Israeli air attack on Beirut kills eight as cross-border fire intensifies

Aljazeera

September 20, 2024

Lebanon’s health ministry says at least eight people have been killed and 59 wounded in an Israeli air attack on a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Scientists Who First Identified Threat of Microplastics Say World Must Now Act

Jon Queally

September 20, 2024

Some of the key scientists who first informed the world of the potential damage being done to natural systems by microplastics are now calling for world leaders to take decisive action to curb the introduction of these polluting materials into the environment—and they hope the looming United Nations treaty process on plastics can be a key vehicle for progress.

 

Children collect trash on the beach of Can Pere Antoni while participating in the educational program of the NGO "Safe the Med". (Photo by Clara Margais/picture alliance via Getty Images)

‘The Genocide Gentry’: Weapon execs sit on boards of universities, institutions

Brett Wilkins

September 19, 2024

A trio of human rights groups on Wednesday announced a new interactive initiative exposing what the coalition is calling a “Genocide Gentry” of weapons company executives and board members and “54 museums, cultural organizations, universities, and colleges that currently host these individuals on their boards or in other prominent roles.”

 

 Students at San Jose State University are gathered at University's Student Union Patio, to protest Israeli attacks on Gaza, in San Jose, California, United States on April 24, 2024. Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

UN General Assembly Calls for End to Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories

Dave DeCamp

September 18, 2024

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution calling for an end to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories.

A screenshot of the UN General Assembly’s vote on September 18, 2024

Water, War, and Women in Gaza

H. Patricia Hynes

September 18, 2024

In late 2020, a report titled Saving Gaza Begins With Its Waterstated:

The water crisis in Gaza is a problem of daunting proportions, with grave implications for the more than 2 million inhabitants of the Palestinian enclave... The Coastal Aquifer from which Gaza pumps water is diminishing; but more dangerously, it is experiencing significant deterioration from seawater and highly saline groundwater intrusion, as well as sewage pollution. 

 

A woman carries a water container in an area sheltering displaced Palestinians, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 24, 2024. (Photo: Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran’s Crucial Decision on Israel

As`ad AbuKhalil

September 18, 2024

Iran faces probably its most difficult decision since its 1979 victory in the Iranian Revolution.

25% of 95K Injuries inflicted by Israel in Gaza are “Life-Changing;” Require Medical Care that Israelis Destroyed

Juan Cole

September 17, 2024

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Monday, Israeli bombardments killed 38 people in Gaza. Based on past experience, we can expect a majority of those killed to have been women and children — at least 21 and maybe more. Photographs and video coming out of Gaza show dead children being carried in burial shrouds. For intance, Al Jazeera reports that an Israeli bombardment of the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City killed 3 people, and that a child and a woman are among the dead. Several others were injured.

 

Israel is joining the first global AI convention, here’s why that’s dangerous

Mona Shtaya

September 16, 2024

It is deeply troubling that Israel has been allowed to join the first global treaty on artificial intelligence (AI)—an agreement meant to regulate AI’s responsible use while upholding human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. For 11 consecutive months, Israel has weaponized AI in its genocide in Gaza, deploying AI-driven surveillance and automated targeting systems that have inflicted devastating civilian harm. Yet, Israel is now celebrating its participation in this treaty alongside the U.S., U.K., and EU, after spending two years at the negotiating table and helping draft the first international AI treaty for ethical AI governance. This contradiction exposes glaring hypocrisy and raises serious questions about the international community’s true commitment to accountability.

 

 Destruction in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City, April 2, 2024. (Photo: © Omar Ishaq/dpa via ZUMA Press/APA Images)

Capitalists want your blood and maybe your kidney and liver, too

Stephen Millies

September 16, 2024

Malcolm X famously said, “show me a capitalist and I’ll show you a bloodsucker.” That’s literally true for U.S. capitalism.

 

People wait in line outside CSL Plasma on May 25, 2021, in Brownsville, Texas. 

Israel Kills 88 Palestinians in Gaza Over Three Days

Dave DeCamp

September 16, 2024

Israeli forces have killed at least 88 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip over the past three days, according to numbers released by Gaza’s Health Ministry.

 

 Palestinians inspect their destroyed homes after the Israeli aircraft targeted an entire residential block in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City (Mahmoud Issa / SOPA Images via Reuters Connect)

Iranian Revolution and Islamic Regime

Much has been said and written about the Iranian revolution, which has been going on for four and a half decades. The Islamic Republic under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini came out of this revolution, and it has ruled and mismanaged all the country's institutions until today. People of Iran, the majority of whom voted for the Islamic Republic, are now so annoyed by this regime that they wish for its destruction every second. But there is no other alternative to replace this disgraced regime. 

انقلاب ایران و رژیم اسلامی

در مورد انقلاب ایران که چهار و نیم دهه از آن می‌گذرد بسیار گفته و نوشته شده است. جمهوری اسلامی به رهبری آیت‌الله خمینی از این انقلاب بیرون آمد، و تا به امروز بر کلیهٔ نهاد‌های کشوری حکومت می‌کند. مردم ایران که با اکثریت به جمهوری اسلامی رای دادند، هم‌اکنون آنچنان از این رژیم آزرده‌ا‌ند که هر لحظه آرزوی نابودی آنرا می‌کنند. ولی‌ متاسفانه هیچ نیروی دیگری وجود ندارد که جانشین این رژیم ننگین شود.ا

Yemeni Missile Strikes Tel Aviv | Massacre in Al-Zaytoun | Rockets from Lebanon – Day 345

GAZA LIVE BLOG

September 15, 2024

 

Killed	Wounded	Missing
41,206	95,337	10,000

 

Israel’s war on Gaza live: 11 killed in attack on house in Gaza City

Federica Marsi

September 14, 2024

Israel’s military continues to pound Gaza, killing several Palestinians in attacks on Gaza City and Khan Younis, a day after at least 19 people died in assaults throughout the Strip.

Hollywood stars call for protection of pro-Palestinian voices from 'McCarthyist repression'

Ayah El-Khaldi

September 13, 2024

More than 700 members of a major Hollywood union have demanded their association take a stand to protect pro-Palestinian voices from being blacklisted in the industry.

Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon was dropped from by her talent agency after she spoke at a pro-Palestine rally (Getty Images via AFP)

Israel’s Bloody Negotiations Strategy in Gaza

Jamal Kanj

September 13, 2024

Fifty-two years ago, almost to the day, on September 8, 1972, I survived the first of many Israeli air and sea raids on my refugee camp in northern Lebanon. I was less than two hundred yards from the area across the river where a group of us young kids met every day, between 4 and 5 p.m., to play in the large field, swim in the river or in the Mediterranean Sea.

Russian missiles will soon strike US and UK targets, if Starmer gets his way

Ian Proud

September 13, 2024

The first confirmed use of ATACMS, Storm Shadow or Scalp inside of Russia would provoke a Russian military strike against a western military target. We should step back from this new missile crisis and push for a negotiated ceasefire.

 

Woman, Life, Freedom: Rachel, Shireen, Mahsa and Ayşenur

Fariba Amini

September 13, 2024

Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A few days before the invasion of Iraq by American forces under G.W.  Bush, on March 16, 2003, a young woman from Seattle, Washington, who had gone to Rafah, in Gaza to help Palestinians halt the demolition of homes died under the bulldozer of the Israeli army. 

Her name was Rachel Corrie. 

 

Belated Reporting on Oct 7 Helps Justify Genocide

Mick Hall

September 12, 2024

At the weekend Australia’s national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), featured a story reporting the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) had indeed carried out the Hannibal Directive, killing untold numbers of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7.

Not Another Bomb: Solidarity Action with Gaza at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (Diane Krauthamer, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

‘Everything around me was getting torn apart’: Israel commits another massacre in Gaza ‘safe zone’

Qassam Muaddi

September 11, 2024

Flashlights in the hands of rescue workers break the dense darkness over the sand in al-Mawasi, the tent encampment sheltering displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis. A group of men with shovels struggle to remove sand in the middle of a giant crater created by an Israeli airstrike on the Israeli-designated “safe zone.” In video testimony collected for Mondoweiss, rescue workers pull out half-buried blankets from the sand and explain that they are trying to dig people out of the massive crater that was caused by an Israeli airstrike.

 Palestinians inspect the damage at the site of the second Mawasi massacre, September 10, 2024. (Photo: Naaman Omar/APA Images)

Israeli drone strike on Tubas kills five as troops besiege city hospital

News Desk

September 11, 2024

Five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the occupied West Bank city of Tubas early on 11 September. 

 

The Morass of U.S. Middle East Policy was visible in the Harris-Trump Debate

Juan Cole

September 11, 2024

ABC provided a transcript of the debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. I have some thoughts on the Middle East dimension:

Debate: On Gaza & Ukraine, Harris and Trump put 'America last'

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

September 11, 2024

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris not only proved last night that they have no fleshed out foreign policy visions of their own, but that they feel most comfortable pantomiming like they do, using bafflingly cartoonish language about each other, playing so fast and loose with history, facts, and figures so as to make the entire debate over what to do in Ukraine and Gaza absolutely incoherent.

Al-Mawasi attack: ‘People were torn into pieces, most of them women and children’

Ahmed Abd elAziz and Maha Hussaini

September 10, 2024

For three hours under the darkness of Gaza’s night sky, search-and-rescue teams dug bodies and survivors out of piles of sand. Eventually, they paused, exhausted, to wait for daybreak and see what else was left.

Israel Bombed 16 Schools in Gaza in Past 6 Weeks, Rights Group Says

Sharon Zhang

September 9, 2024

Israel has attacked 16 schools in Gaza in the past six weeks, killing hundreds of Palestinians, rights group Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported this week — as hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza should have been starting a new school year.

 

From polio to hepatitis: Gaza’s health crisis is a ticking time bomb

Belal Awad and Leo Erhadt

September 9, 2024

Polio. Chickenpox. Hepatitis. The threat of epidemics is looming large in Gaza, thanks to Israel’s deliberate destruction of the Strip’s healthcare and sanitation infrastructure. Left without clean water, sewage, waste disposal, and adequate shelter, the health of Palestinians in Gaza is rapidly declining. Children and the elderly are among the most vulnerable, and time is running out. The Real News reports from the ground in Gaza, speaking directly with sanitation experts and local mothers about the conditions Israel has created through its total war on the Palestinian people.

 

The Decline of the U.S. Empire: Where Is It Taking Us All?

Richard D. Wolff

September 9, 2024

 

General Motors HQ, Detroit. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.

امپراتوری بحران زده ایالات متحده می خواهد جهان را با خود در شعله های هسته ای به زیر بکشد

بنیاد فرهنگ راهبردی

ششم سپتامبر ۲۰۲۴

 

ایالات متحده خود را با جمع صفر تعریف می کند. اسطوره ملی آن - بیایید یک لحظه غرور مضحک را در خود فرو ببریم - این است که یک ملت استثنایی در تاریخ جهان است. ظاهراً این رهبر ضروری "جهان آزاد" است، نمونه ای از فضیلت دموکراتیک و دارای قدرتمندترین و خیرخواه ترین نیروی نظامی است که جهان تا کنون دیده است.ا