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

Federal workers organize against billionaire power grab

February 18, 2025
Joe Demanuelle-Hall
“I’ve never seen a billionaire put out a forest fire. … So I don’t trust a billionaire to decide what happens to our public services—and that’s why we’re fighting to get this billionaire’s hands out of them.” 

 

 Protesters rally outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on February 05, 2025 in Washington, DC. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images

Forced displacement of Palestinians from occupied West Bank 'largest since 1967'

February 17, 2025
Tens of thousands have been expelled from several West Bank cities and camps as Israeli forces ramp up their destruction and killing in the territory 

Behind Trump Tariffs Is Capital’s Warfare Against the Working Class

 February 17, 2025
William I. Robinson
Trump’s tariffs will escalate exploitation and desperation of US workers. That’s the point.

Demonstrators gather outside of the Office of Personnel Management to protest federal layoffs and demand the termination of Elon Musk from the "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) in Washington, D.C., on February 7, 2025. Bryan Dozier / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP

A President’s Day Card

February 17, 2025

Elliot Sperber

Elliot Sperber is a writer, attorney, and adjunct professor. He lives in New York City and can be reached at elliot.sperber@gmail.com and on twitter @elliot_sperber

LIVE BLOG: Three Police Officers Killed in Rafah | Marc Rubio Arrives in Israel – Day 499

February 16, 2025

Killed               62,403
Wounded        111,638

The Gaza Genocide and the Unravelling of US Hegemony

February 15, 2025
Nasim Ahmed

Trump/Musk Dictatorship Is Galvanizing the American People’s Resistance

February 14, 2025
Ralph Nader
Madmen Trump and Musk are moving with warp speed to illegally and dictatorially wreck America and enrich themselves in the process. Forget the use of the terms “autocracy” and “constitutional crisis.” This is a savage dictatorship, getting worse by the day. Trump is attacking the courts, ignoring Congress run by a cowardly GOP, pushing to cut off critical assistance for tens of millions of Americans, devastating health, safety, food (Meals on Wheels), education (Head Start), and Medicaid insurance protections.

Gaza is not for sale

February 14, 2025
Lorenzo Maria Pacini
In the midst of one of humanity’s most disastrous crises, Donald Trump has found the courage to make very aggressive statements toward Palestine. We had no doubt, the American goal remains the same.

Tomorrow Belongs To Me: On Boogers and Bullshit

February 14, 2025
Abby Zimet
In a freakish snapshot of the GOP's descent into brutal, gonzo nihilism, this week saw the brash Nazi-Oligarch-in-Chief helming an Oval Office presser to hype his political, economic, cultural demolition of democracy "in compliance with the President’s executive orders" - no more health care or feeding hungry kids, lots of Kid Rock - as his four-year-old son wiped boogers on the Resolute desk where an impassive, discomfited Trump sat in the "most powerless image of a President ever." Nothing to see here.

Tehran imposes tit-for-tat ban on Lebanese planes, calls on Beirut to restore permission for Iranian flights

February 14, 2025

The Lebanese government has suspended Iranian flights to Beirut after the Israeli army claimed Tehran was smuggling clash to Hezbollah

Trump’s Gaza Plan: A Green Light for Ethnic Cleansing?

February 13, 2025
Ramzy Baroud
( Middle East Monitor ) – Let’s be clear: the forced displacement of Palestinians is not a new idea. US President Donald Trump’s latest proposal to take “long-term ownership” of Gaza, to “clean out” the “mess”, and to turn it into a “Riviera of the Middle East” is just the latest iteration of efforts aimed at ethnically cleansing Palestinians from their homeland.

Iranian press review: Tehran praises Musk’s attack on anti-establishment media

February 13, 2025
Georgiy Berezovsky

Meanwhile, the return of 'Butcher of the Press’ angers lawyers, Pezeshkian’s administration faces pressure over rial devaluation, and lucrative business of bypassing international sanctions revealed

 

 A mural depicting a mock version of the Great Seal of the United States painted on the outer walls of the former US embassy in Tehran, 6 November 2024 (AFP)

‘It is impossible to bring us to our knees’: Russia reacts to Putin-Trump phone call

February 13, 2025
Georgiy Berezovsky

Russian politicians, journalists, and experts reacted to the news about the first contact between the presidents of Russia and the US

Amid deadly raids, Israeli army orders evacuation of another West Bank camp

 February 12, 2025
Israeli army storms Nur Shams camp as it continues three-week ‘open war against existence of Palestinian people’ in West Bank.

زن وارداتی

در روز پایانیِ سال ۱۹۹۹ و آستانهٔ ملیونیوم جدید
با توجه به تحریم اقتصادی ایران که از اوائل انقلاب تا به امروز ادامه داشته است، صادرات به ایران از آمریکا و اروپا خیلی‌ محدود، و اگر هم بطور غیر رسمی‌ و قاچاقی‌ باشد، در سطح خیلی‌ بالا انجام می‌شود. از آن طرف صادرات ایران به آمریکا و اروپا هم بصورت مافیایی و از طریق کشور‌های واسطه صورت می‌گیرد. گرچه این صادرات و واردات کم‌کم پیچ و مهره‌اشان شل می‌شود و اجناس بسیاری بصورت غیر رسمی‌ از ایران وارد آمریکا می‌شوند، ولی‌ یک نوع از واردات همیشه آزاد بوده است، و با شروع انقلاب این واردات چند برابر هم شده است، و آن واردات زن از ایران به آمریکا است.ا

 

New Administration Tells AARP Social Security Payments Are Protected

February 12, 2025
Andy Markowitz

67 million Americans receive benefits that they have earned

‘Humiliating and painful’: testimonies of mass displacement in the northern West Bank

February 11, 2025
Qassam Muaddi
Israel has expanded its offensive on the northern West Bank from the Jenin refugee camp, to the refugee camps of Nur Shams in Tulkarem and al-Far’a in Tubas. Dubbed “Operation Iron Wall,” the Israeli assault has been ongoing for three weeks, killing at least 25 Palestinians, wounding over 100, and forcibly displacing 40,000 people from their homes according to a statement by UNRWA on Monday.

 

An Israeli bulldozer destroyed Palestinian homes in Jenin refugee camp as Israeli colonial forces continue to raid Jenin and the camp for a fourth day as part of a major military operation to crack down on armed resistance, January 24, 2025. Israeli armed bulldozers have entered the camp, destroying infrastructure and homes. Witnesses report that some houses are being burned by Israeli forces. Drones are constantly hovering over the camp, observing as many Palestinian families were forced to flee in the past few days. Entrances and exits are blocked by the Israeli forces, preventing health workers and journalists from entering the refugee camp. At least 12 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 40 injured in Israel’s assault on Jenin. (Photo: Wahaj Bani Moufleh/Activestills) 

A Trumpian Fascistic Coup is Underway—Stop It Before the Terror Starts

February 11, 2025
Ralph Nader
Rise up people and fast. Tyrant Trump and his Musk-driven gangsters are launching a fascistic coup d’état. Much of everything you like about federal/civil service for your health, safety, and economic well-being and protections is being targeted.

Hamas delays captive release 'until further notice' accusing Israel of violating deal

February 10, 2025
Alex MacDonald
Hamas said it would delay the release of the next tranche of Israeli captives "until further notice", accusing Israel of failing to comply with the terms of the ceasefire deal.

 

People walk with belongings along the Wadi Gaza bridge along al-Rashid street in the central Gaza Strip on 10 February 2025 (Eyad Baba/AFP)

Our ‘return’ to northern Gaza is not the end of exile

February 10, 2025
Nour Elassy
Poet and writer based in Gaza
For 15 months, I was displaced from my home in northern Gaza. For 15 long months that felt like 15 years, I felt like a stranger in my own homeland. Not knowing when the exile would end, I lived with an unbearable sense of loss, with memories of a home frozen in time that I could see in my mind but could not go back to.

 

 A drone view shows Palestinians, who were forcibly displaced to the south of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli army, making their way back to their homes in the north on January 27, 2025 [Mohammed Salem/Reuters]

What Is the Mainstream Media Missing About Elon Musk? He Is Instituting Technocracy

February 10, 2025
Tom Valovic
It’s hard to see articles about the “move fast and break things” approach of the Trump administration without also hearing about the hovering presence the world’s richest man, technocrat extraordinaire Elon Musk. 

 

 Demonstrators gather outside of the Office of Personnel Management in Washington, D.C. on February 7, 2025 to protest federal layoffs and demand the termination of Elon Musk from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). (Photo: Bryan Dozier/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

The American Inquisition Cometh

February 10, 2025
Kary Love
Don Trump, current temporary occupant of the elective office of President of the United States, has issued an Executive Order to ferret out “antichristianity” from the federal government. Now cynics might perceive an odd karmic resonance from the “communist witch hunts” of Senator Joe McCarthy though the grotesque, twisted soul of Roy Cohn to his acolyte Don Trump, but nothing could be further from the truth. Be assured: there is no “antichrist” in this “antichristianity” purge. The choice of words is just a coincidence.