‘Fascism never left Germany’: Berlin’s repression of pro-Palestine activists

Belal Awad & Leonardo Erhardt

November 30, 2023

From beatings to arbitrary arrests, Germany’s crackdown on all those who dare defy the country’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza targets everyone from Palestinian refugees to anti-Zionist Jews.

 

Is it Time (Once Again) for Nonviolent Rebellion? On Ending Dreams of Revenge in Israel, Palestine, and Elsewhere

RebeccaGordon

November 29, 2023

( Tomdispatch.com) – When I was in my early twenties, I seriously considered murdering someone. He had given my best friend genital herpes, which many health practitioners then believed was the agent responsible for causing cervical cancer in women. (It wasn’t.)

 

A “Pause” Isn’t a Ceasefire — and a Ceasefire Isn’t an End to the Siege of Gaza

MichelMoushabeck

November 28, 2023

A lasting peace can only be achieved when the legitimate rights and grievances of Palestinians are addressed.

Palestinian children, sitting in a destroyed house, look at ruins during the temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the village of Khuza'a near the border fence between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip on November 28, 2023.

Targeting the Messenger to Kill the Message

Paul Cochrane

November 27, 2023 

The Israeli onslaught on Palestinians is having a chilling effect on the media and its ability to report on events. So far, since 7 October, 46 Palestinian journalists have been killed and there has been the complete or partial destruction of “at least 117 press offices”.

 

چرا اسرائیل در غزه شکست خورد؟

محمود دلخواسته

اخبار روز

یکشنبه, ۵ آذر ۱۴۰۲

ساعت ۳:۱۱

در آغاز لازم به یاد آوری است که بنیاد گردایی اسلامی که با خمینیسم و ولایت مطلقه فقیه، وارد فضای سیاسی جهان شد و در عرض چند سال، معادلهای سنی آن به شکل طالبان و القاعده و داعش سر بر آوردند، حال بمانند فواره ای که بعد از به نقطه اوج به نقطه شروع باز می گردد، دچار سقوط شده است.  اوج این سقوط را هم در وطن خود می بینیم و در روحانیت ارسطو زده ای که اعتبار و حیثیت اجتماعی را که در طی قرنها برای خود کسب کرده بود، در جستجوی قدرت به باد داد. اینگونه، معلوم شد که امپراطور لباس ندارد و آنچه دارد هیچ نیست جز فساد و خشونت و فریب.  اینگونه، جامعه ملی، در کلیت خود، از دین رسمی عبور کرده و باورمندان، محل دین را، نه بر سرنیزه قدرت دولت و حکومت، که در قلب خود قرار داده  و همراه دیگر باورهای دینی و غیر دینی، در ساختن جامعه ای سکولار، بر اصل «موسی به دین خود، عیسی بدین خود.»  که ریشه در فرهنگ ایرانی دارد، ایران آزاد و مستقل فردا را در باورهای خود واقعیت خواهند بخشید.  کمتر شکی است که در نتیجه این تغییر، این مدل، الهام بخش دیگر جوامع اسلامی خواهد شد و آنگاهی، ایدئولوژی ارتجاعی سازمانهایی چون حماس یا شیفت پارادایمی در باور خود را خواهد پذیرفت و یا منزوی.ا

  

UK’s Rwanda Deportation Ruling Offers Assange Hope

Craig Murray
November 26, 2023
The recent Appeal Court finding in the U.K.’s Rwanda deportation case that the court ultimately determines the worth of diplomatic assurances on good treatment could be greatly significant in the Julian Assange case, writes Craig Murray.

Activating the Genocide Convention

Craig Murray
November 19, 2023
There is no room to doubt that Israel’s bombing of Palestinian civilians and depriving them of food, water and other necessities of life are grounds to invoke the 1948 Genocide Convention.

'Sign of Hope' as First Israeli Hostages and Palestinian Prisoners Freed

Olivia Rosane

November 25, 2023

The exchange came on the first day of a Qatari-brokered four-day cease-fire that is slated to see at least 50 Israeli hostages exchanged for at least 150 Palestinian women and children held in Israel.

 

Palestinians celebrate as released Palestinian prisoners arrive in Ramallah after being released from Ofer Prison on November 24, 2023.

(Photo: Ayman Nobani/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Zionists’ Thanksgiving

After Christmas and New Year, the most celebrated holiday is Thanksgiving. This is a holiday only in the United States, when schools are closed for the whole week, and most of the other citizens have a four-day holiday weekend.

The History of Thanksgiving from the Native American Perspective

NATIVEHOPE

November 6, 2023

There are always two sides to a story. Unfortunately, when it comes to the history of Thanksgiving, generations of Americans have been taught a one-sided history in homes and schools.

On 'Sub-Imperial Power' (by Arnaud Bertrand)

Arnaud Bertrand

November 24, 2023

I just finished reading “Sub-Imperial Power” by Clinton Fernandes, a former Australian intelligence officer and now professor of international and political studies at the University of New South Wales.

 

How did time begin, and how will it end?

Michael Marshall

16th November 2023

Once upon a time, time began – so what will happen when it ends? (Credit: Edouard Taufenbach/Bastien Pourtout)

Most things have a beginning and an end, including time itself. What was the spark that made it begin, and what will one day bring it to an end?

From Bin Laden to Gaza

WaldenBello

November 23, 2023

Federal Bureau of Investigation – Ten Most Wanted May 3, 2011

US embarks on proxy war against Iran

M.K. BHADRAKUMAR

Nomve,ber 20, 2023

A massive US naval deployment in a wide arc of the so-called Greater Middle East is under way — stretching from Crete in the Eastern Mediterranean, into the Red Sea and  the Bab el Mandeb and into the Gulf of Aden and all the way into the Gulf of Oman. This deterrent display may transform as large scale offensive operations and aims to rework the geopolitical alignments and bring them back to the traditional grooves of intra-regional rivalries in the Gulf region.

Aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower transits through the Suez Canal towards the Persian Gulf , November 4, 2023

Unthanksgiving Day: A Celebration of Indigenous Resistance

ShannonToll / The Conversation

November 22, 2023

An annual celebration is held on Alcatraz Island to commemorate the 19-month-long Native occupation that began there in 1969.

Activists from Indians of All Tribes occupy Alcatraz in this photo taken Nov. 27, 1969. (AP Photo/Robert W. Klein)

Sioux Tribes Want US to Come Clean on Treaty Deceit

BrettWilkins

November 22, 2023

"For centuries, the U.S. government has broken every promise it's made to Native tribes," says Standing Rock Sioux Chair Janet Alkire. "It's time for that to stop."

 

Americans are Bankrolling Israel’s Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

SonaliKolhatkar

November 21, 2023

Americans are funding a genocide and no one asked our permission.

 

Having Vanquished Gaza’s Hospitals, Israel Turns to bombing Schools, Killing Dozens

Juan Cole

November 20, 2023

The Gaza Ministry of Health announced Sunday that on the previous day at least 80 people were killed by the Israeli bombardment of the Palestinians, with 32 of them being from one extended family, according to Al-Arabiya. The deaths occurred because of two distinct Israeli airstrikes on the Jabaliya refugee camp targeting schools.

 

‘Giving up is not an option’: Volunteer doctors at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital

Maram Humaid

November 19, 2023

Volunteers experience grueling hours, face lack of medical supplies and a collapse of healthcare system in the Gaza Strip.

 

Israeli Deceit and the Battle of Shifa Hospital

Gareth Porter

November 17, 2023

The Israeli military has attacked and is occupying parts of al-Shifa hospital in an ongoing operation in northern Gaza. It is the biggest and most modern hospital in Gaza, which has  ceased to function normally because of lack of power, while tens of thousands of displaced Gazans take shelter in it. 

 

As Israel bombs Gaza, Ireland’s enduring support of Palestine gets stronger

Mariamne Everett

November 17, 2023

Writers, politicians, and activists in Ireland, which is often an outlier in the West on the Middle East conflict, call for peace.

 

The US and China re-engage on arms control. What may come next

 Daryl G. Kimball
November 15, 2023
For more than six decades, the United States has been worried about China’s regional influence, military activities—and its nuclear potential. For instance, in 1958, US officials considered using nuclear weapons to thwart Chinese artillery strikes on islands controlled by Taiwan, according to a document leaked by Daniel Ellsberg in 2021. Now, as then, a nuclear conflict between the United States and China would be devastating for both sides and the world.

The dire medical crisis in Gaza, explained

LiZhou

November 15, 2023

Israel’s ground assault is causing a collapse of Gaza’s health care centers — including the region’s largest hospital, al-Shifa, which has been raided by Israeli forces.

 

The Zelensky Paradox

TedSnider

November 15, 2023

Volodymyr Zelensky was willing to end the war. On multiple occasions in the early days of the war, long before the escalation and long before the horrifying loss of life, limb and land, the Ukrainian president was willing to preserve his people’s land and protect his people lives in exchange for abandoning the dream of membership in NATO, a dream that, even as late as three months after Russia invaded, was shared by only 59% of Ukrainians.

 

نامه به کودکان غزه: ما در مورد شما قصور ورزیدیم؛ این گناه وحشتناکی است که به دوش می کشیم

کریس هجز – برگردان: پروین اشرفی

کودک عزیزم. اکنون پاسی از نیمه شب گذشته است. من با سرعت صدها مایل در ساعت در تاریکی شب، در هزاران پایی فراز اقیانوس اطلس در حال پرواز هستم. دارم به مصر سفر می کنم. به مرز غزه در رفح خواهم رفت. بخاطر تو میروم.ا

The US could have ruled the world, but this one weakness ruined it all

DmitryTrenin

November 13, 2023

For more than 30 years, Washington has failed to build a just order, which is why we are now experiencing unprecedented crises

 

FILE PHOTO: In the oval office, Former President George HW Bush, President-elect Barack Obama, President George W Bush, former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, Washington, DC, January 7, 2009. ©  David Hume Kennerly / Getty Images

The Secrets of the JFK Assassination Archive

ScottSayare

November 9, 2023

How a dogged journalist proved that the CIA lied about Oswald and Cuba — and spent decades covering it up.

 Lee Harvey Oswald and CIA officer George Joannides. Photo: JFK Assassination Records Collection (Oswald) & CIA FOIA files (Joannides

Chris Hedges: Letter to the Children of Gaza

Chris Hedges
November 8, 2023
Dear child. It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the Atlantic Ocean. I am traveling to Egypt. I will go to the border of Gaza at Rafah. I go because of you.

The Dehumanization of War: A Meditation for Veterans Day

KellyDenton-Borhaug and Tom Engelhardt

November 10, 2023

When humans embrace the dehumanization of others, we release our ugliest, most destructive selves. Dehumanization is a perverse force that propagates violence and justifies the lust for war and its atrocities.