Soldiers Must Disobey Unlawful Orders Under Trump — It’s Their Legal Duty

November 25, 2025

Marjorie Cohn

I have been called to testify at courts-martial as an expert witness on servicemembers’ duty to disobey unlawful orders.

تنکس‌گیوینگ دی یا روز شکرگذاری

آیا ما انسان‌ها هوشمندترین موجودات در این کهکشان هستیم؟ ما شخصی‌ مانند ستفن هاکینگ را داشتیم که هفت سال پیش فوت کرد، و گرچه اکثر هفتاد و شش سال عمرش را با بیماری کشنده‌ای به سر برد، ولی‌ به عنوان یکی‌ از بزرگ‌ترین نوابغ جهان شناخته شده است. بسیاری از نقاط جهان فیزیکی‌ ما هنوز کشف نشده باقی‌ مانده‌ا‌ند، بخصوص کهکشان‌ها، کرات و سیارات دیگر. ولی‌ این را می‌دانیم که بر روی کرهٔ زمین، ما انسان‌ها خود را از کلیهٔ موجودات دیگر باهوش‌تر می‌دانیم. گرچه، با توجه به تسلیحات نظامی که صرفا برای کشتار انسان‌ها و صدمه زدن به طبیعت اختراع می‌شوند و گسترش می‌یابند، میزان هوش و دانش ما انسان‌ها زیر پرسش قرار می‌گیرد.ا

Trump Is Turning Gaza Into a Brutal Colonial Protection Racket

November 25, 2025
Jonathan Cook

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ will never be meaningfully realized – and was never intended to be. It is simply a way to justify prolonging Gaza’s living hell

France seeks progress on nuclear talks as Iran top diplomat to visit Paris

November 24, 2025
al jaz, Elis Gjevori and News Agencies

France will host Iran’s foreign minister in Paris this week for talks that are set to include stalled nuclear negotiations.

LIVE BLOG: Deadly Strikes in Gaza as Calls Grow in Israel for an Inquiry into October 7 – Day 779

November 23, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
69756	170946	9500

Zelensky is sending a very important signal about Trump’s peace plan

November 22, 2025
Tarik Cyril Amar

The Ukrainian leader has left all options open in response to the 28-point draft – and that is a sensation in itself

"You Have a Mother" - Read by Eunice Wong

November 21, 2025
Chris Hedges

We lost my dear friend, Lola Mozes, who survived Auschwitz, this morning. I wrote her story a decade ago.

View of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Two rows of barbed wire encircle the camp. The path between could be easily machine-gunned from the watch towers. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Secret ‘Mass Surveillance Network’ by Border Patrol Tracks ‘Suspicious’ Driving Patterns of Americans

November 20, 2025
Brad Reed

The Border Patrol is engaging in “dragnet surveillance of Americans on the streets, on the highways, in their cities, in their communities,” charged one critic.

Gaza’s Palestinians sceptical after UN resolution ‘ignored humanitarian needs’

November 19, 2025
Maha Hussaini

Residents warn new UNSC plan ties Gaza’s recovery to politics and leaves urgent humanitarian needs unmet

پرواز

کسانی‌ که به شعر علاقه دارند به یقین فروغ فرخزاد را می‌شناسند. او در سن سی‌ و دو سالگی در یک سانحهٔ رانندگی‌ کشته شد. از فروغ پنج کتاب تحت عنوان؛ اسیر، دیوار، عصیان، تولدی دیگر، و ایمان بیاوریم به آغاز فصل سرد، به جای مانده است، که دو کتاب پسین تحولی‌ در شعر نو بودند. او در آخرین کتاب خود شعری دارد تحت عنوان "پرنده مُردنی ‌است". این یکی‌ از اشعار کوتاه ولی‌ بسیار زیبای فروغ است، که می‌گوید:ا

Americans should be enraged’: reports expose unprecedented corruption at Trump DOJ

November 17, 2025
Brad Reed

“I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm.”

Ur-Caesarism: The Left keeps calling Trump a fascist – they’re missing the point

November 17, 2025
Joaquin Flores

The new left cannot see Napoleon or Caesar as progressive, as Parenti or Gramsci did.

Student protests and general strike, Paris, May 1968

Israel Strikes Gaza beyond ‘Yellow Line’ as Palestinian Killed in Occupied West Bank – Day 772

November 16, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
69,187	170,703	9,500

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

Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing

November 15, 2025
Dan Steinbock

In October, amid the two-year anniversary of the Gaza genocide, Jewish settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank hit an all-time high. And they will escalate – as long as they are allowed by U.S.-led West.

US approves new $330m arms deal for Taiwan

November 14, 2025

China condemned the sale and reiterated that Taiwan is its ‘first red line’ in relations with Washington

Israeli Warplanes Continue to Bomb Gaza Cities Despite Ceasefire Deal

November 11, 2025

Israel has carried out fresh attacks on Gaza in its latest violation of October’s ceasefire agreement. 

The World Wants to Advance to Socialism

 
Vijay Prashad
The refashioned liberals and social democrats are back. They have positioned themselves as the saviors of the world; they act as Reason to the unreasonableness of neo-fascism. This is possible because their forebearers have collapsed in the puddle of neoliberalism and technocracy, and because their adversaries now present themselves as the howling wolves of the extreme right. The refashioned liberals and social democrats are like zombies, the reanimated corpse of a dead liberalism.1

Al-Qaeda Goes to Washington

November 11, 2025
Patrick Lawrence

Al–Sharaa’s White House visit is a reminder of Washington’s longstanding abhorrence of democratic processes and anyone — beyond the perimeter of the West and sometimes within it — who stands for them.

بهرام مشیری

می‌گویند با تمام پلیدی‌های رژیم اسلامی، و ضرباتی که چه از نظر سیاسی و اجتماعی، و چه از نظر اقتصادی و مالی‌ این رژیم منحوس به ایرانیان وارد کرده است، اگر بخواهیم یک خاصیت برای آن بیابیم، شناساندن اسلام، دین، و خداشناسی به طور کلی‌ به ایرانیان بود.ا

‘We are not waiting for permission to survive’: A Jamaican perspective on COP30 after Hurricane Melissa

November 11, 2025
Janine Mendes-Franco

‘Their profits were built on our pain’

‘Action COP30 Promises’; Photo by UN Climate Change – Kamran Guliyev on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).