The World Has Lost John Pilger

Consortium News

December 31, 2023

One of the greatest journalists and filmmakers of any generation has died at age 84, his family announced on Sunday.

 

Yes, Western Powers Are ‘the baddies’ in Gaza

JonathanCook

December 30, 2023

There is nothing humanitarian about bombing trapped civilians in Gaza, turning their tiny prison enclave into rubble, reminiscent of earthquake disaster zones but this time an entirely man-made catastrophe.

 

We Must Reckon With the Most Dangerous System of Extinction Humans Ever Created

PeterHandel

December 30, 2023

Capitalism, especially U.S. militarized capitalism, is a structural extinction force we need to confront foremost.

 

Beyond the US Veto: UN Options to Protect Gaza

MarjorieCohn

December 29, 2023

Any party to the Genocide Convention can submit the matter to the World Court, which could make a finding of genocide, writes Marjorie Cohn. The General Assembly also has an option left.

 

Don’t Stop Speaking About Palestine

ChaumtoliHuq

December 28, 2023

No matter the challenges of speaking up in the United States, censorship is deadly for Palestinians.

 

America and Iran

"America and Iran" is the title of a book by John Ghazvinian. According to Wikipedia, the author was born in Iran in 1974, and when he was one year old, his family moved to England. Therefore, he was not in Iran during the revolution of 1978-79, beside of the fact that he was too little to experience it then, regardless. As a journalist, however, he might have been interested in learning and writing about one of the 20^th century revolutions that changed the shape of the Middle East forever; especially that the revolution occurred in the land he was born in.

President Biden: Learn the Names of Children You’ve Helped Israel to Murder

NormanSolomon

December 27, 2023

To: President Joe Biden

You’ve often spoken of how much you care about children and how terrible it is when they’re murdered. “Too many schools, too many everyday places have become killing fields,” you said at the White House last spring on the one-year anniversary of the school shooting in Uvalde. At the time of that tragedy in Texas, you had quickly gone on live television, speaking gravely.

President Biden: Learn the Names of Gaza’s Slaughtered Children

Norman Solomon

December 26, 2023

In the wake of Uvalde, you wondered why we are willing to live with this carnage. Are Gaza's children not worthy of the same empathy?

Some Youtube Videos About Gaza and Assange

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qeqqdl5juM 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVola8gwQHE 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4yt3r3Gsbk 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3MmelMe9eI

Israeli propaganda inadvertently reveals stunning Gaza tunnels

Prisoners of Context- An Analysis

LawrenceDavidson
December 10, 2023

Part I—We Are Encased in Context

One of the first things they tell you in tenth grade biology class is that we are all submerged in an ocean of air. That is an ocean made up of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and 1% other gases plus water vapor. Just like a fish out of water, we can’t survive outside of this environment. However, what they don’t tell you in tenth grade, though they really should, is there are other environments just as pervasive that surround us and, for better or worse, help shape us by their content.

Israel and Genocide: Not Only In Gaza

MarkLewis Taylor

December 22, 2023

It was on the streets of Guatemala City in 1987 when I began awakening to Israel’s partnership with the USA in facilitating genocide.

 

My Own Brush with Death Has Intensified My Opposition to U.S. Imperialism

TedGalen Carpenter

December 22, 2023

Many readers of Antiwar.com have wondered why they have seen no new articles from me in more than 6 weeks.  The answer is that I was battling heart and other health issues that nearly took my life.  At one point, my principal cardiologist told my wife that I was unlikely to make it out of the hospital.  Subsequently, I spent 3 weeks in the Intensive Care Unit trying to prove him wrong.  Fortunately, I survived the crisis and am now on the road to (a slow) recovery.

 

Gaza’s health crisis ‘catastrophic,’ say Palestinian experts

Ibtisam Mahdi

December 20, 2023

Untreated sewage and overcrowding are leading to the rapid spread of disease, while three-quarters of the Strip’s hospitals have stopped functioning.

Israel-Gaza war in maps and charts: Live tracker

AJLabs

December 19, 2023

The latest death toll stands at 19,968 Palestinians and about 1,139 people killed in Israel since October 7.

 

Israeli and American Jews Speak Out Against Horrors in Gaza

Ralph Nader

December 18, 2023

In the midst of Netanyahu’s annihilation of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza, many of them children, women and the elderly, there is a rising urgency from many Israeli and domestic Jewish groups for an immediate ceasefire and greatly increasing the flow of humanitarian aid.

 

Channeling Hitler, Trump accuses migrants of “poisoning the blood of our country”

Jacob Crosse

December 18, 2023

In a campaign speech Saturday night and again on his social media platform following the event, ex-President Donald Trump accused immigrants of “poisoning the blood of our country.”

 

‘The hostages weren’t our top priority’: How Israel’s bombing frenzy endangered captives in Gaza

Yuval Abraham

December 17, 2023

In partnership with

 

Contrary to initial claims, the Israeli army carried out relentless strikes with little intelligence of Israeli hostages’ whereabouts or precaution for their safety, a +972 and Local Call investigation shows.

IDF Kills 3 Shirtless Israeli Hostages Waving White Flag; Calling for Help in Hebrew

Common Dreams Staff

December 16, 2023

'Palestinian civilians don’t stand a chance.'

 

U.S. Impedes Global Efforts to Stop Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J.S. Davies

December 14, 2023

As the sole veto to a UN Security Council resolution calling for an "immediate ceasefire," the US stands alone in its support of wanton death and destruction in Gaza.

Zionism Has Lost Young America

As`ad AbuKhalil

December 13, 2023

A specter is haunting U.S. college campuses, and it is the specter not of anti-Semitism but of opposition to anti-Semitism.

 

From Kishinev to Gaza

YakovM. Rabkin

December 13, 2023

Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Pogrom. This Russian term denotes a violent riot incited with the aim of massacring Jews and destroying their property. One of the deadliest pogroms (50 Jews were killed and nearly 600 wounded) took place in Kishinev a hundred and twenty years ago, in April 1903. But the trauma of Russian Zionists facing the oppression in Tsarist Russia over a century ago continues to inform Israel’s political culture.

 

As Israel’s genocide continues: 9 in 10 Gazans report lack of food

AndreDamon

December 12, 2023

As Israel continues its bombing, starvation and ethnic cleansing of the people of Gaza, hunger has reached epidemic proportions. Nine in 10 people in Gaza reported going to bed hungry, the United Nations’ World Food Program reported.

The Moon's man-made problems

Arion McNicoll

December 11, 2023

Humanity is now the dominant force influencing the Moon's future, according to scientists calling for a formal declaration of a new geological epoch called the "Lunar Anthropocene".

 

‘Diseases are spreading rapidly’: In Jabalia camp, thousands shelter in one school

IbrahimMohammad
December 11, 2023
Refusing Israel's orders to evacuate northern Gaza, Palestinians are filling every available space amid growing threats of airstrikes and service collapse.

Tlaib Says Biden Admin 'At Serious Risk' of ICC Prosecution

JakeJohnson

December 11, 2023

"Our district didn't send President Biden to the White House to have him facilitate the killing of innocent civilians," said the Michigan Democrat.

 

Half of Palestinians in Gaza are now Starving; Depriving Civilians of Food is a War Crime

JuanCole

December 10, 2023

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations warned on Saturday that half the population of Gaza is now starving.

 

Israeli Government’s War Crimes – Enabled & Defended by Biden & Congress

Ralph Nader

December 8, 2023

The humiliation of the U.S. government, which is actively complicit in providing the weaponry, funding, and UN vetoes backing the Israeli government’s attack on the civilian Palestinians/Arabs in tiny Gaza, is in plain view daily. All in the name of the unasked American people and taxpayers.

Palestinians detained by Israel in Gaza blindfolded, stripped to underwear

Al Jazeera Staff

December 8, 2023

At least 100 Palestinian men detained by Israeli forces have been stripped to their underwear, blindfolded and made to kneel on a street in northern Gaza, according to images and videos widely circulated on social media and confirmed by the Israeli army.

 

What Time’s 2023 Person of the Year reveals about the West

RachelMarsden

December 7, 2023

Taylor Swift’s victory, and her mostly unimpressive competitors, is a PR disaster for the establishment

 

'Staggering' Rise in Reports of Islamophobia During Gaza War

Jessica Corbett

December 7, 2023

"People and institutions have spent the past two months weaponizing Islamophobia and anti-Arab bias to both justify the ongoing violence against Palestinians in Gaza and silence supporters of Palestinian human rights."

 

 Six-year-old Wadea al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times and his mother more than a dozen times in an alleged hate crime committed by their 71-year-old white landlord in Plainfield Township, Illinois on October 14, 2023.

(Photo: Family photo)

Why I’m challenging Chuck Schumer to a debate on Israel

DaveZirin

December 7, 2023

In a recent article for The Nation, Dave Zirin, host of Edge of Sports, described a recent national march in support of Israel held in DC as a hate rally. This incurred the wrath of Senator Chuck Schumer, who has accused our very own Dave of anti-Semitism. Dave Zirin responds in this special edition of “Choice Words.”

 

Anti-Zionist Jews Lead Protests Against IDF Fundraisers

EzraBerkley Nepon / Mondoweiss

December 6, 2023

Standing up against death and destruction in Gaza represents a tradition as long as Zionism itself.

 

And Here’s to You, Henry Kissinger…

WaldenBello

December 6, 2023

On the occasion of his death at 100, praises and denunciations of Henry Kissinger are being sung and spewed out in record numbers. Let me add to the “praises.” More than anyone else, Henry, along with his boss, Richard Nixon, was responsible for my transformation into an activist.

 

 Photograph of Henry A. Kissinger Dressing for a State Dinner – Public Domain

Israel's AI Targeting Puts All the People of Gaza in the Crosshairs

JonathanCook

December 5, 2023

It seems all restraints have been removed, but Israel's unrepentant backers in the West continue to turn a blind eye as the Palestinian people face a genocidal assault.

 

 A Palestinian man carries a child injured during Israeli bombardment in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip, on December 2, 2023, as the bombing campaign by the Israeli military described as "genocidal" continued.

(Photo by Mohammed ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel orders evacuations as onslaught on Gaza widens

Aljazeera

December 4, 2023

The Israeli army’s assault is pushing further into the south of Gaza, leaving Palestinians little chance of safety.

 

Smoke rises at the site of a house destroyed in an Israeli attack in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza [Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]

If I Were Going To Commit Genocide

CaitlinJohnstone

December 3, 2023

Caitlin Johnstone:If I Were Going To Commit Genocide I would eventually force other nations to either take the targeted people in or keep allowing them to be slaughtered.

 

How War Criminal Kissinger paved the Way for a Genocidal Total War on Gaza’s Civilians

Juan Cole

December 1, 2023

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Henry Kissinger’s death at 100 is an opportunity to consider the ways in which his lawlessness helped undermine International Humanitarian Law, the laws of war that responsible leaders attempted to erect to prevent the horrors of WW II from recurring. In his single-minded calculation of supposed “national” interest, which he imagined as identical to the interests of the rich, he was entirely willing to mow down innocent noncombatants in the hundreds of thousands. There is a direct line from his advocacy of carpet-bombing Southeast Asian villagers to the Israeli carpet-bombing of Gaza, which resumed early Friday morning.

 

Why Socialism?

AlbertEinstein

May 1, 2009

Albert Einstein is the world-famous physicist. This article was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). It was subsequently published in May 1998 to commemorate the first issue of MR‘s fiftieth year.

—The Editor

Albert Einstein (1959), charcoal and watercolor drawing by Alexander Dobkin. Dobkin (1908–1975) was an important painter of the mid-twentieth century American realist tradition along with other left-wing artists such as Jack Levine, Robert Gwathmey, Philip Evergood, and Raphael and Moses Soyer. A student and collaborator of the Mexican muralist Jose Clemente Orozco, his work is in the permanent collections of the Butler Art Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution. (The preceding caption was written by John J. Simon, "Albert Einstein, Radical: A Political Profile," Monthly Review vol. 57, no. 1 [2005].)

Israeli Government’s Mass Terrorism Fortified by Biden and Congress

Ralph Nader

December 1, 2023

A letter to President Joe Biden, dated October 24, 2023, on the Israel-Hamas war by international law specialist, Bruce Fein and me, prompted this form letterBiden response.