The Tomorrow Club aims to support and mentor young writers amid polarity and tech-driven chaos

December 26, 2025
Mong Palatino

An interview with PEN International about the Asia focus of its Tomorrow Club

In the Galilee hills, Christmas celebrations revive a depopulated Palestinian village

December 24, 2025
Samah Watad

After a two-year absence, displaced residents and their descendants returned to Bir'im — part of efforts since 1948 to keep the community alive.

People gather near the entrance to the the church at the Christmas market in Bir'im, Dec. 13, 2025. (Anna Maria Hawa)

I did not understand I grew up in a concentration camp until I left Gaza

December 24, 2025
Abdalrahim Abuwarda

Growing up in Gaza, I didn't realize that the siege I was living under was unique or that others didn't face a constant threat of death. It was only after I left that I understood I had grown up in a concentration camp, and that it shaped my life.

on February 16, 2009. The attacks came despite ceasefires declared on January 18, 2009, after a three-week Israeli offensive against the territory’s Hamas rulers that killed 1,330 Palestinians (Photo: APAIMAGES PHOTO / Ashraf Amra)

پایان دنیا

نخست بپردازیم به چگونگیِ آغازِ این جهان. از آنجائی که ما اطلاعات مکتوبی از زمانی‌ که جهان ما میلیون‌ها سال پیش به وجود آمد نداریم، به فرضیات دانشمندان در این رشته می‌پردازیم. در این مورد دانشمندان متبحّر در نجوم و ستاره‌شناسی‌ انگاشت‌های جالب و قابل قبولی از آغازِ دنیای ما به رشته تحریر در آورده‌ا‌ند. بر اساس محاسبات آنها، کره زمین بیش از چهارونیم میلیون سال پیش به صورت یک گوی مذاب شکل گرفت. گاز‌ها و گردهایی که تولید شدند در هم آمیختند و خوشهٔ سحابی یا نبولا را به وجود آوردند. در کهکشان یا راه شیری که منظومهٔ شمسی‌ قرار دارد، بیش از پانصد منظومهٔ دیگر نیز کشف شده‌ا‌ند. پس از آنکه در کرهٔ ما اقیانوس‌ها و کوه‌ها و سایر عوارض زمین شکل گرفتند، محیط برای تولید موجودات تک‌سلولی مساعد شد. در نهایت، این سلول‌ها بصورت انسان امروزی تکامل یافتند. این بود داستان علت وجودی ما انسان‌ها بطور خیلی‌ مختصر!ا

Think a $35B gas deal will thaw Egypt toward Israel? Not so fast. Think a $35B gas deal will thaw Egypt toward Israel? Not so fast.

December 23, 2025
Elfadil Ibrahim

Trump wants a summit to celebrate the agreement but the smoking ruins of Gaza appear to be getting in the way.

Why We Are on Hunger Strike in UK Jails

December 22, 2025
Amu Gib

Amu Gib is one of eight prisoners incarcerated for alleged involvement in direct action against Israeli genocide currently on hunger strike in UK jails. This piece is based on interviews conducted by Ainle Ó Cairealláin and ES Wight on Days 18 and 33 of the strike. Amu has subsequently been hospitalised, on Day 50 of their strike, the sixth hunger striker to be so.

 
London protest in support of jailed Palestinian rights hunger strikers. Screengrab from video posted to Instagram.

Two Killed near Gaza’s ‘Yellow Line’ as Hospitals Warn of Imminent Collapse

December 21, 2025

Israeli fire killed two Palestinians near Gaza’s Yellow Line as hospitals warned of collapse amid ongoing restrictions and attacks despite the ceasefire.

Killed	Wounded	Missing
70,926	171,185	9,500

Flee or Stagnate: Haiti’s Youth Face Impossible Psychological Dilemma

December19, 2025
Magdala Louis
Lucnise Duquereste

Trapped by shuttered schools, few jobs, violence and closed borders, a generation of Haitians is suffering a devastating mental health crisis.

Makeshift tents fill a camp set up by people displaced from their homes by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Trump Administration Sets Goal to Denaturalize Thousands of US Citizens in 2026

December 18, 2025
Sharon Zhang

Immigration officials have reportedly issued guidance setting a quota of 100 to 200 denaturalization cases a month.

Homeland Security Advisor and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller delivers remarks as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers an announcement in the White House on October 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

Tucker Carlson and the Freedom of Speech

December 18, 2025
Andrew P. Napolitano
Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf of himself and 40 other Senate Democrats that, if passed, would record the sense of the Senate as condemning the media superstar Tucker Carlson because of the political, historical and cultural opinions of a guest on Carlson’s podcast. You read that correctly: The U.S. Senate is being asked to condemn Carlson because of what someone else said.

Another Gaza home caves in as Israel keeps blocking shelter supplies

December 17, 2025
Federica Marsi and Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
·         The roof of a war-damaged family home has collapsed in the harsh winter storm in Gaza’s Shati refugee camp, with rescue workers managing to save six Palestinians, including two children.
·         A two-week-old Palestinian infant has frozen to death in the Gaza Strip, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
·         Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 70,668 Palestinians and wounded 171,152 since October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023 attacks, and about 200 were taken captive.

 
Weather becomes weapon in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza

در آغاز

متن انگلیسی‌ این مقاله را می‌توان در این وبلاگ، به تاریخ نهم ماه می‌‌سال دوهزار و هفده یافت. از آنجائی که موضوع این مقاله که من در آن تاریخ نوشتم و در این وبلاگ درج کردم هنوز تازه است، تصمیم گرفتم 

که ترجمهٔ پارسی‌ آنرا نیز، با لخته‌ای تغییرات، در اینجا بیاورم.ا

From nukes to AI, China seeks to write new global rules

December 16, 2025
Ladislav Zemánek

Beijing is making a bold bid to shape how the world thinks about war, peace, and power in the decades ahead

Rebranding Genocide

December 15, 2025

The Genocide in Gaza has not stopped. It has been rebranded. And that is enough of a linguistic subterfuge to get the world to ignore it.

See No Evil Hear No Evil Speak No Evil — by Mr. Fish

LIVE BLOG: Hamas Confirms Saad’s Assassination as Israeli Ceasefire Violations Continue – Day 800

December 14, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
70,654	171,095	9,500

Freezing temperatures and heavy rainfall are worsening already dire living conditions for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians across the Strip. (Photo: social media, via QNN)

12 Dead After Shooters Target Hanukkah Celebration at Australia’s Bondi Beach

December 14, 2025
Jessica Corbett

“The images out of Bondi Beach in Australia this morning of a vile, antisemitic massacre at a Hanukkah celebration are shocking, disgusting, and heartbreaking,” said Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a US Senate candidate.

A member of the public leaves the scene with her child, who is covered in an emergency blanket, after a shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on December 14, 2025.

Israel’s expanding ‘Yellow Line’ swallows Gaza districts and uproots families

December 13, 2025
Maha Hussaini

Palestinian families are forced to flee their homes in silence as Israeli deployment lines creep closer, despite the ceasefire

‘A forceful stand for our constitution’: judge orders release of Kilmar Ábrego García

December 11, 2025
Brett Wilkins

Judge Paula Xinis found that the Trump administration redetained the Salvadoran father of three “without lawful authority.”

Zelensky’s rush to elections is a blatant effort to cling to power and keep the money flowing

December 11, 2025
Ian Proud

Zelensky’s offer to rush to early elections appears just another Kvartal 95 inspired piece of theatre.

Climate Breakdown: Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

December 10, 2025
Tom Engelhardt
( Tomdispatch.com ) – What self-destructive creatures we turn out to be!