You Can’t Turn Back the Clock on Genocide: “Easily 200,000 Deaths in Gaza.”

Joshua Frank

May 31, 2024

As Amal Nassar lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza, the echoes of explosions and artillery fire could be heard all around her. It was mid-January and she had made her way to the embattled hospital to give birth to a baby girl she would name Mira. While Amal should have been celebrating her infant’s delivery, instead she was engulfed in fear, surrounded by the relentless nightmare of death and suffering that she and her family had experienced for months.

“I was muttering to myself, ‘I hope I die,’” she recalled.

Twenty Second Century

 Will anyone born today see the 22nd century?

قرن بیست و دوم میلادی

آیا کسی‌ که امروز به دنیا می‌آید قرن بیست و دوم میلادی را خواهد دید؟

Israel seizes entirety of Gaza–Egypt border

News Desk

May 30, 2024

The Israeli army said on 29 May that its forces took control of the Philadelphi corridor on the Gaza Strip’s southern border with Egypt.

‘SOS’: Israeli attacks on ‘famine-stricken’ Gaza kill 78 people in one day

Joseph Stepansky and Jillian Kestler-D'Amours

May 29, 2024

Men in Power: Iran’s Raisi and the Death of a Puppet

Fariba Amini

May 24, 2024

Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment) – In the words of the great poet Hafez, “Be happy that the tyrant did not make his way home”

 

Jewish Students Opposing Gaza Genocide, a Powerful Counter to Antisemitism

John V. Walsh

May 23, 2024

The many Jewish students in the campus encampments, along with other Jews protesting the Gaza phase of the Palestinian Genocide, deserve the highest praise for many reasons.  One reason is that by their deeds they are countering what might otherwise turn into a wave of antisemitism.

Who is Pro-Israel California Rep. Jared Huffman—Really?

Peter Byrne

May 22, 2024

Protestors probe his political psyche and we follow the money

Northern California congressperson Jared Huffman, 60, held his annual “Hootenanny” campaign fundraiser at Lagunitas Brewery in Petaluma, California.

Demonstration at campaign fundraiser for Rep. Jared Huffman at Lagunitas Brewery in Petaluma, California. Photo: Peter Byrne

GAZA LIVE BLOG

Biden:Not a Genocide | Massacres throughout Gaza Strip | Russia: Pursue Mass GravesInvestigation – Day 228

May 21, 2024

Killed	Wounded	Missing
35,562	79,652	11,000

ICC warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant may be the first of many aimed at Israeli officials

David Kattenburg

May 20, 2024

Applications for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and three top Hamas leaders have been filed by the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

The Destabilizing Impacts of Helicopter Disaster in Iran

Muhammad Sahimi

May 21, 2024

Iran’s president, foreign minister, and several other high-level officials lost their lives on Sunday, when their helicopter crashed in a mountainous area in northwest Iran.

Israeli military censor bans highest number of articles in over a decade

Haggai Matar

May 20, 2024

In 2023, the Israeli military censor barred the publication of 613 articles by media outlets in Israel, setting a new record for the period since +972 Magazine began collecting data in 2011. The censor also redacted parts of a further 2,703 articles, representing the highest figure since 2014. In all, the military prevented information from being made public an average of nine times a day.

 

Iranian President dead in Crash: Now comes the Night of Long Knives

Juan Cole

May 20, 2024

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iran’s Mehr News Service reported Monday morning Tehran time that President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian died Sunday in a helicopter crash in a remote area of Iran. They had been at the border with the neighboring country of Azerbaijan to inaugurate a dam and were going to Tabriz when the crash occurred because of bad weather. Iran has two provinces also named Azerbaijan. The region was bifurcated in the early nineteenth century when the Russian Empire conquered half of Iran’s Azerbaijan and made it a Russian colony that became independent in 1991. The helicopter crashed in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province.

Iranian LEADER KILLED In Plane Crash, PROTEST Movement Still Stymied: Trita Parsi (YouTube)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn7QL198WbQ

Israel’s Assault on Gaza Proves the Nakba Never Ended

Amy Goodman

Denis Moynihan

May 18, 2024

What followed the initial displacement and killing of Palestinians in 1948 has been one of the most violent, costly, and protracted conflicts in the modern era.

Palestinian children are pictured near makeshift tents in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on March 7, 2024. (Photo: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

چرا سوسیالیسم؟

 آلبرت انیشتین :: ترجمه: آرش برومند

پیشگفتار مترجم

آلبرت اینشتین را در سراسر جهان به خاطر دستاورد های دوران ساز فیزیکی اش – از جمله نظریه نسبیت – می شناسند. اما آن چه که بسیاری نمی شناسند، چهره این دانشمند به مثابه یک اندیشمند اجتماعی و سوسیالیست است. ناشناس ماندن این چهره اینشتین تصادفی نیست. در دوران جنگ سرد که نیروهای درگیر در این جنگ از هر موقعیتی در نبرد ایدئولوژیک علیه هم استفاده می کردند، از کنار نظریه ها و موضعگیری های اجتماعی این شخصیت برجسته بیشتر اوقات به سکوت می گذشتند . از یک سو طرفداران نظام سرمایه داری نمی خواستند سیمای اینشتین به عنوان یکی از منتقدان جدی این نظام شناخته شود ، از سوی دیگر طرفداران نظام «سوسیالیسم روسی» که نظریات سوسیالیستی اینشتین را در چار چوب تنگ اندیشگی خود نمی توانستند بگنجانند، از کنار این جنبه از شخصیت وی عبور می کردند.ا

 

Why Socialism?

by AlbertEinstein

 

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 Editors

 

‘Shame on the world’: Israel tanks, jets ‘wipe out everything’ in Jabalia

Maziar Motamedi

May 17, 2024

 

Anti-Zionist Historian Ilan Pappé Detained by FBI

Brett Wilkins

May 16, 2024

In what one observer called “a whole new level of insanity and paranoia,” renowned Israeli historian and professor Ilan Pappé — a staunch critic of Zionism — was detained and interrogated this week by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents as he entered the United States at Detroit’s airport.

How the war killed my mother

Tareq S. Hajjaj

May 16, 2024

Today, I sit in Egypt with my wife and son. I thought my mother would be with us. Rest in peace, my beloved. I am so sorry I couldn't save you.

 

The End of the Story

One of the very old but unanswered questions is how it is that most people don't think about the end of the life story, and they don't try to learn from those who have been gone.