February 29,
2024
.................RATIONAL THINKING.................. مرا جهل در کامِ دیو میبَرَد.............از آن دوستی میکنم با خِرَد
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Why leap years exist, explained in one simple animation
Yes,
2024 is a leap year, which is usually momentous, and not just for the people
born on February 29 who only get to celebrate their actual birthdate every four
years. Leap years also typically coincide with the US presidential election and
the Summer Olympic Games. This year, people in the US will also get to see a
rare total solar eclipse darken the skies. To top it off, the sun is also
nearing the peak of its 11-year magnetic cycle, upping the potential for solar
storms. It makes sense that such a jam-packed year should get an extra day.
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دومین سالگرد جنگ اوکراین؛ چرا آمریکا دنبال ادامه درگیری روسیه و اوکراین است؟
February 29, 2024
بسیاری از کارشناسان بین‌المللی به درستی واشنگتن را بازیگر اصلی ائتلاف بزرگی می‌دانند که خواستار تشدید تنش‌ها در اوکراین است. ائتلافی که از طریق تزریق سلاح به میدان جنگ در صدد ادامه‌دار کردن این جنگ تا آینده نامعلوم است.ا
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
‘Groundbreaking’: Michigan’s uncommitted vote for Gaza should ‘worry’ Biden
February
28, 2024
In
the Michigan city known as the capital of Arab America, United States President
Joe Biden came second in the Democratic primaries, in a vote hailed as
“groundbreaking”.
Activist Natalia Latif tapes a 'Vote Uncommitted' sign on the speaker's
podium during a primary election night gathering in Dearborn, Michigan,
on February 27 [Rebecca Cook/Reuters]
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Biden has been bad for Palestinians. Trump would be worse.
February
27, 2024
During
the war in Gaza, President Joe Biden has taken a consistently pro-Israel line.
He traveled to Israel after the October 7 attack, provided the Israel Defense
Forces (IDF) with huge quantities of munitions, refused to publicly call for an
indefinite ceasefire, and vetoed UN resolutions it opposed. This all reflects
the president’s strongly held personal beliefs on the need to support the
Jewish state and the idea that public support for Israel gives America greater
behind-the-scenes leverage.
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Gaza and Ghosts of the Bronze Age
February 27, 2024
Alexander the Great razed Gaza to
the ground in the 3rd century BC. He was in a towering rage because Gaza, unlike most of the other
cities he passed through on his way to
Egypt, had been defiant, and had closed
its gates. The King was further
incensed by the skill of Gazan raiding parties: they sped out of
the city gates on their light Arabian horses, across the sand, which encumbered the feet of the heavy Macedonian
steeds. They were superb archers,
and a Gazan arrow made a serious wound in Alexander’s shoulder.
Monday, February 26, 2024
The War on Gaza: Public Relations vs. Reality
February
26, 2024
For
its victims, war is . . . yes, hell. For the rest of us – the onlooking and
supportive patriots – war is an abstraction embedded in ignorance, a.k.a.,
public relations, served up for public consumption.
Red Sea attacks in Sympathy with Gaza Escalate as Yemeni Houthis’ Resilience Surprises Biden
February 26, 2024
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The
Helpers of God (Ansar Allah) or Houthis in Yemen are proving a bigger challenge
for the Biden Administration’s attempt to run interference for the Israeli
atrocities in Gaza than Washington had expected. Just Monday morning the Yemeni
forces fired a ballistic missile at the US-owned and -operated M/V Torm Thor,
an oil tanker, but it fell short. The leadership say they are hitting Red Sea
traffic as a protest against Israel’s war against Gaza. Enormous crowds in the
hundreds of thousands have demonstrated in Sanaa and other cities against the
Israeli campaign against Gaza, which the International Criminal Court has ruled
may be a genocide.
US Airman Self-Immolates in Front of Israeli Embassy, Yelling “Free Palestine”
February 26, 2024
An active duty member of the U.S.
Air Force self-immolated while yelling “free Palestine” in a tragic protest of
Israel’s genocide in Gaza in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C.
on Sunday afternoon. Aaron Bushnell, of San Antonio, Texas, was 25 years old
and died later that day.
Ayo Walker / Truthout; Adapted: Humanizing Through Story, via Facebook
Sunday, February 25, 2024
US Anti-Terror Law Has Stigmatized Palestinians as “Terrorists” Since 1969
February 25, 2024
The word “terrorism” first appeared
in a U.S. federal law in 1969. Introduced by a Zionist congressman from New
York who claimed “terrorists” were training children in refugee camps for the
Palestinians forced from their homes by Israel, the provision banned U.S.
humanitarian aid from benefiting any refugee who received military training
from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) or “has engaged in any act of
terror.”
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Iran’s “Axis of Resistance:” Different Groups, Similar Goals
February
24, 2024
Iran’s
so-called axis of resistance is a loose network of proxies, Tehran-backed
militant groups, and an allied state actor.
Friday, February 23, 2024
As Israeli Forces Fire on Starving Palestinians, US Again Vetoes UN Cease-Fire Resolution
February
23, 2024
As
a United Nations agency halted aid deliveries in northern Gaza, where acute
malnourishment is rampant among children, citing a “breakdown of social order”
fueled by Israel’s bombardment of and blockade on the enclave, the United
States for a third time on Tuesday vetoed a cease-fire resolution at the U.N.
Security Council—saying it was an inopportune time to demand that Israel end
its massacre of Palestinians.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
If Israel continues War on Gaza for 6 Months, death toll will Exceed 100,000 from Trauma and Disease: Public Health Study
February
22, 2024
Ann
Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Crisis in Gaza: Scenario-Based Health Impact
Projections, a joint report by the the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins
University, issued this week, warns that a further 85,750 Palestinians could
die in the next six months from physical trauma and disease if the conflict in
Gaza continues and escalates.
The
figure of 85,750 is a worst case scenario and deaths would reach that level
only if the military assault on Gaza escalates and if the poor hygienic
conditions of the 1.9 displaced Palestinians cause epidemics.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Bombing Muslims for Peace
February
21, 2024
Like
many American boys of the baby-boomer generation, I played “war” with those
old, olive-drab, plastic toy soldiers meant to evoke our great victory over the
Nazis and “the Japs” during World War II. At age 10, I also kept a scrapbook of
the 1973 Yom Kippur War between Israel and its various Arab enemies in the
Middle East. It was, I suppose, an early sign that I would make both the
military and the study of history into careers.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Biden, tired of being “Genocide Joe,” Finally Blinks, will push UN Resolution for Temporary Gaza Ceasefire
February 20, 2024
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) –
Julian Borger at The Guardian says he has seen a draft US proposal for a United
Nations Security Council calling for a “temporary ceasefire” in Gaza and
cautioning against any offensive on the southern Gaza region of Rafah, where
1.4 million refugees from the rest of Gaza have joined the existing hundreds of
thousands of residents.
How Israel’s war went wrong
February 20,
2024
At the end of
November, Israeli reporter Yuval Abraham broke one of the most important
stories of the war in Gaza to date — an inside look at the disturbing reasoning
that has led the Israeli military to kill so many civilians.
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Monday, February 19, 2024
Laying the groundwork for Gaza’s permanent exodus
February 19, 2024
With most of the Gaza Strip’s
Palestinians now trapped inside the enclave’s southern tip, the Israeli
onslaught they had attempted to escape has followed them to Rafah. Some 1.4
million people are pinned against a virtually impermeable Egyptian border, while
the entry of life-sustaining aid is chronically stalled. At Kerem Shalom, the
southeastern crossing directly controlled by Israel, Jewish Israelis have been
filmed gleefully blocking food convoys from Egypt, in a fitting correlative to
the genocidal rhetoric of their leaders.
What’s at Stake for Julian Assange—and the Rest of Us
February 19, 2024
On February 20 and 21, the High
Court of Justice in London will conduct a hearing to decide whether WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange can appeal the court’s earlier decision to extradite him
to the U.S. to face 17 charges under the Espionage Act and one for computer
crime, with a Methuselan prison sentence of 175 years. This, even though Julian
is not an American citizen (he’s Australian), and he was not under U.S.
jurisdiction when the “crimes” were allegedly committed.
Sunday, February 18, 2024
نگاهی گذرا
در اینکه جمهوری اسلامی ضایعه‌ای است برای مردمی که بیش از چهار دهه با آن مدارا کرده‌ا‌ند، و همواره در صدد اصلاح آن بر آمده‌ا‌ند، شکی نیست. ولی رژیم همواره بیش از پیش افول کرده است. نمونهٔ بارز آن روش انتخابات است، که کاندیداها را محدود به تصویب یک عده مُلّای بیسواد می‌کند، که در نتیجه چنین روسای دولت نالایقی تحویل میدهند. اعتراضات و تظاهرات مردم در سرتاسر کشور به دلیل تجاوزات، حق‌کُشی، دزدی، نادیده گرفتن کوچکترین نیاز مردم، بی‌اعتباری، و افول سیاسی-علمی-اجتماعی، همچنان ادامه دارد، و تا انجام تغییرات وسیعی در سطح کشور ادامه خواهد داشت.ا
A Quick Look
There is no doubt that the Islamic Republic is a brutal regime governing the people who have tolerated it for more than four decades and have always tried to reform it, with no success. But the regime has been declining further into the abyss, by acting illogically and unreasonably in its internal politics. A clear example of that is presidential elections and its policies and methods of electing, which limits candidates to the approval of a few illiterate mullahs, resulting in such incompetent heads of states. People's protests and demonstrations throughout the country due to encroachments, killings, theft, ignoring the smallest needs of the people, and political-scientific-social decline continue, and will continue until extensive changes are made in the country.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
The obliteration of Gaza’s multi-civilizational treasures
February
17, 2024
Since
the beginning of Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip, innumerable treasures
of Palestine’s cultural heritage have been damaged or destroyed. Like so much
of the rest of the besieged enclave, these priceless and beloved landmarks of
our people’s history — archaeological sites, millennia-old religious
structures, and museums with ancient collections — now lie in ruin.
The ruins of the Great Omari Mosque, the largest and oldes mosque in Norther Gaza, Feb 12, 2024 (Omar El Qattaa)Friday, February 16, 2024
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Thursday, February 15, 2024
Hospitals are supposed to be safe. Not in Gaza.
February
15, 2024
The
Israel Defense Forces raided Gaza’s largest still-operating hospital on
Thursday in Khan Younis, a southern city that once sheltered over 100,000
displaced Palestinians but that has been under siege for weeks.
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How the CIA Destabilizes the World
February 15, 2024
There are three basic problems with
the C.I.A.: its objectives, methods and unaccountability.
“Spies in D.C., code name ‘Giddy Up.’ ” (Lorie Shaull, Flickr, CC BY 2.0)
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
There is No Place for the Palestinians of Gaza to Go
February
14, 2024
Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the
El-Remal aera in Gaza City. Photo by Naaman Omar apaimages.Tuesday, February 13, 2024
‘Change in Israel will only happen when there are costs that force our eyes open’
February 13, 2024
In Partnership with
Few books can aptly be described as
“prophetic,” but the latest release by the Israeli political sociologist Yagil
Levy is certainly one of them. Levy submitted the manuscript of “Shooting and
Not Crying: The New Militarization of Israel in the 2000s” in April 2022, and
the book was published in February 2023 by Lamda – The Open University Press,
as if to prepare us for the events of October 7. 
Monday, February 12, 2024
Will Egypt Ditch Camp David Accords If Israel Invades Rafah?
February 12,
2024
It is being
widely reported based on press leaks that the Egyptian government of President
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has privately threatened Israel. Cairo is said to have
warned that the 1978 Camp David Peace Treaty will be suspended “with immediate
effect” if the government of Binyamin Netanyahu tries to take over the
Philadelphi Corridor at the Gaza-Egypt Border and if it expels the Palestinians
of Gaza into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula at the Rafah border crossing as a result
of an invasion of Rafah City. Israel attempted to convince an Egyptian
delegation to Tel Aviv on Friday that Cairo should cooperate with the Israeli
war plan, but allegedly was rebuffed.
Sunday, February 11, 2024
غزه آئینهٔ تمام‌نمای سیاست‌های سلطه‌جویانۀ جنایتکاران جنگی
شانزده بهمن ۱۴۰۲
در پی افزایش قدرت جبهۀ
مقاومت در غرب آسیا و گسترش دامنۀ مبارزه در جهان علیه جنایات آمریکا و اسرائیل در
غزه، دولت‌های این دو کشور به سیاست مهلک ایجاد قحطی و گرسنگی جهت ادامۀ نسل‌کشی در
سرزمین‌های اشغالی فلسطینیان دست یازیده‌اند. برخی از دولت‌های غربی، مانند آلمان، ایتالیا، کانادا، استرالیا، و انگلستان،
در پیروی از آن‌ها طی روزهای گذشته کمک‌های مالی خود به «آژانس امدادرسانی و کاریابی
برای آوارگان فلسطینی در خاور نزدیک» (آنروا) را قطع کردند.ا
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