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:

Netanyahu vows to ‘seize territory’ in Gaza if captives not released

March 26, 2025

Israeli forces have reentered Gaza on the ground, recently marching into the Netzarim corridor, which Tel Aviv was supposed to withdraw from as part of the ceasefire agreement

Mainstream Media Criticizes Ceasefire Negotiations in Ukraine: Don’t Believe Them

March 26, 2025
Ted Snider
The mainstream media continuously points out that while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed readiness to accept the Trump administration’s proposed thirty-day ceasefire without preconditions, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said only that he supports the idea of a ceasefire while attaching preconditions that render it unworkable.

ناسیونالیسم یا ملّیت‌گرایی

میهن پرستی زمانی است که عشق به مردمِ خود در اولویت قرار گیرد. ناسیونالیسم، زمانی است که نفرت نسبت به افرادی غیر از مردمِ خود در اولویت قرار گیرد.ا

                     شارل دوگل

Israel kills journalist Hossam Shabat, known for his reports from North Gaza

March 25, 2025
Sharon Zhang
“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza,” he said. “Keep telling our stories — until Palestine is free.” 

Trump Will Fail

March 25, 2025
Joshua Sperber
Some 2400 years ago, Aristotle observed in The Politics:

And the rule of the law, it is argued, is preferable to that of any individual. On the same principle, even if it be better for certain individuals to govern, they should be made only guardians and ministers of the law.… Therefore he who bids the law rule may be deemed to bid God and Reason alone rule, but he who bids man rule adds an element of the beast; for desire is a wild beast, and passion perverts the minds of rulers, even when they are the best of men. The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Istanbul Mayor’s Arrest Sparks Türkiye’s Largest Protests in over a Decade

March 25, 2025
Volkan Isbasaran
Istanbul (Special to Informed Comment) – Major protests over the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, the Mayor of Istanbul and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s main political rival, have entered their sixth day. Demonstrations have erupted in at least 55 out of Türkiye’s 81 provinces, according to AFP, which marks one of the most widespread waves of anti-government protests in recent years.

Global Capitalism: The Old Cold War Fades, A New One Expands

Noam Chomsky on The Collapse of American Empire with Matt Kennard

The last chapter of the genocide

March 24, 2025
Chris Hedges
This is the last chapter of the genocide. It is the final, blood-soaked push to drive the Palestinians from Gaza. No food. No medicine. No shelter. No clean water. No electricity. Israel is swiftly turning Gaza into a Dantesque cauldron of human misery where Palestinians are being killed in their hundreds and soon, again, in their thousands and tens of thousands, or they will be forced out never to return.

Popular Fury Grows in Turkey Against Tyrannical Erdoğan Emboldened by Trump

March 24, 2025
Jon Queally
The imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the far-right president's top political rival, has unleashed a new wave of protests against increasingly autocratic rule.

 

A protester wearing a gas mask and dressed as a Whirling Dervish is pepper sprayed by police during clashes with police in front of Istanbul's famous Aquaduct on March 23, 2025 in Istanbul, Turkey. The Mayor of Istanbul Ekrem Imamoglu, who was due to be selected as a presidential candidate for the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) during a primary election today, was jailed on corruption charges following his detention earlier this week. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Trump and Putin begin addressing cumulated geo-strategic debris… amidst Trump’s ultimatum to Iran

March 24, 2025
Alastair Crooke
Does Trump see Iran through some disturbed optic – that in destroying Iran, he is bringing about peace through strength?

LIVE BLOG: Massacres in Khan Yunis, Rafah | Political Crisis in Israel Deepens – Day 534

March 23, 2025

• Israel carried out more massacres in Gaza, killing at least 30 people, including women and children, in heavy strikes on Khan Yunis and Rafah.
• Meanwhile, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange opened with sharp declines, reflecting the impact of the country’s deepening political and constitutional crisis.
• Since the resumption of violence in Gaza on Tuesday morning through Saturday, Israel has killed 650 Palestinians and injured 1,172 others, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

 

Hundreds of Palestinians were killed in Israel's latest attacks on Gaza. (Photo: via QNN)

Gaza is being starved and bombed again. Why are we allowing it?

March 22, 2025
Emina Hodžić
Watching Western governments cover up Israeli crimes has been exhausting. But I refuse to surrender and accept injustice. 

 

 Palestinians wait to receive food distributed by charitable organisations at al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, Gaza, on March 21, 2025 [Hani Alshaer/Anadolu Agency]

Here’s How the Right Is Packaging Its Conspiracies in Environmentalism

March 22, 2025
Schuyler Mitchell
When public health problems aren’t met with structural solutions, conspiracies cloaked in green rhetoric can flourish.

 

 A child wears a "Make America Healthy Again" hat during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center on February 21, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Maryland.Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images

Why was I investigated for sharing an article critical of Zionism by the ‘free speech’ organization PEN America?

March 22, 2025
Kori Davis
Working at PEN American has given me a firsthand look at how liberal institutions suppress pro-Palestinian voices.

 

 A banner hanging at the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/ PEN America)

Abducting Bodies, Silencing Dissent: Mahmoud Khalil and the Rise of State Terror

March 21, 2025
Henry Giroux
Introduction
The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil is not an isolated event—it is a chilling testament to the authoritarian turn in the United States, where dissent is met not with debate but with brute force, and the machinery of state terror moves with ruthless precision. In his own words, Khalil, a Columbia University graduate, an activist for Palestinian freedom, and a permanent U.S. resident, was seized by ICE agents without warning—handcuffed, dragged from his apartment lobby, shoved into an unmarked black car, and disappeared. In minutes, his rights were violated and his body made vulnerable and disposable. Khalil instantly became another casualty in the Trump administration’s escalating war against those who refuse to kneel before its politics of white supremacy, settler-colonial violence, ominous threats, and unchecked lawlessness. His disappearance is both a precedent and a warning—a stark reminder that in regimes built on repression, silence is coerced, and resistance is a crime.

How a war with Iran (for Israel) could crash the US economy

March 21, 2025
Shivan Mahendrarajah
As Trump eyes war with Iran to bolster his legacy and appease his pro-Israel backers, Tehran’s likely retaliation could crash global markets, spike oil prices, and bring economic pain directly to the American public – turning support for apocalyptic politics into a crisis at the checkout line.

Scenes from a Ramadan massacre

March 20, 2025
Ahmed Ahmed
Palestinians in Gaza City describe collecting body parts from the street and fending off stray dogs as they awaited ambulances amid Israel's attacks.

 

 Oday Al-Zaigh looks out of his front door at the damage caused by Israeli airstrikes, Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, March 18, 2025. (Ahmed Ahmed)

Teachers Say 'See You In Court' as Trump Tries to Abolish Department of Education

March 20, 2025
Brett Wilkins
"We won't be silent as anti-public education politicians try to steal opportunities from our students, our families, and our communities to pay for tax cuts for billionaires," said the head of the nation's largest labor union.

Demonstrators gather outside of the U.S. Department of Education headquarters in Washington, D.C. on March 13, 2025 to protest mass layoffs and budget cuts at the agency, initiated by the Trump administration and Department of Government Efficiency. (Photo: Bryan Dozier/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – from the West down to the East

March 19, 2025
Pepe Escobar
Let’s start with that phone call. The Kremlin readout is quite sober – but it does reveal a few nuggets. There is no comprehensive deal – yet – between Moscow and Washington. Far from it: we are just in the initial tentative stage of talking and talking about several interconnected dossiers.

Israel’s Renewed Gaza Genocide on Black Tuesday: 420 Dead (175 Children) and 540 Wounded

March 19, 2025
Juan Cole
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Israeli airstrikes shattered the supposed ceasefire in Gaza on Tuesday, dropping heaving munitions on inhabited apartment buildings and killing entire extended families who lived in them, with a death toll of at least 420, and over 500 wounded. Many bodies were still under the rubble and uncounted.

How U.S. plans to bleed Europe dry while waging war on China

March 19, 2025
Sharon Black
The theatrical events of the previous week between Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump, and JD Vance have been grist for all manner of bourgeois media lies designed to obfuscate events. 

Trump’s threats reignite talk of nuclear bombs in Iran

March 19, 2025
Maziar Motamedi
Trump is still met with defiance from the leadership in Tehran as he threatens military strikes against Iran.

Astronauts return to Earth after months stranded in orbit

March 19, 2025

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams spent nine months in space instead of eight days, as was originally planned

سیاست‌های غرب در ایران

سیاست‌های کشور‌های غربی در ایران از قرن سیزدهم آغاز شد، این زمانی‌ بود‌ که ادوارد اول پادشاه انگلستان سفیری به نام جفری لنگلی به ایران، برای برقراری مناسبات سیاسی‌ فرستاد. در آن زمان ایلخانیان بر ایران حکومت می‌کردند و کشور ایران را با نام پارس می‌شناختند. البته در این دوران، یعنی‌ قرن سیزدهم، کشور‌های غربی قدرت و پیشرفت امروز را نداشتند، و دیدار این شخص از ایران بیشتر به منظور مشاهده و ثبت پیشرفت‌های ایران بود. دست درازی غرب به کشور‌های خاور‌میانه پس از کشف نفت آغاز شد. نفت در قرن بیستم به منبع انرژی ترجیحی در سطح جهانی تبدیل شد، و گرچه این ماده قبل از قرن بیستم کشف شده بود، ولی‌ ارزش جهانی‌ آن در این قرن مشخص شد.ا

Israel resumes its war on Gaza, killing over 400 people in one night

March 18, 2025
Tareq S. Hajjaj
After two weeks of systematic Israeli violations of the tenuous ceasefire agreement, Israel has officially resumed its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip. Despite Israel's killing of over 400 people, Hamas remains committed to completing the ceasefire.

 

 The bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza at the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, after Israel resumes war on Gaza, ending ceasefire, March 18, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

Trump lobs new threats at Iran over Yemen's pro-Palestine operations

March 17, 2025

Sanaa has warned that there are 'no red lines' as long as Israel's policy of starvation against Palestinians continues

March 18, 2025
Chris Walker
Trump’s call for the judge to be impeached came after his administration blatantly ignored one of the judge’s orders.

Fasting while starving, Gazans struggle to mark Ramadan

March 17, 2025
Ruwaida Kamal Amer and Ibtisam Mahdi
As Israel continues to prevent the entry of food into the Strip, Palestinians are gathering with surviving family members to observe the holiday in the rubble.

 

 Gazans light fireworks over the ruins of Khan Younis to celebrate Ramadan, with Israel’s blockade causing an ongoing electricity blackout, southern Gaza Strip, March 12, 2025. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump’s Tyranny?

March 17, 2025
Ralph Nader
There are reasons why influential or knowledgeable Americans are staying silent as the worsening fascist dictatorship of the Trumpsters and Musketeers gets more entrenched by the day. Most of these reasons are simple cover for cowardice.

Stories of Resistance: The Saint Patrick’s Battalion

March 17, 2025
Michael Fox
On St. Patrick’s Day, Mexicans celebrate in honor of the Irish battalion that defended their country against the invading United States Army in the 1840s. 

There is a wall in Mexico City with a memorial plaque for the Irish.

 

 Supporters of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick in the streets of the Coyoacan municipality in Mexico City hold flags during a march to commemorate St. Patrick's Day, patron saint of Ireland, and to remember the Irish who fought alongside the Mexican army in 1846 against the United States. Photo by Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

LIVE BLOG: Lavrov Calls for End to Strikes on Yemen | Water Crisis in Gaza – Day 527

March 16, 2025

Killed                Wounded        Missing

48,543              111,981          14,000

Israel carried out a horrific massacre in Beit Lahia. (Photo: via social media, QNN)

Gaza’s silent epidemic

March 15, 2025
Hadeel Awad

Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita and has been rendered incapable of taking care of them.

 

 A nine-year-old Palestinian girl, who had her right leg amputated, sits on a bed at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah on December 24, 2024 [File: Mohammed Saber/EPA]

Seven silent measures against Cuba

March 15, 2025
Rosa Miriam Elizalde
Marco Rubio—Little Marco, as his boss in the White House calls him—is ignored by Trumpian diplomacy, but he has been given the menial task of intensifying the attack on the island where his parents were born as a consolation prize.

London is unsafe – Russian Embassy

March 15, 2025

Russian tourists have been warned of a crime spike in the British capital amid an economic crisis and influx of migrants 

New Rumblings in Aztlán: Has Trump’s mass deportation sparked a Chicano Power resurgence?

March 14, 2025
Sean Beckner-Carmitchel

A network of organizations across Southern California is building people power against ICE—and many of these groups draw on a rich history of Chicano activism.  

Israel’s use of Gender-Based Violence, Sexual Humiliation, and Destruction of Women’s Healthcare in Gaza was Genocidal: UN

March 14, 2025
Juan Cole
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – An independent UN commission has found that “Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination and carried out genocidal acts through the systematic destruction of sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities.”

“Prisoners,” Digital, Midjourney, 2025

When Dissent Becomes a Crime: The War on Political Speech Begins

March 14, 2025
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead
“Once the principle is established that the government can arrest and jail protesters… officials will use it to silence opposition broadly.”

~ Heather Cox Richardson, historian

How a Cuba Defies U.S. Sanctions to Lead in Healthcare

March 14, 2025
Renée L. Quarterman
In the heart of the Cuban capital, the Dr. Cosme Ordoñez Carceller Teaching Polyclinic stands as a testament to the nation’s unique approach to healthcare: universal, free of charge, accessible, regionalized, community-centered, and deeply rooted in preventive medicine. Unlike the profit-driven models that dominate much of the world, Cuba’s system prioritizes equitable access, public health education, and early intervention.

Jewish Americans and Allies Occupy Trump Tower Demanding Release of Mahmoud Khalil

March 13, 2025
Julia Conley

Nearly a year and a half after the advocacy group Jewish Voice for Peace began leading nationwide demonstrations against Israel's U.S.-backed assault on Gaza, hundreds of organizers and supporters of the group risked arrest Thursday as they assembled in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City, demanding the release of Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil.

Demostrators from the human rights organization Jewish Voice for Peace hold a civil disobedience action inside Trump Tower in New York on March 13, 2025.(Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

'Do whatever the hell you want': Iranian president fires back against US threats

March 12, 2025

Donald Trump has called for talks with Tehran while simultaneously threatening it with military attacks