Syria’s Mukhtariyah massacre and the lie that made it possible

December 31, 2025

Testimony and footage from Mukhtariyah challenge official claims, showing how false 'security' narratives in March turned the small Syrian village into the site of mass civilian killings. Testimony and footage from the village of Mukhtariyah on the Sy'rian coast show how government security forces fabricated claims of 'violent clashes' with Alawite insurgents, giving them the pretext to carry out a pre-planned massacre

مبارزه با آلیگارشی

آخرین کتاب برنی سندرز با عنوان مبارزه با آلیگارشی منتشر شده است. سندرز شاید یکی از سناتورهای نادری باشد که به نمایندگی از اکثریت آمریکایی‌ها رأی می‌دهد. او در آوریل سال هشتاد و یک قرن بیستم میلادی، زمانی که کمتر از بیست سال سن داشت، به عنوان شهردار برلینگتون انتخاب شد و هشت سال این سمت را بر عهده داشت. ده سال پس از نخستین انتخابش، به عنوان عضوی از مجلس نمایندگان رأی آورد و شانزده سال در این سمت بود. آخرین انتخاب او در هفتمین سال این قرن، به عنوان سناتوری از ایالت وِرمانت بود، و تا کنون با صداقت از این ایالت، و سایر مردم این کشور که در زیر سلطهٔ منافع سرمایه‌دارن بزرگ در محرومیت به سر می‌برند، دفاع کرده است.ا

Fight Oligarchy

Bernie Sanders’ latest book is titled “Fight Oligarchy”. Sanders is perhaps one of the rare senators who votes on behalf of the majority of Americans. He was elected as the mayor of Burlington in April 1981 when he was less than twenty year of age, and he held that position for eight years. In 1991 he was elected as a member of the house, the position he held for sixteen years. In 2007, Sanders was elected as a senator, and since then he has been representing the state of Vermont in the senate.

John Pilger: Afflictor of the Powerful

December 30, 2025
Joe Lauria
Special to Consortium News

UPDATED: John Pilger died two years ago today on Dec. 30, 2023. Better than just about anyone else, he used his prodigious talents to simply do his job as a reporter, writes Joe Lauria.

 

“Witch Hunt”: Jailed U.K. Palestine Action Activists Continue Hunger Strike Despite Health Risks

December 29, 2025
Alarm is growing over the treatment and deteriorating health of eight pro-Palestinian activists jailed in the United Kingdom who are on hunger strike to protest their detention. The activists remain imprisoned as they await trial over charges linked to their work with Palestine Action, which the British government has banned under its Terrorism Act over direct action protests against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. Several of the activists who began their hunger strike in early November are now in “a critical stage” and facing grave health risks or death, according to Dr. James Smith, a doctor supporting the hunger strikers. “This is an extremely critical moment, and, frankly speaking, it defies comprehension that members of the government have refused even to meet with the hunger strikers in an attempt to resolve this situation.”

Storms Kill Displaced Woman in Gaza as Tents and Damaged Buildings Collapse

December 28, 2025

Storms sweeping Gaza have killed at least one displaced Palestinian and worsened already catastrophic living conditions for families forced into unsafe shelters.

China sealing Hainan customs borders to make full free trade port

December 27, 2025
Jeff Pao

Will it succeed on Singapore or Dubai scale – or disappoint due to ‘wolf warrior’ diplomacy, Trump trade war, economic downturn?

Resorts in Sanya, Hainan province Photo: Xinhua/Zhao Yingquan

The Tomorrow Club aims to support and mentor young writers amid polarity and tech-driven chaos

December 26, 2025
Mong Palatino

An interview with PEN International about the Asia focus of its Tomorrow Club

In the Galilee hills, Christmas celebrations revive a depopulated Palestinian village

December 24, 2025
Samah Watad

After a two-year absence, displaced residents and their descendants returned to Bir'im — part of efforts since 1948 to keep the community alive.

People gather near the entrance to the the church at the Christmas market in Bir'im, Dec. 13, 2025. (Anna Maria Hawa)

I did not understand I grew up in a concentration camp until I left Gaza

December 24, 2025
Abdalrahim Abuwarda

Growing up in Gaza, I didn't realize that the siege I was living under was unique or that others didn't face a constant threat of death. It was only after I left that I understood I had grown up in a concentration camp, and that it shaped my life.

on February 16, 2009. The attacks came despite ceasefires declared on January 18, 2009, after a three-week Israeli offensive against the territory’s Hamas rulers that killed 1,330 Palestinians (Photo: APAIMAGES PHOTO / Ashraf Amra)

پایان دنیا

نخست بپردازیم به چگونگیِ آغازِ این جهان. از آنجائی که ما اطلاعات مکتوبی از زمانی‌ که جهان ما میلیون‌ها سال پیش به وجود آمد نداریم، به فرضیات دانشمندان در این رشته می‌پردازیم. در این مورد دانشمندان متبحّر در نجوم و ستاره‌شناسی‌ انگاشت‌های جالب و قابل قبولی از آغازِ دنیای ما به رشته تحریر در آورده‌ا‌ند. بر اساس محاسبات آنها، کره زمین بیش از چهارونیم میلیون سال پیش به صورت یک گوی مذاب شکل گرفت. گاز‌ها و گردهایی که تولید شدند در هم آمیختند و خوشهٔ سحابی یا نبولا را به وجود آوردند. در کهکشان یا راه شیری که منظومهٔ شمسی‌ قرار دارد، بیش از پانصد منظومهٔ دیگر نیز کشف شده‌ا‌ند. پس از آنکه در کرهٔ ما اقیانوس‌ها و کوه‌ها و سایر عوارض زمین شکل گرفتند، محیط برای تولید موجودات تک‌سلولی مساعد شد. در نهایت، این سلول‌ها بصورت انسان امروزی تکامل یافتند. این بود داستان علت وجودی ما انسان‌ها بطور خیلی‌ مختصر!ا

Think a $35B gas deal will thaw Egypt toward Israel? Not so fast. Think a $35B gas deal will thaw Egypt toward Israel? Not so fast.

December 23, 2025
Elfadil Ibrahim

Trump wants a summit to celebrate the agreement but the smoking ruins of Gaza appear to be getting in the way.

Why We Are on Hunger Strike in UK Jails

December 22, 2025
Amu Gib

Amu Gib is one of eight prisoners incarcerated for alleged involvement in direct action against Israeli genocide currently on hunger strike in UK jails. This piece is based on interviews conducted by Ainle Ó Cairealláin and ES Wight on Days 18 and 33 of the strike. Amu has subsequently been hospitalised, on Day 50 of their strike, the sixth hunger striker to be so.

 
London protest in support of jailed Palestinian rights hunger strikers. Screengrab from video posted to Instagram.

Two Killed near Gaza’s ‘Yellow Line’ as Hospitals Warn of Imminent Collapse

December 21, 2025

Israeli fire killed two Palestinians near Gaza’s Yellow Line as hospitals warned of collapse amid ongoing restrictions and attacks despite the ceasefire.

Killed	Wounded	Missing
70,926	171,185	9,500

Flee or Stagnate: Haiti’s Youth Face Impossible Psychological Dilemma

December19, 2025
Magdala Louis
Lucnise Duquereste

Trapped by shuttered schools, few jobs, violence and closed borders, a generation of Haitians is suffering a devastating mental health crisis.

Makeshift tents fill a camp set up by people displaced from their homes by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on April 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Trump Administration Sets Goal to Denaturalize Thousands of US Citizens in 2026

December 18, 2025
Sharon Zhang

Immigration officials have reportedly issued guidance setting a quota of 100 to 200 denaturalization cases a month.

Homeland Security Advisor and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller delivers remarks as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers an announcement in the White House on October 23, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

Tucker Carlson and the Freedom of Speech

December 18, 2025
Andrew P. Napolitano
Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf of himself and 40 other Senate Democrats that, if passed, would record the sense of the Senate as condemning the media superstar Tucker Carlson because of the political, historical and cultural opinions of a guest on Carlson’s podcast. You read that correctly: The U.S. Senate is being asked to condemn Carlson because of what someone else said.

Another Gaza home caves in as Israel keeps blocking shelter supplies

December 17, 2025
Federica Marsi and Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
·         The roof of a war-damaged family home has collapsed in the harsh winter storm in Gaza’s Shati refugee camp, with rescue workers managing to save six Palestinians, including two children.
·         A two-week-old Palestinian infant has frozen to death in the Gaza Strip, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
·         Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 70,668 Palestinians and wounded 171,152 since October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023 attacks, and about 200 were taken captive.

 
Weather becomes weapon in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza

در آغاز

متن انگلیسی‌ این مقاله را می‌توان در این وبلاگ، به تاریخ نهم ماه می‌‌سال دوهزار و هفده یافت. از آنجائی که موضوع این مقاله که من در آن تاریخ نوشتم و در این وبلاگ درج کردم هنوز تازه است، تصمیم گرفتم 

که ترجمهٔ پارسی‌ آنرا نیز، با لخته‌ای تغییرات، در اینجا بیاورم.ا

From nukes to AI, China seeks to write new global rules

December 16, 2025
Ladislav Zemánek

Beijing is making a bold bid to shape how the world thinks about war, peace, and power in the decades ahead

Rebranding Genocide

December 15, 2025

The Genocide in Gaza has not stopped. It has been rebranded. And that is enough of a linguistic subterfuge to get the world to ignore it.

See No Evil Hear No Evil Speak No Evil — by Mr. Fish

LIVE BLOG: Hamas Confirms Saad’s Assassination as Israeli Ceasefire Violations Continue – Day 800

December 14, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
70,654	171,095	9,500

Freezing temperatures and heavy rainfall are worsening already dire living conditions for hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians across the Strip. (Photo: social media, via QNN)

12 Dead After Shooters Target Hanukkah Celebration at Australia’s Bondi Beach

December 14, 2025
Jessica Corbett

“The images out of Bondi Beach in Australia this morning of a vile, antisemitic massacre at a Hanukkah celebration are shocking, disgusting, and heartbreaking,” said Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, a US Senate candidate.

A member of the public leaves the scene with her child, who is covered in an emergency blanket, after a shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on December 14, 2025.

Israel’s expanding ‘Yellow Line’ swallows Gaza districts and uproots families

December 13, 2025
Maha Hussaini

Palestinian families are forced to flee their homes in silence as Israeli deployment lines creep closer, despite the ceasefire

‘A forceful stand for our constitution’: judge orders release of Kilmar Ábrego García

December 11, 2025
Brett Wilkins

Judge Paula Xinis found that the Trump administration redetained the Salvadoran father of three “without lawful authority.”

Zelensky’s rush to elections is a blatant effort to cling to power and keep the money flowing

December 11, 2025
Ian Proud

Zelensky’s offer to rush to early elections appears just another Kvartal 95 inspired piece of theatre.

Climate Breakdown: Each Child Today is being Born into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima

December 10, 2025
Tom Engelhardt
( Tomdispatch.com ) – What self-destructive creatures we turn out to be!

مفهوم زندگی‌

 هوشیاریِ ما نسبت به محیط اطرافمان ما را بر آن می‌دارد که هر لحظه در هر آنچه که به ما مربوط می‌شود تغییری دهیم تا آنرا برای زندگی‌ خود مساعد‌تر سازیم. بدین منظور به طبیعت دست می‌بریم؛ به رود‌ها سدّ می‌زنیم و تپه‌ها را هموار می‌کنیم و گیاهان را رشد می‌دهیم و حیوانات را اهلی می‌کنیم، و بر هر آنچه جهان فیزیکی‌ را برای ما قابل زندگی‌تر می‌کند تغییری می‌دهیم.ا

 

Israel bombs Syria over 600 times since Sharaa seized power

December 9, 2025

The Israeli army occupied large swathes of southern Syria after Assad’s government fell, and has refused to withdraw despite Damascus vowing not to pose a threat to Tel Aviv

China’s quantum leap could crack US nuclear deterrence

December 8, 2025
Gabriel Honrada

China’s quantum surge is fast becoming the asymmetric wild card that could unravel US’s military edge in the Pacific

Chinese researchers fine-tune the Origin Wukong quantum computer. Photo: CGTN

LIVE BLOG: Egypt Reiterates Refusal to Displace Palestinians as Israel Expands Its ‘Yellow Line’ – Day 793

December 7, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
70,112	171,015	9,500

Robert W. McChesney (1952–2025): A Personal and Political-Intellectual Memoir

      December 6, 2025
John Bellamy Foster
Robert (Bob) Waterman McChesney and I met each other in September 1973, within days of his arrival at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where I had been studying for two years. Bob was 21 and I had just turned 20. We immediately became fast friends. Bob had grown up in a conservative environment in suburban Cleveland, where his father, Samuel Parker McChesney, sold advertising for This Week magazine. His mother Edna (Meg) McChesney (née McCorkle) was a nurse but left nursing to become a homemaker before he was born. After attending high school at Pomfret, a private boarding (prep) school in Connecticut, he enrolled in college at Antioch in Ohio, transferring from there to Evergreen.

(Left to right) Inger, Bob, and John (Bellamy Foster) circa 2015. (Photo taken by Carrie Ann Naumoff.)

CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves

December 5, 2025

Israel’s military is continuing to pound the Gaza Strip in violation of the October 10 ceasefire agreement. Al Jazeera reports Israeli ships opened fire toward the coast of Khan Younis, while air raids struck the city of Rafah. There are reports of explosions and Israeli artillery fire around Gaza City, including airstrikes near the Maghazi refugee camp.

RAY McGOVERN: Trump Ukraine Plan AOA (Alive on Arrival)

December 4, 2025
Ray McGovern

Yury Ushakov, Putin’s man on Ukraine, said there’s no firm plan for Ukraine yet and some American ideas are acceptable to Russia, some not.  But the plan is not dead.

The sentence demanded in the case of jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu is 2,430 years

December 3, 2025
Arzu Geybullayeva

The mayor strongly rejects the charges, calling [them] a compilation of lies, allegedly built under coercion

پائیز

طبیعت چهار موسم یا فصل دارد و تاریخ ما ایرانیان با موسم بهار آغاز می‌شود. در سنجش با تاریخ‌های میلادی و اسلامی و سایر تاریخ‌ها، شاید بتوان گفت که تاریخ ما ایرانیان که آغاز آن نخستین روز بهار است، بهترین و ارزشمند‌ترین تاریخ است. نخستین روز سال خورشیدی، همزمان با زایش گیاهان و حتی گونه‌هائی از حیوانات است. می‌توانیم این تاریخ را با تاریخ‌های دیگر بسنجیم تا ارزش آنرا درک کنیم.ا

Legislating apartheid: How Israel entrenched unequal rule during Gaza war

December 2, 2025
Orly Noy

In a two-year blitz, Israeli lawmakers passed over 30 laws curtailing Palestinians' rights and punishing dissent, a new report shows.

Israeli police arrest a Palestinian woman in Karmiel, northern Israel, July 3, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)

The genocide in Gaza cost this Palestinian woman her hands. She lost so much more than her limbs.

December 1, 2025
Noor Alyacoubi

An Israeli attack on her shelter caused the amputation of both of Nibal’s hands, forcing her to lose the thing she held most dear: the ability to hold her young daughter. Her story is one of hundreds of amputee women in Gaza.

LIVE BLOG: Hezbollah Confirms Killing of Top Commander as Israel Continues to Violate Gaza Ceasefire – Day 779

November 30, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
70,100	170,983	9,500

Search teams in Al-Maghazi refugee camp continue working to retrieve the bodies of Palestinians still trapped beneath the rubble. (Photo: via QNN)

Are private American soldiers surging into new Gaza aid sites?

November 28, 2025
Connor Echols

Whistleblower Anthony Aguilar claims that a new company is already hoping to take over where the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation left off

Pay to Pollute, Starting in 2026

November 26, 2025
Robert Hunziker
The United States of America was unofficially represented at COP30, the annual UN climate conference (November 10-21) in Belem, Brazil by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). He was not granted the privilege of officially representing the U.S. The State Department refused to facilitate his trip, refused to acknowledge the senator as a representative of a congressional delegation, refusing to acknowledge COP30, refusing to acknowledge global warming. This is the first time in Senator Whitehouse’s career that the executive branch of government has dictated a congressional member’s CODEL (Congressional Delegation paid trip for members).

The Importance of Being ‘That’ Person This Thanksgiving

November26, 2025
Jeb Lund

As we carve the turkey, we can all serve as something of a measure against the mess.

Soldiers Must Disobey Unlawful Orders Under Trump — It’s Their Legal Duty

November 25, 2025

Marjorie Cohn

I have been called to testify at courts-martial as an expert witness on servicemembers’ duty to disobey unlawful orders.

تنکس‌گیوینگ دی یا روز شکرگذاری

آیا ما انسان‌ها هوشمندترین موجودات در این کهکشان هستیم؟ ما شخصی‌ مانند ستفن هاکینگ را داشتیم که هفت سال پیش فوت کرد، و گرچه اکثر هفتاد و شش سال عمرش را با بیماری کشنده‌ای به سر برد، ولی‌ به عنوان یکی‌ از بزرگ‌ترین نوابغ جهان شناخته شده است. بسیاری از نقاط جهان فیزیکی‌ ما هنوز کشف نشده باقی‌ مانده‌ا‌ند، بخصوص کهکشان‌ها، کرات و سیارات دیگر. ولی‌ این را می‌دانیم که بر روی کرهٔ زمین، ما انسان‌ها خود را از کلیهٔ موجودات دیگر باهوش‌تر می‌دانیم. گرچه، با توجه به تسلیحات نظامی که صرفا برای کشتار انسان‌ها و صدمه زدن به طبیعت اختراع می‌شوند و گسترش می‌یابند، میزان هوش و دانش ما انسان‌ها زیر پرسش قرار می‌گیرد.ا

Trump Is Turning Gaza Into a Brutal Colonial Protection Racket

November 25, 2025
Jonathan Cook

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ will never be meaningfully realized – and was never intended to be. It is simply a way to justify prolonging Gaza’s living hell

France seeks progress on nuclear talks as Iran top diplomat to visit Paris

November 24, 2025
al jaz, Elis Gjevori and News Agencies

France will host Iran’s foreign minister in Paris this week for talks that are set to include stalled nuclear negotiations.

LIVE BLOG: Deadly Strikes in Gaza as Calls Grow in Israel for an Inquiry into October 7 – Day 779

November 23, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
69756	170946	9500

Zelensky is sending a very important signal about Trump’s peace plan

November 22, 2025
Tarik Cyril Amar

The Ukrainian leader has left all options open in response to the 28-point draft – and that is a sensation in itself

"You Have a Mother" - Read by Eunice Wong

November 21, 2025
Chris Hedges

We lost my dear friend, Lola Mozes, who survived Auschwitz, this morning. I wrote her story a decade ago.

View of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Two rows of barbed wire encircle the camp. The path between could be easily machine-gunned from the watch towers. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Secret ‘Mass Surveillance Network’ by Border Patrol Tracks ‘Suspicious’ Driving Patterns of Americans

November 20, 2025
Brad Reed

The Border Patrol is engaging in “dragnet surveillance of Americans on the streets, on the highways, in their cities, in their communities,” charged one critic.