LIVE BLOG: Israel Bombs Baptist Hospital, Commits Massacre in Deir Al-Balah – Day 555

April 13, 2025

   Killed    Wounded    Missing

50,944    116,156    14,000

Israel bombed the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza. (Photo: via social media, QNN)

The largest rally we have ever held (36,000 in LA)

April 13, 2025
When I took the stage in Los Angeles yesterday and looked out at the crowd, I could see people a half-mile away. Thirty-six thousand (36,000) people attended — it is the largest rally we have ever had.

Katz declares Rafah 'part of Israel's buffer zone' after completing seizure of Morag Axis

April 12, 2025

Israel controls three corridors in Gaza, dissecting the strip in preparation for long-term occupation and the construction of Jewish settlements

Take Back America From the Oligarchs

April 12, 2025
Kevin Fitzgerald
What we are witnessing is not just economic decline—it is a calculated transfer of power, wealth, and dignity from the people who built this country to the corporate and political class who believe they own it.

 

 Demonstrators march during the nationwide "Hands Off!" protest against U.S. President Donald Trump and his adviser, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in Houston, Texas, on April 5, 2025. (Photo: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images)

This Passover, We Must Reckon With Israel’s Massacre of Children in Gaza

April 11, 2025
Brant Rosen
The Passover story decries a ruler who inflicts atrocities on children. The Israeli military is doing that now in Gaza.

Has Israel turned Gaza into a 21st Century Concentration Camp?

April 11, 2025
Dr. Mustafa Fetouri
The basic definition of “concentration camp” is simple: a large place where a large group of people, usually civilians, are imprisoned without due process. There are various reasons as to why they are kept in confinement, including their ethnicity, religion or because they oppose the authorities ordering their imprisonment.

As Israel escalates strikes in Lebanon, residents say it ‘will not keep us from the path of resistance’

April 11, 2025
Roqayah Chamseddine
The failure of the Lebanese government to protect against Israeli attacks is leading Lebanon down two roads: either Hezbollah will re-enter the war in defense of the Lebanese people, or the government will prevail and content itself to sit back.

The Ecology of Occupation: Palestine’s Struggle for Land and Life

April 10, 2025
Michael Morrill
In the fractured and scarred landscapes of Palestine, where the earth’s skin is etched with memories of violence, dispossession, and resistance, there lies an unspoken tragedy. An ecological tragedy. Beyond the suffocating walls of the occupation, beneath the rubble of homes and the twisting olive trees, there is a landscape slowly being strangled, not only by military might but by the relentless, invisible hand of environmental degradation. This is a tale not just of loss—of life and liberty—but of a land under siege, of natural resources turned into tools of war and power.

'They Are Laughing at Us All': Trump Tariff Whiplash Boosts Wealth of Mega-Rich by $304 Billion

April 10, 2025
Jake Johnson
"Is there any doubt in anyone's mind they were tipped off?" asked one progressive news outlet.

War on Gaza: Israeli attack on Shujaiya homes kills 30 with more feared under rubble

April 9, 2025
Ahmed Aziz

Israeli attacks across the besieged enclave have wrecked havoc, as military mulls turning Rafah into a buffer zone

 

 Funeral procession for nine killed in Israeli strikes on tents sheltering displaced people shelling of displaced Palestinians west of Khan Younis, southern Gaza (MEE/Ahmed Aziz)

Israel’s innocent oopsie-poopsie medical massacre mistake

The Israeli military has changed its story about why its forces killed 15 medical workers and then buried them and their vehicles to hide the evidence. After their initial claim that the medical vehicles were approaching “suspiciously” without their emergency lights on was disproven by video evidence, they are now calling the whole thing a big mistake.

 

هستی

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

USrael against Iran, again

April 9, 2025
Lorenzo Maria Pacini
No matter which administration is in power, the “free American world” will always be ready to unleash a conflict with “tyrannical and oppressive Iran”.

‘They’ll kill us all’: Gazans plead for intervention as Israeli attacks intensify

April 7, 2025
Ruwaida Amer and Ahmed Ahmed

Israel’s army is pummeling Gaza with an intensity that parallels the deadliest phase of the war, displacing civilians en masse from Rafah and Gaza City. 

 

 Palestinians inspect the damage to Dar Al-Arqam School in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood after it was bombed by Israeli aircraft, Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, April 4, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

Russia–Iran–China: All for one, and one for all?

April 8, 2025
Pepe Escobar
Although perhaps not yet obvious to Washington, a US war on Iran will be viewed as one against Russia and China too. Both Putin and Xi know that Trump's war is singularly directed at the transformational global 'changes they are driving together.'

Iran must Unconditionally Release Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi

April 8, 2025
Human Rights Watch – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities are threatening to return the human rights defender and Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi to prison to serve the remainder of her unjust sentence as a means to pressure her to cease her rights advocacy, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately end their ongoing harassment and unconditionally release her and everyone else arbitrarily detained for their human rights activism.

The Graver Israel’s Atrocities in Gaza, the Quieter the BBC Grows

April 7, 2025
Jonathan Cook

Once again the UK state broadcaster goes missing in action – this time at the discovery of a mass grave of emergency workers executed by Israel

A Potent Protest in San Francisco, 5 April 2025

April 7, 2025
Jonah Raskin
They did not come to the Civic Center in San Francisco on April 5, 2025 to speak truth to power. They know that power doesn’t listen to people, not the powerful but vulnerable demigods in the White House. They came to acknowledge one another, to build a community in the open air and to air their grievances. It was a defining feature of the crowd that numbered in the thousands that no two signs were identical just as no people were identical and no two people dressed identically. They were individuals, separate and autonomous and yet linked by their total rejection of Trump and Musk whose names were deliberately misspelled in the spirit of disdain and disgust.

Trump’s war plans for Iran: opening the other gates of hell

April 7, 2025
Chris Bambery
The war drums are beating in Washington once again. This time, the drummer is the man who came to the office describing himself as the ‘President of Peace’, Donald Trump. The target: Iran.

I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America.

April 2, 2025
Thomas Friedman
I had a choice the other day in Shanghai: Which Tomorrowland to visit? Should I check out the fake, American-designed Tomorrowland at Shanghai Disneyland, or should I visit the real Tomorrowland — the massive new research center, roughly the size of 225 football fields, built by Chinese technology giant Huawei? I went to Huawei’s.

LIVE BLOG: Rafah, Khan Yunis under Fire | Norway Calls for Probe into Medics Massacre – Day 538

April 6, 2025

Killed          Missing     Wounded
50,695         14,000    115,338

Israel Killed Both Parents: 17,000 Gaza Children are worst Orphan Crisis in Modern History

April 5, 2025
Juan Cole
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The renewed total war against Palestinian civilians in Gaza waged by the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recreated the worst headlines of 2024, but this time no one is watching, as the deliberately-created Trump crises suck up all the oxygen in the news universe. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

New video evidence disputes Israeli army's account of medic killings

April 5, 2025

Footage shows rescue workers, with ambulance lights on, killed in barrage of Israeli gunfire

 

 Members of the Palestinian Red Crescent and other emergency services carry bodies of fellow rescuers killed a week earlier by Israeli forces, during a funeral procession at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on 31 March 2025 (AFP)

Combined might of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill saved the world. Can we repeat the recipe?

April 4, 2025

 Roman Shumov

How three men in Yalta decided the fate of the planet – and why it still matters

‘The dam has been broken’: Thousands expected in DC for Palestine march

April 3, 2025
Michael Arria
On April 5, thousands are gathering in Washington D.C. to stand up against the U.S.'s continued support for the genocide in Gaza and the Trump administration's wave of domestic suppression.

The Destruction of Gaza’s Healthcare Infrastructure

April 4, 2025
J.C. Mueller
On March 23, 2025, Feroze Sidhwa—a surgeon working in Gaza—posted an urgent update on the social media platform X:

Goodnight Syria and good morning China: Erdoğan’s Chinese Uyghurs run riot in Syria and beyond

April 4, 2025
Declan Hayes
China must put its soldiers, sailors and marines in the line of fire against those, who have wrought so much destruction on the peoples of Syria.

از جان کندی تا دونالد ترامپ: چگونه ایالات متحده با اسرائیل وصلت کرد

 ریک استرلینگ
تضادهای زیادی بین سی و پنجمین رئیس جمهور، جان اف کندی، و چهل و پنجمین و چهل و هفتمین رئیس جمهور، دونالد ترامپ، وجود دارد. سیاست‌های ایالات متحده در قبال اسرائیل مثال مناسبی برای توضیح این تضاد است.ا

Political prisoner Leonard Peltier finally freed after serving 48+ years

March 5, 2025
Leonard Peltier went home to Turtle Mountain, North Dakota, on February 19, 2025, after almost 50 years in prison. Just before leaving office on January 20, outgoing U.S. president Joe Biden commuted his life sentence.

Media’s Response to Trump Restarting the Gaza Genocide? Mostly Ignore It.

April 3, 2025
Adam Johnson
On March 18 Israel broke the Gaza ceasefire and recommenced its full scale assault, siege, and bombing of Gaza. Since then, over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed and the humanitarian situation is as desperate as ever. Watching mainstream media, however, one would hardly notice. 

Capitalism Eating Itself by Fueling Climate Mayhem, Warns Capitalist

April 3, 2025
Jon Queally
If humanity stays on current course, warns top insurer, the "financial sector as we know it ceases to function. And with it, capitalism as we know it ceases to be viable."

 

Firefighters battle the Eaton Fire on January 8, 2025 in Altadena, California.(Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

The tenth demand?

April 3, 2025
David Pozen
The latest drama at Columbia—involving interim President Katrina Armstrong’s “resignation”—has broad implications for the academy and American democracy. Once unpacked, this episode throws into sharp relief the issue of whether universities now operate at the pleasure of the White House.

 Columbia faculty calling for an end to repression of student organizers. (Photo: Wyatt Souers)

Israeli jets batter south Gaza with airstrikes as troops expand ground war

April 2, 2025

Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that the army will seize ‘extensive territory’ in Gaza and add it to Tel Aviv’s ‘security areas’ in the strip 

With Detention of Beloved Farmworker Organizer, ICE Comes for the Labor Movement

April 1, 2025
Derek Seidman
“We believe he was targeted,” says the political director of the farmworker union that Alfredo Juarez helped to create.

 

 Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez speaks to farmworkers about the H-2A guest worker program.

Trump ‘considers’ Iranian offer of indirect talks, beefs up forces in West Asia: Report

April 2, 2025

The US president renewed his threat against Iran a few days ago, vowing to bomb the country if Tehran does not make a deal 

All bakeries forced to close in Gaza due to lack of flour and fuel

April 1, 2025
Lubna Masarwa

Israel’s destructive month-long blockade leaves Palestinians without bread, their main bulwark against hunger 

 

Palestinians queue outside a bakery during Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Gaza City on 30 March 2025 (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP)

Iran addresses Trump bombing threat at UN Security Council

April 1, 2025

Tehran has urged international action against the US president’s “reckless and belligerent” remarks 

The High Price of War With Iran: $10 Gas and the Collapse of the US Economy

March 27, 2025
Dennis Kucinich
Netanyahu's government is going down and he wants to take America with him.

جنگ بیشتر

آیا می توانیم بین موارد زیر رابطه برقرار کنیم: افزایش بی وقفه کسری بودجه فدرال از ابتدای قرن حاضر، جنگ، اقدامات ریاضتی، محو کردن اولین متمم قانون اساسی‌، اختلاط شرکتها و سازمان‌های رسانه‌ای.ا

Israel continues massacres in Gaza on second day of Eid al-Fitr

March 31, 2025

The Israeli army issued threats to several areas of Rafah in preparation for an expansion of ground operations in the area 

Iran Rejects direct talks with Trump despite threat that “There will be Bombing.”

March 31, 2025
Juan Cole
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met with his cabinet on Sunday, according to the president’s website, and announced that Trump’s offer of direct negotiations had been rejected. Iran replied through Oman, which has often served as a conduit for communication between Washington and Tehran.

LIVE BLOG: Eid-Day Massacres in Gaza | Ballistic Missile from Yemen – Day 541

March 30, 2025

    Killed    Wounded    Missing
50,277     114,095     14,000

 

 Israel opened fire on several areas across the Gaza Strip during the Eid prayers. (Photo: via QNN)

Iran rejects direct nuclear talks with Trump, open to indirect negotiations

March 30, 2025
US president threatens Iran with bombings if Tehran does not come to a nuclear agreement with Washington.

 

Israeli settlers raid Masafer Yatta following days of increased attacks

March 29, 2025
Nader Durgham and Alex MacDonald

The West Bank community spotlighted in an Oscar-winning documentary has been attacked by settlers and soldiers

 

 The aftermath of settler attacks on Palestinian residences in Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank (Supplied)

Peak corruption: Who’s to blame? Big Business, Big Government, or ‘Bigness’ itself?

March 29, 2025
Kayla Carman
Corruption has co-opted the media, which now operates as a propaganda machine, indoctrinating the public into believing that it exists to hold power to account.

From JFK to Donald Trump: How the USA Became Wedded to Zionist Israel

March 28, 2025
Rick Sterling
There are many contrasts between the 35th president, John F. Kennedy, and the 45th and 47th president, Donald J. Trump. One extreme example is regarding U.S. policy toward Israel.

 

Making America White Again: The Deafening Silence of Black MAGA

March 28, 2025
Clarence Lusane
During the 2024 election campaign, candidate Donald Trump’s most controversial rally occurred at New York’s Madison Square Garden. A comedian on the program referred to the island of Puerto Rico — and by implication Puerto Ricans — as garbage. He and the Trump campaign were rightfully pilloried and called out for his disgusting bigotry.

How operating drones became a death sentence for Gaza’s journalists

March 27, 2025
Youssr Youssef and Magdalena Hervada
Faced with the deadliest war for journalists in modern history, Forbidden Stories — whose mission is to continue the work of journalists who are killed on the job — set out to investigate the targeting of the press in Gaza. 

 

 An aerial view of destroyed residential buildings in the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood, following the withdrawal of the Israeli army, Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, January 19, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

The rise of ISIS and the fall of the nation-state

March 27, 2025
Declan Hayes
Regardless of whatever different names or ideological flavours they camouflage themselves with in the various theatres they commit their crimes in, the world’s various Jihadist outfits are so-called post-national groups whose idea of what they term a Caliphate dovetails nicely with the ideology of globalist Western groupings like the European Union and the World Economic Forum, which seek to dismantle sovereign nation-states in favour of top down global governance. Though this is most evident in Syria, where I have most experience, it is also evident in Balochistan, which is conveniently perched between Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan and where jihadism, whatever its other qualities, is sure to weaken those three already fragile nation-states and therefore serve the interests of any and all actors who want one or more of those nation-states dismantled or destroyed.

DARK MAGA

March 27, 2025
Jon Sneider
If you're a little confused about what Musk is trying to achieve with DOGE, here's the breakdown: