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Thursday, July 10, 2025

‘Like a video game’: Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones

Yuval Abraham
The Israeli army is weaponizing Chinese-made drones to police expulsion orders across Gaza, with soldiers saying they deliberately target civilians so others will ‘learn’ not to return, an investigation reveals.
 A rendering of an EVO drone hovering over the ruins of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, February 11, 2025. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
 A rendering of an EVO drone hovering over the ruins of Khan Younis, Sourthern Gaza Strip, February 11, 2025

20 years of BDS: An interview with Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of the movement

On the 20th anniversary of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, Mondoweiss speaks with Omar Barghouti about the past, present, and future of the movement.
(Photo: Palestine Solidarity Campaign) 

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

The Abraham Shield: Israel’s new blueprint for regional control after Gaza

July 8, 2025
Sarah B.
A New Name for an Old Strategy
As the latest Gaza ceasefire teeters into effect and Trump pushes for Saudi-Israeli normalization, Israel’s security establishment has unveiled its next regional blueprint: the Abraham Shield Plan.
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داستان دو مادربزرگ

مادربزرگ‌های من زندگی کاملاً متفاوتی داشتند، با این حال هر دو بیش از صد سال عمر کردند
Photo of author's grandmother, RuthPhoto of author's grandmother, Charlotte

A Tale of ­Two Grandmothers

July 9, 2025
By David Hochman
My grandmas lived completely different lives, yet they both lived to be over 100 years old. How?
Photo of author's grandmother, RuthPhoto of author's grandmother, Charlotte

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Genocide Made Invisible

Norman Solomon
Despite all the dodging of reality, many Americans now know that mass murder of certain other human beings is a functional U.S. ideology, writes Norman Solomon.
 
An aerial photo of displaced Palestinians waiting in northern Nuseirat to return to their homes in Gaza, Jan. 6, 2025. (Ashraf Amra/UNRWA/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0)

Imperial Hypocrisy About "Terrorism" Hits Its Most Absurd Point Yet

Caitlin Johnstone
The US has removed Syria’s Al Qaeda franchise from its list of designated terrorist organizations just days after the UK added nonviolent activist group Palestine Action to its own list of banned terrorist groups.
 

Monday, July 7, 2025

Report: Israel Seeks Assurance From US That It Could Restart Attacks on Gaza If It Agrees To 60-Day Ceasefire Deal

Dave DeCamp
Netanyahu is set to discuss the potential Gaza deal in his meeting with Trump at the White House
 
 Mourners carry the bodies of Palestinian children killed in an overnight Israeli strike on a house, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, during a funeral at Al-Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City, July 6, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

The Megabill is a Disaster for Children

It slashes spending on Medicaid, which provides health insurance to 37 million children and is a critical revenue source for schools.
 

Friday, July 4, 2025

The End Game in Iran also means the demise of Trump’s credibility around the world

Martin Jay
The Iranians have been fooled more than once in recent years and now they can’t be fooled again.

Outrage pours in after House GOP approves ‘one of the most catastrophic bills passed in modern history’

 Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar called the Republican budget package “one of the most cruel, immoral pieces of legislation that Congress has ever voted on.” 
 
 People take part in a protest against the Republican tax bill in Los Angeles, California on December 4, 2017.Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Thursday, July 3, 2025

How Many People Have to Die to Keep a 79-Year-Old Man Suffering from Dementia Happy?

Dean Baker
 That’s the question Republicans in Congress will be debating as they struggle to put Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill (BBB)” in final form to pass and send to his desk. The essence of the bill should be well known at this point. It extends Trump’s 2017 tax cuts past their scheduled expiration date at the end of the year.
 

Yes to 'Department of War' name change

Mark Thompson
This week in The Bunker: DOD's emphasis on style over substance; intruders invade an atomic US base; and more
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

The Supreme Court Has Effectively Resuscitated Dred Scott

Michael Waldman
By choosing to ban nationwide injunctions in response to a case challenging Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship, the court’s conservative majority put all of our rights at risk.
People stand in front of the Supreme Court with a banner reading, "Hands off birthright citizenship."  
 Demonstrators hold up an anti-Trump sign outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on June 27, 2025. Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP

Profiting From Genocide

Chris Hedges
The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide.
 

انسان و انسانیت

زمانی‌ که ما از انسانیت سخن می‌گوئیم، منظورمان صرفا بشریت نیست، بلکه مروت و مهربانی و لطف، و هم و غم سایر انسان‌ها را داشتن است. از همه مهم‌تر دقت در این است که مراقب و مُحتاط باشیم که آنچه که انجام می‌دهیم و یا در نظر داریم، خللی به آزادی و منافع دیگران وارد نمی‌آورد.ا

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Live: At least 44 killed, as Israeli forces fire on Palestinians waiting for aid

July 1, 2025
Meanwhile, UK to give Israel fighter jet parts as Palestinian schools hit overnight

Israel's war on Gaza

July 1, 2025
On October 7, 2023, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), the group that governs the Palestinian territory of Gaza, breached the barrier that has surrounded the densely populated area for the last 16 years, preventing the free flow of people and goods.