Israeli attacks on Gaza kill three as Hamas, Egypt hold ceasefire talks

March 8, 2025
Israeli drone strikes in Rafah kill three Palestinians amid escalating violence and fragile ceasefire talks in Cairo.

 

 Israel blocks vital supplies to Gaza: Aid organisations warn conditions are worsening

On Int’l Women’s Day: In Memory of Iranian Women who have Struggled for Freedom

March 8, 2025
Fariba Amini
Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When Ruhollah Khomeini was still in Neauphle-le-Château, in various declarations and interviews, he had promised that women would have the freedom to choose their attire.  That they would have the same rights as men.

 

 Graffiti picture in Frankfurt am Main for Jina Mahsa Amini on a demolition building in Gallus. The location was accessible to through traffic at the time of the photo. 11 March 2024, By Ostendfaxpost. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.. Via Wikimedia Commons..

Israeli troops raid West Bank Mosques on first Friday of Ramadan

March 7, 2025

Israeli police also placed heavy restrictions on Palestinians seeking to enter occupied East Jerusalem for Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest site

'Cruelty Is the Point': Private Prison Giants Set to Cash In as Trump Revives Family Detention

March 7, 2025
Jake Johnson
"Taking away a child's freedom and deliberately putting them in these conditions is unconscionable, as is denying a parent their most fundamental role of providing their child with a loving and nurturing environment."

 

Mexican migrants turn themselves in after crossing over a section of border into the United States on January 5, 2025 in Ruby, Arizona. (Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Iranian Singer Mehdi Yarrahi Flogged Over Song Against Mandatory Hijab

March 7, 2025
( RFE/RL ) – Pop singer Mehdi Yarrahi has been given 74 lashes for a song criticizing Iran’s mandatory dress code for women, ending a criminal case against him that also included a prison term.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Wd0tdM-rU&t=4s

Understanding the life and work of James Baldwin: In conversation with Colm Tóibín

March 7, 2025
JP O’Malley

    Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin’s 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain as an English undergraduate student in the early 1970s. In John Grimes, the novel’s central protagonist, Tóibín recognized a little bit of himself: a young man struggling to come to terms with his own sexuality and ambivalent feelings about God.

 

Hamas accuses Trump of aiding Israel’s Netanyahu in Gaza blockade

March 6, 2025
Hamas says Trump’s rhetoric helps Israel to tighten Gaza siege, risking starvation for 2.3 million residents.

 

 Palestinians try to continue their daily lives in rubble of buildings or makeshift tents on the fifth day of Ramadan at the Bureij Refugee Camp in Gaza City, Gaza [File: Moiz Salhi/ Anadolu Agency]

Weeks after Israeli withdrawal, Gazans still search for the missing in Netzarim

March 4, 2025
Ruwaida Kamal Amer
Thousands of Palestinians have made the arduous journey across Gaza's central corridor, as Civil Defense workers slowly uncover human remains.

Weimar’s Lesson: It’s the Violence, Not the Speech

March 5, 2025
Jeffrey Rudolph
( Detailed Political Quizzes ) – As comparisons between contemporary American politics and the rise of the Nazi Party are frequently invoked in the media, it’s crucial to draw one specific lesson from the history of Weimar Germany, the democratic state that existed from 1918 to 1933. The rise of Hitler and the Nazis was not the result of Weimar’s failure to punish hate speech. Instead, it was the futile attempt to suppress such speech while not acting effectively to curb political violence that allowed the Nazis to rise and gain power.

Sanders: 1 Percent Has Sapped $79T in Wealth From Bottom 90 Percent Since 1975

March 5. 2025
Sharon Zhang
In 2023 alone, $3.9 trillion was sapped from the bottom 90 percent— enough to give every worker a $32,000 raise.

Some Statistics

 Top countries by daily oil production

 Acceptance of Muslims in Europe 

 

حکومت ثروتمندان

در مورد رئیس جمهور جدید آمریکا، دانالد ترامپ، و سیاست‌های او در این مدت کوتاه از ریاست جمهوری‌اش سخنان بسیاری گفته شده و روش سیاسی‌ او مورد تجزیه و تحلیل بسیاری قرار گرفته شده است. سیاست کلی‌ او در جهت سیاست‌های جمهوری‌خواهان، یعنی‌ قدرت کمتر دولت‌ها و قدرت مالی بیشتر برای بخش خصوصی، بوده و خواهد بود. ولی‌ آنچه که متفاوت است، رفتار افسار گسیخته و دیکتاتور مآبانهٔ اوست، که با کُنش‌های منتخبینِ سلفِ او بسیار متفاوت است.ا

Israeli army intensifies siege on occupied West Bank’s Jenin Camp

March 4, 2025

Troops have closed off all entrances to Jenin Camp while continuing to blow up homes and displace Palestinian families

NY Times Continues To Show Extreme Bias in Gaza Coverage

March 4, 2025
Richard Hardigan
The United States government has been the primary enabler of the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli war machine against the Palestinian people of Gaza. It has provided essentially unlimited military support and diplomatic cover since October 7, and an important factor in allowing that to occur has been the role played by the mainstream media, whose coverage of Israel-Palestine has been so biased and misleading that it has kept many Americans ignorant about the meaning of the events in the Middle East.

Trump Set to Install Anti-Union Attack Dog as Director of Key Labor Office

March 4, 2025
Jake Johnson
One watchdog group warned that Elisabeth Messenger is "a real ideologue" whose selection underscores the Trump administration's hostility to organized labor.

 

 UCLA academic workers from United Auto Workers Local 4811 picket on the first day of their strike on May 28, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Israel plans to cut off electricity and water to Gaza after blocking aid

March 3, 2025
Mera Aladam
Israeli shelling near Khan Younis kills at least five people and wounded 21 others, as rights groups condemn new blockade as a 'tool of war'

Children react during the funeral of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike, in north Gaza, 2 March 2025 (Reuters/Abd Elhkeem Khaled)

The empire at its most honest

March 3, 2025
Caitlin Johnstone
President Donald Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning a future Gaza that has been turned into an ostentatious resort town where everyone parties amid showers of cash while Trump and Netanyahu sip drinks by the pool.

Why Chinese models are stunning Americans in the tech catwalk

March 3, 2025
Pepe Escobar
The Empire of Chaos will not take the competition lightly. The Middle Kingdom is unfazed – and ready to rock’n roll.

'This Guy Is a Leech on the Public': AOC Rips Musk Over Attack on Social Security

March 3, 2025
Jake Johnson
"No matter how many billions he gets in tax cuts and government contracts, it will never be enough for him," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "Now he's going after the elderly, the disabled, and orphaned children."

LIVE BLOG: Netanyahu Halts Gaza Aid | Palestinian Killed in Beit Hanoun Drone Strike — Day 513

March 2, 2025

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a halt on all aid to Gaza starting this morning, citing Hamas’ rejection of Witkoff’s proposal and vowing no ceasefire without captive releases.
• A Palestinian was killed and another injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting civilians east of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.

 

Palestinians in Gaza continue to recover the bodies of those killed in Israel's ongoing genocide. (Photo: via social media)

Hamas confirms 'no talks underway' on Gaza ceasefire as phase one ends

March 1, 2025

Israel repeatedly delayed the start of talks for phase two of the ceasefire and is pushing to 'extend' phase one by an additional six weeks

Israel’s bombing of Gaza caused untold environmental Damage − Can it Recover?

February 28, 2025
Lesley Joseph
(The Conversation) – The war in Gaza has come with an awful cost. Tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians have been killed, and thousands more are missing. And while a temporary ceasefire has allowed for increased aid delivery, easing the plight of those facing disease and hunger, experts predict malnutrition and health issues to persist for months or even years.

A Cruel Hoax: the Political Economy of Anti-immigration

February 28, 2025
Richard D. Wolff
Deporting immigrants may deliver electoral wins to politicians if voters have been sufficiently cultivated by years of demonizing and scapegoating them. For its victims, the cruelties involved are horrific. Yet such deportation makes little sense economically. It represents a nationally self-destructive program based on a faulty grasp of immigration economics. What once “made America great” (at least for the majority white population) were its successive waves of immigrants. What underscored the American economy’s strength was its ability to absorb and integrate those waves despite frictions among them: a genuinely productive melting pot. My American schooling through my PhD stressed such points.

Condemn and Counter U.S. Imperialist Aggression and War in the Philippines

February 25, 2025
Robert Reid
On February 6, a U.S. military-contracted plane crashed in Mindanao, Philippines, killing four Americans: one U.S. military service member and three defense contractors, unequivocally exposing the active role of the United States in the “counterinsurgency” war against the Filipino people and highlighting the involvement of U.S. military personnel and equipments in the war effort.

Netanyahu Views the Hostages as His Excuse To Restart the Slaughter

February 27, 2025
Jonathan Cook

Western leaders and media are helping bolster a propaganda narrative about the Israeli captives that makes the resumption of Israel’s slaughter all but inevitable

British celebrities call on BBC to restore Gaza documentary

February 26, 2025
Hundreds put name to petition saying removal of documentary was based on 'racist assumptions' and dehumanisation of Palestinians

 

 Gary Lineker, as well as actors Juliet Stevenson and Miriam Margolyes, were among those demanding Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone be restored to BBC iPlayer (AFP)

Trump Threatened to Revoke Visas of Students Who Dissent. Where’s the Pushback?

February 26, 2025
Schuyler Mitchell
Universities that decried Trump’s “Muslim Ban” in 2017 are largely silent now as Trump bullies international students.

 

Protesters hold signs blasting Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and advocating for immigrants as they gather outside of Los Angeles City Hall, on February 5, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Qian Weizhong / VCG via Getty Images

دنیائی نو

نخست باید این پیشگفتار را افزود که به دلیل هجوم واژه‌های عربی‌، فرانسه، و در این چند دههٔ اخیر انگلیسی‌، در این مقاله کوشش شده است که تا جا دارد از واژه‌های پارسی‌ کارگیری شود. چنان‌چه واژه‌ای به نظر ناآشنا بیاید، آن واژه‌ای که امروزه نهادینه شده، داخل دو ابرو () بازگو می‌شود.ا

From Truman to Trump: Palestine, America’s Fork in the Road

February 25, 2025
M. Reza Behnam
For Palestine and Palestinians, 14 May 1948 was a fateful day in its 4,000-year history. It was also historically pivotal for the United States. Paraphrasing British author, George Orwell, it is essential to rediscover the past in order to gain control of the present and save the future. 

 

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

Why are Israeli tanks in the occupied West Bank?

February 24, 2025
Israel is signalling a new escalation in its attacks on the West Bank , expelling tens of thousands of people from their homes.

 

 Palestinians have long resisted Israeli tanks with stones [Raneen Sawafta /Reuters]

D is for Decline, Dystopia and . . . Donald

February 24, 2025
Tom Engelhardt
( Tomdispatch.com ) – Count on one thing: in some almost unimaginable future, no American president (if we even have them anymore) is going to rename a mountain for Donald Trump as he’s recently tried to do with North America’s tallest peak. He wants Alaska’s Mount Denali (to hell with Native American names!) to be called Mount McKinley in honor of President William McKinley, the man who, in the 1890s, launched this country as an imperial power of the first order.

'Put Your Grandma's Social Security Check in Danger': Warren Fills in Blanks on What Trump Did Last Week

February 24, 2025
Eloise Goldsmith
"Is Donald Trump going to respond to Musk's email and report on what he did last week? To help, I've gone ahead and done it for him," Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote on X.

 

 U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks at a rally outside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on February 10, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

DOGE Debunked: Billionaires Are Robbing You and Calling It ‘Efficiency’ w/ Prof. Richard Wolff

 DOGE Debunked: Billionaires Are Robbing You and Calling It ‘Efficiency’ w/ Prof. Richard Wolff

 

LIVE BLOG: Hamas Condemns Delay in Prisoner Release | Thousands to Attend Nasrallah’s Funeral – Day 506

February 23, 2025

 Killed    Wounded    Missing

48,297    111,733    14,000

 

 Despite the chilling cold, families of Palestinian prisoners waited for their loved ones who were set to be released. (Photo: via social media)

How the West treats immigrants as mere human cogs

February 23, 2025
Raphael Machado
In the endless pursuit of profit maximization, everyone is sacrificed—immigrants and natives alike.

A brief history of Israel’s theft and trafficking of Palestinian organs

February 22, 2025         
Healthcare Workers for Palestine
There are over three decades of evidence that Israeli doctors harvest Palestinian organs in direct violation of international law. These stolen body parts were not just used for transplantation and research but for sale and profit.

 

People watch as some of the 84 bodies of Palestinians handed over by Israeli forces are buried in a mass grave, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on August 5, 2024. (Photo: Abdullah Abu Al-Khair / APA Images)

F*ck Big Book

February 22, 2025         
Amanda Crocker
In 2003 I bought a t-shirt that on the front said “Fuck Bush” in a surprisingly cheery font and on the back had a two-column list of twenty-four corporations: “Fuck Exxon-Mobil, Fuck Coca-Cola, Fuck Starbucks …” When I wore it to protests no one ever stopped me to ask me why Nike or Disney were on the list. After all, the Left is usually very good at analyzing and critiquing capital, showing us where the money is and what it means for massive corporations to wield extraordinary power. From Big Pharma to Big Energy, Big Retail, Big Agriculture, and Big Media, both academics and activists can usually name the largest of our corporate enemies in each industry and at least two or three of their corporate crimes.

‘Worse than the Second Intifada’: West Bank refugees reel from Israeli offensive

 February 21, 2025
Hanno Hauenstein
Displaced from Jenin and Tulkarem, Palestinian residents say Israel is waging a deliberate campaign to make the northern refugee camps unlivable.

 

Smokes rises above Jenin refugee camp during an Israeli military operation to crack down on armed resistance, January 24, 2025. (Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Activestills)

'Outrageous, Unlawful Attack': Trump Plots Takeover of US Postal Service

February 21, 2025
Jake Johnson
"Any attack on the Postal Service would be part of the billionaire oligarch coup," said the president of the American Postal Workers Union.

What do countries call themselves? The stories behind their original names

February 21, 2025
Alma Milisic and Mohamed A. Hussein
Around half of the world’s countries have native or local names that differ from their English versions, often reflecting their history, geography or cultural identity.

UK Society of Authors’ Lukewarm Response to Israeli Raid on Palestinian Bookshop Provokes Resignation

February 20, 2025
( Middle East Monitor ) – British travel writer Matthew Teller has resigned from the Society of Authors (SoA) in protest at the organisation’s response to Israel’s arrest of Palestinian booksellers in occupied East Jerusalem.

As Suppression of Dissent Increases, Know Your Rights If the FBI Comes Knocking

February 19, 2025
Schuyler Mitchell
Mara Sapon-Shevin always wondered if she had an FBI file. For more than 40 years, the Syracuse University professor has been a political activist for Palestinian liberation, first organizing with New Jewish Agenda and later with Jewish Voice for Peace.

Making America Sick Again: How Trump’s Drastic Layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control cripple our Response to Norovirus, Measles Outbreaks

February 20, 2025
Jordan Miller
(The Conversation) – In just a few short weeks, the Trump administration has brought drastic changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and public health. Beginning with the removal of websites and key public health datasets in January 2025, the Trump administration has taken actions to dismantle established public health infrastructure as part of its second-term agenda.

Restoring Maximum Pressure: Can Iran withstand the economic squeeze?

February 20, 2025
Vali Kaleji
The Trump administration has reimposed its maximum pressure campaign on Iran, triggering a currency crash, soaring inflation, and worsening energy shortages, while Tehran scrambles to offset the impact by reducing dependence on oil exports (resistance economy) and strengthening economic ties with China and Russia. 

One Month into Life

I have been here, in this hellish world, for a month now. I don't know how much longer I have to be here, but I hope not for too long.

Outrage after UK academics address Israeli university closely tied to military

February 19, 2025
Imran Mulla
Dibyesh Anand and Nitasha Kaul, academics at the University of Westminster, defended their decision to speak at a conference organised by Tel Aviv University

 

 Israeli soldiers detain a youth in Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on 19 February (AFP)

Why Washington’s global dominance is hanging by a thread

February 19, 2025
Hossam el-Hamalawy
The launch of the Gaza war in October 2023 and the ensuing genocide puzzled many around the globe for different reasons. Some in the Arab world and elsewhere were perplexed that the West—particularly the US, Israel’s biggest sponsor—seemed “helpless” and “unable” to stop Israel and enforce a ceasefire for more than a year.

 An effigy of U.S. President Donald Trump dressed as a jester is seen at a protest in Washington, DC, on 5 February 2025 (Drew Angerer/AFP)

One month into Israel’s West Bank offensive, violence and uncertainty are the new normal

February 18, 2025
Qassam Muaddi
Israel has killed 55 Palestinians after one month of its ongoing “Iron Wall” offensive in the West Bank. Killings, mass displacement, and uncertainty are the new normal.

 

Mourners carry the bodies of six Palestinians killed during an Israeli air strike the previous day on Jenin’s refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, on January 15, 2025. The Palestinian health ministry said on January 14 that an Israeli air strike on the Jenin refugee camp killed six people, including a teenager, with the Israeli military confirming it carried out an attack in the area. (Wahaj Bani Moufleh / Activestills)

New Administration Tells AARP Social Security Payments Are Protected

February 18, 2025
Andy Markowitz
67 million Americans receive benefits that they have earned