Israeli attacks on Gaza kill three as Hamas, Egypt hold ceasefire talks

March 8, 2025
Israeli drone strikes in Rafah kill three Palestinians amid escalating violence and fragile ceasefire talks in Cairo.

 

 Israel blocks vital supplies to Gaza: Aid organisations warn conditions are worsening

On Int’l Women’s Day: In Memory of Iranian Women who have Struggled for Freedom

March 8, 2025
Fariba Amini
Newark, Delaware (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When Ruhollah Khomeini was still in Neauphle-le-Château, in various declarations and interviews, he had promised that women would have the freedom to choose their attire.  That they would have the same rights as men.

 

 Graffiti picture in Frankfurt am Main for Jina Mahsa Amini on a demolition building in Gallus. The location was accessible to through traffic at the time of the photo. 11 March 2024, By Ostendfaxpost. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.. Via Wikimedia Commons..

Israeli troops raid West Bank Mosques on first Friday of Ramadan

March 7, 2025

Israeli police also placed heavy restrictions on Palestinians seeking to enter occupied East Jerusalem for Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest site

'Cruelty Is the Point': Private Prison Giants Set to Cash In as Trump Revives Family Detention

March 7, 2025
Jake Johnson
"Taking away a child's freedom and deliberately putting them in these conditions is unconscionable, as is denying a parent their most fundamental role of providing their child with a loving and nurturing environment."

 

Mexican migrants turn themselves in after crossing over a section of border into the United States on January 5, 2025 in Ruby, Arizona. (Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Iranian Singer Mehdi Yarrahi Flogged Over Song Against Mandatory Hijab

March 7, 2025
( RFE/RL ) – Pop singer Mehdi Yarrahi has been given 74 lashes for a song criticizing Iran’s mandatory dress code for women, ending a criminal case against him that also included a prison term.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Wd0tdM-rU&t=4s

Understanding the life and work of James Baldwin: In conversation with Colm Tóibín

March 7, 2025
JP O’Malley

    Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin’s 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain as an English undergraduate student in the early 1970s. In John Grimes, the novel’s central protagonist, Tóibín recognized a little bit of himself: a young man struggling to come to terms with his own sexuality and ambivalent feelings about God.

 

Hamas accuses Trump of aiding Israel’s Netanyahu in Gaza blockade

March 6, 2025
Hamas says Trump’s rhetoric helps Israel to tighten Gaza siege, risking starvation for 2.3 million residents.

 

 Palestinians try to continue their daily lives in rubble of buildings or makeshift tents on the fifth day of Ramadan at the Bureij Refugee Camp in Gaza City, Gaza [File: Moiz Salhi/ Anadolu Agency]

Weeks after Israeli withdrawal, Gazans still search for the missing in Netzarim

March 4, 2025
Ruwaida Kamal Amer
Thousands of Palestinians have made the arduous journey across Gaza's central corridor, as Civil Defense workers slowly uncover human remains.

Weimar’s Lesson: It’s the Violence, Not the Speech

March 5, 2025
Jeffrey Rudolph
( Detailed Political Quizzes ) – As comparisons between contemporary American politics and the rise of the Nazi Party are frequently invoked in the media, it’s crucial to draw one specific lesson from the history of Weimar Germany, the democratic state that existed from 1918 to 1933. The rise of Hitler and the Nazis was not the result of Weimar’s failure to punish hate speech. Instead, it was the futile attempt to suppress such speech while not acting effectively to curb political violence that allowed the Nazis to rise and gain power.

Sanders: 1 Percent Has Sapped $79T in Wealth From Bottom 90 Percent Since 1975

March 5. 2025
Sharon Zhang
In 2023 alone, $3.9 trillion was sapped from the bottom 90 percent— enough to give every worker a $32,000 raise.

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 Top countries by daily oil production

 Acceptance of Muslims in Europe 

 

حکومت ثروتمندان

در مورد رئیس جمهور جدید آمریکا، دانالد ترامپ، و سیاست‌های او در این مدت کوتاه از ریاست جمهوری‌اش سخنان بسیاری گفته شده و روش سیاسی‌ او مورد تجزیه و تحلیل بسیاری قرار گرفته شده است. سیاست کلی‌ او در جهت سیاست‌های جمهوری‌خواهان، یعنی‌ قدرت کمتر دولت‌ها و قدرت مالی بیشتر برای بخش خصوصی، بوده و خواهد بود. ولی‌ آنچه که متفاوت است، رفتار افسار گسیخته و دیکتاتور مآبانهٔ اوست، که با کُنش‌های منتخبینِ سلفِ او بسیار متفاوت است.ا

Israeli army intensifies siege on occupied West Bank’s Jenin Camp

March 4, 2025

Troops have closed off all entrances to Jenin Camp while continuing to blow up homes and displace Palestinian families

NY Times Continues To Show Extreme Bias in Gaza Coverage

March 4, 2025
Richard Hardigan
The United States government has been the primary enabler of the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli war machine against the Palestinian people of Gaza. It has provided essentially unlimited military support and diplomatic cover since October 7, and an important factor in allowing that to occur has been the role played by the mainstream media, whose coverage of Israel-Palestine has been so biased and misleading that it has kept many Americans ignorant about the meaning of the events in the Middle East.

Trump Set to Install Anti-Union Attack Dog as Director of Key Labor Office

March 4, 2025
Jake Johnson
One watchdog group warned that Elisabeth Messenger is "a real ideologue" whose selection underscores the Trump administration's hostility to organized labor.

 

 UCLA academic workers from United Auto Workers Local 4811 picket on the first day of their strike on May 28, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Israel plans to cut off electricity and water to Gaza after blocking aid

March 3, 2025
Mera Aladam
Israeli shelling near Khan Younis kills at least five people and wounded 21 others, as rights groups condemn new blockade as a 'tool of war'

Children react during the funeral of Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike, in north Gaza, 2 March 2025 (Reuters/Abd Elhkeem Khaled)

The empire at its most honest

March 3, 2025
Caitlin Johnstone
President Donald Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning a future Gaza that has been turned into an ostentatious resort town where everyone parties amid showers of cash while Trump and Netanyahu sip drinks by the pool.

Why Chinese models are stunning Americans in the tech catwalk

March 3, 2025
Pepe Escobar
The Empire of Chaos will not take the competition lightly. The Middle Kingdom is unfazed – and ready to rock’n roll.

'This Guy Is a Leech on the Public': AOC Rips Musk Over Attack on Social Security

March 3, 2025
Jake Johnson
"No matter how many billions he gets in tax cuts and government contracts, it will never be enough for him," said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "Now he's going after the elderly, the disabled, and orphaned children."

LIVE BLOG: Netanyahu Halts Gaza Aid | Palestinian Killed in Beit Hanoun Drone Strike — Day 513

March 2, 2025

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a halt on all aid to Gaza starting this morning, citing Hamas’ rejection of Witkoff’s proposal and vowing no ceasefire without captive releases.
• A Palestinian was killed and another injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting civilians east of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza.

 

Palestinians in Gaza continue to recover the bodies of those killed in Israel's ongoing genocide. (Photo: via social media)

Hamas confirms 'no talks underway' on Gaza ceasefire as phase one ends

March 1, 2025

Israel repeatedly delayed the start of talks for phase two of the ceasefire and is pushing to 'extend' phase one by an additional six weeks