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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

A region on the brink: The global implications of the war on Gaza

April 30, 2025
On October 7, 2023, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), the group that governs the Palestinian territory of Gaza, breached the barrier that has surrounded the densely populated area for the last 16 years, preventing the free flow of people and goods. The militants then launched an attack on 22 nearby Israeli settlements, towns, and military bases, killing around 1,200 civilians and soldiers and taking at least 199 hostages.

Gains and gaps in gender equality in North Macedonia

April 30, 2025
Kristina Hadzi-Vasileva
Significant disparities emerge among the individual indicators of gender equality analyzed by the World Economic Forum
‘Manners in Macedonia. Ladies first.’ Caricature by George Denholm Armour published in Punch magazine on September 26, 2017, on display at the Museum of the City of Skopje's exhibition ‘Foreign painters in Macedonia in the period 1850–1950′ from the collection of Vlatko Miloshevski. Photo by Filip Stojanovski, used with permission.

Federal judge orders release of Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi from ICE detention

April 30, 2025
Michael Arria
A federal judge in Vermont ordered Mohsen Mahdawi be released from detention and compared the administration's crackdown on dissent to the Red Scare. Upon his release, Mahdawi declared, “To President Trump and his cabinet: I am not afraid of you.”
Mohsen Mahdawi addressing the press and supporters outside a Vermont courthouse following his release, on 4/30/25

مرگ

مرگ یعنی‌ پایان آنچه زندگی‌ نام نهاده‌ایم. این واژه عموما بسیاری را به خود جلب می‌کند و شخص کنجکاو می‌شود که منظور از عنوان این واژه چیست. آیا ما به دانش بیشتری در مورد  این پدیده نیاز داریم؟ چرا که مرگ به معنی‌ پایان آن چیزی است که زندگی‌ می‌نامیم، و به جز این عنوان چیز دیگری از آن نمی‌دانیم. البته می‌دانیم که این عاقبت همهٔ ماست، و بنابراین، کنجکاو می‌شویم که بعد از آن چه میاید و در پشت این پرده، یعنی‌ مرگ، چیست. در حالی‌که اگر این واژه را در گوگل فارسی جستجو کنیم، به هزاران و شاید میلیون‌ها مطلب در مورد مرگ برخورد کنیم، و شاید هیچیک واقعیت را بیان نکند.ا

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

PHOTOS: Besieged by settlers, Palestinians race to harvest wheat early

April 28, 2025
Georgia Gee & Dikla Taylor-Sheinman
Repeatedly harassed and chased off their land, farmers in Wadi Al-Rakhim were finally able to reap their crops last Friday — but only by sheer luck.
The Alhuraini brothers record and try to stop a settler dressed in army clothing from harassing them, in Wadi Al-Rakhim, April 25, 2025 (Georgia Gee)

'Trump Is Trying to Break Us,' Carney Warns as Liberals Win Canadian Election

April 29, 2025
Jake Johnson
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that his country's "old relationship with the United States... is over" after leading his Liberal Party to victory in Monday's federal election, a contest that came amid U.S. President Donald Trump's destructive trade war and threats to forcibly annex Canada.

‘Real de-Nazification’ would include all Europe – Medvedev

April 29, 2025
A regime similar to Kiev’s must not be allowed to take root in any nation, the former Russian president has said

Monday, April 28, 2025

Watch live: ICJ hears case related to Israel's ban on Unrwa

April 28, 2025
Sondos Asem and Katherine Hearst
The World Court begins five-day proceedings following a request by the UN General Assembly to rule on Israel's breaches of international law and attacks on UN facilities
Palestine's legal team at the Peace Palace, as the International Court of Justice hears case about Israel's obligation to facilitate humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank (Sondos Asem/MEE)

Friday, April 25, 2025

Israeli writer says aiding Gaza is like ‘feeding sharks’

In a post remembering the Holocaust, Gil Kopatz called for the extermination of Palestinians and described the war on Gaza as an essential ‘pesticide’
 A Palestinian child eats his portion of a hot meal at a free food distribution point at the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on 19 April 2025 (AFP/Eyad Baba)
 A Palestinian child eats his portion of a hot meal at a free food distribution point at the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on 19 April 2025 (AFP/Eyad Baba)

Three Theses on Trump’s Rule

Stephen F. Eisenman
Preface: Emigre politics
When writers go into exile, I read somewhere, they discuss the politics of their former countries more than before they left. I have an image of that in my head – scruffy emigres huddled over coffee and schnapps in a smoke-filled café. Voices are raised, tables are pounded, and drinks are spilled, before a quiet settles on the group — the silence of displacement.
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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Israel – Killing Ambulance Workers, Starving Little Children

Rep. John J. Duncan, Jr.
On Palm Sunday (April 13), Israeli bombs destroyed the surgery and intensive care sections of the “last fully functional hospital in Gaza City,” according to a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

The Ever-Expanding War Machine

William Hartung
Under the guise of efficiency, the Trump administration is taking a sledgehammer to essential programs and agencies that are the backbone of America’s civilian government. The virtual elimination of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and plans to shut down the Department of Education are just the most visible examples of a campaign that includes layoffs of budget experts, public health officials, scientists, and other critical personnel whose work undergirds the daily operations of government and provides the basic services needed by businesses, families, and individuals alike. Many of those services can make the difference between solvency and poverty, health and illness, or even, in some cases, life and death for vulnerable populations.
 

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Six trapped under rubble after Israeli attack on Gaza City shelter kills 13

Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed 39 people and injured 105 in last 24 hours, the enclave’s Health Ministry says.
Palestinians mourn as they carry the body of a child, killed in an Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter, at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on April 23, 2025. Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza on March 18, following the collapse of a two-month ceasefire that had largely halted the fighting in the besieged Palestinian territory. (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP) 
Palestinians mourn as they carry the body of a child, killed in an Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, on April 23, 2025 [Omar al-Qattaa/AFP]

US–Iran nuclear talks advancing 'better than expected’: Report

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said that the last round of negotiations resulted in an agreement to form a ‘general framework’ for a nuclear deal
 

How to tell your friends from the Japs. And the Serbs, Syrians, Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Ivans and everyone else our armies target for extermination

Declan Hayes
NATO knows that, once they incessantly beat their war drums and get their entire orchestra strumming along, their propaganda will easily carry the day in The War of the Words.
 Inset: Photograph for TIME by Gregory Heisler.

Facing prison time in Germany for criticizing an Israeli journalist: The case of Hüseyin Dogru

Alan MacLeod
In December, Potter, a self-styled counter-extremism expert, published a lengthy exposé in The Jerusalem Post, claiming that red. media, MintPress News, and The Grayzone were part of a network of far-left outlets promoting extremism and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
 | Illustration by MintPress News | MR Online

منحنی زندگی‌

چنان که به زندگیِ هر انسانی‌ از آغاز، یعنی‌ تولد، تا پایان، یعنی‌ مرگ، نظری بی‌اندازیم، به این نتیجه می‌رسیم که کسانی‌ که عمر کاملی داشته‌ا‌ند، یعنی‌ طول عمرشان تا زمان پیری بوده است، یک دورهٔ منحنی و یا دایره‌ای را طی کرده‌ا‌ند. این دایره یا منحنی از صفر شروع می‌شود، به اوج می‌رسد، و سپس نزول می‌کند تا مجددا در نقطهٔ آغازین پایان یابد.ا

Build the Life You Want

"Build the life you want" is a book by Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey. The subtitle of the book is: The art and science of getting happier. This is a small book of about two hundred pages, and easy to read, containing eight chapters and a conclusion; in addition to some notes and an introduction. It seems like the book was written and prepared by Arthur Brooks, and later Oprah Winfrey added some notes to be inserted in some sections of the book.

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

If October 7 Justifies The Gaza Genocide, What Acts Of Violence Will The Gaza Genocide Justify?

Caitlin Johnstone
If you believe that all the violence and destruction in Gaza is the fault of Hamas, then by your own logic you must also accept that the coming wave of violent extremism and antisemitism which is going to ensue from the incineration of Gaza will exclusively be the fault of Israel.
 

The Uphill Battle to Safeguard Rights

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Violence and the repression of political opponents during elections, ongoing armed conflicts, and the spread of authoritarian practices contributed to the 19th year of declining freedom. In the year to come, all those who understand the value of political rights and civil liberties must work together in the defense of democracy.
Students gather in Dhaka, Bangladesh to protest the police and the ruling party, the Awami League.

The Countdown to Iran’s Day Zero: A Crisis of Water, not War

Reza Talebi
( Global Voices ) – My grandfather was a farmer near Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran. Once the largest lake in Iran, it is now a salt-ridden desert. When the water vanished, his wheat fields dried up. Salt crept over the land, swallowing everything. He died — not suddenly, but slowly. 
 
 Lake Urmia, Iran. Public Domain. NASA.

Monday, April 21, 2025

Forgive Me, Gaza…

April 21, 2025
Jamal Kanj
I write forgive me, not forgive us, because this guilt is deeply personal. It’s a burden I carry in the comfort of my home, sipping clean water while the children of Gaza drink from brine water wells mixed in sewage—their small bodies wracked with dehydration and disease—if they even find water at all.

Najwa refused to leave her village so Israeli troops shot her in her home

April 21, 2025
Hanna Davis
The 70-year-old woman survived the war in south Lebanon, only to be found killed two months after it ended

Saturday, April 19, 2025

The Israeli settlers quietly waging war on the Palestinian countryside

Jessica Buxbaum
Israeli settlers are taking over Palestinian land by creating "farming outposts" with the goal of ethnically cleansing Palestinians. This strategy complements the Israeli state's broader plans for annexing the West Bank.
 Settler grazing in Mukhmas. (Photo: Jessica Buxbaum)

EPA Deletes Pollution Tracking Tools as It Offers Exemptions to Polluters

Mike Ludwig
A new lawsuit is challenging the Trump administration’s removal of environmental justice maps and datasets.
 
 Marti Blake looks out her front window at the smokestack of the Cheswick coal-fired power plant in Springdale, Pennsylvania, on October 27, 2017. Blake says the amount of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and coal particles originating from the plant has impacted her health as well as those in the surrounding area. Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Images

Friday, April 18, 2025

They’re Coming For Us: Media Censorship in the Age of Palestinian Genocide

Joshua Frank
Recall those feverish days leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq when Colin Powell presented his dubious evidence to the United Nations Security Council, claiming Saddam Hussein possessed WMDs. The result of those bogus lies was The Iraq Resolution, which authorized the use of force against the sovereign state, and passed the Senate by a decisive 77-23 margin, with only 23 dissenting votes. Support crossed party lines as Hillary Clinton and many other prominent Democrats consistently reached into George W. Bush’s basket of lies, repeating the neocons’ WMD propaganda. The New York Times, fulfilling its usual perfunctory role, ran Judith Miller’s series of bogus articles parroting the same falsehoods. Outrage grew, and we took to the streets as the U.S. invasion loomed.
 

Diego Garcia: ethnically cleansed for US forever wars

Aidan J. Simardone
As Trump threatens war on Iran, Washington weaponizes Diego Garcia – a Chagos island in the Indian Ocean built on ethnic cleansing, British colonialism, and military adventurism.
 

A Message from Bernie Sanders

Sisters and Brothers:
Under the oligarchic and authoritarian regime of Donald Trump, we find ourselves living in an unprecedented moment in modern American history. As a result, we’ve got to respond in an unprecedented way.

Thursday, April 17, 2025

‘They told my brother I was dead’: inside Israel’s psychological warfare against Palestinian prisoners

Shatha Hanaysha
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention are subjected to conditions of torture, starvation, and torment that are the worst they have been since 1967. My brother has been imprisoned amid these conditions for over a year.
Demonstrators carry posters and portraits of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails during a gathering to commemorate Palestinian Prisoners' Day in the city of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on April 17, 2025. (Photo: Mamoun Wazwaz/APA Images) 
Demonstrators carry posters and portraits of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails during a gathering to commemorate Palestinian Prisoners’ Day in the city of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on April 17, 2025. (Photo: Mamoun Wazwaz/APA Images)

Saudi defence minister visits Tehran before Iran-US talks

Iran and the US are set to hold a second round of talks in Rome about Tehran’s nuclear programme.
 Saudi Arabia
 Iran's Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major-General Mohammed Bagheri, right, receiving Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman in Tehran [Iranian Army Office/AFP]

Gordon G. Chang et al: Shut up about Donald J. Trump, North Korea, China and everything else NATO pay you to prattle on about

April 17, 2025

Declan Hayes
Although you may not have read Chang’s latest screed, if you have ever perused the offerings of any airport book store, you will be familiar with this genre that is full of scary and lurid headlines regarding world domination.

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Israeli War Crimes in Gaza Continue: Bombardment, Water Deprivation, Burning People Alive in Tents

April 16, 2025

( IMEMC ) – In the 28th straight day since obliterating the ceasefire agreement on March 18th (the day that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to testify in his trial for corruption), Israeli forces continued to bombard the terrified residents of the Gaza Strip, who have no place to go and no shelter from the bombs.


Judge blocks deportation of Columbia protest organizer Mahdawi

April 16, 2025

Juan Cole

A federal judge on Monday blocked the deportation of a detained Columbia University protest organizer, Mohsen Mahdawi, a green card holder from Palestine, court records show.

 | Encampment | MR Online

Europe was Hottest Ever Recorded last Year, and is Heating up Faster than any other Continent

April 16, 2025

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Copernicus Climate Change Service (abbreviated as C3S) has just issued The European State of the Climate for 2024.

 

زندانی افکار

یکی‌ بود یکی‌ نبود، غیر از خدا هیچ کس نبود. در زمان‌های پیشین، و در شهر کوچکی سالها بود که مردم شهر از خشک‌سالی‌ رنج می‌بردند، و زندگی‌ مردم شهر به دلیل وجود این خشک‌سالی‌ بسیار دشوار شده بود. چون روزگار مردم این شهر از کشاورزی می‌گذشت، بدون آب هیچ کار کشاورزی نمی‌توانستند بکنند، چرا که هیچ دریائی، دریاچه‌ای، جویباری در این شهر نبود و دیگر چاه‌های شهر هم خشک شده بودند. نخست آذوقه‌هائی را که در انبارهای شهر باقی‌ مانده بود بین مردم تقسیم کردند، و سپس درخت‌ها را بریدند و تقسیم کردند و بعد هرچه گیاه بود، حتّی علف‌ها را نیز تقسیم کردند. دیگر هیچ آذوقه‌ای در شهر پیدا نمی‌شد، چرا که مردم تمام آذوقهٔ شهر را خورده بودند و هر چه حیوان بود کشته بودند، و حتّی سگ و گربه‌های این شهر هم نسل‌شان را برانداخته بودند.ا

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Palestinians fear Gaza’s largest cemetery has been destroyed. Not even our dead can have peace.

April15, 2025

Nadera Mushtha

Al-Sharqiya Cemetery, near Gaza City, is the largest cemetery in Gaza. It has been inaccessible since the genocide began and many fear it has been bulldozed and destroyed, along with the remains of our loved ones.

Palestinians visit the graves of their relatives after Eid al-Fitr prayers at Sheikh Radwan Cemetery in Gaza City on March 30, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images) 

Palestinians visit the graves of their relatives after Eid al-Fitr prayers at Sheikh Radwan Cemetery in Gaza City on March 30, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

Appalled at Funding Genocide, Over 2,000 US Taxpayers Turn to the UN for Redress

Marjorie Cohn
With no recourse in US courts or Congress, the Taxpayers Against Genocide movement pivots to UN Human Rights Council.

Monday, April 14, 2025

‘Death Sentence’ – Israel bombs Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, again

April 14, 2025
An Israeli airstrike early Sunday morning targeted a building inside the Baptist Hospital (Al-Ahli Hospital) in Gaza City, Al-Jazeera reported.
 | srael bombed the Al Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza Photo via social media QNN | MR Online 
Israel bombed the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza. (Photo: via social media, QNN) 

Iran Is Not Building a Nuclear Bomb: A Fact Sheet

April 14, 2025
Ted Snider
“You know, it’s not a complicated formula,” U.S. President Donald Trump said. “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. That’s all there is.” So, negotiations should be successful because Iran neither has, nor are they pursuing, a nuclear weapon.
Combined might of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill saved the world. Can we repeat the recipe?

Sunday, April 13, 2025

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

   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.
Los Angeles

Saturday, April 12, 2025

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

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.
Hands off demonstration.  
 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)

Friday, April 11, 2025

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.