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Thursday, July 10, 2025

‘Like a video game’: Israel enforcing Gaza evacuations with grenade-firing drones

Yuval Abraham
The Israeli army is weaponizing Chinese-made drones to police expulsion orders across Gaza, with soldiers saying they deliberately target civilians so others will ‘learn’ not to return, an investigation reveals.
 A rendering of an EVO drone hovering over the ruins of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, February 11, 2025. (Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
 A rendering of an EVO drone hovering over the ruins of Khan Younis, Sourthern Gaza Strip, February 11, 2025

20 years of BDS: An interview with Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of the movement

On the 20th anniversary of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, Mondoweiss speaks with Omar Barghouti about the past, present, and future of the movement.
(Photo: Palestine Solidarity Campaign) 

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

The Abraham Shield: Israel’s new blueprint for regional control after Gaza

July 8, 2025
Sarah B.
A New Name for an Old Strategy
As the latest Gaza ceasefire teeters into effect and Trump pushes for Saudi-Israeli normalization, Israel’s security establishment has unveiled its next regional blueprint: the Abraham Shield Plan.
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داستان دو مادربزرگ

مادربزرگ‌های من زندگی کاملاً متفاوتی داشتند، با این حال هر دو بیش از صد سال عمر کردند
Photo of author's grandmother, RuthPhoto of author's grandmother, Charlotte

A Tale of ­Two Grandmothers

July 9, 2025
By David Hochman
My grandmas lived completely different lives, yet they both lived to be over 100 years old. How?
Photo of author's grandmother, RuthPhoto of author's grandmother, Charlotte

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Genocide Made Invisible

Norman Solomon
Despite all the dodging of reality, many Americans now know that mass murder of certain other human beings is a functional U.S. ideology, writes Norman Solomon.
 
An aerial photo of displaced Palestinians waiting in northern Nuseirat to return to their homes in Gaza, Jan. 6, 2025. (Ashraf Amra/UNRWA/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0)

Imperial Hypocrisy About "Terrorism" Hits Its Most Absurd Point Yet

Caitlin Johnstone
The US has removed Syria’s Al Qaeda franchise from its list of designated terrorist organizations just days after the UK added nonviolent activist group Palestine Action to its own list of banned terrorist groups.
 

Monday, July 7, 2025

Report: Israel Seeks Assurance From US That It Could Restart Attacks on Gaza If It Agrees To 60-Day Ceasefire Deal

Dave DeCamp
Netanyahu is set to discuss the potential Gaza deal in his meeting with Trump at the White House
 
 Mourners carry the bodies of Palestinian children killed in an overnight Israeli strike on a house, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, during a funeral at Al-Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City, July 6, 2025. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa

The Megabill is a Disaster for Children

It slashes spending on Medicaid, which provides health insurance to 37 million children and is a critical revenue source for schools.
 

Friday, July 4, 2025

The End Game in Iran also means the demise of Trump’s credibility around the world

Martin Jay
The Iranians have been fooled more than once in recent years and now they can’t be fooled again.

Outrage pours in after House GOP approves ‘one of the most catastrophic bills passed in modern history’

 Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar called the Republican budget package “one of the most cruel, immoral pieces of legislation that Congress has ever voted on.” 
 
 People take part in a protest against the Republican tax bill in Los Angeles, California on December 4, 2017.Photo by Ronen Tivony/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Thursday, July 3, 2025

How Many People Have to Die to Keep a 79-Year-Old Man Suffering from Dementia Happy?

Dean Baker
 That’s the question Republicans in Congress will be debating as they struggle to put Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill (BBB)” in final form to pass and send to his desk. The essence of the bill should be well known at this point. It extends Trump’s 2017 tax cuts past their scheduled expiration date at the end of the year.
 

Yes to 'Department of War' name change

Mark Thompson
This week in The Bunker: DOD's emphasis on style over substance; intruders invade an atomic US base; and more
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

The Supreme Court Has Effectively Resuscitated Dred Scott

Michael Waldman
By choosing to ban nationwide injunctions in response to a case challenging Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship, the court’s conservative majority put all of our rights at risk.
People stand in front of the Supreme Court with a banner reading, "Hands off birthright citizenship."  
 Demonstrators hold up an anti-Trump sign outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on June 27, 2025. Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP

Profiting From Genocide

Chris Hedges
The latest United Nations report names hundreds of corporations, banks, technology firms, universities, pension funds and charities that profit from the Israeli occupation and genocide.
 

انسان و انسانیت

زمانی‌ که ما از انسانیت سخن می‌گوئیم، منظورمان صرفا بشریت نیست، بلکه مروت و مهربانی و لطف، و هم و غم سایر انسان‌ها را داشتن است. از همه مهم‌تر دقت در این است که مراقب و مُحتاط باشیم که آنچه که انجام می‌دهیم و یا در نظر داریم، خللی به آزادی و منافع دیگران وارد نمی‌آورد.ا

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Live: At least 44 killed, as Israeli forces fire on Palestinians waiting for aid

July 1, 2025
Meanwhile, UK to give Israel fighter jet parts as Palestinian schools hit overnight

Israel's war on Gaza

July 1, 2025
On October 7, 2023, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), the group that governs the Palestinian territory of Gaza, breached the barrier that has surrounded the densely populated area for the last 16 years, preventing the free flow of people and goods.

Monday, June 30, 2025

Tens of Thousands Flee Gaza City as Israel Issues New Forced Evacuation Orders

June 30, 2025
Tens of thousands of Palestinians fled central and northern Gaza on Sunday after Israel issued new forced evacuation orders and began bombing eastern parts of Gaza City. 

Sunday, June 29, 2025

LIVE BLOG: Israeli Army Bleeds in Gaza as Occupation Forces Target Aid Seekers and Shelters – Day 631

 

-         Palestinian resistance groups continued to carry out deadly ambushes targeting invading Israeli forces.

-         Meanwhile, Israeli forces committed a horrific massacre in the Tuffah neighborhood, killing scores of Palestinians, including nine children.

-         Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed 56,500 and injured 133,419 others, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Over 60 Palestinian children died of starvation in Gaza due to Israeli blockade

UN officials describe Gaza as the 'hungriest place on earth' as the small amount of aid that enters the strip is distributed in 'death traps' where Israeli soldiers turn food lines into mass graves
 

Over 60 Palestinian children died of starvation in Gaza due to Israeli blockade

Sasha Abramsky
Trump wants to destroy the ability of states to chart their own course on combating climate change.
 
 In an aerial view, traffic moves on Interstate 80 on May 19, 2025, in Emeryville, California.

Saturday, June 28, 2025

Netanyahu’s ‘New Middle East:’ Same old Colonialism

June 28, 2025
Ramzy Baroud
( Middle East Monitor ) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu persistently declares his ambition to “change the face of the Middle East”. Yet, his repeated assertions seem to clash with the unfolding reality on the ground.

Israel’s euphoric ‘victory’ over Iran is quickly giving way to disillusionment

June 27, 2025
Meron Rapoport
Politically, Netanyahu may appear the winner of the '12-Day War.' But Israel achieved none of its military goals, and Gaza is once again impossible to ignore.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the scene where an Iranian ballistic missile hit and caused damage at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, June 20, 2025. (Itai Ron/Pool)

Friday, June 27, 2025

US divided on fate of Iran’s enriched uranium after strikes – NYT

June 27, 2025
Intelligence reports differ as the IAEA says the fuel could have been moved before the attacks, the outlet says

General strike in Ramallah after Israeli settler rampage kills three Palestinians

June 26, 2025
Qassam Muaddi
Israeli settlers went on a rampage in the town of Kufr Malek, northeast of Ramallah, killing three Palestinians. The attack is the latest in an escalating wave of settler pogroms against Palestinian communities between the Jordan Valley and Ramallah.
Burnt-out vehicles at the scene of an attack by Israeli settlers, in the village of Burqa north of the West Bank city of Nablus, May 16, 2025

Thursday, June 26, 2025

The United surveillance States of America

June 26, 2025
Rebecca Gordon
Sometime in the late 1980s, I was talking with a friend on my landline (the only kind of telephone we had then). We were discussing logistics for an upcoming demonstration against the Reagan administration’s support for the Contras fighting the elected government of Nicaragua. We agreed that, when our call was done, I’d call another friend, “Mary,” to update her on the plans. I hung up.

NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary Puts Gaza in Focus

June 25, 2025
Corinna G. Barnard
Zohran Mamdani’s Zionist antagonists tried to turn his Muslim identity and pro-Palestine politics into a liability, writes Corinna Barnard. So far, it hasn’t worked.

Dear Israel Apologist

June 26, 2025
Caitlin Johnstone
Dear Israel apologist,
There is nothing you can say to me that will make me stop opposing Israel’s western-backed atrocities.

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

برده‌داری جدید

با ورود دانالد ترامپ به کاخ سفید برای دومین بار، و تقسیم مشاغل دولتی بین هم‌فکرانش، قدرتمند‌ترین کشور دنیا از نظر نظامی و دومین کشور جهان از نظر صنعتی و تکنولوژی، توسط کسانی‌ اداره می‌شود که انسان را به یاد رهبری آلمان در نخستین نیمه قرن بیستم می‌اندازد. این دوست صمیمی‌ دانالد ترامپ، یعنی‌ الون ماسک، که البته ثروتمندترین فرد نیز می‌باشد، علنا افکار نژاد پرستی‌ خود را اعلام کرده بود. گرچه پس از مدت کوتاهی‌ روابط ترامپ با ماسک به تیرگی گرایید، ولی‌ همهٔ اطرافیان ترامپ کسانی‌ هستند که درآمد ماهیانه‌شان از مجموع درآمد‌های پنجاه و پنج درصد پایین مردم آمریکا بیشتر است.ا

Iran Says More Than 600 Killed by Israeli Attacks

The following articles report the Israeli government’s crimes using American weapons in various parts of the Middle East, just in one day:
Dave DeCamp
A woman carries her child following the Israeli strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025. Amir Kholousi/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Calm returns to Qatar following Iran’s attack on Al Udeid airbase

Hafsa Adil
Life in the Gulf state has swiftly returned to normality after a night of fear and uncertainty.
Qatar 

Global Palestine: Israel, the Palestinians, the Middle East and the World After the American Attack on Iran

Jeff Halper
On the evening of June 21st in Washington, the morning of June 22nd here in Jerusalem, the United States attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities, joining Israel’s more widespread assault intended to eliminate a rival for regional hegemony, one that targeted not only Iran’s nuclear facilities and ballistic missile system but civilian infrastructure as well, in the hope of inducing regime change. The meta-aims of the attack were three-fold.

The Illusion of Victory

Trump’s so-called “precision” strikes will probably spur the creation of a real bomb and spiral into a regime change-driven war.
 
 U.S. and Israeli flags are projected on the walls of Jerusalem's Old City on June 22, 2025, following the U.S. involvement in the war between Israel and Iran. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Chris Hedges: War With Iran

June 22, 2025

We are opening Pandora's box.

 

 A banner bearing a painting that represents various categories of the Iranian society is deployed against the facade of a building in Tehran, with a message that reads in Farsi: " we are all soldiers of Iran", on June 22, 2025. (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East

June 22, 2025

Dan Steinbock

As President Trump ordered the US to attack three major Iranian nuclear sites, a misguided concept of Israel’s national security morphed into an even more twisted view of US national security.                                    World Nuclear Forces:

LIVE BLOG: Hormuz Closure Ordered by Iranian Parliament after US Aggression – Day 624

June 22, 2025

  • Iran warned it would target Israel’s Dimona reactor and US regional bases if the war expands, as Washington moves B-2 bombers to Guam and secret diplomacy collapses.

  • Meanwhile, in Gaza, the death toll rises and the hunger crisis in Gaza deepens amid a relentless Israeli aid blockade.

  • Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed 55,959 and injured 131,242 others, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

 

                 Satellite imagery confirms that the United States did directly target the location of Fordow's underground enrichment halls. (Photo: video grab)

Iranians say their hopes of peace have been buried by US bombs

June 22, 2025

Public opinion in Iran is divided between wanting to retaliate to Trump's attack and wishing for the hell of constant bombardment to be over

A man reads a newspaper at a newsstand in Tehran, 22 June (Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters) 

 A man reads a newspaper at a newsstand in Tehran, 22 June (Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters)

Trump Announces ‘Successful’ Attack On Iranian Nuclear Sites

June 21, 2025

Kyle Anzalone

Trump said Iran must quickly make peace or he will authorize larger attacks

 

Saturday, June 21, 2025

The Capitol Hill Republicans against US war with Iran

Stavroula Pabst
They may be a minority, but these conservatives are bucking the old guard and warning Trump of pending disaster
US Navy Taiwan Strait 

From Gaza to Iran – Israel is fighting to maintain Western empire

Yoav Haifawi
The war across the Middle East is part of a desperate effort to preserve Western superiority. All the fighting — whether in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, or Iran — is due to Zionism, and its role of enforcing the crushing force of the West.
 An Israeli Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle flies in formation with a US Air Force B-1B Lancer over Israel as part of a deterrence flight Saturday, October 30, 2021. (Photo: US Air Force/Senior Airman Jerreht Harris)

As Israel starves Gaza, Chicago Jewish activists starve themselves to force leaders to take action

Marc Steiner
“What wouldn’t you do to stop the slaughter of two million people?… In the face of atrocity, the lesson I have learned from my people is we cannot do nothing.”
 As Israel starves Gaza, Chicago Jewish activists starve themselves to force leaders to take action

Water wars and hydro-hegemony in South Asia

Sonia Awale & Qian Sun
China plans to build the world's biggest dam, giving it a chokehold on South Asia's water supplies
 A cross-section of the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet. China intends to build a massive dam on this river in the coming years, stirring regional controversy.
 A cross-section of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet. China intends to build a massive dam on this river in the coming years, stirring regional controversy. Maxisheng18CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons