ISRAEL’S KNESSET UNITES FOR NEW ELECTION, DESPITE NETANYAHU’S EFFORTS
Israel’s Knesset voted (on the 20th of May) 110-0 for a preliminary reading of a government-backed bill to dissolve the Knesset. If it becomes law, it triggers a new election, on a date set by the House Committee, sometime within 3 months of its passage. While formally only a first step, politically it may be […]
IRGC WARNS US, ISRAEL RESUMES AGGRESSION IRAN WILL ‘PUSH WAR BEYOND REGION’
In answer to the threats repeatedly issued by Donald Trump, the IRGC issued a statement warning that if the U.S. and Israel resume their war of aggression on Iran, Iran would expand the conflict beyond the region. “The American-Zionist enemies, which have failed to learn lessons from their major and repeated strategic defeats against the […]
COMPENSATION FUND STRENGTHENS ANTI-FRAUD CONTROLS AND RECORDS A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN FRAUD LOSSES
The Compensation Fund (CF), an entity of the Department of Employment and Labour, notes with serious concern recent media reports highlighting fraud-related losses and governance challenges within the Fund. These reports, which refer to fraudulent bank account changes and intercepted payments, point to historical control weaknesses that created opportunities for abuse. The Fund wishes to […]
A NEW TYPE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IS ON THE AGENDA
Two very different possible futures stare humanity in the face, and we, as a species, have reached what the poet Friedrich Schiller called a punctum saliens, the salient point in history at which we must choose one of two very different directions. The first possible future was advanced in the important state visit just concluded […]