Tucker Carlson and the right to notice (the inferiority of other races and cultures), plus, your calls and IMs! Check out David's book here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674248984 Check out Joshua's work here: https://www.joshuacraze.com/ Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Subscribe to the ESVN YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/esvnshow Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here: https://am-quickie.ghost.io/ Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Get the free Majority Report App!: http://majority.fm/app Follow the Majority Report crew on Twitter: @SamSeder @EmmaVigeland @MattBinder @MattLech @BF1nn @BradKAlsop Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Subscribe to Discourse Blog, a newsletter and website for progressive essays and related fun partly run by AM Quickie writer Jack Crosbie. https://discourseblog.com/ Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Check out Ava Raiza's music here! https://avaraiza.bandcamp.com/ The Majority Report with Sam Seder - https://majorityreportradio.com/
Op een paar landen na, kun je zeggen dat vrede, veiligheid en welvaart Afrika nooit hebben bereikt. Een groot deel van het continent heeft de boot gemist, wat in het Westen leidt tot een gevoel van machteloosheid, en daarmee onverschilligheid. Aan het drama in Soedan kunnen we simpelweg niets doen. Maar het gevolg, een enorme vluchtelingenstroom, is weldegelijk ons probleem. Zuid-Soedan heeft bemiddeling aangeboden, en hoopt op verlenging van de huidige wapenstilstand, die nog geen moment is nageleefd. De VN houdt rekening met 800.000 vluchtelingen, waarvan een groot deel zal proberen naar Europa en Amerika te komen. Ze vluchten niet voor een burgeroorlog, maar omdat twee rivaliserende krijgsheren met hun legers elkaar bestrijden. Daarbij zijn vele honderden krijgers en burgers omgekomen, en vele duizenden gewond. Maar op de achtergrond speelt de haat mee tussen etnische groepen, met de Arabieren als meerderheid, en volkeren als de Fur, Beja, Nubiërs en Fallata als minderheid. Er zijn meer dan 500 stammen, die ruim 400 talen spreken. De genocide op minstens 300.000 burgers in de opstandige westelijke provincie Darfoer, twintig jaar geleden, werd uitgevoerd door een huurlingenleger van Arabieren, de Janjaweed – je zou kunnen zeggen: een soort Wagnergroep – ingezet door de toenmalige president Al-Bashir. Inmiddels noemen zij zich de Rapid Support Force en vormen het leger dat vecht tegen het regeringsleger. De meeste buitenlanders zijn inmiddels geëvacueerd, maar Rusland heeft nog vier militaire transportvliegtuigen gestuurd om 200 burgers op te pikken. Omdat het vliegveld van Khartoem voortdurend onder vuur ligt, zijn de reddingsoperaties levensgevaarlijk. Ook de haven, Port Soedan, is onveilig. Maar het meest tragische is en blijft dat de burgers er niets aan kunnen doen. Het overkomt ze, en ze zijn machteloos. Jan Pronk, oud-VN-gezant in Soedan, sprak bij BNR de hoop uit dat China zich als serieuze bemiddelaar opwerpt. Prima idee, want dat land heeft goede betrekkingen met een aantal Afrikaanse landen. Maar ook Xi Jinping kan de krijgsheren niet dwingen. Meest urgente vraag voor ons: wat doen we met die nieuwe stroom vluchtelingen? Want die komt eraan.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Op een paar landen na, kun je zeggen dat vrede, veiligheid en welvaart Afrika nooit hebben bereikt. Een groot deel van het continent heeft de boot gemist, wat in het Westen leidt tot een gevoel van machteloosheid, en daarmee onverschilligheid. Aan het drama in Soedan kunnen we simpelweg niets doen. Maar het gevolg, een enorme vluchtelingenstroom, is weldegelijk ons probleem. Zuid-Soedan heeft bemiddeling aangeboden, en hoopt op verlenging van de huidige wapenstilstand, die nog geen moment is nageleefd. De VN houdt rekening met 800.000 vluchtelingen, waarvan een groot deel zal proberen naar Europa en Amerika te komen. Ze vluchten niet voor een burgeroorlog, maar omdat twee rivaliserende krijgsheren met hun legers elkaar bestrijden. Daarbij zijn vele honderden krijgers en burgers omgekomen, en vele duizenden gewond. Maar op de achtergrond speelt de haat mee tussen etnische groepen, met de Arabieren als meerderheid, en volkeren als de Fur, Beja, Nubiërs en Fallata als minderheid. Er zijn meer dan 500 stammen, die ruim 400 talen spreken. De genocide op minstens 300.000 burgers in de opstandige westelijke provincie Darfoer, twintig jaar geleden, werd uitgevoerd door een huurlingenleger van Arabieren, de Janjaweed – je zou kunnen zeggen: een soort Wagnergroep – ingezet door de toenmalige president Al-Bashir. Inmiddels noemen zij zich de Rapid Support Force en vormen het leger dat vecht tegen het regeringsleger. De meeste buitenlanders zijn inmiddels geëvacueerd, maar Rusland heeft nog vier militaire transportvliegtuigen gestuurd om 200 burgers op te pikken. Omdat het vliegveld van Khartoem voortdurend onder vuur ligt, zijn de reddingsoperaties levensgevaarlijk. Ook de haven, Port Soedan, is onveilig. Maar het meest tragische is en blijft dat de burgers er niets aan kunnen doen. Het overkomt ze, en ze zijn machteloos. Jan Pronk, oud-VN-gezant in Soedan, sprak bij BNR de hoop uit dat China zich als serieuze bemiddelaar opwerpt. Prima idee, want dat land heeft goede betrekkingen met een aantal Afrikaanse landen. Maar ook Xi Jinping kan de krijgsheren niet dwingen. Meest urgente vraag voor ons: wat doen we met die nieuwe stroom vluchtelingen? Want die komt eraan.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
RSF Claims Ex Sudan Ruler Al-Bashir's Men Join SAF, Attack Hospital, Kill Patients ~ OsazuwaAkonedo #Aircraft #al-bashir's #Bashir #breaking #Burhan #Dagalo #Forces #hospital, #Khartoum #Medical #military #Number #OsazuwaAkonedo #Patients #RSF #SAF #security #Sudan #US https://osazuwaakonedo.news/rsf-claims-ex-sudan-ruler-al-bashirs-men-join-saf-attack-hospital-kill-patients/01/05/2023/ By RSFRSF --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/osazuwaakonedo/message
Fighting broke out on April 15th between two power factions in Sudan: the army and the largest paramilitary force. Sadly, hundreds, if not thousands of people have already been killed. To understand the current situation, we must go back to the 30-year reign of Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, the former strongman of Sudan. Al-Bashir created two rival military factions to balance each other out. However, the leaders of both groups conspired together to overthrow al-Bashir in 2019. Now they are fighting each other. Today we talk about the history of Sudan and the problems that plague most African countries. www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave. https://www.patreon.com/brohistory #276 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Pantservoertuigen in de straten, tienduizenden manschappen, gevechtsvliegtuigen die bombardementen uitvoeren. Het is oorlog in Sudan en miljoenen burgers kunnen geen kant op. Sudan is een land zo groot en zo complex, zegt correspondent Koert Lindijer in deze podcast, dat besturen er altijd moeilijk is geweest. Hij kent Sudan goed en schetst de historische context van het huidige conflict, dat volgens hem een giftige erfenis is van oud-dictator Omar al-Bashir. Het Internationaal Strafhof in Den Haag wil Bashir berechten voor genocide in de regio Darfur en het zijn zijn strijdmakkers van weleer, die nu in gevecht zijn. En om het nog extra complex te maken: zij worden geholpen door de Russische Wagner-groep. Die ingewikkelde belangenstrijd zal burgers een zorg wezen, vertelt Afrika-correspondent Elles van Gelder, want zij zitten totaal onvoorbereid thuis en vrezen voor hun leven. Elles laat telefoongesprekken horen met Sudanese burgers, die radeloos en murw geslagen zijn. Reageren? Mail dedag@radio1.nl
Kitab "Fiqh Asmaul Husna" Karya Syaikh Abdurrazzaq bin Abdul Muhsin Al-Abbad Al-Badr Hari/Tanggal : Rabu, 25 Mei 2022 Waktu : 19.45 WIB - selesai Pemateri: Ustadz Abdullah Taslim, M.A. Hafizhahullah Ta'ala Moderator : Kamaludin, S. Sos.I
Kitab "Fiqh Asmaul Husna" Karya Syaikh Abdurrazzaq bin Abdul Muhsin Al-Abbad Al-Badr Hari/Tanggal : Rabu, 18 Mei 2022 Waktu : 19.45 WIB - selesai Pemateri: Ustadz Abdullah Taslim, M.A. Hafizhahullah Ta'ala Moderator : Cahya Buwana, MSOT
Despite Sudan once being at the forefront of African cinema, only eight feature films have been made in the last 70 years. Now a new generation of film-makers has emerged, winning acclaim from audiences and awards at film festivals around the world. You Will Die at Twenty, about a young Sudanese boy, was written and directed by Amjad Abu Alala and became the country's first Oscar entry. Suzannah Mirghani's short film Al-Sit follows the 15-year-old Nafisa facing an arranged marriage. They tell us why it was important for them to make their films in Sudan, telling Sudanese stories and of the issues they faced. In April 2019 President Al Bashir was overthrown and then in October last year there was a military coup in Sudan. People have been protesting on the streets and this remains a fragile time for the country. Professor of African and African Diaspora Art History at Cornell University in New York and head of the Africa Institute in the UAE, Salah M Hassan, gives us an overview of the situation and its impact on artistic and cultural life. Artist Reem Aljeally is known for her colourful acrylic works, which unusually for Sudanese artists, sensually depict the female form. As a self-taught artist and with few places to display work, she started the Muse Multi Studios and Beit Al Nissa in Khartoum to encourage other young people, especially women, to take up art and be creative. Since the revolution of 2019 music has started to flourish again in Sudan, including traditional instruments such as the Oud and the 78-stringed qanan. One organisation that is helping young people learn to play, perform and even make these instruments is Beit Al Oud. With one of their videos going viral, qanan player Wafa Mustafa explains why they hope it will be the start of a new era in Sudanese music on the world stage. Presenter: Leila Latif Producer: Andrea Kidd Photo: A still from You Will Die at Twenty. Credit: New Wave Films)
Themen der Sendung: Der Streik der GDL sorgt für Chaos im Bahnverkehr, Bundesregierung setzt Abschiebeflüge nach Afghanistan aus, AfD-Klage vor dem Verfassungsgericht gescheitert, Corona-Beschlüsse von Bund und Ländern stoßen auf Kritik, Computer-Hacker erbeuten Kryptowährung im Wert von 600 Millionen US-Dollar, Der Sudan will Ex-Präsident Al-Bashir an den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof in Den Haag ausliefern, Kremlkritiker Nawalny droht Haftverlängerung, Brände rund ums Mittelmeer wüten weiter: Mindestens 65 Tote in Algerien, Nach verheerenden Waldbränden leidet die Türkei nun unter heftigen Überschwemmungen, Lionel Messi wechselt zu Paris St. Germain, Die Lottozahlen, Das Wetter
Themen der Sendung: Der Streik der GDL sorgt für Chaos im Bahnverkehr, Bundesregierung setzt Abschiebeflüge nach Afghanistan aus, AfD-Klage vor dem Verfassungsgericht gescheitert, Corona-Beschlüsse von Bund und Ländern stoßen auf Kritik, Computer-Hacker erbeuten Kryptowährung im Wert von 600 Millionen US-Dollar, Der Sudan will Ex-Präsident Al-Bashir an den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof in Den Haag ausliefern, Kremlkritiker Nawalny droht Haftverlängerung, Brände rund ums Mittelmeer wüten weiter: Mindestens 65 Tote in Algerien, Nach verheerenden Waldbränden leidet die Türkei nun unter heftigen Überschwemmungen, Lionel Messi wechselt zu Paris St. Germain, Die Lottozahlen, Das Wetter
Themen der Sendung: Der Streik der GDL sorgt für Chaos im Bahnverkehr, Bundesregierung setzt Abschiebeflüge nach Afghanistan aus, AfD-Klage vor dem Verfassungsgericht gescheitert, Corona-Beschlüsse von Bund und Ländern stoßen auf Kritik, Computer-Hacker erbeuten Kryptowährung im Wert von 600 Millionen US-Dollar, Der Sudan will Ex-Präsident Al-Bashir an den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof in Den Haag ausliefern, Kremlkritiker Nawalny droht Haftverlängerung, Brände rund ums Mittelmeer wüten weiter: Mindestens 65 Tote in Algerien, Nach verheerenden Waldbränden leidet die Türkei nun unter heftigen Überschwemmungen, Lionel Messi wechselt zu Paris St. Germain, Die Lottozahlen, Das Wetter
Il Sudan è il Paese esattamente sotto all'Egitto, con cui condivide un pezzo di storia e, soprattutto, il fiume Nilo.Ma il Sudan è uno Stato tutto da scoprire, dai fieri regni e sultanati del Medioevo all'indipendenza dall'impero britannico, dalla repubblica alle guerre civili che hanno dilaniato il Sud.
Shaka Ssali and Paul Ndiho discuss elections in Guinea and the ICC's delegation arrival in Sudan to discuss the prosecution of former President Omar al-Bashir. Shaka also answers questions from his social media followers. Join their conversation.
Why cannot all people be prosecuted under international law? What makes someone immune to prosecution even when they have committed the most heinous crimes. Is this diplomatic immunity still appropriate for today's world? We discuss these questions with Luisa Giannini whose research focuses on these questions in light of the Al Bashir case.
O antigo Presidente do Sudão devia ter comparecido esta terça-feira perante o tribunal. O julgamento voltou uma vez mais a ser adiado a pedido da defesa. Omar Al-Bashir é acusado de conspiração no golpe de 1989. Pouco depois da abertura do processo do antigo Presidente sudanês, a 21 de Julho, o julgamento voltou esta terça-feira, 11 de Agosto, a ser suspenso - sem nova data agendada. Nos últimos meses, o conflito armado no Darfur voltou a intensificar-se. Mais de 9,6 milhões de pessoas, um quarto da população, estão a passar fome no Sudão e a situação pode agravar-se nos próximos tempos, alertam as Nações Unidas. A inflacção de 140%, a falta de alimentos nos mercados ou ainda as fortes chuvas agravam a insegurança alimentar crónica e a pobreza no Sudão, descreve o padre comboniano José Vieira, que viveu no Sudão. "O Sudão precisa do julgamento de Al-Bashir para fazer paz com 30 anos de história", afirma.
Countries experiencing intractable conflict often exhibit high levels of corruption. Politics becomes a question of buying and selling support amongst interest groups, not serving the public interest. And violence can be used as a negotiating tactic to access more resources in the market. In this podcast, we introduce the idea of the political marketplace as a way of understanding the relationship between politics and organised violence in twenty-first century conflicts. This is a term which we use on the Conflict Research Programme to discuss the nature of the challenge facing democratic politics in societies prone to violence. We show the contrast between this idea and its opposite: the developmental state. We use Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan as examples of political marketplace societies. And we conclude by analysing the possibilities for a break with marketplace politics: the overthrow of Al-Bashir in Sudan. Featuring professor Alex de Waal (Tufts University, LSE and the World Peace Foundation), Aditya Sarkar, a researcher at Tufts University and the World Peace Foundation, and Raga Makawi, a Sudanese civil society activist. This podcast series has been funded by the UK Department of International Development as part of the Conflict Research Programme. Producers: Luke Cooper, Azaria Morgan Sound editor: Ben Higgins Millner Intro music: The Drama by Rafael Krux (used for education purposes under Creative Commons License).
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. A Khartum i primi risultati del lavoro dei commissari incaricati di sradicare l'apparato del deposto presidente El-Bashir. Etiopia: Il parlamento permette al premier Abiy Ahmed di rimanere in carica oltre il suo mandato. Ipotesi di razzismo sistemico da parte della polizia: I paesi africani chiedono una commissione d'inchiesta internazionale
(0:00:00) Acknowledgement of Country. (0:17:00) After a long history of violence and injustice to the Sudanese people at the hands of the Al-Bashir government’s severe military rule and conflict, a new government has begun to establish itself. Today, PhD candidate for Middle Eastern Studies at Exeter University, Jihad Mashamoun joins us to discuss the new government, the current political struggles and how we can expect to see Sudan progress. For more info, read Jihad’s article on the topic at https://theconversation.com/why-more-needs-to-be-done-for-democracy-to-work-in-sudan-133541 (0:41:00) Our Tram Thought this week dives deep into the world of music videos. We discuss what music videos mean to us and what they can provide for society. (1:01:00) We listened to American academic, Javon Johnson, discuss Black Joy as a form of selfcare & resistance. Javon talks about the current movements surrounding Black Lives Matter. Find out more via the link: https://buttonpoetry.com/tag/javon-johnson/ SongsChristine and the Queens - Comme si Lido Pimienta - Nada (feat. Li Saumet)Sampa The Great feat. Nicole Gumbe - Black Girl Magik Too Attached - Diversity
Lesothos statsministers fru anklagas för mord! Ett ugandiskt barn rappar mot en minister! Kaos i Sydafrikas parlament! Det har varit en Vecka. Sudans tidigare ledare ska skickas till ICC och i Etiopien stiftas internetlagar. Veckans person höll ett brandtal och kämpade mot kolonialismen. Allt detta i avsnitt 63!
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Dire Tladi is a Professor of international law at the University of Pretoria and an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch. He is a member of the UN International Law Commission and its Special Rapporteur on Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens). He is also a member of the Institut de Droit International. He is formerly Principal State Law Adviser for International Law at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation and Legal Adviser of the South African Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York. He appeared as counsel on behalf of South Africa before the International Criminal Court in relation to South Africa's non-arrest of the Sudanese President, Omar Al Bashir. He also served as counsel on behalf of the African Union before the Appeals Chamber of the ICC in relation to Jordan's non-arrest of Al Bashir.
https://www.facebook.com/streetmicpod/posts/A revolution took place in Sudan in 2019 that resulted in thousands of innocent protestors being killed in Khartoum and the military dictator Al-Bashir eventually standing down from power. A transactional government is now in place until democratic elections are held in 3 years time.StreetMic made a WhatsApp telephone call to Sudan, to have an engaging conversation with the Chair of the Sudanese Community Information Centre in London. He was on a four week trip to Sudanese capital in Khartoum. He was able to give an accurate description on, how is life in Sudan post revolution?StreetMic will upload a new episode every Sunday. We may also publish extra podcasts during the week as newsworthy events occur on the streets of London.
Í sjöunda þætti Heimskviðna komumst við að því hvað fór fram á sérstökum fundi Sameinuðu þjóðanna í New York í vikunni, þar sem loftslagsmál voru til umræðu. Ríki heims voru krafin um skýr svör um hvernig þau ætli að sporna við hlýnun jarðar, og uppfylla ákvæði Parísarsamningsins. Greta Thunberg sagði ráðamönnum til syndanna, og vísaði sem fyrr í vísindalegar rannsóknir. Rætt er við Halldór Þorbergsson, formann Loftslagsráðs, og Elínu Björk Jónsdóttur veðurfræðing. Þá halda Heimskviður til Súdan. Forsetanum Omar al-Bashir var steypt af stóli fyrr á þessu ári eftir margra mánaða mótmæli í landinu. Hann er einmitt eftirlýstur af Alþjóðaglæpadómstólunum í Haag fyrir aðild að þjóðarmorði. Ólöf Ragnarsdóttir fjallar um þennan umdeilda forseta og stöðuna í þessu stríðshrjáða landi. Ekki verður komist hjá því að ræða Donald Trump, forseta Bandaríkjanna. Demókratar ætla að hefja formlega rannsókn á því hvort forsetinn hafi gerst brotlegur í starfi þegar hann óskaði eftir því við yfirvöld í Úkraínu myndu rannsaka mál Joe Bidens, sem þykir líklegur til að verða forsetaefni Demókrataflokksins í forsetakosningunum á næsta ári. Við hlýðum á samtal Boga Ágústssonar og Silju Báru Ómarsdóttur, dósents í stjórnmálafræði við Háskóla Íslands, um þetta merkilega mál og sýn hennar á hvernig Donald Trump hefur tekist að breyta bandarískum stjórnmálum. Heimskviður er fréttaskýringaþáttur sem fjallar á ítarlegan og lifandi hátt um heimsmálin, um allt það sem ekki gerist á Íslandi. Ritstjórar þáttarins eru Guðmundur Björn Þorbjörnsson og Birta Björnsdóttir.
Í sjöunda þætti Heimskviðna komumst við að því hvað fór fram á sérstökum fundi Sameinuðu þjóðanna í New York í vikunni, þar sem loftslagsmál voru til umræðu. Ríki heims voru krafin um skýr svör um hvernig þau ætli að sporna við hlýnun jarðar, og uppfylla ákvæði Parísarsamningsins. Greta Thunberg sagði ráðamönnum til syndanna, og vísaði sem fyrr í vísindalegar rannsóknir. Rætt er við Halldór Þorbergsson, formann Loftslagsráðs, og Elínu Björk Jónsdóttur veðurfræðing. Þá halda Heimskviður til Súdan. Forsetanum Omar al-Bashir var steypt af stóli fyrr á þessu ári eftir margra mánaða mótmæli í landinu. Hann er einmitt eftirlýstur af Alþjóðaglæpadómstólunum í Haag fyrir aðild að þjóðarmorði. Ólöf Ragnarsdóttir fjallar um þennan umdeilda forseta og stöðuna í þessu stríðshrjáða landi. Ekki verður komist hjá því að ræða Donald Trump, forseta Bandaríkjanna. Demókratar ætla að hefja formlega rannsókn á því hvort forsetinn hafi gerst brotlegur í starfi þegar hann óskaði eftir því við yfirvöld í Úkraínu myndu rannsaka mál Joe Bidens, sem þykir líklegur til að verða forsetaefni Demókrataflokksins í forsetakosningunum á næsta ári. Við hlýðum á samtal Boga Ágústssonar og Silju Báru Ómarsdóttur, dósents í stjórnmálafræði við Háskóla Íslands, um þetta merkilega mál og sýn hennar á hvernig Donald Trump hefur tekist að breyta bandarískum stjórnmálum. Heimskviður er fréttaskýringaþáttur sem fjallar á ítarlegan og lifandi hátt um heimsmálin, um allt það sem ekki gerist á Íslandi. Ritstjórar þáttarins eru Guðmundur Björn Þorbjörnsson og Birta Björnsdóttir.
Í sjöunda þætti Heimskviðna komumst við að því hvað fór fram á sérstökum fundi Sameinuðu þjóðanna í New York í vikunni, þar sem loftslagsmál voru til umræðu. Ríki heims voru krafin um skýr svör um hvernig þau ætli að sporna við hlýnun jarðar, og uppfylla ákvæði Parísarsamningsins. Greta Thunberg sagði ráðamönnum til syndanna, og vísaði sem fyrr í vísindalegar rannsóknir. Rætt er við Halldór Þorbergsson, formann Loftslagsráðs, og Elínu Björk Jónsdóttur veðurfræðing. Þá halda Heimskviður til Súdan. Forsetanum Omar al-Bashir var steypt af stóli fyrr á þessu ári eftir margra mánaða mótmæli í landinu. Hann er einmitt eftirlýstur af Alþjóðaglæpadómstólunum í Haag fyrir aðild að þjóðarmorði. Ólöf Ragnarsdóttir fjallar um þennan umdeilda forseta og stöðuna í þessu stríðshrjáða landi. Ekki verður komist hjá því að ræða Donald Trump, forseta Bandaríkjanna. Demókratar ætla að hefja formlega rannsókn á því hvort forsetinn hafi gerst brotlegur í starfi þegar hann óskaði eftir því við yfirvöld í Úkraínu myndu rannsaka mál Joe Bidens, sem þykir líklegur til að verða forsetaefni Demókrataflokksins í forsetakosningunum á næsta ári. Við hlýðum á samtal Boga Ágústssonar og Silju Báru Ómarsdóttur, dósents í stjórnmálafræði við Háskóla Íslands, um þetta merkilega mál og sýn hennar á hvernig Donald Trump hefur tekist að breyta bandarískum stjórnmálum. Heimskviður er fréttaskýringaþáttur sem fjallar á ítarlegan og lifandi hátt um heimsmálin, um allt það sem ekki gerist á Íslandi. Ritstjórar þáttarins eru Guðmundur Björn Þorbjörnsson og Birta Björnsdóttir.
Í sjöunda þætti Heimskviðna komumst við að því hvað fór fram á sérstökum fundi Sameinuðu þjóðanna í New York í vikunni, þar sem loftslagsmál voru til umræðu. Ríki heims voru krafin um skýr svör um hvernig þau ætli að sporna við hlýnun jarðar, og uppfylla ákvæði Parísarsamningsins. Greta Thunberg sagði ráðamönnum til syndanna, og vísaði sem fyrr í vísindalegar rannsóknir. Rætt er við Halldór Þorbergsson, formann Loftslagsráðs, og Elínu Björk Jónsdóttur veðurfræðing. Þá halda Heimskviður til Súdan. Forsetanum Omar al-Bashir var steypt af stóli fyrr á þessu ári eftir margra mánaða mótmæli í landinu. Hann er einmitt eftirlýstur af Alþjóðaglæpadómstólunum í Haag fyrir aðild að þjóðarmorði. Ólöf Ragnarsdóttir fjallar um þennan umdeilda forseta og stöðuna í þessu stríðshrjáða landi. Ekki verður komist hjá því að ræða Donald Trump, forseta Bandaríkjanna. Demókratar ætla að hefja formlega rannsókn á því hvort forsetinn hafi gerst brotlegur í starfi þegar hann óskaði eftir því við yfirvöld í Úkraínu myndu rannsaka mál Joe Bidens, sem þykir líklegur til að verða forsetaefni Demókrataflokksins í forsetakosningunum á næsta ári. Við hlýðum á samtal Boga Ágústssonar og Silju Báru Ómarsdóttur, dósents í stjórnmálafræði við Háskóla Íslands, um þetta merkilega mál og sýn hennar á hvernig Donald Trump hefur tekist að breyta bandarískum stjórnmálum. Heimskviður er fréttaskýringaþáttur sem fjallar á ítarlegan og lifandi hátt um heimsmálin, um allt það sem ekki gerist á Íslandi. Ritstjórar þáttarins eru Guðmundur Björn Þorbjörnsson og Birta Björnsdóttir.
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Prof Lattanzi’s presentation will first deal with the question of immunities of high-ranking state officials as posed by the Commission created in 1919 by the Paris Peace Conference. In a next step, it will illustrate the facts of the Al-Bashir case with a particular emphasis on the questions posed by Jordan before the ICC appeals bench. The last and most sensitive part of the presentation will consider the argument that the ICC is not endowed with coercive powers in situations when the Rome Statute obligates a State to arrest and surrender to the Court a high-ranking state official.
We dedicate this episode to discuss the crisis in Sudan. To get a firm grasp on how the situation transpired the way it did, we start at the beginning by detailing Sudan's history. Along the way we outline the heinous crimes that Al Bashir took which led the country to the current boiling point we're witnessing.
The ousting of Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir and the plight of Christians in Sudan: will anything change for persecuted believers? Prayer requests from several countries and a time of prayer.
The ousting of Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir and the plight of Christians in Sudan: will anything change for persecuted believers? Prayer requests from several countries and a time of prayer.
The ousting of Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir and the plight of Christians in Sudan: will anything change for persecuted believers? Prayer requests from several countries and a time of prayer.
The ousting of Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir and the plight of Christians in Sudan: will anything change for persecuted believers? Prayer requests from several countries and a time of prayer.
Patreon desde Venezuela | http://patreon.com/nakyluiscarlos A pesar de las medidas cautelares otorgadas por la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Romy Moreno, esposa del jefe de despacho de Juan Guaidó, Roberto Marrero, logró verlo en la sede del Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional (Sebin) de El Helicoide después de 52 días tras su detención. Este lunes la diputada Karin Salanova y la abogada Theresly Malavé denunciaron los 17 días de desaparición que cumple el diputado Gilber Caro, explicando que funcionarios del Sebin han negado su presencia en alguna de sus sedes y que el habeas corpus que interpusieron ante el tribunal, ni siquiera fue recibido, “violando sus derechos, sin causas justificadas y sin suministrar información oficial, por lo que su paradero es totalmente desconocido”, dijo Malavé. En Barquisimeto, funcionarios del Sebin intentaron ingresar por la fuerza a la residencia del exalcalde Alfredo Ramos. Su hija denunció que durante el allanamiento él no se encontraba en la residencia, hecho que el diputado Daniel Antequera catalogó como una “persecución ilegal y absurda”. Valga el dato: hoy fue inculpado por la muerte de manifestantes el depuesto presidente sudanés Al Bashir, porque los crímenes de lesa humanidad no prescriben.
For three decades, Omar Al Bashir ruled over Sudan. But in April, in the face of growing protests, he was removed from office and the future of the country was suddenly up in the air. In this week's episode of Beyond the Headlines, we talk about the changes sweeping Sudan. Hamza Hendawi, The National’s Cairo correspondent, has been on the ground in Sudan this week. He tells foreign editor James Haines-Young about the mood in the streets of Khartoum, where since December demonstrations have drawn millions and eventually helped lead to a dramatic end to the ruinous reign of Mr Al Bashir. Now, the military along with the main protest group – dubbed the Freedom and Change Forces – are working together to oversee the transition into Sudan's new future.
Nearly three decades after Omar Al Bashir came to power, the regime faced a formidable challenge posed by a fresh wave of unrest that started in the northeastern city of Atbara on December 19th of last year! On April 6th, on the anniversary of the non-violent uprising that removed the dictator Jaafar Nimeiri in 1985, the protests in Sudan reached a watershed moment. The protesters turned up the heat on the regime by camping outside of the army headquarters in Khartoum, which also houses al-Bashir's residence - calling on the army to help them oust the country’s long time dictator On Wednesday, April 11, the defense minister Awad Ibn Ouf announced that Omar al-Bashir had been ousted and arrested by the military. He added that the army would oversee a two-year transitional period followed by elections, and that a three-months state of emergency was being put in place, with a night time curfew starting immediately. Within 24 hours General Ouf announced his resignation and named General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, general inspector of the armed forces, as his successor. In a statement issued shortly after the Armed Forces televised address, the opposition call the military transitional council “a military coup” that “reproduces the same faces and institutions that the people revolted against.” it also called on the people to maintain their sit-in outside the military headquarters until power is handed to a transitional civilian group. So what’s next for Sudan? To get some clarity on the rapidly changing situation in Sudan, Shahram Aghamir spoke with Khalid Medani, an associate professor of Political Science and Islamic Studies at McGill University in Canada.
Il Generale Haftar sfida il governo libico di Al-Sarraj e tutta la comunità internazionale avanzando su Tripoli. 25 anni dopo il genocidio del 1994 il Rwanda vive un boom economico e sociale senza precedenti.Parliamo anche di Sudan Wikileaks, Israele, Taiwan e Brasile. Immancabile poi il nostro punto della situazione su Brexit.--------------------------------------------------------
After months of street protests, people in Sudan finally got rid of the country’s long time dictator Omar Al- Bashir, but the celebration soon turned into anger when they realized one military rule is replaced by another- As one protester put it- we did not protest to replace one thief with another So what is next for Sudan? And what in store for the movement for democracy and social justice there? We will get the answers from Khalid Medani who is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Islamic Studies at McGill University in Canada And with Israeli elections topping the headlines in the past few days, we’ll get a palestinian view on the elections from the Jerusalem based writer Budour Hassan.
Na 30 jaar van schrikbewind valt het doek voor dictator Omar al-Bashir in Soedan. En dat terwijl ook Algerije een revolutie doormaakt en in Libië een nieuwe burgeroorlog dreigt. Bernard Hammelburg praat met Han ten Broeke, directeur politieke zaken van het HCSS en oud-Kamerlid voor de VVD. En opnieuw uitstel in de Brexitonderhandelingen. Daarover Pieter Omtzigt, Brexitrapporteur voor de Tweede Kamer.
News espresso: Sudan's al-Bashir overthrown, Trump aides argue over border, up to two feet of snow in the Midwest
Sudan is on the verge of a new revolution, as protesters angry at President Bashir's 30-year rule, demand change. At least 51 people have been killed since 19 December when anti-government demonstrations began, according to rights groups. Opposition parties have urged the international community to investigate the killings. "Business as usual is not possible," says Yasir Arman, deputy head of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N). Arman is leading a coalition of opposition parties called the Sudan Call alliance, that have joined doctors, lawyers, teachers and students in calling for President Omar al-Bashir to step down. "We want the international community to support the basic demands of the Sudanese people," he told RFI, following meetings with British and French envoys to Sudan and South Sudan on Wednesday and Thursday. Arman is hoping to raise Sudan's two-month old crisis at an upcoming meeting of the Human Rights Council on 25 February. "We need an international investigation into the killings," he comments. Officials say 30 people have died in the violence that was triggered on 19 December by a government decision to triple the price of bread. Rights groups put that figure to at least 51. Hopes for third revolution "We need them [the international community] to put pressure on Bashir to stop the killing. We need them to recognize the need for change in Sudan, and the right of Sudanese people to democracy and a peaceful transfer of power," he said. Al-Bashir, who seized power in a 1989 military coup, has ordered the use of force against protesters, accusing them of trying to emulate the Arab Spring. Sudan has had two successful revolutions so far. In 1964 and 1985, mass protests overthrew military dictatorships and installed civilian governments. Could these latest demonstrations--the most sustained challenge to al-Bashir's three-decade old rule--lead to a third revolution? Opposition leader Arman says "there is no future in Sudan under Bashir." To listen to his full interview, click on the play button in the photo or below. .
Sudan is on the verge of a new revolution, as protesters angry at President Bashir's 30-year rule, demand change. At least 51 people have been killed since 19 December when anti-government demonstrations began, according to rights groups. Opposition parties have urged the international community to investigate the killings. "Business as usual is not possible," says Yasir Arman, deputy head of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N). Arman is leading a coalition of opposition parties called the Sudan Call alliance, that have joined doctors, lawyers, teachers and students in calling for President Omar al-Bashir to step down. "We want the international community to support the basic demands of the Sudanese people," he told RFI, following meetings with British and French envoys to Sudan and South Sudan on Wednesday and Thursday. Arman is hoping to raise Sudan's two-month old crisis at an upcoming meeting of the Human Rights Council on 25 February. "We need an international investigation into the killings," he comments. Officials say 30 people have died in the violence that was triggered on 19 December by a government decision to triple the price of bread. Rights groups put that figure to at least 51. Hopes for third revolution "We need them [the international community] to put pressure on Bashir to stop the killing. We need them to recognize the need for change in Sudan, and the right of Sudanese people to democracy and a peaceful transfer of power," he said. Al-Bashir, who seized power in a 1989 military coup, has ordered the use of force against protesters, accusing them of trying to emulate the Arab Spring. Sudan has had two successful revolutions so far. In 1964 and 1985, mass protests overthrew military dictatorships and installed civilian governments. Could these latest demonstrations--the most sustained challenge to al-Bashir's three-decade old rule--lead to a third revolution? Opposition leader Arman says "there is no future in Sudan under Bashir." To listen to his full interview, click on the play button in the photo or below. .
In hierdie episode gesels Paul Maritz, Hermann Pretorius en Daniël Eloff oudergewoonte oor ‘n paar opspraakwekkende nuusflitse van die afgelope week. Hierdie week val hul vergrootglase op Black First Land First, die rasgedrewe drukgroep wat onlangs weer opspraak gemaak het, Suid-Afrika se voorgenome terugkeer na die Internasionale Geregtigheidshof, en die voormalige Amerikaanse President Barack Obama se onlangse besoek aan Suid-Afrika.
The United Nations has refused to comment on the specifics of the International Criminal Court ruling against South Africa but has rather reaffirmed the Court as a centerpiece of international justice. The Court on Thursday ruled that Pretoria failed to comply with the ICC's request for arrest and surrender of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and thus prevented the Court from exercising its functions and powers. That was the judgment handed down by the Court's pre-trial chamber after Pretoria failed to arrest President Al-Bashir when he visited Johannesburg during an African Union Heads of State Summit in 2015. The Court also rejected South Africa's arguments that al-Bashir enjoyed immunity while in the country as a visiting head of state. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to Professor Cathy Powell from the University of Cape Town's Constitutional Law department
South Africa is due to explain itself at the International Criminal Court, ICC, on why President Omar Al Bashir was not arrested when he was here in 2015 on Friday, 7 April. Bashir was attending the African Union (AU) Summit in Johannesburg. Bashir is wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity. Sakina Kamwendo speaks to Executive Director of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre,SALC, Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh, whose organisation sought the implementation of an arrest warrant for Al Bashir
The South African Litigation Centre has argued in the high court in Pretoria that the decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court was made to protect Sudan's leader Omar Al Bashir from arrest when he visited the country for the African Union summit in June 2015. SALC's advocate, Max du Plessis, says the Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that the hosting agreement for the summit did not confer any immunity on Al Bashir and that the South African government had an obligation to detain him. The DA is challenging government's withdrawal from the International Criminal court .
Government says it may take the Supreme Court of Appeals ruling on Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to the Constitutional court. It was reacting to the SCA's dismissal of government's appeal against the Pretoria High Court ruling that al-Bashir should have been arrested when he attended the African Union (AU) Summit in Johannesburg in June last year. The SCA ruled that government as a signatory to the Rome Statute, was obliged to arrest Al-Bashir and hand him over to the International Criminal Court in the Hague and that it had acted unlawfully by allowing him to leave the country
he executive director of the International Bar Association Mark Ellis supports the decision by South Africa's supreme court helps to uphold the principal of universal jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. The supreme court said the South African government should have handed over ICC indicted Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir when he attended an African Union summit in Johannesburg last June - the governement says he had diplomatic immunity and are considering challenging the ruling in the constitutional court. Mark Ellis says all countries signed up the the ICC have the responsibility to hand over wanted war criminals including heads of state. The International Criminal Court was set up over 10 years ago to fight impunity at the highest level and is undergoing a process of requesting an explanation from South Africa about why they didn't arrest president Al-Bashir.
The South African government has made a submission for an extension to explain to the International Criminal Court why they did not transfer Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir to The Hague when he attended an EU summit in Johannesburg in June 2015. The ICC has an arrest warrant out against the president for his alleged involvement in the atrocities in Darfur in 2003 which left approximately 300 thousand people dead. South Africa's ministry for justice says the ICC must wait for details of what happened when President Al Bashir was in the country until after the issue has been processed in national courts. Our Europe correspondent Jack Parrock reports.
TOP STORIES ON AFRICA RISE AND SHINE THIS HOUR... *** Burundi ruling party slams EU sanctions against four senior members... *** South Africa asks ICC for more time to explain why it failed to arrest President Al Bashir... *** UN condemns deadly attack on a hospital in Afghanistan.... *** In Economics: World Bank reduces growth outlook for South Africa.... *** And In Sports: South Africa thrash India by six wickets in T20 international...
The International Criminal Court has given the South African up to today (05 October) to give reasons why they did not arrest Omar Al-Bashir when he was in the country attending the African Union Summit in Johannesburg. President Jacob Zuma has defended the decision to allow Al Bashir to leave the country, because he was protected as a guest of the African Union. To look at the implication of this, we speak to Senior Researcher at the Institute for Global Dialogue, Sanusha Naidu
President Jacob Zuma says government is studying the International Criminal Court's deadline of the 4th of next month to respond to its order regarding Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir. The ICC earlier ordered South Africa to explain why it did not arrest Bashir when he was in the country in July. President Al-Bashir has been wanted since 2009 on charges of crimes against humanity. Presidential Correspondent Tshepo Ikaneng reports
TOP STORIES ON AFRICA RISE AND SHINE THIS HOUR... * Opposition parties in South Africa's parliament attack the ruling party of the Al-Bashir arrest issue * Zimbabwe's child rights activists are calling for the immediate resignation of the country's Prosecutor General Johannes Tomana... * In sports: South African premiership side Orlando Pirates is eager to on AC Leopards in the Confederation Cup Group B clash
Netwerk24 has revealed that about 1 400 South African soldiers in Darfur were held “hostage” by Sudanese troops when the drama around Al-Bashir's possible arrest in South Africa escalated.
Regterpresident kritiseer regering oor Al-Bashir
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The justice department is preparing for arguments in the High Court in Pretoria, amidst reports that Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir had already left South Africa last night. However, it could not be verified. Al-Bashir's reported departure came against an order by the High Court in Pretoria made earlier yesterday afternoon, compelling South African authorities to not allow the Sudanese president to leave the country. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to the Spokesperson for the department of Justice, Advocate Mthunzi Mhaga...
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Judge Hans Fabricius has ruled that the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, be prohibited from leaving South Africa, and that the Department of Home Affairs should ensure that the order is sent to every port of entry and exit in country. This pending the final ruling by the High Court in Pretoria tomorrow, on the application by Southern African Litigation Centre to have the South African government arrest Al-Bashir. Lawyer from the Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC), Caroline James & Professor Charles Villa-Vicencio, senior research fellow in the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation ...
By Gearóid Ó Colmáin; Global Research, June 15, 2013 In an interview with the French TV station LCP, former French minister for Foreign Affairs Roland Dumas said: ‘’ I’m going to tell you something. I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in Syria. This was in Britain not in America. Britain was organizing an invasion of rebels into Syria. They even asked me, although I was no longer minister for foreign affairs, if I would like to participate. Naturally, I refused, I said I’m French, that doesn’t interest me.’’ Dumas went on give the audience a quick lesson on the real reason for the war that has now claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people. ‘’This operation goes way back. It was prepared, preconceived and planned… in the region it is important to know that this Syrian regime has a very anti-Israeli stance. Consequently, everything that moves in the region- and I have this from the former Israeli prime minister who told me ‘we’ll try to get on with our neighbours but those who don’t agree with us will be destroyed. It’s a type of politics, a view of history, why not after all. But one should know about it.’’ Dumas is a retired French foreign minister who is obliged to use discretion when revealing secrets which could affect French foreign policy. That is why he made the statement ‘I am French, that doesn’t interest me’. He could not reveal France’s role in the British plan as he would be exposing himself to prosecution for revealing state secrets. There have been many disinformation agents in the British and French press, many of them well known ‘leftist’ war correspondents and commentators, who have tried to pretend that Israel secretly supports Assad. Those who make such arguments are either stupid, ignorant or deliberate disinformation agents of NATO and Israel. Israel’s support for Al Qaeda militants in Syria has even been admitted by the mainstream press. For example, Germany’s Die Welt newspaper published a report on June 12th on Israel’s medical treatment of the Al Qaeda fighters. Israel planned this war of annihilation years ago in accordance with the Yinon Plan, which advocates balkanization of all states that pose a threat to Israel. The Zionist entity is using Britain and France to goad the reluctant Obama administration into sending more American troops to their death in Syria on behalf of Tel Aviv. Of all the aggressor states against Syria, Israel has been the quietest from the start. That is because Laurent Fabius, Francois Holland, William Hague and David Cameron are doing their bidding by attempting to drag Israel’s American Leviathan into another ruinous war so that Israel can get control of the Middle East’s energy reserves, eventually replacing the United States as the ruling state in the world. It has also been necessary for Tel Aviv to remain silent so as not to expose their role in the ‘revolutions’, given the fact that the Jihadist fanatics don’t realize they are fighting for Israel. This is the ideology of Zionism which cares no more for Jews than it does for its perceived enemies. The Jewish colony is determined to become a ruling state in the Middle East in the insane delusion that this will enable it to replace the United States as a global hegemon, once the US collapses fighting Israel’s wars. Israeli Prime Minister once told American talk show host Bill Maher that the reason why Israel always wins short conflicts, while the United States gets bogged down in endless wars. ‘’ The secret is that we have America’’, he said. But Israel is itself slowly collapsing. If one excludes the enslaved Palestinian population, the Jewish state still has the highest level of poverty in the developed world with more and more Jews choosing to leave the ‘promised’ land, a garrison state led by mad men, an anti-Semitic entity threatening to engulf the world in war and destruction. Israel cares no more about its own working class Jews than any other ethnic community. In fact, if the Likudnik crooks running the Israeli colony get their way, working class Israelis will be among the first to pay as they are conscripted to fight terrorists created by their own government. With orthodox Jews protesting in the streets of New York against Israel and Haredi Jewish minority opposing Israel’s rampant militarism, Zionism is coming under increased attack from Jewish religious authorities and non-Zionist Jews both inside and outside of the occupied territories. This is not the first time that Roland Dumas has spoken out against wars of aggression waged by successive French regimes. In 2011 he revealed that he had been asked by the United States when he was foreign minister in the Mitterrand administration to organize the bombing of Libya. On that occasion the French refused to cooperate. Dumas, a lawyer by profession, offered to defend Colonel Gaddafi, at the International Criminal Court in the event of his arrest by Nato. Dumas was also vocal in condemning France’s brutal neo-colonial bombing of the Ivory Coast earlier in 2011, were death squads and terrorists similar to those later deployed in Libya and Syria were unleashed upon the Ivoirian population in order to install a IMF puppet dictator Alassane Quattara in power. Gbagbo was described as one of the greatest African leaders of the past 20 years by Jean Ziegler, sociologist and former member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council. Gbagbo had plans to nationalize banks and wrest control of the country’s currency from the colonial finance institutions in Paris. He also wanted to roll back many of the worst effects of IMF restructuring by nationalizing industries and creating a functioning, universal free health service. All of this threatened the interests of French corporations in the former French colony. So, the Parisian oligarchy went to work to find a suitable replacement as caretaker of their Ivoirian colony. They sent in armed terrorist gangs, or ‘rebel’s in the doublespeak of imperialism, who murdered all before them while the French media blamed president Gbagbo for the violence that ensued. Gbagbo and Gaddafi had opposed Africom, the Pentagon’s plan to recolonize Africa. That was another reason for the 2011 bombing of their two African countries. The formula is always the same. Imperialism backs ‘rebels’, whenever its interests are threatened by regimes that love their country more than foreign corporations. One should not forgot that during the Spanish Civil War of 1936, General Franco and his cronies were also ‘rebels’ and they, like their counterparts in Libya in 2011, were bombed to power by foreign powers, replacing a progressive, republican administration with fascism. There are pro-Israeli fanatics in France who have used the analogy of the Spanish Civil War as justification for intervention in Libya and Syria. The pseudo-philosopher Henry Bernard Levy is one of them. Of course, the ignoramus Levy doesn’t realize that the reason France, England and the USA did not officially intervene in the Spanish Civil War is because they were covertly helping the ‘rebels’ from the start. They enabled arms shipments to the Francoist ‘rebels’ while preventing arms deliveries to the Spanish government, who, like Syria today, were helped by Moscow. Anyone who has studied the Spanish Civil War knows that all the imperialist countries wanted Franco as a bulwark against communism. There is nothing imperialism loves more than a rebel without a cause. What imperialism hates, however, are revolutionaries. That is why the ‘rebels’ which imperialism sends into other countries to colonize them on behalf of foreign banks and corporations, have to be marketed as ‘revolutionaries’ in order to assure the support of the Monty Python brigade of petty-bourgeois, ‘ leftist’ dupes such as Democracy Now! and their ilk. Dumas is not the only top French official to denounce the New World Order. Former French ambassador to Syria Michel Raimbaud wrote a book in 2012 entitled ‘Le Soudan dans tous les états’, where he revealed how Israel planned and instigated a civil war in South Sudan in order to balkanize a country led by a pro-Palestinian government. He also exposed the pro-Israeli media groups and ‘human rights’ NGOS who created the ‘humanitarian’ narrative calling for military intervention by the United States in the conflict. The subject was covered extensively by African investigative journalist Charles Onana in his 2009 book, Al-Bashir & Darfour LA CONTRE ENQUÊTE. There are many more retired French officials who are speaking out about the ruinous policies of this French government, including the former head of French domestic intelligence Yves Bonnet. There have also been reports of dissent in the French armed forces and intelligence apparatus. After the assassination of Colonel Gaddafi in October 2011, the former French ambassador to Libya Christian Graeff told French radio station France Culture that it was responsible for the diffusion of lies and war propaganda on behalf of Nato throughout the war. Graeff also warned the broadcasters that such disinformation could only work on the minds of serfs but not in a country of free minds. The power of the Israeli lobby in France is a subject rarely discussed in polite circles. In France there is a law against questioning or denial of the holocaust. However, denial of the Korean holocaust, Guatemalan holocaust, Palestinian holocaust, Indonesian holocaust and the dozens of other US/Israeli supported genocides is not only perfectly legal but is the respectable norm. The same lobby which introduced the Loi Gayssot in 1990, effectively ending freedom of expression in France, would also like to ban any independent investigations of genocides whose narratives they have written, such as the Rwanda genocide, where Israel played a key role in supporting the ‘rebels’ led by Paul Kagame, who invaded Rwanda from Uganda from 1991 to 1994, leading to the genocide of both Tutus and Tutsis. Many serious scholars have written about the Rwandan genocide, which the Israel lobby repeatedly uses as a case study to justify ‘humanitarian’ intervention by Western powers. The Zionist thought police would like to see such authors prosecuted for ‘negating’ imperialism’s disgusting lies on African conflicts. Now, the Israeli Lobby is forcing the (their) French government to prosecute twitter messages which the lobby deems ‘anti-Semitic’. This is one further step towards the creation of a totalitarian state where any criticism of imperialism, foreign wars, racism, oppression, perhaps eventually capitalism itself could fall under the rubric of ‘anti-Semitism’. These people are sick, and those who cow down to them are sicker. Perhaps the etymology of sickness, a word cognate with the German Sicherheit (security) according to dictionary.com, is not a coincidence. For what is particularly sick about our society is the cult of security, endless surveillance, ubiquitous cameras, the cult of the all seeing eye, the prurient gaze as part of the incessant discourse on terrorism by those who specialize in the training of the very terrorists they claim to be protecting us from. Whether or not the words security and sickness are linguistically related, they are certainly cognate in a philosophical sense. Roland Dumas and others like him should be highly commended for having to guts to say what so many others are too morally corrupt, too weak and cowardly to admit. As the French government and its media agencies drum up hysteria for war on Syria, Roland Dumas, now in the twilight of his years, is warning people of the consequences of not understanding where Israel is leading the world. Will enough people heed the warning? Thats All every body, thanks for listening. Goodnight and goodbye
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