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.

Gaza’s Palestinians sceptical after UN resolution ‘ignored humanitarian needs’

November 19, 2025
Maha Hussaini

Residents warn new UNSC plan ties Gaza’s recovery to politics and leaves urgent humanitarian needs unmet

پرواز

کسانی‌ که به شعر علاقه دارند به یقین فروغ فرخزاد را می‌شناسند. او در سن سی‌ و دو سالگی در یک سانحهٔ رانندگی‌ کشته شد. از فروغ پنج کتاب تحت عنوان؛ اسیر، دیوار، عصیان، تولدی دیگر، و ایمان بیاوریم به آغاز فصل سرد، به جای مانده است، که دو کتاب پسین تحولی‌ در شعر نو بودند. او در آخرین کتاب خود شعری دارد تحت عنوان "پرنده مُردنی ‌است". این یکی‌ از اشعار کوتاه ولی‌ بسیار زیبای فروغ است، که می‌گوید:ا

Americans should be enraged’: reports expose unprecedented corruption at Trump DOJ

November 17, 2025
Brad Reed

“I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm.”

Ur-Caesarism: The Left keeps calling Trump a fascist – they’re missing the point

November 17, 2025
Joaquin Flores

The new left cannot see Napoleon or Caesar as progressive, as Parenti or Gramsci did.

Student protests and general strike, Paris, May 1968

Israel Strikes Gaza beyond ‘Yellow Line’ as Palestinian Killed in Occupied West Bank – Day 772

November 16, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
69,187	170,703	9,500

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

Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing

November 15, 2025
Dan Steinbock

In October, amid the two-year anniversary of the Gaza genocide, Jewish settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank hit an all-time high. And they will escalate – as long as they are allowed by U.S.-led West.

US approves new $330m arms deal for Taiwan

November 14, 2025

China condemned the sale and reiterated that Taiwan is its ‘first red line’ in relations with Washington

Israeli Warplanes Continue to Bomb Gaza Cities Despite Ceasefire Deal

November 11, 2025

Israel has carried out fresh attacks on Gaza in its latest violation of October’s ceasefire agreement. 

The World Wants to Advance to Socialism

 
Vijay Prashad
The refashioned liberals and social democrats are back. They have positioned themselves as the saviors of the world; they act as Reason to the unreasonableness of neo-fascism. This is possible because their forebearers have collapsed in the puddle of neoliberalism and technocracy, and because their adversaries now present themselves as the howling wolves of the extreme right. The refashioned liberals and social democrats are like zombies, the reanimated corpse of a dead liberalism.1

Al-Qaeda Goes to Washington

November 11, 2025
Patrick Lawrence

Al–Sharaa’s White House visit is a reminder of Washington’s longstanding abhorrence of democratic processes and anyone — beyond the perimeter of the West and sometimes within it — who stands for them.

بهرام مشیری

می‌گویند با تمام پلیدی‌های رژیم اسلامی، و ضرباتی که چه از نظر سیاسی و اجتماعی، و چه از نظر اقتصادی و مالی‌ این رژیم منحوس به ایرانیان وارد کرده است، اگر بخواهیم یک خاصیت برای آن بیابیم، شناساندن اسلام، دین، و خداشناسی به طور کلی‌ به ایرانیان بود.ا

‘We are not waiting for permission to survive’: A Jamaican perspective on COP30 after Hurricane Melissa

November 11, 2025
Janine Mendes-Franco

‘Their profits were built on our pain’

‘Action COP30 Promises’; Photo by UN Climate Change – Kamran Guliyev on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).

‘The war is over, so why haven’t they come back?’: The search for Gaza’s missing

November 10, 2025
Ahmed Ahmed and Ahmed Alsammak

Over 11,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have disappeared since Oct. 7. Relatives don’t know if they’re dead or alive, under rubble or in prison.

LIVE BLOG: Israel Kills, Wounds Palestinians in Gaza as Witkoff Heads to Israel – Day 765

November 9, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
69,176	170,690	9,500

Massive destruction in the Bureij refugee camp. (Photo: social media, via QNN)

Why writers must boycott the New York Times

November 8, 2025
Writers Against the War on Gaza

The New York Times is the paper of record and has played a key role in enabling the Gaza genocide. To hold the newspaper accountable, we must sever our ties —not only as subscribers or advertisers, but also as writers who lend the paper legitimacy.

Writers Against the War on Gaza protest in the New York Times’ headquarters, March 14, 2024. (Photo: Julia Sharpe-Levine)

What Trump should know before going 'guns-a-blazing' into Nigeria

November 7, 2025
Taiwo Hassan

The country is riven with horrific violence — but anti-Christianity is not the driving force and perpetrators are not all the same

Rightwing Washington Post Editorial Board Endorses Trump’s Golden Dome

November 6, 2025
Melvin Goodman
Over the past several months, the editorial board of the Washington Post  has moved steadily to the right, endorsing greater defense budgets, the use of military force, and even making a case for the U.S. military to return to its largest air base in Afghanistan.  In a recent editorial, “How to live in our nuclear ‘House of Dynamite’,” the Post has reversed a long-standing position in order to endorse the building of the Golden Dome national missile defense. The system could take more than a decade to build and require more than $1 trillion in funding.

Defense Intelligence Agency assessment of current and future missile threats to the U.S. in 2025 – Public Domain

Trump Family Wealth Accumulation and SNAP Benefits

November 6, 2025
Dean Baker
I have harangued reporters for decades over their failure to express big numbers in a context that would make them meaningful to their audiences. For example, when they report that we will spend roughly $100 billion this year on SNAP, relatively few people know that this is around 1.4 percent of total spending. They just hear a REALLY BIG NUMBER, to most of them the number would probably mean the same thing if it would $50 billion or $200 billion.

Cheney, Architect of Endless War, Helped Kill Our Faith in Leaders

November 5, 2025
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, Jim Lobe

George W. Bush's vice president was probably the most powerful veep in history, but at America's expense.

جنگ

نخست به این بی‌اندیشیم که این واژه چه معنایی دارد. در لغت‌نامهٔ دهخدا تعاریف بیشماری برای واژهٔ جنگ آمده است، از جمله جدال، قتال، کارزار، ستیزه، نبرد، ناورد، پیکار، غزوه، حرب، و رزم. به نظر نمی‌رسد که هیچ‌یک از این تعاریف کشتار گروهی توسط گروه دیگر را بیان کند؛ شاید فقط رزم این معنی را تداعی کند. بطور کلی‌ جنگ به معنای این است که گروهی دانش می‌آموزند و عملا تعلیم می‌بینند، و حتی تمرین می‌کنند، که چگونه گروه دیگری را بکشند. در زمان‌های پیشین این وحشی‌گری رودررو و بصورت فردی با خنجر و شمشیر و آلات و ادوات فلزی انجام میشد. ولی‌ امروزه دشمنان یکدیگر را نمی‌بینند و کُشتار بصورت پرتاب بمب و موشک و سلاح‌های شیمیای انجام می‌پذیرد، و صدمات چند برابر بیش از گذشته است. نمونهٔ آن را می‌توانیم امروزه در غزّه مشاهده کنیم.ا 

Israel Still Controls Over Half of Gaza — Including the Rubble of My Home

November 3, 2025
Shahad Ali

For thousands of Palestinians, the war hasn’t ended; it will only truly end when we can return to our lands.

In this aerial view, people walk amid the destruction in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on October 11, 2025, a day after a ceasefire took effect.

Israeli Drone Attack in Gaza City Kills One Palestinian

November 2, 2025
Dave DeCamp

Since the ceasefire went into effect, the IDF has killed 236 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza's Health Ministry

Israel Violates Ceasefire, Obstructs Aid as West Bank Raids Continue – Day 758

November 2, 2025 

Killed	Wounded	Missing
68,865	170,670	9,500

Gaza aid blocked at crossings as Israel launches sporadic attacks

November 1, 2025

• The Israeli military has attacked the Gaza Strip for a fifth day, killing at least five people in another test of the fragile US-brokered ceasefire.
• The Red Cross says it transferred the unidentified bodies of three people to Israel after they were handed over by Hamas. Israeli media report the remains were not of captives taken to Gaza.
• Gaza residents say they fear a return to Israel’s full-scale bombing as they struggle to find food, water and medicine during the US-brokered truce.
• Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 68,858 people and wounded 170,664 since it began in October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks and about 200 taken captive.

Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate outside the main campus of Columbia University during the commencement ceremony in Manhattan in New York City, US, May 21, 2025 [Jeenah Moon/Reuters]

Apartheid police murdered first African Nobel Peace Prize winner – court

October 31, 2025

South African judges have said Inkosi Albert Luthuli died of assault-related head injuries

The Death House

October30, 2025
Chris Hedges

The genocide in Gaza is not a freakish anomaly. It is a harbinger of what awaits us as the ecosystem disintegrates and governments embrace climate fascism.

'Unlawful and Un-American': Trump Claims He Can Send 'Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines' Into US Cities ‘Unlawful and Un-American’: Trump Claims He Can Send ‘Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines’ Into US Cities

October 29, 2025
Brad Reed

“Our military exists to defend the nation and protect our freedoms, not to be weaponized against American cities,” said critics.

مالیات در آمریکا

دولت‌های آمریکا، یعنی‌ دولت فدرال که این کشور را اداره می‌کند و دولت‌های زیر دست آن، یعنی‌ دولت‌های  شهری و استانی و فرمانداری، از کلیهٔ کسانی‌ که در این کشور درآمدی کسب می‌کنند، حتی اگر تابعیت آمریکا را نداشته باشند، مالیات می‌گیرند. علاوه بر مالیات بر درآمد، هر شخص حقوق بگیری و هر کارفرمایی که حقوق می‌دهد اجبار دارند که برای بیمه تامین اجتماعی و بیمه درمانیِ سنین بازنشستگی درصدی از رقمِ دریافتیِ شخص حقوق‌بگیر کسر و به سازمان‌های مربوطه پرداخت کنند. این دو پرداختی فقط به دولت فدرال است.ا

Trump is only postponing Israeli annexation

October 28, 2025
Joseph Massad

Israel's war on Palestinians continues under Trump's so-called peace plan, with Washington feigning opposition to annexation and its Arab allies pretending to believe it

An Israeli flag hangs in a Palestinian neighbourhood in Bruqin, west of Nablus in the occupied West Bank,

ANTIFA wins the Irish Presidential election

October 27, 2025
Declan Hayes

If anyone wants to know what it is like to be robbed blind, they should look at the gangsters who were at the heart of Connolly’s “independent” campaign.

Israel Kills, Wounds, and Blocks Aid to Gaza as Settler Attacks in West Bank Intensify – Day 751

October 26, 2025

• Gaza’s Civil Defense has stated that Israeli soldiers deliberately shoot at civilians who cross or are near the line by mistake.
• Meanwhile, from Nablus to Hebron, Israeli forces stormed Palestinian towns as settlers carried out arson and stone attacks, marking another night of escalating violence across the occupied West Bank.
• Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed 68,519 and injured 170,382 others, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Gaza City residents defy Israel’s orders to evacuate: ‘We’re staying here’

October 24, 2025
Ruwaida Amer, Mahmoud Al Mashharawi, Belal Awad and Leo Erhadt

“We already experienced displacement. We can’t do it again. We’re staying here. Whatever happens, happens. Even if they crush us under their tanks.”

As a Palestinian, Trump’s 20-Point Gaza “Peace Plan” Scares Me

October 24, 2025
Mohammed Samaana

Like most Palestinians, I was initially excited about the ceasefire agreement in Gaza — even though, judging by recent history, Israel has breached every agreement it signed and never lived to its commitments.

Deadly Gaza Humanitarian Foundation lobbying for 'new role' in post-war Gaza: Report

October 23, 2025

At least 1,000 Palestinians seeking food from GHF sites in Gaza were shot and killed by Israeli troops

قرن بیست و یکم؛ پایان جهان؟

این پرسشی است که باید همواره همه در ذهنمان داشته باشیم، چرا که با برتری اقتصادی چین، و نه برتری نظامی، به نظر نمی‌رسد که پر قدرت‌ترین کشور جهان که به مدت تقریبا یک قرن بر همهٔ دنیا سروری می‌کرده است، دست روی دست بگذارد و شاهد پس رفتن و افول خود باشد. اگر از نظر تاریخی‌ نیز به صعود و نزول امپراطوری‌ها نگاهی‌ بی‌اندازیم، به این نتیجه می‌رسیم که هیچ امپراطوری بدون جنگ از صحنه خارج نشده است.ا

News Headlines

October 22, 2025

The Speech a Press Club Banned

October 20, 2025
Chris Hedges

The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists

The National Press Club of Australia in Canberra canceled an engagement with journalist Chris Hedges after it was announced on its website. Hedges delivered the banned speech on Monday in Sydney.

Ambulance on Oct. 7, 2023, operated by the Palestine Red Crescent Society in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, after it was heavily damaged by an Israeli military airstrike in front of Nasser Hospital, carrying three injured people

The Long Road of Tariq Ali

October 21, 2025
Paul Buhle

Tariq Ali, Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties (London and New York: Verso, 2024, 3rd edition), 416 pages, paperback, $29.95; Tariq Ali, You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980–2024 (London and New York: Verso, 2024), 814 pages, hardback, $44.95.

Forty-two years after the assassination of Grenada’s Maurice Bishop, can the Caribbean remain a ‘zone of peace’?

October 20, 2025
Janine Mendes-Franco

In an address to the UN, Bishop emphasised the region’s determination to be ‘free from military intimidation’

BREAKING – Israel Bombs Rafah – Developing Story – Day 744

October 19, 2025

Killed	Wounded	Missing
68,159	170,203	9,500

Democrats finally seem ready to address the Gaza genocide, but it won’t matter if they don’t support Palestinian rights

October 18, 2025
Mitchell Plitnick

Trump’s flawed ceasefire plan has opened a door for Democrats to amend their shameful failure to end the Gaza genocide. But it requires doing something few Democrats have been willing to do: support Palestinian rights.

Gaza must decide its own political future — before the world does for us

October 16, 2025
Mahmoud Mushtaha

We cannot repeat the slow death of Oslo nor replace Hamas with another detached faction, but instead rethink the foundations of our political culture.

Palestinians watch as other families return from the southern parts of the Gaza Strip to the north, along the coastal Al-Rashid road October 10, 2025

Spineless Congress outdoes itself on Caribbean strikes

October 16, 2025
Mark Thompson

This week in The Bunker: The House and Senate give up their power, the F-35 paperweight and the Pentagon war on the press

Military Industrial Complex

جنگ‌های آمریکا

کسانی‌ که در آمریکا به عنوان رئیس جمهور انتخاب می‌شوند عموما یا از حزب دمکرات و یا از حزب جمهوری‌خواهان می‌باشند. ولی‌ آیا این کشور دو حزبی است؟ در تئوری خیر، ولی‌ در عمل رؤسای جمهور این کشور از سال هزار و هشتصد و شصت از یکی‌ از این دو حزب بوده‌ا‌ند. شاید همه از آن آگاه نباشند که در آمریکا بیش از چهار صد و بیست حزب ثبت نام کرده‌اند. البته بسیاری از احزاب محلی می‌باشند و فقط در ایالات خاصی‌، و به منظور انتخاب نمایندگان محلی، حضور دارند. حزب دمکرات از سال هزار و هشتصد و بیست و هشت، و حزب جمهوری‌خواه از سال هزار و هشتصد و پنجاه و چهار شروع به فعالیت کردند. احزابی چون حزب مستقل و یا حزب سبز طرفدارانی دارند ولی‌ نه آنچنان که بتوانند یک رئیس جمهور انتخاب کنند. جالب است که بدانیم که یک حزب مذهبی‌ نیز در آمریکا وجود دارد، به نام حزب همبستگی‌ (سالیداریتی).ا

Body Count for the American Century

October 15, 2025
John W. Dower

This essay is adapted from “Measuring Violence,” the first chapter of John Dower’s book, The Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War Two.

One More Betrayal of the Palestinians

October 15, 2025
Melvin Goodman
The history of the Palestinians is a history of betrayal.  In the wake of World War I, Britain and France redrew the map of the Middle East to suit their own ends.  They created countries with artificial borders, which led to unrest and uprisings.  They had concluded a secret agreement during the war—the Sykes-Picot agreement—that dashed Palestinian hopes of independence.  The following year, the Balfour Declaration called for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in what was then Palestine.